SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21749, 18 June 1934, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair: 7.32 n.m., 7.56 p.m. Taiaroa Head: 7,12 a.m.. 8.6 p.m. Port Chalmers: 8.22 a.m., 8.-16 p.m. Dunedin; 8.52 a.m., 9,16 p:m. THE SUN. Sets to-day 4.28 p.m., rises to-mor-row 7.50 a.m.

WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Dr E. Kidson) supplied the following at 9

Wealher.—B, blue sky; be, blue sky and detached clouds; c, cloudy; o v overcast; gloomy; u ugly; r, *ain; s snow; d drizzle; p, passing showers; h, hait • tj .squally; I. lightning; t. thunder; I, fog; m, mist; z. haze. Wind.—o calm; I. light /dr; 3, slight breeze; 3 gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; S, fresh breeze; G, strong breeze; 7. high wind; 8, gale; 9, strong ga>; 10, whole gale; U, storm; 13, hurricane Forecast. The following weather forecast was issued at , noon by the Meteorological Office, Wellington, covering the Southern district:—Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tapanm. Win ton, Invercargill. Riverton, Orepnki. bluff, Halfnioon Bay:— Very intense anti-cyclones are centred respectively near Chatham Island and over Eastern Australia, while cyclonic depressions are located west of Cape Maria van piemen and near the southern extremity of the dominion. Tho depression first mentioned is likely to deepen considerably and move southeastward. Forecast: Light to moderate. but increasing, north-easterly winds, changing to southerlies tonight. Weather cloudy to overcast, and in places misty or foggy, with scattered rain. Temperatures mild at first, but becoming cold to-nigbt, and a' rather severe cold spell probably following. Seas moderate, but later rising! ARRIVED.—June 17. Waipiata, s.s. (8.25 a.m.), 2,826 tons, Gray, from Bluff. Parera, s.s. (11.5 p.m.), 555 tons, Barker, from Waikato via ports. Gale, s.s. (11.40 p.m.), 567 tons, Davies, fyom. Wanganui via ports. June 18. Storm, s.s. (5.10 a.m.), 749 tons, Williams, from Wanganui via ports. Holmdale, s.s. (7.90 a.m.), 681 tons, Copland, from Bluff'. Canadian Scottish, s.s. (8.60 a.m.), 5,634 tons, Fuller, from Melbourne via Bluff'. SAILED.—June 18. Parera, s.s. (noon), 555 tons, Barker, for Bluff. CO AST’WISE MOVEMENTS. Totara, from Wellington, arrived on Saturday afternoon, and continued loading this morning for_ Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and New Plymouth. She sails at 4.30 this afternoon. . Waipiata arrived back from Bluff yesterday morning, and loaded to-day for Oainaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland., She was timed to sail at 4.60 this afternoon. Parera arrived from Waikato via ports late last night. She discharged this morning and sailed at noon for Bluff. She will return 6n Wednesday, sailing the same night for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Waikato. Storm arrived from Wellington early this morning from Wanganui via ports, and will load out at 6.60 this evening for Timaru, Lyttelton,-Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. w Holmdale, from Bluff, arrived this morning, and throughout the day loaded for the north. She will leave about 6 this evening for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Pictou, and Wanganui. Poolta is due in the morning from Bluff to load and sail in the afternoon for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne. Opihi was to leave Wellington to-day for Dunedin, being fixed to load here on Wednesday for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. She will probably sail on Wednesday afternoon. Port Whangarei is expected on Wednesday frmo Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton. She will load and sail the same day for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Taiirungn, Auckland, and Wnangarei. Kaimai. with coal from Westport, is due on Thursday, and will load general cargo for Westport. Wingatui left Auckland last night for Wellington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin. Sho is due here on Thursday afternoon, and will sail on Saturday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. Paua, coastal tanker, is due from Wellington via ports on Saturday to discharge motor spirit. She then proceeds to Bluff. John loads here next Monday for Dargaville via ports. Waimarino leaves Auckland on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff. She is duo here on Juno 27. PERSONAL. Mr C. R. Carlyon has been appointed third officer of the Wahinc, replacing Mr C. W. Dovey. Mr A. Halligan has been engaged as second engineer of the Holmdale, relieving Mr T. Beck. CANADIAN SCOTTISH ARRIVES. . With Canadian cargo -for discharge, the Canadian Scottish arrived this morning from Halifax via Brisbane, Melbourne, and Bluff. She left Halifax on April 14 At this port she is also leading products for New York, Boston. and Montreal, and she is expected to leave about 2.30 to-morrow afternoon for 'Timaru. She will then go on to Lyttelton to complete her discharging and loading.

