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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 2

SHIPPING. UDDART PARKER LINE. (Circumstances permitting.) FOR SYDNEY (from Auckland direct). DLIMAROA Indefinite FOR SYDNEY from Wellington direct). ULIMAROA Indefinite Fitted with wireless telegraphy. Surgeon carried. Office: QUAY STREET (opp. Queen’s Wharf). Phone 43-183. ! _____ ======= | —— MOTOR SERVICES. O' JJOTORUA MOTOR TRANSPORT CO., * LTD.. WHITE STAR MOTOR SERVICES:—ROTORUA TO WHAKATANE, OPOTIKI AND GISBORNE. DAILY. 6 A.M. (Sunday In lieu of Monday), TO WHAKATANE ONLY. 5.30 P.M. TAURANGA TO WHAKATANE, OPOTIKI AND GISBORNE, TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS. AND VICE VERSA. FARES.—WHAKATANE. 20s; OPOTIKI; 30s; GISBORNE, 555. (ALL PASSENGERS FULLY INSURED AGAINST ACCIDENT). Phones 19 and 353, Wires “Mo toco/* Rotorua. Book with Thos. Cook and Son, Government Tourist Bureau, or Johnstone, Blue Taxis. Phone 42-465. JL PASSENGER TRANSPORT CO.. LTD. (Yellow and Black Buses) MOTOR BUS SERVICE BUCKLANDS BEACH CITY. TIME-TABLE WEEK-DAYS Leave Leave City Buckland’s Beach. 10.0 a.m. 7.45 a.rn. 1.15 p.m. (Sat. only) 12 noon. 2.0 p.m. (not Sat.) 4.0 p.m. 5.15 p.m. SUNDAYS Leave Leave City. Buckland’s Beach 9.30 a.m. 11.0 a.m. 2.0 p.m. 5.30 p.m. T. DUNDERDALE, Phone, 12-586. Manager. AUCKLAND—CLEVEDON ROYAL MAIL SERVICE. Leaves CLEVEDON daily at D a.m. 9 CIVIC SQUARE, AUCKLAND, daily at 4 p.m. Fare: 4s Single; 7s Return. V. A. BROWN. Proprietor. Cars leave Dilworth Bldgs., 8.30 aim. and 3.30 p.m. Leave Waihi 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. for Auckland. Sunday, leave Waihi, 4.30 p.m. Leave Auckland, 6 p.m. Fares: Paeroa and Waihi, single 17s 6d, return 32s 6d. Auckland - Tauranga, 30s. Ring AARD. Phone 44-656. WAIHI-PAEROA TRANSPORT CO. S. Boimice, Manager. Phone 68, Waihi. EmUMEIIEZS UCKLAND - A 1 U K RELIABLE MOTOR SERVICE. Leaves Waiuku: Daily, 5.15 a.m. Leaves Auckland: Sun Office. 4.30 p.rr G.P.0.. 4.35 p.n Saturday. 5.30 p.nSunday, 7.30 p.rr FARES: Waiuku-Mauku 3 0 Waiuku-Patumahoe 3 6 Waiuku-Drury 5 0 Return 10 0 Waiuku-Papakura GO Return 10 0 Waiuku-Auckland G 0 Return 10 0 Auckland-Papakura .. .. 3 6 Auckland-Drury 4 0 Auckland-Patumahoe .... 5 0 Bookings The Sun Office, Auckland F. C. Alexander, Waiuku. Phone 179. Phone 46-820. PRUNUS FROM MOROCCO. Due at Auckland at noon to-day from Capablanca, Morocco, the motor-ship Prunus 1 was 20 miles off Tiri at 11.30 a.m., and ' is now due in the stream at 3.30 o’clock I this afternoon. She is to berth at ] King’s Wharf to unload her cargo of phosphates under the agsncy of Henderson and Macfarlane. SHIPPING IN JAPAN.—As may be surmised from the insular positioYi of the country, the seafaring propensity of the Japanese forefathers was magnificently developed even in ancient days, says a writer in the New York “Nautical Gazette.’’ It had become especially marked from the middle of the 16th century, when Japan opened its ports to all nations besides China and Korea, and our merchant vessels visited more than 20 countries of Asia, including China, India and the Philippine Islands. Most interesting to say, Japan even sent diplomatic envoys to Spain, Rome and Mexico. Had our people been left to follow their I own bent with respect to maritime activity, Japan might have advanced herself to be one of the greatest commercial nations in the world. But unfortunately a stern decree was issued by the Tokugawa Feudal Government at the beginning of the 17th century, forbidding all citizens of Japan to go on a long distance voyage, and confining them within the small islands of Japan. In the early part of the 19th century several European nations sent their envoys to Japan to knock at the gate which had been closed tightly for two centuries. Japan was awakened from a long slumber, the prohibition of building an ocean-going vessel was revised, and the Japanese merchant steamers can be found in every part of the world. The Japanese shipping business with the United States of America during the year of 1927 has been just as good as in average years, although less prosperous and encouraging generally than the previous year. Roughly estimating, we had approximately 100 vessels of our flag entered into the Port of New York during the period, many of which sailed , from various Atlantic Coast and , Gulf ports: a little more than 100 ships i engaged in the trade of this country mostly with Japan through the gateways of the Southern Pacific coast, namely, San Francisco and Bos Angeles, and over 300 vessels served in the commerce between Japan and the North Pacific Coast along the Puget Sound and Columbia River. In short, about 500 vessels all told linked Japan and the United States of America in interchange of the agricultural and industrial products in the year of 1927. Lumber and grain (and flour) business from the North Pacific Coast was pretty active through the year and allowed every vessel a satisfactory load Iron and steel articles, machinery shipments and general merchandise weie fairly good from Atlantic ports, giving life to the depression of the shipping business in general. The big slump x>t American cotton movements to Japan, however, meant a. great embarrassment to our shipping business as well as American, having had practically nothing by way of Pacific ports and suffering a great deal of shrinkage in volume fr ft. the Gulf. Needless to say, a good quantity of inward bound cargo was brought into the United States by the Japanese bottoms from Japan, Chuia and the Philipp in ”