The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 302, 13 March 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL. —Captain'J. A. Wallis is ( in command of the Colonial Sugar Com- j panv’s steamer Rona, which arrived at | Auckland on Sunday evening from Suva. The following are his officers: Chief. Mr. j V. G. 1 ’arlu st ■ •lul. -Mr. E. < ford; third, Mr. W. G. Balliarris; wire- ; less operator, Mr. A. N. Wickham; chief engineer, Mr. J. Morrison; second. Mr. W. H. Mathews; third, Mr. A. J. Freeman: fourth. Mr. E. J. Scott; fifth. Mr. R. W. Clark; chief steward, Mr. J. A. , Telford. j Captain F. L. G. Jaunay is in command ’ of the trans-Pacific cargo steamer Waite- < mata, at present discharging at Auck- ! land. The following are his officers:— Chief, Mr. F. Collins; second, Mr. S. Smith; third, Mr. S. Ward: wireless operator. Mr. E. Earngay; chief engineer, Mr. P. Brewer; second. Mr. B. AY. Gandell; third. Mr. J. B. Berryman; fourth. Air. H. A'artha; chief steward, Air. A. Alorris. WEST NIVARIA SAILING —To continue the discharge of her cargo from Pacific Coast ports, the American steamer West Nivaria is to be dispatched from Auckland this afternoon for AVellington j and Lyttelton. GALLIC AT NEW YORK. —The White Star steamer Gallic, which sailed from i Auckland on February 9 for New York. Halifax and London, is reported to have j reached New York last Saturday. KING EiiWIN SAILED. —The motorship King Edwin sailed from Auckland j last evening in continuation of her voyage from Texas to Wellington, Napier, New Plymouth and Australia. KAIKOURA LIGHT OUT. —The local office of the Marine Department has received the following message from the Secretary of Marine: Advise shipping the Kaikoura light is out and it probably will not be lighted for some days. NORTHUMBERLAND CLEARED COLON. —The Federal Line steamer Northumberland is reported to have cleared Colon on Saturday, in continuation of her voyage from New Zealand to England. She was dispatched from Napier on February 16. RUAHINE AT SOUTHAMPTON. —En route to London the New Zealand Ship- j ping Company’s liner Ruahine is reported to have reached Southampton last Saturday. The vessel has passengers, mail and cargo from New Zealand. She sailed from Wellington on February 4. WESTMORELAND D E L A Y E D.— -The Federal Company advises that the Westmoreland will leave Napier to-day for Wellington, in continuation of her voyage from Liverpool, via Auckland. The vessel, which was delayed on the coast, is due at the capital to-morrow. SOMERSET DUE SHORTLY. Scheduled to arrive from Liverpool next Sunday the Federal Line steamer Somerset has general merchandise from West Coast ports of Great Britain for discharge at Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. The New Zealand Shipping Company are the local agents. HINEMOA SAILS. —This afternoon the New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa sailed from Auckland with passengers, mails and cargo for Niue Island. She took the followling passengers: Air. R. D. Head, Alisses A. Head and B. Head, Nurse McLaren, Rev. Beharell and Captain A. Luckham. The following is the vessel's latest itinerary: Returns to Auckland, March 26: sails for Norfolk Island, March 2S: returns to Auckland, April 4; sails for Niue Island. April 11. TRANS-PACIFIC STEAMERS. —The Waikawa, from New Plymouth, arrived at Nelson on Sunday, and will clear the latter port to-day for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff, Westport and Auckland, to complete discharge of her inward cargo, thence to Honolulu and Vancouver. The Wairuna, from Newcastle via Suva, is due at Vancouver on Afarch 17. She will proceed thence to San Francisco, to complete loading for Auckland. AVellington, Alelbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. The Hauraki left Sydney on Saturday and is due at Alelbourne to-day, thence Adelaide, to complete discharge of her inward cargo. The Waiotapu, from Newcastle, arrived at Suva on Alarch 8. and will leave again about Thursday next for Fanning Island, thence Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Waihemo was to have left San Francisco on Saturday for Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Alelbourne and Sydney, and is due at Auckland about April 3. as as as % m sThslk sk *at *at ' j