GALE DOCKS. The steamer Gale arrived last night at Port Chalmers from New Plymouth, and this morning went into dry dock for cleaning and painting, which" is expected to be completed to-morrow, and running resumed. She loads at Dunedin on Wednesday for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. WAIKOU.UTI FROM SYDNEY. From Sydney via Bluff the Waikouaiti is expected here to-morrow to discharge general cargo. She later proceeds to Timaru, Lyttelton, Oamaru, and Bluff; thence to Sydney, Newcastle, and Hobart. CANADIAN CRUISER I EN ROUTE. Advice has been received by Messrs H. L. Tapley and Co. that the Canadian Cruiser, from Halifax, left Melbourne on Saturday morning for Bluff, where she is due on Thursday. She is expected at Dunedin on either Friday or Saturday. She will later discharge and load at Lyttelton, and is to clear that port on Juno 27 for New York, Boston, and Montreal. TANKER FILEFJELL. The tanker Filefjell is due at Lyttelton on Wednesday from Balikpapaii via Auckland and Wellington to discharge motor spirits to the agency of the Shell Oil Company. She will complete discharge at Dunedin, being expected here next Saturday. * NORTHERN NEWS. The Zealandic was delayed in entering the Oainaru Harbour. because of heavy seas on Thursday, and she is now clue at Lyttelton on Wednesday for further loading. The Port Hunter arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton on Saturday to continue loading. She will now leave to-morrow for Gisborne and Auckland to complete, and is to sail from Auckland on 1 Juno 26 for London via Panama. Tlie Mataroa was due at Wellington from Picton on Saturday. She is scheduled to leave on Juno 22 for London and West Const ports via Panama. The Westmoreland sailed from Napier early on Saturday morning for Southampton, London, and Hull via anama. HERTFORD AT HALIFAX. The Hertford, which left' Port Chalmers on May 11 for Halifax, London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, and Glasgow via Panama, arrived at Halifax last Tuesday. NIAGARA AT VANCOUVER. The Royal Mail liner Niagara arrived at Vancouver from Auckland on Saturday. On Wednesday morning the vessel is to sail for AucklandSffnd Sydney . via Honolulu and Suva. She is scheduled to reach Auckland on Monday, July 9. and to sail for Sydney the following day. • THE MARIPOSA. The Mariposa was due at Los Angeles from Auckland on Saturday. Owing to the waterfront strike at Pacific Coast ports of America the vessel may not proceed to San Francisco, her terminal port. She will probably remain at Los Angeles until June 27, when she is scheduled to sail on her return voyage to Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne. She is due at Auckland on July 13. THE NARBADA. The Narbada left Newcastle on Juno 9 with a cargo of coal for Sourabayn and Batavia. After discharge she will proceed to Calcutta to load, and she is to leave Calcutta early.in August for Penang, Singapore, and Samnrang to complete loading for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, 'Timaru, Dunedin, and Bluff'. TANKER BRINGING MAIL. Owing to the Jaying-np of the Royal Mail liner Makura for u month lor overhaul there was an interruption in the Pacific mail service, and other vessels besides mail liners were utilised to carry mail. An overseas mail is being brought by, the Norwegian • tanker Storanger, which is due at Wellington from San Pedro about July 1. The vessel lias 471 bags of English and American mail for New Zealand. NOTICES TO MARINERS. The Marine Department advises that the black buoy moored 317 deg, about 24 cables, and the red buoy, 295 deg, about 3f cables, from Stony Point beacon, at tlie Tauranga entrance, will be removed on or about June 26, and will not be replaced. A pipe line carrying water to