The Log B ook

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 2

The Log B ook

I 1 TOFUA FOR ISLANDS. The Union Company advises that the Island passenger steamer Tofua will leave Auckland at 11 o’clock on Saturday morning for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. KUROW FOR AUCKLAND. The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the collier Kurow leaves Newcastle to-day for Auckland, where she is due on Wednesday next, January 4. lONIC SAILS SATURDAY. At daybreak on Saturday A. 55. Paterson and Co. hopes to dispatch the White Star liner lonic from Auckland for Southampton and London via Panama. The vessel is at present completing her Joading at the Queen's Wharf. SYDNEY STEAMERS. At 11 am. to-morrow the Ulimaroa leaves Auckland for Sydney and at 3 p.m. to-morrow both the Marama and Maunganui leave Sydney for Auckland and Wellington respectively. All the vessels are due at their arrival ports next Tuesday. NIAGARA NEARING SUVA. Advice has been received by the local office of the Union Company that the R.M.S. Niagara, en route from Vancouver and way ports, is due at Siva at 5.30 a.m. tomorrow, and leaves at noon for Auckland where she is due next Monday. At 10 p.m. on Tuesday the Niagara sails from Auckland for Sydney. MESOPOTAMIA REPORTS.—According to a radio message received by Henderson and Macfarlane, the tramp steamer Mesopotamia is expected to arrive in the stream at Auckland at midnight to-night from Makatea Island. Tomorrow morning the vessel will berth at King’s Wharf to unload her cargo of phosphates. KERSTEN MILES RADIOS. Hendersoti and Macfarlane have been advised by radio that the German steamer Kersten Miles is expected to arrive at Auckland on January 2. The vessel is bringing cargo from Port Arthur, Texas, for discharge at Auckland, Wellington and Australia. PORT SYDNEY TO LOAD.—Due at New Plymouth to-day from Port Pirie, to commence loading for Home, Heather, Roberton and Co. advises that the C. and D. Line’s Port Sydney arrives at Auckland on January 5 to lift the local portion of her cargo. On January 8 the vessel leaves here for Napier, Wellington and Lyttelton to complete, sailing finally from the Canterbury port on January 2L for London via Panama. PASSAT WITH SULPHUR.—To discharge the remaining 2,000 tons of her cargo of sulphur from Galveston (Texas) the German steamer Passat is expected to arrive at Auckland to-morrow according to her radio report. The vessel left Texas on September 27, and came via Australian ports. The vessel has been chartered to proceed to Western Australia on completing her discharge here to load wheat for the United Kingdom or the Continent. CONSIGNMENT OF PROPELLERS. During September Messrs. J. Stone and Company, Ltd., the well-known engineers, dispatched five large bronze propellers for shipment to various steamers. The average weight of these propellers was seven tons, and three of them were constructed for the Union Company’s steamers Kurow, Katoa and Kanna. The other two were- 1 for the new vessels for the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company now being built by Messrs. Barclay, Curie and Company, Ltd., Glasgow. LEVIATHAN’S MASTER HONOURED. Commodore Herbert Hartley, commander of the United States liner Leviathan, has been decorated by the French Government with the red ribbon of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for his work in stimulating commercial relations between France and America.

SIBERIAN EXPEDITION.—The 132; Siberian Expedition to the Kari. Sea which consisted of six vessel.*, has brought back 2,490 standards of timber to London, 1,650 tons of whea; 1,100 tons of oilcakes and 1,500 tons of hemp, hair, wool, hides and firiree oil for delivery to Hamburg and Rotterdam The outward cargo, which aggregated 9,050 tons, consisted of agricultural machinery, tools, metals and general Of the total exports 2S per cent, were purchased in England and more tfcan half from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. SHANGHAI’S "BIG B E N."—Shanghai will soon have its own “Big Ben,” for there is now on its way out frcm England a huge four-dialed clock, 18ft in face diameter, striking the hours and Westminster chimes on five bels which weigh a total of 10 tons, the wh>ie clock weighing nearly 30 tons. The rendulum is 15ft Jong and weighs 2*cw&, The clock was made at Whitchurch, and is to be installed in the tower of the nev Chinese Maritime Customs House, Shanghai. 8 A CHILEAN DISCRIMINATION. - The Chilean Government is understood be considering certain proposals for the protection of the national mercantile marine, reports the “Shipping World.' Included in these proposals is a suggestion that a reduction of 10 per cent of the customs duties should be allowed on cargoes imported into Chile in Chilean vessels. There is only one Chilean oversea line trading between that country and the United States, so that the effect of the adoption of this proposal will be a preference for American goods over British goods, apart from the fact that it will constitute a breach of the recommendations of the recent Economic Conference, to which Chile has subscribed A letter of protest has been addressee by the Federation of British Industries to the Foreign Office, and the Chamber of Shipping and other bodies have taken similar action. BUS AND STEAMER COMPETITION. —One hears a lot about the disastrous effect of road transport competition on the English railway companies; and i: now' appears, according to a San Francisco message, that shipping concerns out there are suffering from a similacomplaint, and that, in consequence of the untoward results brought about through the operation of the bus lines between the various coastal poims served by both rail and water, the Southern Pacific Company, the Pacific Steamship Company, and the Los Angeles Steamship Company have announced their intention of taking strong mea*ures to meet the situation, states “Fairplay.’* The South Pacific Company state that they will run an all-coach train between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 dollars. including berth and meals, while the Pacific Steamship Company will use four ef their Admiral steamers, and the Lc* Angeles Steamship Company their Harvard and Yale, to provide a similar journey for 10 dollars, including berth and meals—and all that remains is to wait and see what the bus companies will do in the rate war which is believed to b« inevitable.