Tit tv* r'r -j- -r IK ALA IN PORT.— With general cargo from Eastern Canada the tramp steamer Ikala arrived in the stream at Auckland this morning and later berthed at the | Queen’s Wharf to unload the local por- j tion of her cargo. Since the vessel was last here she has almost circled the globe. On this voyage the vessel left Sydney, Cape Breton, on January 31 and experienced good weather, except for two or three days in the Pacific, when she ran into a moderate southerly gale which delayed her slightly. Captain J. P. Alitchell is in command of the Ikala and has the following officers associated -with him: Chief, Air. S. A. Henrikson; second, Air. W. W. Alolyneux; third, Air. R. AA r . Whittington: wireless operator, Air. S. E. James: chief engineer. Mr. H. C. Smith; second, Air. J. S. Brown; third. Air. W. Turner; fourth, Mr. E. AV. Johnson; chief steward, Air. Ar. C. Cobb. The New Zealand Shipping Company, the local agents, hope to dispatch the Ikala on Saturday morning for AVellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and New Plymouth to complete the discharge of her cargo. MAUNGANUI FROM SYDNEY. Shortly before 7 o’clock this morning the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Alaunganui arrived in the stream at Auckland from Sydney. Pratique was granted and the vessel berthed at the Queen’s Wharf. The Alaunganui left Sydney at 3 p.m. last Friday and experienced a good weather passage for tli<\ run across the Tasman Sea. The following passengers arrived by the Alaunganui:— First Class.—Alesdames Pittar, Stocks, Oliver, Caznau, Fitzherbert. Simpson, Bevis, Knowles, Farquhar, Golssine, Mac Queen Stewart, Mackenzie, Coombe, Brown, Miller, Bloom, Dobson, Warren, Nickerson, Ewers, Cluff, O'Hara, Bragg, Taylor; Rev. Torrance, Alessrs. Curtis, Cleave, Mac Niven, Hampton, Muir, Turner, Simpson, Scrivener, Hillsmith, Harvey, Ryall, Stacey, Knowles, Ryan, Young, Stewart, Orr, Sides. Goodwin, Campbell, Maekay, Bryant, Whitehurst, Marsland, Sarjent, Dobson, Kerr (2), Foulser, Fryatt. Bloom, Pitchfield, Delpratt, Beatty, Cullen, Hooper, Cluff. Kissin, Bragg, Ginsbury, Taylor, Braiding; Misses Miller, Stockley, Pittar, Solomon. Blenkarn, Gould, Rossbottom, Hedley, Delpratt (2), Bass, Osborne, Capper, Plumley, Bragg, Sisters Franzisca, Philibert, Benadine. Second Class: Alesdames Anderson, Cover, Hall, Rowe, Dr ink water, AVoodger Beaumont, Pa ton. AVadell, Watts, AAalter, Service. Pell, Patterson, Hurley, Chapman, AATiite, Clunes, Young, Johnston; Misses Young (2), Service, Ja-k-Kadcliffe: Messrs. Anderson, Rowe, Gri nk water. Finn, McPherson, Patton, Coombe, Poile, Hook, Allen, Lee, Blackburn, Leigh. Hurley, A'oung, Filmer, Brown; and 43 third class. Alaunganui leaves Auckland at 3 p.m. on Friday on her return trip to k Sidney t

WAITEMATA SAILS TO ; M O RR Ow trans-Pacific cargo steamer Wait * h* Which is at present cl is, ha re me wi!?”****. from Pacific Coas: ports of Kir. si’s Wharf, sa.ts to-morrow «« for \Yt llington. Melbourne and Sydne? r J ROTORUA LEAVES TO-NIGHT N Shipping liner Rotom^f be dispatched from Auckland for vJ*• * Lyttelton and Wellington to loading for Home. With paasnMnr?"** hi - MaVch >< fr ° m London, via* Panama/ *° U ha ~ pton an* AKAROA RECOMMISSIONED *r tug Akaroa, which has been out ,>T Tt> mission for several weeks, resumes^s* Auckland for the"’ North to /^Jvf Vfs raft of logs. Captain ,T. M. Jaek^»i * charge, Mr. A. Gillespie is Mr. F. Ryan chief officer. *** and CANADIAN NATIONAL SHIPS.— The local office of the Government Mercantile Marine i A 4 ® I ** reived a cable message on Thursday f its headquarters that, commencing iTP? Thursday, the organisation ,vj he CC*’ as the t anadian National Steamshiri** Canadian Government formecT'Vtji *** shin company, and it was divides***** thr e sections—tl.e Canadian slfJ”" Steamships, from Vancouver to ‘ luS* the Canadian National Steamship. Jj£ Australia, the TTnitedA'ingdom afSTfe*" tinent. All services will now be coir bined under the new name. v Zealand service was organised In vS monthly C servVce* hf? ~ ™T k '” montni} n.is been maintained.

