The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 2

The Log Book

WILLASTON FOR AUSTRALIA. —The New Zealand Shippiixg Company advises that the steamer "YVillaston left Wanganui on Wednesday for Westport for bunkers and is to leave the coal port to-day for Port Lincoln, South Australia, to land the balance of her inward cargo. SYDNEY STEAMERS. —The Marama and the Maheno both leave Sydney today, the former vessel for Auckland and the latter for Wellington. Both vessels are due at their arrival ports next Tuesday morning. PORT DENISON POSTPONED. —The C. and D. Liixe advises that the steamer Port Denison is due at Lyttelton tomorrow from Auckland, and leaves there again next Tuesday for Wellington, where she completes her loading and finally departs on Thursday, July 19, for London, via Montevideo.

MAI MOA AY SOUTHAMPTON. — Cabled news has been received by tlie Shaw, Savill and Albion Company that the Mairnoa arrived at Southampton on Monday aftei'noon from Wellington, en l'oute to London. The vessel left Wellington on May 13.

MAUI POMARE’S PROGRAMME. Spedding, Ltd., advises that the Government motor-ship Maui Pomare leaves Auckland on July 20 for Norfolk Island. The vessel is at present en route from Niue Island to Lyttelton, where she is due next Monday.

TEKOA’S MOVEMENTS. —The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the steamer Tekoa, now loading at Oamaru, leaves there on Tuesday for Wellington, thence Napier, Gisborne and Auckland to fill up. She is expected here toward the end of the month and is now scheduled to sail finally from Auckland on August 3 fox* New York, Boston and London, via Panama.

ROTORUA FROM HOME.—Due at Wellington to-day from London and Southampton, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua will disembark passengers and mails there, and proceed to Lyttelton, Timaru and Port Chalmers to discharge her inward cargo. Later and vessel loads in the South for her return voyage.

REMUERA REPORTED. —CabIe advice lias been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Remuera, en route from Londou and Southampton, wrived at Madiera on Tuesday last and left again the same day for Wellington and Auckland. She is due at Wellington on August 11 and at Auckland a week later.

NORFOLK DUE TO-NlGHT.—Leaving Gisborne at 9 p.m. yesterday for Auckland, the Federal steamer Norfolk is due here this evening to complete her loading under the agency of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The vessel will berth at the Queen’s Wharf to-morrow morning and is now scheduled to clear Auckland finally on Monday next for New York, Boston and London, via Panama.

CANADIAN CHALLENGER SAILING. —The Canadian Challenger, which arrived at Axickland late last evening fronx Southern ports, berthed this morning at King’s Wharf to complete loading fur Montreal, via New Y r oi'k and Boston. The vessel will probably shift to Western Wharf this afternoon to take in fuel oil and at daybreak to-morrow morning is to be dispatched finally. CANADIAN HIGHLANDER. The Canadian National Steamships steamer Canadian Highlander, which arrived at Auckland on Wednesday from Montreal, is to be dispatched this evening for Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dxmedin to complete the dischai'ge of her cargo. She is due back at Auckland again about the beginning of next month to complet€i loading for Montreal, via New York and Boston. ULIMAROA SAlLS. —Besides mails and cargo the Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa. which left Auckland this morning for Sydney, took the following passengers:— Saloon: Messrs. Fair, YVebster. Percy, Campey, Hemming, Staig, Madigan, Mclvor, McDonald, Barry-Young, Pi*o. W. Osborne, Dr. Keys, Messrs. Keys, Jnr., Cavanagh, J. Lamb, O’Shea, Massey, Newson, Barry, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. Curwen, Misses King, B. Ricardo, Schmidt, Davis, Olliver, Sheriff, Hemnxingway, Mrs. E. V. Laird, Mr. and Mrs. Nat. Madison, Mr. and Mrs. G. Blunt, Mr. and Mrs. Hadfield, Messrs Mitchell, Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. Neate, Messrs. Brown, E. Park, M. Schneideman, Schneideman, Jnr., Pattie, Prisck, J. J. Weil, Scott, Mack, Schmidt, Cordner, Harrison, Matthews, McQuarrie, Mr. and Mrs. Sigley, Mrs. Jamieson and child, Misses Nieholls, Hai'tzell, Edwards, Hayses, Jones, Mrs. Schneideman. Miss Schneideman, Miss O. Schneideman, Mrs. G. Sortie, Mrs. B. Finlay, Mrs. Duncan and infant, Mrs. Johns. Miss I. Hunt. Mrs. P Beaumont, Mrs. H. A. Holm, Mr. Jarry, Mr. A. N. Tait; and steerage, 56; fefur Chinese.

SUGAR FROM JAVA. —Advice lias been received by Spedding, Ltd., that the steamer Atholl is bringing a cargo of raw sugar from Java for the works at Chelsea and is expected to arrive at Auckland toward the end of this month. PAUA SAILING. —The Shell Company’s coastal tanker Paua is to be dispatched from Auckland at four o’clock this afternoon for Wellington. The vessel has discharged a cargo of fuel oil at Western Wharf. TOFUA SAILS TO-MORROW.—At 11 a.m. to-morrow the local office of the Union Company expects to dispatch the Island passenger steamer Tofua (Captain Duncan McDonald) from Auckland for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. PHOSPHATES FROM NAURU.—Henderson and Macfarlane have been advised that the steamer Indianola is to leave Nauru Island on July 19 with a full cargo of phosphates for discharge at Auckland. The vessel is expected to arrive here on July SO. SCOW NGAHAU SOLD. —The scow Ngahau owned by the Gisborne Harbour Board, has been purchased by Messrs. Winstone, Ltd., of Auckland. The vessel was sold by Auckland owners three years ago to a Wellington firm, and later went to Gisborne. CARGO FROM NEW YORK. —With cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, the A. and A. Line’s chartered steamer Borderer is expected to arrive at Auckland on July 19 from New York. The New Zealand Shipping Company will act as the local agents for the vessel.

