SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair; 8.-0 a.m., 8.48 p.m. laiaroa Head; 8.30 a.m., 8.53 p.m. Port Chalmers: 9.10 a.m.. 9.33 p.m. Dun- • editi: 9.40 a.m.. 10.3 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day 4.28 p.m-, rises to-mor-roiv 7.50 a.in. PHASES OF THE MOON.

row 11.39 a.m. WEATHER REPORT. 'The Doit inion Meteorologist (Dr E. Kidson) supplied the following at 9

Weather.—B, blue* skr; be. blue sky and de* tached clouds; c, cloudy; o, overcast; g, glo*rny; u ugly; r, s snow; d drizzle; p. passing showers; h, half q squally; I. lightning; I. thunder; 1, (op; m, mist; z, haze, Wind,—o calm; I. light <.ir; 3. ilight breeze ; 3 gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; », fresh breeze: 6. strong breeze; 7 high wind; 3, gale; J, strong ga>; Id, whole gale; 11, storm; 13, hurricane Forecast. The following weather forecast was issued at noon by the Meteorological Office, Wellington, covering the Southern district :—Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tapaiun, Wintou, Invercargill. Riverton, Orcpuki. Bluff, Ha If moon Bay:— A cyclonic depression is ’-still centred near Cape Maria Van Diemen, and is likely to move in a south-easterly direction and deepen. Pressure remains very high at the Chatham Islands and over Eastern Australia. Forecast: Winds moderate and variable at first, but southerlies soon setting in and freshening. AVcathcr cold and unsettled, with rain and on the ranges snow. Seas moderate, but rising. ARRIVED.—June 19. Poolta, s.s. (10.35 a.m.), 1.C75 tons, Howie, from Bluff. sailed.—June is. Totara, s.s. 1-1.30 p.m.), 421 tons, Eden, for New Plymouth via ports. Waipiata, s.s. (5.30 p.m.)-, 2,826 tons, Gray, for Auckland via, ports. Holmdale. s.s. (6 p.m.), 681 tons, Copland, for Wanganui via ports. Storm, s.s. (6.30 p.m.), 749 tons, Williams, for Wanganui via ports. COASTWISE MOVEMENTS. Totara sailed late yesterday afternoon for New Plymouth via Tnnaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. . Waipiata loaded and sailed late yesterday afternoon for Auckland via Oamant, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wellington. Holmdale sailed last evening for Wanganui via Oamaru, Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Picton. Storm loaded out last evening for Wanganui via Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Wellington. and Picton. Poolta arrived from Bluff this morning to continue loading for Oamaru, Tiinaru. Lyttelton, Wellington, Napier, and- Gisborne. She will sail this evening. Gale will proceed from dry dock at Port Chalmers to commence loading in the morning for Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. Opihi, from Wellington, is due in the morning, and will load out to-morrow for Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Parera will return from Bluff to-mor-row to continue loading for Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson. Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Waikato. She is timed to sail to-morrow night. Port Whangarei, from Auckland, is expected to-morrow to load and sail later in the day for Tiinaru, Lyttelton. Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland, and Whangarei. Wingatui was to leave Wellington today for Lyttelton and Dunedin, being due here on Thursday afternoon. She will load out on Saturday for Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. Kaimai. with coal from Westport, has been delayed in Wellington owing to the strike, and may not now reach Dunedin on Thursday as was expected. 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. Wahnarino leaves Auckland on -I‘riday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluif. She is due here on J une 27. PERSONAL. Captain A. H. Howie and Captain C. J. Hackworth have exchanged commands. Captain Howie is now master of the Wainui, and Captain Hackworth commands the Poolta. Mr G. H! Edwards has been engaged as third mate on the Wainui. Mr A. Inverairty is now chief engineer of the Wainui, relieving Mr W. W. Houghton. INTERISLAND SERVICE. The interislund express steamer Rau"atira arrived at Lyttelton from Wellington at 6.50 this morning. Passengers ami mails for the south connected with the express. , NEW WAITAKI DUE FRIDAY. The Union Company advises that the new Waitaki .left Adelaide last Thursday for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington. The vessel is due at this port on Friday, and will discharge general cargo. WATKOUAITI LATE. Bringing general cargo from Sydney via Bluff for discharge at Dunedin, the Waikouaiti, which was expected to-day, will not now arrive until fo-mnrrow morning. She will sail on Friday mornir ' for Tiinaru, Lyttelton, Oamaru, and Bluff; thence to Sydney, Newcastle, and Hobart.

