PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21101, 5 June 1930, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Wednesday, June 4.— Waikouaiti s.s. (Captain D. Watson) 3,926 tons from Sydney at 8.15 a.m. Karepo s.s. (Captain R. Davis) 2,562 tons from Westport, at • 9.10 p.m. SAILED. —Wednesday, June 4.— Hororata s.s. (Captain C. Matthews) 11,243 tons for New Plymouth at S.lO p.m. VESSELS IN PORT. Port Huon m.v. Rangitata t.m.v. Waikouaiti s.s. Poolta s.s. Karepo s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Turakina, Oamaru, to-morrow. Calm, Lyttelton, June 8. Waipiata, Dunedin, June 9. Karetu, Melbourne, June 14. Canadian Constructor, Dunedin, June 24. Kent, Dunedin, June 27. Karamea, Dunedin, July 5. Port Fremantle, Port Chalmers, July 9. Mirrabooka, Oslo, July 26. Somerset, Port Chalmers, September 15. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Karepo, Oamaru, to-day. Poolta, Greymouth, to-day. Waikouaiti, Dunedin, to-day. Rangitata, Port Chalmers, to-morrow Port Huon, Lyttelton, June 7. Turakina, Timaru, June 8. Calm, Dunedin, June 9. Waipiata, Dunedin, June 10. Karetu, Dunedin, June 15. Canadian Constructor, Wellington, June 27. Kent, Port Chalmers, June 30. Karamea, Timaru, July 9. Port Fremantle, , July 13. Mirrabooka, Melbourne, July 30. Somerset, , September 18. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Ccphee, ex' Maheno, in B shed (J. G. W.) Narkunda, ex Karetu, in B shed (D. and Co.) Nieuw Holland, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (D. and Co.) *5 (D. and Co.): Dalgety and Company. (Hend.): Henderson and Company. (H.L.T.): H. L. Tapley and Company. (J.G.W.): G. Ward and Company. (N.M.A.): National Mortgage and Agency Company. (N.Z.S.): New Zealand Shipping Company. (0.5. C. Oreti Shipping Company. (U.S.S.): Union Steam Ship Company. GENERAL NOTES. The Awarua (Captain R. J. Hamilton), left Bluff for Stewart Island yesterday morning with cargo, passengers and mails. The Theresa Ward made her usual Wednesday trip yesterday to Halfmoon Bay with passengers, cargo and mails. She returned again at 5.5 Both the Wetere and Kekeno arrived yesterday from the South Cape on the last trip. All reports show that the muttonbird season was an exceptionally good one. The Cowan left early last evening for the last of the 'birders, and is expected back to-night. The waterfront yesterday was a scene of unusual activity. The constant loading and discharging and shunting of trucks were in evidence until a late hour last night. At the enain wharf were the three Home liners, Port Huon, Hororata and Rangitata, and the Union Companv’s Pool-.

ta. At the ferry wharf were the Waikouaiti, the ferry steamers Awarua and Theresa Ward and the oyster trawler Wetere discharging her cargo of mutton-birds. The monthly meeting of the Bluff Watersider - Workers was postponed yesterday morning owing to the large shipping niftvements. .

The Union Company’s Poolta had 61,000 feet of hardwood besides general • cargo to discharge for the Bluff Harbour Board. She sails for Greymouth to-day. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Hororata finished discharging the last of her 2,000 tons of general cargo yesterday and sailed in the evening for New Plymouth.

The Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor vessel, Port Huon, has 40,000 carcasses of mutton, 10,000 crates of cheese, tinned rabbits, and a quantity of wool to load, and will now sail for Lyttelton on Saturday morning. The- Union Company's steamer Waikouaiti, arrived early yesterday morning from Sydney. Owing to insufficient men, all of the hatches wdre not engaged. She has general cargo to discharge and will load Southland product, sailing to-day for Dunedin.

The Karepo which arrived last evening from Greymouth, has coal to discharge and will sail to-day for Oamaru. The Union Company’s freighter Karetu, which is scheduled to leave Sydney on Saturday for Melbourne and Bluff, being due here about the 14th. inst. to discharge Australian general cargo, will replace the Kartigi which .was previously expected to arrive at Bluff on the 10th inst., from Melbourne. The Kariigi’s schedule has been upset through the vessel being bar-bound at Greymouth.

To discharge and load general cargo the Waipiata is due al Bluff on Monday from Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Upon completing operations she returns to Dunedin.

Messrs 11. L. Tapley and Company, local agents, have now received advice that the Calm will arrive at Bluff on Sunday from Lyttelton, earlier than anticipated. After discharging and loading general, merchandise, the Calm proceeds on Monday evening to Dunedin on her return voyage north. The Federal steamer Westmoreland left Glasgow on May 21 in ballast for New Zealand. She is due at New Plymouth on June 28, and will commence loading lor London and west coast ports. She will subsequently load at Opua, Auckland, Gisborne, Napier and Wellington. The vessel is scheduled to sail from Wellington finally on July 19 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow, via the Panama canal. On her arrival at Lyttelton from Wellington. yesterday morning the ferry steamer Maori withdrew from the service for annual overhaul. She will be replaced by the Marama, which sailed from Wellington on Tuesday evening for Lyttelton. It is expected that the Maori’s overhaul will be completed in quick time this year, for, on Juno 10 she will replace the Wahine, sailing from Lyttelton for Wellington that evening. The Wahine will be under overhaul until June 19, when she will replace the Maori, the latter making a daylight trip back to Wellington on that date and sailing from that port the same evening in place of the Marama. The Marama will pick up her running in the intercolonial service on June 20, leaving Wellington for Sydney on that date.

