The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

KAPONGA FROM NEWCASTLE.— Cable advice received by the local office of the Union Company states that the collier Kaponga sailed from Newcastle at 11.30 p.m. last Wednesday for Auckland, where she is due next Tuesday. KAIAPOI LEAVES NEWCASTLE.— According to a cable received by the Union Company the colliex* Kaiapoi left Newcastle last Wednesday at 9.30 n.m. for Auckland, where she is due on Tuesday next. TOFUA CLEARS SUVA. —Cable advice received by the local office of the Union Company states the Island passenger steamer Tofua left Suva at 5.30 p.m. yesterday for Auckland, where she is due on Monday. HURUNUI LEAVES PANAMA— CabIed news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Hurunui arrived at Panama on April 5 from London and sailed again on April 6 for Auckland, Port Chalmers, and Bluff. She is due at Auckland on April 30. ALL WELL ON RUAPEHU.— A wireless message dispatched from the Ruapehu on Tuesday has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company as follows:—“Fine weather. All well.” The vessel left Wellington last Friday for Southampton and London. RADIO FROM ROTORUA. —The New Zealand Shipping Company has received a wireless message from the Rotorua, dated Monday, stating: “Have had strong following winds, high sea and swell. Weather now fine. All well.” The vessel left Wellington on Wednesday of last week for Southampton and London. CARGO FROM PACIFIC COAST.— The local office of the Union Company has been advised by cable that the trans-Pacific cargo steamer Wairuna sailed from San Francisco at 2 a.m. last Tuesday with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington. Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. The vessel is due to arrive at Auckland about May 5. KING EGBERT SAILING. —The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the tramp motor-ship King Egbert leaves Auckland to-morrow for Western Australia, where she loads for South Africa. The vessel has been discharging a full cargo of basic slag at Auckland. CARGO FROM NEW YORK.—AI- - though no radio advice has been received by the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, the steamer Newby Hall, which is under charter to the A. and A. Line, is expected to arrive at Auckland to-morrow from New York. The vessel is bringing cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Sydney. WESTMORELAND SAILS TO-MOR-ROW.—A projected departure from Auckland to-morrow morning will be the Federal steamer "Westmoreland, which has been loading here under the agency of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The vessel proceeds to Wanganui, thence "Wellington to fill up and should clear the latter port finally on April 24 for London and Hull, via I Patama.

MAUI POMARE AT COLON. —Spedding Limited, are in receipt of advice stating | that the New Zealand Government's new steamer, Maui Pomare. en route from t Southampton. to Auckland via Apia. , arrived at Colon on April 12. OCEAN ISLAND PHOSPHATES. Messrs. Henderson and Maefarlane ad- i vises that the steamer Mesopotamia will j load at Ocean Island before the end of ; this month for Auckland and New Ply- i mouth. She will discharge 6,600 tons of phosphate in New Zealand. THE SCHOONER HUI A. —The Nobel I Explosives auxiliary schooner Huia came ' off the slipway at Freeman’s Bay yester- ! day and berthed at Western Wharf. ' whore she will complete her annual over- ; haul and survey. Mr. C. E. Campbell , advises that the vessel will probably be I employed in lightering explosives from i the Hororata, which is due from Eng- ! land on May 3. PORT NAPIER IN PORT. —An ar- ! rival at Auckland last evening was the ! C. and L>. Line's steamer Port Napier i from Gisboi-nc. This morning she was i berthed at the Queen's Wharf to com- ! plete her loading under the agency of !

Heather, Roberton and Company. At daybreak next Wednesday the Port Napier leaves Auckland for New York Boston and London, via Panama.