OKARI DUE SUNDAY. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises' that the motor ship Orari left Auckland on Saturday evening for Wellington, Lyttelton. Dunedin, and New Plymouth to discharge the remainder of her cargo from Liverpool. She is due at Dunedin on Sunday. CANADIAN SCOTTISH TO SAIL. Having completed local discharge of Canadian cargo and loaded products, the Canadian Scottish, which arrived yesterday morning, was timed to sail this afternoon for Tiinaru and Lyttelton to complete discharge and loading. She will sail finally from Lyttelton on Friday for New York, Boston, and Montreal. LOCAL HOMEWARD LOADING. The Tairoa will commence Homeward loading at Port Chalmers on July 17. She' will complete at Bluff. Tiinaru, Wellington, (July 25-281. and Auckland, sailing on August 2 for London and West Coast ports via Montevideo and Tcneriffe. The Kumara will commence loading at Port Chalmers about July 16. She will complete at Bluff, New Plymouth, and Wellington (due July 27), sailing on August I for London via Montevideo and Teneriffe. _ , The Karamoa will load at Port Chalmers about July 31. She will complete at Tiinaru. Lyttelton. Wellington (August 10-13). and Auckland, sailing on August 18 for London via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. NORTHERN NEWS. The Waikawo. from Melbourne and Sydney, was expected to leave Newcastle vesterdav for Auckland. The Winifred Moller'a-departure from Wellington for the East has been lurther delaved. She has been berthed at the patent slip wharf, where stalls for cattle have been built into her holds. It is expected that she will go on to the floating dock to-day for cleaning and painting, and she should commence to take the live stock on board on Monday. She will not clear Wellington before to-morrow for Shanghai. The A -mio arrived at Auckland last Thursdav from Ocean Island. The vessel. which has about 7.700 tons of phosphate for discharge at Auckland, is expected to sail to-morrow for Westport to bunker before leaving for Ocean Island or Nauru Island. The Trojan Star, which left Wellington on May 23 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, and Glasgow via Panama, arrived at Balboa on June 12. The Canadian Challenger left Halifax on June 4. and is due at Auckland on July 8. She will later proceed to ■Wellington and Australia. < RUAHINE'S PASSENGERS. The Rnahine, which arrived at Auckland last Wednesday night from Loudon, brought the following passengers:_Miss E. T. Adams. Miss M. W . Bankes-Jones. Mr J. A. Beavis, Air H. and Airs and Miss E. Carter. Air W. E. Cassels-Brown. Miss N. Clark, Mr A.. Airs., Alias P. AL. and Alasters (2) Cord well, Airs A. D. Crewes. Mr D. T. Dennison. Airs J. E. Dunn, Mr J. W. Ellison. Afiss A. R. Field. Air G. S. Garland. Air A. L. Issard-Davies, Air H. G. Knight. Air J. Pulliuger, Airs A. G. Ala ling, Aliss E. F. Matson. Alias J. Nevill, Airs At. Norton, Air H. H. Perrottet. Airs D. AI. and Aliss J. AI. V Rae Mr L. Roet, Aliss S. J. Scott, Aliss F. AI. Shaw, Air H. Shcircliff, Airs A. AT. Smith, Air IV. R. Sneddon, Airs E. AI. Strang, Lieutenant B. P. Tanner, Air T, G, J. and Airs Watts, CANADIAN STEAAIERS. The Canadian Government Alerchant Marine has no more ships for sale, according to an announcement by Air Andrew H. Allan, general manager or Canadian National Steamships. The last ship to be sold was the Canadian Pioneer, which was disposed of last month to the Shipping Company Notos (Vaklemar Stoglund) of Houzesund. Built as a war-time measure, the fleet of the Canadian Government Alerchant Alarine numbered sixty-four ships in 1921. Alany of these had been built after 1918. The fleet was taken over in 1925 for operation by Canadian National Steamships, and was gradually reduced to ten