The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 355, 16 May 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

OMANA LEAVES NEWCASTLE. Cabled news has been received that the Omana left Newcastle on Monday for New Plymouth and Wanganui. She is due at New Plymouth on Saturday. SOMERSET SAILING. —A projected departure from Wellington at 5 o’clock this afternoon is the Federal steamer Somerset, bound for London, Avonmouth, Glasgow and Liverpool. MAMARI SAILS.—The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Mamari, which has been loading at Auckland under the agency of L. D. Nathan and Company, sailed at’7 o’clock this morning for London and West of England ports, via Montevideo and Teneriffe. TAINUI LEAVES BALBOA.—Cabled advice has been received by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company that their liner, Tainui, left Balboa on Saturday evening for Auckland and Wellington, en route from London and Southampton. The vessel is due at Auckland on June 2. RADIO BEACON OUT OF ORDER.— The Marine Department, Wellington, reports that, owing to slight mechanical defect, the radio beacon service has been temporarily discontinued. It is expected the defect will be remedied and the service resumed at an earlj r date. PORT NAPIER LEAVES PANAMA.— Cabled news has been received by the C. and D. Line that the Port Napier left Panama on Friday evening for New York, Boston, Halifax and London, en route from Auckland. The vessel sailed from Auckland on April 18. HERMINIUS LEAVES COLON.—A cable message to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company reports that the Herminius left Colon on Thursday afternoon for London and West Coast ports of Great Britain, en route from Wellington. The vessel sailed from Wellington on April 17. ZEALANDIC LEAVES BLUFF.—A. S. Paterson and Company have been advised that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s new motor-ship Zealandic left Bluff last evening for Wellington and Auckland, to complete her loading. She is due here on Monday next, and is scheduled to sail finally from this port on May 24 for London, via Panama. HAURAKI AT VANCOUVER.—The Hauraki, from Sydney, via Suva and Honolulu, arrived at Vancouver on Saturday. She will proceed thence to Powell River, Union Bay, Ocean Falks and San Francisco to complete loading for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sj'dney. She is to qlear San Francisco on June 1.

MAIM OA'S NEW ITINERARY.—The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company advises the following new itinerary of the steamer Maimoa. The vessel left Gisborne j'esterdaj' for Wanganui roadstead thence Timaru, Lyttelton and Wellington to complete her loading for Home. The Maimoa is now to clear Wellington finally on May 30 for Hull and London, via Montevideo and Rio de Janiero.

RARANGA TO LOAD.—To commence loading for New York, Boston and London, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s steamer Raranga is scheduled to arrive at New Plymouth on May 28 from Brisbane. The vessel will also load at Lj'ttelton, Wellington, Napier, Gisborne and Auckland. She is due here on June 10 and sails finally from this port on June 16. L. D. Nathan and Company will act as the local agents.

MAH IA FOR HOME. —The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company advises that the : steamer Mahia leaves TVellington to- •; morrow for London and Hull, via Monte- * video and Teneriffe.

PLEIODON DUE THURSDAY.—A wireless message received from the British Imperial Oil Company’s steamer Pleiodon states that the vessel will arrive at Wellington at daybreak from Singapore.

TURAKINA AT TIMARU.—Due at Timaru this morning from Oamaru, the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Turakina later proceeds to Lyttelton, Picton, and Wellington to complete her loading. She sails finally from Wellington on June 2 for London, via Panama.

H.M.S. DIOMEDE UNDOCKS—H.M.S. Diomede, which has been in dock at Devonport for cleaning and painting, is expected to come out to-morrow and will go to the Central Wharf. She will sail for England on Saturday.

HORORATA SAILS. —The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Hororata sailed from Auckland last evening for Napier, thence Lyttelton and Wellington, to complete her loading for Home. She is to sail finally from Wellington on May 31 for London, via Panama. TONGARIRO TO COMPLETE. —To complete her loading, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Tongariro leaves Wellington to-day -Lor Port Chalmers. | The vessel is to clear the Otago port finally on May 23 for London and West of England ports, via Panama.