PASSENGERS BY ARGYLLSHIRE.— The Argyllshire, which left Wellington on Wednesday last for Hull and London, took the following passengers: Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Golds, Mr. and Mrs. Le Cren and child, Miss Price, Mr. J. M T? r J on ’ M *'- Mellonie, Mr. Oakden. Mi. Palmer, Miss Culverwell, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Commander D. J. Noble, R.N., Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Blakeborough, Mr. and Mrs. Digges-Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Abbey, Mrs. Hethenmgton, Mrs. Anderson, Professor and Mrs. Park, Dr. and Mrs. McEvedy and four children, Mr. E. Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs. Kyalls, Rev. and Mrs. Ings, Miss Binnie, Mrs. Clarke. MAUN GAN U I FOR SYDNEY. —With mails and cargo and the following passengers, the Union Company’s intercolonial steamer iiaunganui is to be dispatched from Auckland at three o'clock this afternoon for Sydney: First class — Misses R. Shipley, A. M. Hawken, P. Maefarlane, K. P. Peters, F. H. Tanner, M. A. Inncs, M. De Laney, M. L. Brockhoff, A. J. Barker, M. F. Everitt, J. Dumont, G. (Jeeves, T. Donald, McDonald, A. Kingsford, M. T. Cummins, Munro, Yells, McLean, E. Hervey, J. Rose (2), M. A. Kenowley, C. J. Jackson, M. G. Taylor, I. McConnell, P. Tyler, A. E. Learning, M. P. Angus, G. A. *Kilwoth, E. Kirkwood, A. R. Tranberg, E. Rodger, J. F. Rodgers, R. E. and E. Williams, C. N. Nicholls, L. A. Hill, M. Mangakahia, E. P. Binney, T. M. Watts, J. Marks, M. F. Smith, L. Hocking, Mesdames Gamier, Dean, Mittehuesen and child, S. A. Palmer. Peterson, M. S. Macfarlane, E. H. O’Connor, Little, A. L. Hocking, Digges, Richards, F. Z. Nr. Connolly, Down and child, Tattersfield, Robinson and child, Niccol, M. A. Cozens, Hamilton, M. H. Macintosh, G. P. Gearing, Hamblin, R. Innes. L. Brockhoff, A. Barker, Ashton, M. A. Everitt, A. Oliver, Parsons, Warlc, High ton, C. Donalds, Fallon, A. MacDonald. E. R. Hickson, E. Proctor, Webb, G. I. Williams and infant, A. Kingsford, A. M. Claydon, N. Marks, Goldburg, J. Humphrey. V. M. Curtis, Bow, R. E. Rose, E. M. Hamilton and infant, A. L. Nyman, W. M. McCallum, J. Boyd, H. King, E. E. Stephen, Angus and child, E. Rodgers, T. Barson and child, M. C. Sealy, I. Tremayne, Binny and child, Taylor, Hurrell: Messrs. F. P. Garriear. A. R. Dean, P. D. Mitteheusen, C. L. Petersen, R. T. Michals, BeaumontSmith, H. Rattray, E. Ballon, C. Cheysens, W. S. Larabe, N. Kershaw, A. M. Briscow, E. Little. D. M. Digges. E. A. Richards, W. E. Lange. P. S. Richards, H. Cuzens, S. Gearing, 7. E. Clayton, T. H. Barker, W. H. and H. V. Barker, N. T. Cummins, H. D. Seabrook, N. B. Down. W. T. Tuckey, J. W. Tattersfield, H. C. Robinson, S. H. Martinvale,, R. H. Murphy, H. Evatt, T. H. Conway. I. F. Hamilton, W. H. Hamblin, A. Turner, W. J.J Barker. Ashton, J. W. Parsons, H. Wark, E. J. Righton, A. W. Donald, F. E. Charles. I. McEllis. A. A. Connelley, .T. P. Fallen, A. A. Walter. A. W. Roberton, S. E. Rockwell, H. W. Goldburg, G. B. Hetherington. D. F. Snellsbury, C. C. James, G. S. Jackson, H. F. Bow, W. Yatman, J. M. Angas, A. Martin, N. A. Raphael, N. H. Newcomb, H. A. Nyman, .T. W. Dalton. C. X. Smith, P. C. Tulloch, Barry. A. N. BaggeU. A. Timmis, Colonel E. TT. Pickwnad. C.M.0., Sisters M. L. Clancy, M. K. Reardon, and NT. X. Lynch, T>i*. Margaret Knight. Second saloon—Misses E. Cayless, D. and M. Cayless. M. F. Gittos, R. P. Savage, E. M. Coleman, NT. Boyd. A. Cassels. I. T. Peaty. E. O. Conner, E. Horin, E. Pollock, A. Dousing, E. S. Miller, E. Ashton. A. and H. Bradley. NT. Hutton, J. Baxter, P. Stephens, F. Moore, E. NT. Beresford. S. Haynes; Mesdames Hall, Cayless, I. M. Tugby. NT. J. Deck, A. A. Brown, H. A. Prendergrast, A. L. Payne, F. A. Brighton and infant, J. Robson and two.children, D. McGregor. S. Robinson, R. Soutter. R. A. Page. E. Davies. M. A. Topliss. A. Tooliss. T. W. Wilson and infant, C. Fleming, W. M. Morelv, R. Hatten, E. F. Priest, NT. A. Jones, K. C. Hogem, M. A. M. McKelvie. T. F. Ashton. I. H. Mudgate, A. Hutton. J. TT. Malcolm. .T. Chalmers and child. S. W. Tvler. R. Haynes. Messrs. C. M. Coirt, W. E. G. Allen, W. R. Tde, H. S. Hall, W. IT. Brighton and child, W. C. Robson. A. J. Germaine, .T. Hullen. c. o. Hutchinson. K. Cayless. J. W. Aff, T. Board man. W. Havnes and child, C. G. Hogan. J. E. McElvie. E. W. W. Tvler. A. Bevand. E. M. Willoughbv. D. McGregor. H. Haynes, W. TT. Smyth. P. Smvth, J. Burns. W. L. Gnngall. H. .T. Muir, J. T. Hassgn. .T. T. Roe. R. Haynes, L. Toplis. F. W. Anslie. A. Norwood. S. Harrison. C. and 131 steerage, including 281 Chinese and and one Indian.

