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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 491, 22 October 1928, Page 2

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THIS DAY Wellington, Wanganui. Palmerston North. Hastings, and Napier (letters only). So “ u i ern Offices ot New Zealand falso ills borne and Tokon aru Bay). 6.30 p.m. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928 Whangarei, Dargaville. etc.. 5.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Opotiki, etc. (percels only), 1! air Kawhiif (parcels only), il a.m. New Plymouth and Taranaki Pstrict Parcels at 11 a.m., 12 noon. Kaivau, 1.30 p.m. Gisborne, 2nd class matter (parcels 11 a.m.), 2 p.m. Mahurangi, 2.30 p.m. Russell, Opua, Whangaroa and Nlangonui, etc., 2.30 p.m. Hicks Bay and Te Araroa, etc., 3 p.m. Whitianga, Tairua and Hikuai, etc., 3.30 p.m. Colville and Amodeo Bay, 3.30 p.m. Coromandel, Pakatoa, etc., 3.30 p.m. Turua, 3.30 p.m. Whangaparaoa, etc., 3.30 p.m. Wellington. Wanganui, Palmerston Xorth. Hastings and Xapier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and South Africa, per Main Trunk, Limited (Makura, from Wellington). Tuesday, October 23, at 5 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America. Mexico. West Indies (also Fiji, Apia and Pago Pago. Hawaiian Islands), per R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, Wednesday. October 24, at 10 a.m. Parcels for Fiji and America, at 3 p.m., Tuesday, October 23. Due London, November 21. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), also Pitcairn Island, per Main Trunk (lonic, from Wellington), Wednesday, October 24, at 5 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, must be specially addressed “per lonic.** Parcels, 11 a.m., Tuesday, October 23. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS October 22: R.NI.S. Niagara, from Sydney (423 bags English and Australian mail). Octobei 43 R-M S Makura, from San Francisco, via Wellington (379 bags English and American mail). October 23: S.S. Maheno. from Sydney (Australian mail) Wm. J. GOW. Chief Postmaster.

BRISTOL DOCK EXTENSCION- Wor» on the eastern arm extension of the Rc?*Edward dock at Bristol. England. authorised as early as 1018. but the port authority decided to postpone the acll, *‘ launching of any project because of tn. high prices prevailing at that time. ♦ 0 further action was taken until the stun* mer of 1923. when the port authority having been approached by the In* l "* ployment Grants' Committee, again & thought to a project, and issued instru * Lions to the docks engineer to preP*' contract drawings and specifications. , November, 1923, tenders for were invited, and 20 were submitted > response. Out of these, the port aatfi''-* ity on June 21, 1924. accepted the t* nfl ■ of Sir William Arroll and Co., Ltd- c* Glasgow. The construction works ur flr . taken by this company comprise reinforced concrete wharves on the e and west side of the extension, two forced concrete treble-floor transit wea - a transit silo granary, grain g aJle -; j the excavation of the eastern arm, other subsidiary work. THE OUTLOOK FOR SHIPPING-'’ looking facts in the face and honest opinion based on experience <■ - stitutes pessimist, then ? wner ** a '. others connected with shipping ana • lied trades must be considered as * ing among the worst of thcro ’f~ n -' “Fairplay.” The chairman of one g largest shipping companies told ri h-s few days ago that he had never m • long experience known the I position to be as bad as it is. J-°T n • ; while Mr. E. 11. Bolton, the chain**" . the London General Shipowners boc gw at tbe annual meeting of the c f stated that he had "the distinctlO having been chairman during tne w , shipping year that any of them experienced,” and that was a Tem l «... which he sincerely hoped none oz , e successors would ever be able to « r. him. Shipbrokers are also veryJi while shipbuilders and engineers t th« plain bitterly of the difficulty if no impossiblity, of securing work ve their men employed. Many Of**® 8 the necessary funds available to ia> <j e . more tonnage, but have, apparent .• cided to wait until prices reach jt their opinion is a favourable ngu - seems that there are few hand steamers for sale of tne l owners require, and. ther fl ore i cop* 1 necessary for them to build, a tracts are being quietly placed a p which, so I am told. leave an l aD . loss to the builders, who, h . oW ® inks tl* a tain that it is better to make a to dose the yard. Naturally, tne ers and engineers maintain J/* _L ha'« being hungry for work, shipown asa ready-made opportunity. ..^•'darkest suredlv, if the present is th*3 hour which precedes the d£ U- \>vt owners should immediately not unfortunately, as usual. the varWdiscernible, or only the f al ~* th at it 19 and on the ground, seemingly, fV ' n better to be sorry with the - - your pocket than with the BluP® fixed, they are holding back.