HAUTURU TO RESUME. —The Northern Company advises that the Hauturu which has been undergoing overhaul at this port, sails from Auckland at 4 p.m. to-day for Hokianga, thence Onehunga, where she will resume her running in the Onehunga-Hokianga and RaglanKawhia service.

TAMAROA’S MOVEM ENTS.—A. S. Paterson and Company advise that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Tamaroa leaves Auckland on Friday for loading at Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, and Wellington. She is to sail finally from Wellington on June 9 for Southampton and London, via Panama.

PORT AUCKLAND TO LOAD.—The C. and D. Line’s steamer Port Auckland leaves New Plymouth on Saturday for Opua, thence Auckland, and is due here on May 23 to lift the local portion of her cargo. She sails from here the following day for Tokomaru Bay, thence Gisborne and Wellington, to fill up. and clears the latter port finally on June 7 for London, via Las Palmas.

TASMANIA TO LOAD.—The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the steamer Tasmania leaves New Plymouth this evening for Opua and Auckland, and is due here next Monday. After lifting the local cargo, she proceeds thence to Napier, Lyttelton, and Wellington to fill up. sailing finally from the latter port on June 2 for West of England ports, via Montevideo and Las Palmas.

NEW STEAMER PUKEKO.—An arrival at Napier from Falmouth on Monday was the Richardson Line’s new steamer Pukeko, which has been built specially for the company’s East Coast cargo trade. She will probably be put on the Auckland-East Coast Bay service and is expected to arrive at Auckland on Friday. She is a steel twinscrew steamer of 700 tons gross and was built on the Humber by the Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Company. Her dimensions are:—Length,' 180 ft; breadth, 29ft; depth, lift. She has three hatches and her carrying capacity is 850 tons deadweight. Her twin screws are driven by two sets of triple expansion engines placed amidships. Her tonnage is nearly 200 more and she is 26.5 ft longer than the company’s steamer Mako. The Pukeko left Falmouth on March 8 and, after a boisterous voyage across the Atlantic, she reached Colon on April 2. In the Pacific further boisterous weather was encountered and delayed her arrival at Napier by nearly a week.

FERNLANE ARRIVES. —The Norwegian motor-ship Fernlane arrived at Auckland yesterday with 7,500 tons of case oil and petroleum products from Port Arthur, Texas, and berthed at Western Wharf to unload 800 tons to the agency of Burns, Philp and Company, Ltd. Her other discharging ports are Wellington, Sydney, Launceston, Adelaide, Bunbury and Fremantle. She is expected to resume her voyage this afternoon. The Fernlane is a new vessel, having been launched at Copenhagen, Denmark, last October. Her owners are Messrs. Fearnly and Eger, Oslo, Norway. She is fitted with a S,OOO h.p. Diesel engine of the Burnmeister and Wain type. Her 10 winches, as well as capstan and windlass, are electricallydriven. On her present voyage she averaged 11.50 knots, but she has a speed capacity of 13.75 knots. Her first voyage was from the Baltic to America .and she loaded in America for Rotterdam. From Holland she went in ballast to Port Arthur to load her present cargo. Exceptionally fine weather prevailed during the voyage from Texas to Auckland.

WORSHIP AT SEA.—In order to provide sailors on the high seas with a modern manual of worship which will permit the holding of Sunday and other services on board ship, the American Seamen’s Friend Society has just published a revision of a book which was first offered to seamen nearly a century ago. The book has been prepared by the Rev. George Sidney Webster, secretary of the society, and will be placed on board ships arriving in the Port of New York in the future. The society points out that in 1830 it published a seamen’s devotional assistant containing 512 pages and that in 1887 a new seamen’s manual of worship was published which has been the basis of a manual in use since that time. Dr. Webster states that in recent years there has been no diminution in the interest of sailors for religious services. In fact the use of the manual of worship and the attendance at religious services, both at the Society’s Home and Institute on the North River waterfront and in other ports throughout the world, register marked increases in later years, and that the aims of the society have been toward increased facilities for providing the sailor with a means for developing his spiritual life.