ships. Nine ot these are now running between Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the remaining one being in reserve. Six ships were transferred to the Canada-West Indies service operated by Canadian National Steamships, and were renamed. The remamden were sold, and have lost _ their identities under foreign ownership. As they were first built, the Canadian ships conformed to three types. One was of about 3,000 tons gross, one about 5,400, and one about 7,200. the Canadian Pioneer, a steamer of average size, was built in 1919, and_so is one of the oldest of the fleet. She is 400.4 ft long, 52.4 ft wide, 28 sft deep, and has a gross tonnage ot 5,<08. She was built and engined by \ ickers Ltd., Montreal. ; , . , , . .. , Vessels of the fleet which hate visited the dominion recently are the Canadian Britisher, Canadian Challenger, Canadian Conqueror, Canadian Constructor, Canadian Cruiser, Canadian Highlander, Canadian Leader, Canadian Scottish, and Canadian 'Victor.- All ot them were completed between the years 1920 and 1921. LARGE CONVERSION JOB. The largest conversion contract of its kind ever undertaken by a British shipbuilding firm was completed recently when the Ellerman -liner City of Wellington, departed from the Belfast vard of the Workman, Clark (1928) Ltd. The shipbuilding company converted six Ellerman liners to the" exhaust-turbo electric combination tvpe of machinery, in place of tlje ordinary reciprocating type. The contract was obtained last April, and the first vessel to arrive was the City of Venice, whioh wits followed at intervals by the City of Salisbury, City of Kimherlcv, City of Eastbourne, City of Oran, and City of Wellington. B'UIT A IN’S IDLE SHIPPING. Quarterly returns prepared, by the Chamber of Shipping show that on April 1 there were laid up in the ports of Great Britain and Ireland 449 British vessels of 1,069,716 tons net. and four foreign ships of 9.305 tons net, making a total of 453 vessels, of 1,079,021 tons net. Compared with the returns for Jannary 1, the present figures arc less by

160,529 tons net, or 13 per cent., and I compared with the total for a year ago they are lower by 784,793 tons net, or 12.1 per cent. Ports at which the largest decreases occurred during the last quarter were Liverpool, with a reduction of 47,000 . tons; Tollesbury, of 34,000 tons; Gare- I loch, of 30,000 tons; the River Fal, of ! 24,000 tons; Barrow, of 12,000 tons; Bristol, of 11,000 tons; and Dartmouth, , with a reduction of 10,000 tons net. In- ; creases were recorded of 16,000 tons at | Newcastle; of 15,000 tons at South- j amptou, and also at Sunderland; of 11,- j 000 tons at Newport; and of 9,000 tons net in London (River). The 1,079,021 tons net of shipping idle in Great Britain ami Ireland on April 1 was equivalent to 1,772,997 tons', gross. The four, foreign vessels included | in these figures of 9,305 tons net repre- . sented 16,221 tons gross, and the Brit- | ish shipping laid up in the ports of I Groat Britain and Ireland of 1,069,716 tons net was equivalent to 1,756,776 tons gross, or more than 2,500,000 tons 'dead-weight. These totals do not include British shipping laid up in foreign ports. During the three months from January to Afarch, fifty-five British vessels of 226,338 tons gross were reported in the Press to have' been sold to foreign traders and to British and foreign shipbreakers. These sales, it is added, account for nearly .the whole of the reduction during the'"period in the idle tonnage. SIXTY-EIGHTH TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND. Retired after a long life at sea mostly in the trade between New Zealand and England, Air W. R. Sneddon arrived by the Huahine at Auckland last week to spend some months in the dominion. Altogether