SHIPPING COMPANIES COMBImc An official statement has been iSSt the effect that Messrs. Furness. WitK and Co.. Ltd., have acquired the capital of Messrs. Cairns, Noble and cG melii of h ‘the C cli i rn Lino Ltd., maintaining services between Can* dian ports and Newcastle. Leith and ofl Continent. This acquisition, howevi does not embrace the shares of Cairn Line of Steamships, Ltd., of wh o* company Sir William Noble will rem4i chairman. Sir Frederick W. Lewis th chairman of Messrs. Furness. Withy an. Co.. Ltd., together with some of* hi colleagues, will join the board of Mesas Cairns. Noble and Co.. Ltd., of* whin company he will be the chairman ‘buthe business will continue to be carrtai on with the same personnel as hitherto SPEEDY SWEDISH MOTOR-SHIP-Tlie Swedish motor-ship Mirrabooka Vato have arrived at Brisbane on March 1 from the Continent, via San Pedro Tlo Mirrabooka. the earliest to be conipiettl of two high-class v-argo motor-ships under construction by Gotaverken, Gotherbui'g, for the Trans-Pacific Shipping Company, is intended principally for a cargo carrying service between Europe. Australia and the Far East. She has. however, accommodation for a number tf first-class passengers. Her designed speed is 15 knots—which makes her the fastest cargo vessel under the Swedish flag—and on her official trials, in ballast condition, a mean speed of no Jess than IST knots was obtained. The Mirrabooka s 457 ft in overall length. 435 ft between perpendiculars, 57ft in breadth, and 39ft l#in in moulded depth from the shelter dec?:. The load draft is 26ft Tin. The hull s divided by watertight bulkheads into nir.» compartments, viz., forepeak tank, thrt* holds, machinery space, two holds and afterpeak teak and stores. Fresh waur is carried in the afterpeak tank, ard water ballast or oil fuel in eight doubl*bottom tanks extending over the ships length between the peak tanks. In wing tanks there is also provision for water ballast or oil fuel, the total oil fuel burkering capacity being about 2,000 tons. The cargo handling appliances incluc« 14 electrically-driven winches. On the promenade deck is accommodation for ::«* passengers in two-berth cabins, two of which are de luxe rooms with separate bathrooms. The dining-room is framed and panelled in dark birch with column* also of dark birch, the lounge in grey maple, and the smoking-room—which s on the deck above—in dark oak decorate! with finely executed paintings. The propelling machinery consists cf two Got*verken—B. and W. six-cylinder Diesel engines, giving a total output of 6.4 4 “ 1 ' i.h.p. at 110 revolutions per minute. All the auxiliary machinery is electrical? driven. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland: Tofua, AVaipahi, Mansuo. Kirg Edwin. Piako. Oliva, Yillede verdun. Quercus, Niagara, Matatua. Chatham Islands: Arawa, Huntmgdoa. Somerset. . . Wellington: Maori, Wahme, Ngaio, A. >- hura, Tamahine, Port Adelaide. Aorangi, Makura. Port Hunter, Westmoreland, Argyllshire. Karetu, Maluma, Kaiapoi. Middlesex, Herrainius, PoolU, Anglo Colombian. Awarua: Tahiti. C. A. Larsen, Sir J.JRoss, N. T. Nielsen Alonso, Manuln. Ruapehu, Ashburton, Springbank, U> of Rayvillc, Tutanekai. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY NGAPUHI (4.10 p.m.), 703 toil!, Bur. for New Plymouth. ... ISABELLA DE BRAINS <-.U pm 110 tons, Texiera, for Hokianga. I HABTURU (10 p.m.), 3(0 <° ns . Ja i son-Fowler, for Raglan. • The Arapawa leaves Onehunga at. 4 P 'to-day for Kawhia, Te Waitere IW koto ellads, and is due back on lU Tiie' Hauturu, du 2at Onehunga to-ro ? ' row at 6 a.m. from Raglan, tails at »P- j i the same day for Wanganui. ) The Ngapuhi is due at „?" e p?. n S c .- I 7.30 a.m. to-morrow from New Pl)mPt and leaves at 4 p.ra. on Thursday . return trip. aki The Anchor Company s steamer a. ander is due at Onehunga to-morr< from Nelson, loads there and sail* Thursday for Nelson and Picton. The Isabella de Frame arrives it W' hunga on Thursday from Hokianga a sails the same day on her return trip- ,