SUSSEX ARRIVES.—The Union Company’s chartered steamer Sussex arrived at Auckland at 6.25 a.m. to-day and berthed at the Queen’s Wharf to unload cargo from Calcutta, Rangoon, Penang, Singapore and Samarang. The voyage to Auckland was uneventful, the weather being fine but hot. The chief steward, Mr. F. C. Boss, died at Singapore. The Sussex brought nine passengers to Auckland, the Rev. Palgrave Davy and Mrs. Davy, Mrs. Cawley, Mrs. Robertson Smith, Mrs. Neville and infant, Miss Graham and two soldiers, who have completed seven years’ service in India, and who are going* farming in the South Island. Two tapirs, which were being brought to the Auckland Zoo, died during the voyage, but an anoa, or Straits Settlements buffalo, has survived the trip. Four monkeys, which are going South, are also on board; two others died during the voyage.

Captain J. D. Frew is in command of the Sussex, and has associated with him the following officers:—Chief, Mr. G. W. Evans; second, Mr. J. W. Thomson; third, Mr. F. G. H. Clark; chief engineer, Mr. W. S. Hall; second, Mr. J. Leitch; third, Mr. R. Smith; fourth, Mr. G. Bell; fifth, Mr. W. McLaren; sixth, Mr. S. Ross; wireless operator, Mr. R. A. Patchett. From Auckland the Sussex will leave on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin to complete discharge. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland: Aorangi, Omana, Nucula, Hororata, Nauru Chief, Kalinga, Mamari, Fernlane, Tutanekai, Tasmania. Chatham Islands: Rimutaka, Norfolk, Scheldepas. Wellington: Maori, Wahine, Ngaio, Arahura, Tamahine, Mesopotamia, Mairrioa, Maui Pomare, Kia Ora, Wairuna, Niagara, Zealandie, Pleiodon, Echunga. Awarua: Canadian Transporter, Port Dunedin, Paua, Karetu. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS TO-DAY ARAPAWA (7.15 a.m.), 291 tons, Pert, from Wanganui. RARAWA (7.50 a.m.), 1,077 tons, Bark, from New Plymouth. The Arapawa arrived at Onehunga at 7.15 a.m. to-day. She sails at 4 p.m. today for Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads. She is due back at Onehunga on Friday. The Rarawa arrived at Onehunga at 7.50 a.m. to-day from New Plymouth, and sails on the return trip at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Totara is due at Onehunga on Saturday from Nelson and loads for Nel--1 son and Picton.

THE TRACKLESS TRAIN.—By the Roosevelt Line steamer Crown City, I there arrived in Brisbane on April 3 an ! over-landing, globe-trotting vehicle which has been described by the London “Daily Mail” “as a revolution in automobile building.” This is the MetroGold wvn-Mayer Trackless Tram which has since 1925 been travelling the world in the interests of its owners and of the motion picture industry in ‘ Built to the specifications of Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer. the train consists of a motor-driven locomotive and tender similar in all respects to those m use on transcontinental runs with a Pullman coach luxuriously equipped with electric light, hot and cold water, sleeping bunKs, kitchenette, etc. The complete Wain weighs five tons, the locomotive and tender are 23ft long and 6*ft wide, and the coach is nearly 30ft long and over 7it wide. In every rsepect it is a self-con-tained vehicle and in some ways resembles a caravan on most de luxe lines. Two 90 h.p. motors coupled, supply the motive power for the train which has during the course of its world wanderings crossed the Alps unaided, eloquent testimony to the power of its engines. The Trackless Train crossed North America from Los Angeles to New York, traversed various Canadian provinces, was shipped across to Liverpool, toured through England. and collected funds for the Middlesex Hospital, passed through Belgium. France and other European countries. South America was next visited and the train’s itinerary included the principal Republics and also Central America. It will visit every state in Australia, and will then be shipped to New Zealand. In all it will be in Australasia for about l*. months. Mr. Edie Carrier, the conductor of the train has been with it in all its wanderings and is acknowledged to be one of the most travelled men in 1 the world. One of the chief objects of interest connected with this international overlander is its visitors’ book which contains the signatures of Pri f ices, Potentates and Prime Ministers. L.R.IL Duke of Connaught, the Queen anc, the Crown Prince of Holland, the King and Queen of the Belgians. Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor of London, President Coolidge, Dr. Streseman, Premier Mussolini are among some of the great ones whose , names appear in it.