Air Sneddon has served for thirtv-six years with the New Zealand Shipping Company, twenty of which were as chief engineer of the Remuera. He retired four years ago, and has been living in England, but has taken this trip as a guest of his old company, and has enjoyed to the full his sixty-eighth voyage to New Zealand with none of the cares and responsibilities of a ship’s officer. . One of the great incidents in Air Sneddon’s career concerned a race in 1895 between the Ruapehu and the j sailing ship Turakiua. of which he was second refrigerating officer. This occurred halfway between the Cape of l Good Hope and New Zealand. The Tnrakina was well astern on the horizon, and although the Ruapehu was doing fourteen-knots the Turakma rapidly gained on her until with shortened sail she swept past within a ship’s astern. Then, in a wide circle, she sailed right round the steamer, during which the mainsail went. Undeterred,' the Turakiua hoisted' a foresail, and right through the day kept ahead ot the Ruapehu. Although hove-to for twenty-four hours off Stewart Island, she arrived off Port Chalmers at the same time that the Ruapehu was steaming into Wellington. The shipwreck of the Mataura was also recalled by Air Sneddon. She was one of the early refrigerated ships running from New Zealand, and as she was entering the Straits ot Magellan went too close to Desolation Island and struck. The crew got away in the ship’s boats, and took refuge on a beach on a desolate shore. Food was limited to about a ship’s biscuit a day. but as the ship broke up hundreds of cases of butter were washed ashore. “It was bitterly cold,” said Air Sneddon, “ and we ate the frozen butter in large lumps like cheese on the biscuits. Alter a week we were picked up bv a little Chilean warship and taken to Punta Arenas. There was a large cargo of wool on board, and this had been well insured at a good figure. Meanwhile the price of wool slumped very badly, and for years afterward I met New Zealand fanners who said that the wreck of the Alataura was one of the greatest strokes of luck in their career.” VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels are expected to. be within range ot the undermentioned wireless stations to-night;— Auckland.—H.Al.S. Dunedin, Filefjell, Hororata, Karetu, H.AI.S. Laburnum, Alatai, Port Hardy, Waikawa, Wanganella. . Wellington.—Huntingdon, Alaui Pomare, Nucula, Port Hunter, Port Napier, Rangatira, Rangitiki, Remuera, Tamahine, Tuscan Star, Wahine, Westmoreland. ' Awarua. —Canadian Cruiser, Canadian Scottish, Waikouaiti,' Wainui, Waitaki. AIOVEAIENTS ELSEWHERE. AUCKLAND, June IS.—Sailed: Alatai (8.15 a.m.), for northern f lighthouses. WELLINGTON, June IS.—Arrived : Wingatui (1.35 p.m.), from Auckland; Aiataroa (9 p.m.), from Picton. Sailed: Port Whangarei (12.10 p.m.), Rangatira (7.50 p.m.), and Waimanno (9 p.m.), for Auckland; Opihi (6.45 p.m.). for Dunedin. LYTTELTON, June 18.—Sailed : Port Waikato (4.40 p.m.), for Wellington ; Breeze (4.50 p.m.), for Wellington; Holmglen (5 p.m.), for Wellington; Wahine (8.5 p.m.), for Wellington; Awahou (8.25 p.m.), for Wellington. TIAIARU, June 19.—Arrived: Totara (6.30 a.m.). and Storm (6.35 a.m.), from Dunedin. OAAIARU, June IS.—Arrived: Maipiata (10.45 p.m.), from Dunedin.— June 19 —Arrived: Holmdale (12.45 a.m.), from Dunedin. ' BLUFF, June 18.—Arrived: Wanna (6.40 a.m.), from Oamaru. Sailed; Wainui (5.15 p.m.), for Alelbourne.— June 19—Arrived; Parera (7.20 a.m;), from Dunedin. Sailed: Waikouaiti (6.15 a.m.), for Dunedin. (For continuation see Late Shipping.)

First quarter June 20 6.7 p.m. Full moon June 2 1 LOS p.m. Last quarter July 4 7,58 a.m. New Moon July 12 4.30 a.m. Sets to-day 11.22 p.m., rises to-mor-

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