Birkenhead, Auckland, lias been laid from a position in Kendall Bay 178 deg 1,40011 from Kauri trig station, on a line 104 deg 6,9001't, thence on a line 173 deg 3,800 ft to tlie foot of Garnet road. Grey Lvnn. The line is marked by lour beacons, each Oft in height and surmounted by a black pyramid bearing tlie word “ Pipe ” in white, situated at the Kendall Bay end and at distances therefrom of - I,looft, 3,000 ft, and 6,900 ft respectively. Ancluorage is prohibited within 300 ft of tho line. OLD PORT CAROLINE SOLD. Parisina, ex Loredano, ex Port Caroline, steel steamer, two decks and shelter deck. 4,250 tons gross, 2.587 tons net, built by R. and W. Hawthorn. Leslie, and Co., owned by the Industrie Navnli Soc. Anon., Genoa, lias been sold in a damaged condition to Italian sbipbreakors for about £4,000, OLD OREIVA~OVERHAULED. The small wooden steamer Orewa, which has been laid tip at • Lyttelton since about the end ot 1932, is being overhauled and surveyed, and should be ready for sea in about 'three wecjiS, her destination being the West Coilst. Built at Auckland about 1900 for tho Northern Steamship Co., the Orewa traded near Auckland for many years. About seven years ago she was purchased by Mr G. Wood, of Hokitika, for the whitebait cannery industry, and for three years she worked the rivers of South Westland during the whitebait season. Brought to Lyttelton four years ago. the Orewa traded to the hays of Banks Peninsula, in conjunction with

the John Anderson, also owned by Mr Wood. A falling off in the trade resulted in the Orewa being withdrawn nearly two years ago. The vessel is to bo used again in the whitehaiting industry. France. Germany, and Italy successively had captured the Atlantic trade by building bigger ships. People were always looking for the biggest nowadays, and on that ground he thought tho construction of a big liner was justified. Mr _ Warren commended the construction of flies, new liner because it would restore Britain’s maritime prestige, and because the line with the biggest liners got the passenger traffic these days. Britain had rather let herself get behind in the matter, and had lost the “ blue ribbon of the Atlantic.” “ I think yon will find,” Mr Warren said, “ when the new ship comes out there will he no doubt as to who will hold it.” NEW CUNARD LINER; “ The biggest thing that ever sailed the water,” was the description of the 534. the Cunard liner, given by Mr G. W. Warren, joint passenger ’traffic manager of the Cunard Line. Liverpool! at Queensland recently. Mr Warren said the new ship would have a speed of about thirty knots, a tonnage of 76,000, and a length of I,olßft, making it the longest ship in the world. It would probably be launched in September. AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING. A heavy score on the part of trade unions in tlie United States shipbuilding industry is noticeable, if reports in New York newspapers on the revised hours and wages arc accurate. For timeworkers on new construction the week is to be one of 66 hours, and if an operative puts in more than eight hours on any one day he is to be paid tor the overtime at the rate of time and a-half. For timeworkers on repairs, the week is to be one of 36 hours, averaged over a period of six months, with the same stipulation regarding overtime. But more than 40 hours must not be worked in any o 1 week. The revised code reads as follows “ . . . . the amount of differences existing prior to July 1, 1933, between tho wage rates paid various classes of employees receiving more than the established minimum wage shall not be decreased. In no event shall any employer pay an employee a wage rate which will yield a Jess wage for the work week of■ 36 hours than such employee was receiving for the same class of work