AORANGI LEAVES SUVA. —Advice has been received by the local office of the Union Company that the R.M.MJ3. Aorangi, en route from Vancouver, left Suva at 4.50 p.m. yesterday for Auckland and Sydney. She is expected to arrive here at 1 p.m. on Sunday and is in the meantime announced to sail from Auckland at 1 p.m. next Monday for Sydney.

THE THINGS THAT STAY. —Time is a relentless judge. The decrees of the years are cold facts from which no appeal can be taken. Given time, the most obscure bit of truth will eventually come to light, or the most riotous frauds will finally sink from sight, says Captain Felix Riesenberg in the “Nautical Gazette.” Last week or so we read of the passing of at least one of the rotor ships. This invention of Flettner’s works, I know, because I have had the experience of sailing in New York Harbour in the Buckau. But apparently the thing has drawbacks not entirely overcome by its merits. On the other hand, if there is some undeveloped power si ill latent in the idea, time will bring it out and I for one sincerely hope so. Let us use the wind even if we have to wrap it around a sheet iron cylinder rather than to catch it with a sail. I remember a thing called the Bibbin’s Ball Compass, a miniature globe of metal spinning in compressed air and taking its direction parallel with that of the spinning earth. This, too, it seems, has passed away. On the other hand, the gyro compass of Sperry is a thing that is here to stay. Many of the pet devices of other days have died, not because they were intrinsically worthless, but because progress, an element of time, has produced other devices that have made them obsolete. Among the things that did not stay were those funny contraptions called water brakes. These things were simply large side doors, or fins, hinged to the hull on their after sides, which when released would fly open and stop the ship, that is if they did not rip off. or do even more serious damage. I think the idea was tried, but it never grew into a regular part of ship equipment. The screw propeller seems to be one of the things that has survived, and so long as vessels are driven through the water it will be part of their equipment. But the good old paddle wheel is almost as obsolete as the oar. But did I say the oar was absolete? I would like to retract that. What is really obsolete is the great art of rowing, of handling boats under oars. Now, when called upon, the men who man boats are often very poor oarsmen. The oar, at least, will survive. Steam engines are making a heroic struggle against the internal combustion motor. The battle is not yet over and many new elements are destined to come into this great field of economic strife. Steam and sail were bitter enemies for years, but now many of the old sailors look back on steam with a certain feeling of affection. We would hate to see those plumes of smoke entirely eliminated. After all, the good old steam engine eats up so much coal and oil that in a few thousand years or so men will again take to the sea under sail, or stay at home. The thing that seems destined to be with us so long as the earth is allowed to spin in its orbit is the sea itself, and this is a Thought worth treasuring. The salt in the water lias a. wonderful preservative quality. It is full of life and strens". and keeps the ocean from turning sour. As we will always have the wind, the old art of sailing for pleasure must prevail. It will be the last evenue of escape from a too complicated environment. The funnel will eventually go, even though we have become accustomed to it. Masts will stay: the uses for them are too great to permit their elimination. The bridge seems destined to remain, but even this has become more of an extended wheelhouse than a bridge in the way we knew it when the sailors of the poop and quarter deck were shifted forward of the funnels to stand out to windward in the weather. Steam heating the officer of the watch has never appealed to me. Better keep him out in the open where he can hear and can feel the force of the weather and stay fully awake. Sheltered bridges are full af draughts, and with the weather doors closed are like coops that cut off contact with what is going on over the weather bow. Fort and starboard will stay as seagoing helm commands, in the strictly seagoing services, and in time the U.S. Navy will come back to them, and the right and left business will go into a museum with the corset-fitting bell-boy blouse and the demoded basket masts.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland. Scalar ia, Aorangi, West Cusetta, Dundrennan, Waitomo, Waipahi, Maui Pomare, Kaikorai, Ulimaroa. Valacia, Canadian Highlander, Canadian Challenger, Paua, Norfolk Chatham Islands.—Borderer, Port Huon, Huntingdon. Wellington. Maori, Wahine. Ngaio, Tamahine, Cumberland, Niagara, Dunedin, Rotorua, Waitemata, Moeraki, Pipiriki. Awarua.—Northumberland, Waikouaiti, Karetu, Taranaki, Maunganui, Makura, Tutanekai. PORT OF ONEHUNGA DEPARTURES YESTERDAY ISABELLA DE FRAJNE (3.30 p.m.), 1 10 tons, Burridge, for Hokianga. RARAWA (3.45 p.m.), 1,077 tons, Bark, for New Plymouth. DEPARTURE TO-DAY KAITOA (6 a.m.), 319 tons, Martin, for Havelock. The Anchor steamer Kaitoa sailed from Onehunga at six o’clock this morning for Havelock and cleared the Manukau Br. r at nine o’clock. The Rarawa left last evening for New Plymouth. She is due back again at 7 a.m. to-morrow. The Hauturu is still bar-bound at Po: Waikato, and is not expected to arrive at Onehunga till Sunday morning. The Arapawa is due at Onehunga o:i Sunday from Wanganui.