The Swedish motor ship Mirrabooka is to clear Stockholm to-morrow, Gothenburg on June 10, and Oslo on June 13 with cargo for discharge at Bluff and Australian ports. En route she is to load Pacific coast cargo, and is to lift cargo for Bluff at Los Angeles early in July, and is expected to arrive at Bluff at the end of July. This vessel is coming under the auspices of the General Steamship Corporation of San Francisco, which operates a Paeific-coast-Australian service with ships of the line to which the Mirrabooka belongs. It is expected that these vessels will make calls at New Zealand ports at three-monthly intervals. Some success has been obtained overseas with goods transport by means of standardized containers, which are transferred from rail to ship or motor lorry to avoid unpacking. This permits the door-to-door transport of large quantities of small goods by the handling of a single unit. The Rail-' ways Mazagine refers 1,0 the innovation as follows: —"in New Zealand, as in other countries, door-to-door collection and delivery of goods traffic, if it could be done by the use of adaptable and easily handled containers, would greatly reduce pack’ng and transhipment costs for rail-borne goods, and would be particularly useful for through booked interisland traffic.’’ A new runabout speedboat for use on Lake Taupo will be built by Messrs Collings and Bell, Auckland, for Mr. Robert A. Laidlaw. The boat will be built with mahogany planking and powered with an eight-cylin-der 150 h.p. engine, which it is expected will give the craft a speed of 30 miles an hour. The length of the boat will be 28 feet, and the beam will be seven feet. A V-bottom of two-skin mahogany will be used. The cockpit, fitted with sprung seats to accomodate six persons, will be amidships and forward of the engine, while a glass windscreen will be fitted. An electric motor will be installed for starting the engine, and a powerful searchlight will be fitted to facilitate navigation at night. Constant dropping, it is said, will wear away a stone, but the wooden erection known as Jacob’s Ladder continues to withstand the storms that assail the Ponsonby waterfront (says the Auckland Star). The same unrelenting durability which has characterized its existence for the past half-cen-tury is still evident. The day of reckoning, it would seem, however, is not far off. The 85 steps of which it is comprised are now’ showing the first signs of decay, and the danger entailed thereby to limb, if not to life itself, is so considerable that the City Council might well condemn the whole structure. The construction of new highways and new bridges goes on apace through the length and breadth of the eastern suburbs. Meanwhile, all’s quiet on the western front. Personal Items. Mr. H. J. Petty has relieved Mr. A. S. Harrhy, third officer of the Waipiata for holidays. Mr. P. E. Laffer recently joined the Kanna as third officer, relieving Mr H. E. Petre for holidays. Mr. E. R. Gurr is now third officer of the Kairanga, relieving Mr. E. F. Rainbow, who has temporarily left the vessel at Lyttelton. Thirty-three years of service with the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, 23 of which have been spent as master, is the proud record of Captain W. P. Clifton-Mogg, R.N.R., master of the Tainui and Commodore of the company’s fleet, states an exchange. Captain Clifton-Mogg was appointed to the position of commodore in August of last year and on Tuesday he paid his first vsit to Auckland since his promotion. Commencing his seafaring career in the ship Westland, Captain Clifton-Mogg spent the whole of his apprenticeship and his subsequent career in the service of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company., During the Great War he served from August, 1914, until 1917 as a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, and acted as navigating officer of H.M.S. Orotava, a ship in the tenth cruiser squadron engaged in the blockade of the German ports. Released from active service in 1917, he returned to the company’s service. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. Auckland, June 4. Arrived: —Quercus 11 p.m. from New York. Sailed: —Warship Veronica, 11 a.m. for Suva. Wellingtdn, June 4. Arrived:—Wahine 7 a.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed:—Himatangi 11.30 a.m. for Dunedin; Orkanger 2 p.m. for Melbourne; Breeze 4.45 p.m. fqr Wanganui; Katoa 6 p.m. for Auckland; John 6.5 p.m. for Dunedin; Regulus 6.20 p.m. for Nelson; Wahine 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton; Karnona 8.10 p.m. for Greymouth. To sail:—Tahiti 1 p.m. for Sydney. Lyttelton,, June 4. Arrived: —Maori 6.35 a.m. from Wellington: Wingatui 7.5 a.m. from Wellington:

Marama 9.10 a.m. from Wellington; Foxton 4.55 p.m. from Foxton. « Sailed: —Coptic 1.25 a.m. for Gisborne; Progress 4.10 p.m. for Wellington; Wingatui 5.20 p.m. for Dunedin; Opihi 6.5 p.m. for Wellington; Marama 8.40 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, June 4. ■Sailed: —Tutanekai 1.30 p.m. for Southern lighthouses; Gale 6.10 p.m. for Timaru. London, June 3. Arrived: —At Panama, Maimoa and lonic. Sailed:—Port Hobart, from New York; Kia Ora, from Colon; Waitemata and Vacuoline, from San Francisco.