for a 44-hour week prior to July,!, 1933.” MOTOR SHIP TONNAGE STATISTICS. An increase of 149,899 tons of merchant vessels under construction at the end of March last is revealed in figures issued by Lloyd’s Register .o.f' Shipping, and total 481,440 tons in hand at that date. Of this total amount, 175,687 tons consisted of motor ships, while at the same date the motor ship tonnage being constructed abroad was 230,588 tons greater, at 412,902 tons, than that of steamers. The vessels being built in the world at the end of March included three steamers and twenty motor ships of between 8,000 and 10,000 each; two steamers null twelve motor ships of between 10,000 and 20,000 tons, ami no motor ships of 20,000 tons or upwards. Merchant tonnage being built throughout the world under the inspection of Lloyd’s Register at the end of March amounted to 807,820 tons, of which 464,435 tons, representing more than 96 per cent., are under construction in Great Britain and Ireland. Of the tonnage being built abroad, 343,385 tons, or over 57 per cent, of the total, are being constructed under inspection of Lloyd’s Register. The amount of tonnage on the stocks 1 showed a pronounced acceleration of the upward tendency which lias been observable in the quarterly totals since the beginning of 1933. VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland. —H.M.S. Dunedin, Filefjell, Hororata, Karetu, H.M.S. Laburnum, Matai, Waikawa, Wanganolla. Wellington.—Cambridge, Huntingdon, Mataroa, Nucnla, Port Napier, Rangatira, Rangitiki, Remnera, Tamahine, Tuscan Star, Wahinc, Westmoreland. ' Awarua.—Canadian Cruiser, Canadian Scottish. Waikouaiti, Waluui, Wailaki, Yarraville, Zealandic. MOVEMENTS ELSEWHERE. AUCKLAND, Juno 16.—Sailed Pale lira (1.40 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Rualiino (2.5 p.m.), for. Wellington; Oran (7 p.m.), for Wellington. W ELL LNGTON, J one 16.—Arrived : Kalingo (1.60 p.m.), from Newcastle. Sailed: Parera (9.45 a.m.), Storm (6.5 p.m.), and Holmdale (6.5 p.m.), for Dunedin ; .Pana (4.65 p.mi), for Lyttelton; Kaiina (5.10 p.m.), for Westport; Waliine (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. Juno 17. —Arrived: Kiui (10.30 a.m.), from Westport; Opihi (4.20 a.m.), from New Plymouth; Rangatira (7 a.m.), from Lyttelton ; Waimarino (8.55 a.m.), from Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, June 16.—Arrived; Foxton (7.45 p.m.), from Wanganui. Sailed: Xitoki (4.10 p.m;), for Nelson; Waimarino (5.20 p.m.), and Rangatira (8.30 p.m.), for Wellington. June 17. —Arrived: Wahine (6.55 a.m.) and Puna (11.15 a.m.), from Wellington; Awahon (9.20 a.m.), from Gisborne; Holinglen (9.45 a.m.) and Port Waikato (11.50 a.m.), from Timaru. BLUFF, Juno 17.—Arrived: Waikonaiti (6 p.m.), from Sydney. MELBOURNE, J une 16.—Sailed: Canadian Cruiser, for Bluff! SYDNEY, June 18.—Arrived: Canadian Leader, from Wellington en route to Halifax. SUVA, June 17.—Arrived: Hororata, from London en route to Lyttelton. PANAMA, June 16.—Sailed: 'Trojan Star, for London; Rangitiki, for New Zealand. VANCOUVER. June 16.—Arrived: Niagara, from Auckland. HAMPTON ROADS, June 16. Sailed; Tapti. for New Zealand. PORT SAID. June 16.—Karamea, fo" New Zealand. GLASGOW. June 14. —Arrived: Nebraska, from Wellintgon. (For continuation see L»t® Shipping.)

PHASES OF THE MOON. First quarter June 20 6,7 p.Ul. Full moon June 27 4.33 p.m. Last quarter J uly 4 7.58 a.m. New Moon July 12 4.30 ii, m. Sets to-day 10.17 p.m;, rises to■in orrow 11.22 a. nr

a.m. to-day: — Wellington—N. ... 2 Bar. Ther. 30.29 49 W. O Greymouth—E. ... 3 30.17 47 0 C h r i s tell ’ c h—E. N. E. 3 30.10 46 0 Timaru 0 30.01 34 B C Daman i—N.E. i 30.01 36 O Dunedin—N.E. ... 3 30.00 45 O Queenstown —N. ... i 29.88 41 B C Nuggets—N. 4 30.04 44 c Bluff—N.E 3 29.86 41 0