DEVON SAILS TO-DAY j Zealand Shipp - 'the Devon will leave Wellington i ; j evening for Montevideo, London and tiu REMUERA DUE TO-MORROW. - ( Auckland, the New Zealand t»nipp - Company’s liner Remuera is uuc h*'' to-morrow for further loading. 1 I this port The liner proceeds to Tokon.aru. I Bay. thence Picton and N\ ebingtcu. c ! complete and is scheduled to sail finally (from Wellington on April 2$ for Sou:. - ' ampton and London, via Panama. OPAWA SOLD.— . gross, 5.55 S tons net, carries about 11.22 tons deadweight, built and engined Messrs. Denny and Brothers, Pumba--I ton, in 1906. with engines (6 ey.) 2 u J IJin and 69in. by -ISin stroke, and owned by the New Zealand Shipping CVmpany I Ltd., London, has been sold to Mr. -V - j ders Jahre. of Sandeford, Norway j about £20,000, and will be converted into a whaling factory. MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. -A - cording to the monthly approximat traffic return of the Manchester Shi] Canal, the receipts during Decembr! totalled £124.725, or £29.54S less than ia December, 1926. The total revenue for tlie whole of 1927 amounted to £1,576.25.. or a decrease of £15,952 as compared with the previous year. Owing to th» coal strike, which was in force from May until the end of November. 1926. the importations of coal and petroleum products passing along the Ship Canal were of an abnormal character. Contrasting. however, the total revenue of the canal for the year 1927, amounting to £1,576,237, with the total for the* year 1925, which amounted to £1.493,544, was an increase of £52,693. 1 SCHOONER ANIEURA.—"I am sure that we shall be able to run the ship profitably; she is in good seaworthy condition, and no considerable amount of money need be spent in equipping her for the coastal cargo trade,” said Mr. J. G. Stanfield, of Melbourne Salvage Pty., Ltd., in discussing his .intention to form a company for the recommissioning of the auxiliary schooner Anieura. Should Mr. Stanfield obtain sufficient support in bis venture the Anieura may be brought from her anchorage in the bay. Beyond stating that he had every hope of forming a company, Mr. Stanfield was unable to say on what run the vessel would be placed. She might be placed in the MelbourneFremantle trade, but if large cargoes were offering elsewhere she would be placed on the more profitable run. She would retain her present motive power, that of two 160-horse power engines. During the survey of the ship this year the engines were carefully examined and were found to be in excellent condition.

TRANSATLANTIC PASSENGERS.— General prosperity throughout the country, the desire lor education through travel, the general low cost of living abroad, many excursions, the desire of a large number of Americans to visit the lands of their forefathers, and international business intercourse are the chief contributing factors to the general increase in passenger steamship traffic, according to Mr. David A. Burke, general manager of the United States Lines. He predicts an appreciable increase in the shipping business for 1925, especiallv in passenger traffic in the North Atlantic. While Nlr. Burke is enthusiastic over the prospects of the new year, at the sam time he pointed to the indications of keener competition which are being felt by all shipping concerns. “Since the war the steamship business has been on the upgrade, but has not reached the prewar status, due to restricted immigration,” _NIr. Burke said. The depression in business, however, is being overcome by the ever-increasing demand for the popular tourist third cabin accommodation. This style of travel, at a nominal cost, Mr. Burke declared, has passed the stage where it is only a summer inducement to the tourist, and his company has found it necessary to accommodate requests for an all-year service of this character on some of their ships. BRITISH SHIPBUILDING. —The returns of shipbuilding for the December quarter issued by Lloyd’s Register show that the output of the British yards for last year was nearly double that for 1926, while the production of foreign yards remained stationary. It should be remembered, however, that 1926 was, largely owing to the coal stoppage, a year cf great depression for Britisli shipbuilding, and therefore a considerable part of the improvement in 1927 must be attributed to work which was then necessarily postponed. Nevertheless, some part of the recovery, and particularly that occurring in the later months, was undoubtedly due to the desire of shipowners to improve or increase their fleets, in vjew of the more hopeful outlook for shipping. The shipping started in Great Britain the quarter at 377,492 tons was notably below the tonnage required to replace on the stocks the tonnage launched in the same period. In view of these circumstances the immediate outlook for the shipyards is somewhat less promising than it was six months ago. when new work was reported at 437.112 tons. Incidentally, the tonnage launched in the December quarter was the heaviest of any quarter since 1920. The tonnage under construction in Great Britain and Ireland, at 1,579.713 tons, was more than double that being built at the corresponding date of last year. Moreover, the British tonnage figures in relation to foreign tonnage figures have improved, the British figures exceeding the foreign by 40,000 tons. Other notable features of the return are the incrca. in the oil tank tonnage under constru - tion in Britain, while ship-owners arc increasingly tending to favour the internalcombustion engine at the expense of the steam engine, though this movement s still more conspicuous abroad than in Britain.