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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 2

land Shipping Company s liner Rotorua is due at Auckland at daybreak to-mor-row, according to her wireless advice. The vessel will berth at Queen’s Wharf. CHERRY BLOSSOM SEASON.—Many independent and inclusive tours are being arranged for Australians and New Zealanders who desire to visit Japan early next year for the Cherry Blossom season, which attracts so many visitors from all parts of the world. The A.-O. liner Changte is to leave Sydney on March 20 next, connecting at Hong-Kong with the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of France, 25,000 tons. Calls will be made at Queensland ports, Thursday Island, Philippine Islands, Hong-Kong, Shanghai, and tourists will arrive in Sydney on return on June 2. The following is the itinerary:— Changte—‘Leave Melbourne March 10; leave Sydney, via Brisbane, Townsville Cairns, Thursday Island and Manila, March 20; arrive Hong-Kong April 9. Empress of France—Leave Hong-Kong via Shanghai April 10; arrive Kobe April 16; arrive Yokohama April IS. Empress of Asia—Leave Yokohama April 29, or by the President McKinley, May 3. . » Taiping—Leave Hong-Kong May 14; arrive Sydney June 2. ORDERS TO THE H E L M .—Possible changes in the ‘’Orders to the Helm” are indicated in a preliminary report by the chairman of the Coiiissions Committee to the Chamber of Shipping, states the ‘Shipping World.” It is pointed out that collisions undoubtedly occur owing to the present want of uniformity, since a pilot or other person may have charge, first, of one vessel, and then another. The repot t pioceeds: ‘‘Taking the world’s shipping as whole, the orders most common are ‘Port and ‘Starboard,’ indicating the direction in which the helm is to be moved, and not the direction of the vessel s head. Uniformity would be aciheved by this system being accepted internationally, but as the object of the order is to alter the direction of the vessel’s head, and the result of moving the helm varies according to the vessel’s equipment, it would be more logical, as well as, for other reasons, conveinent, that the orders should be given in reference to the direction of the ships head. Any change, however, in the eeffet of the use of existing words of command would be hound bound to lead at first to many disasters, perhaps more in one year tha n occur in 50 from the present want of uniformity. If entirely new and satisfactory words could be agreed, there would be no fear of this, but though the words ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ would have the advantage of novelty, they are not satisfactory words. They have the fault of similarity that the old words ‘Larboard’ and ‘Starboard’ had. To be # satisfactory, the new words of command* should be unmistakably different, as are ‘Port’ and Starboard'—different in number of syllables and in the use of both consonants and vowels. The International Shipping Conference may consider whether some words could be found and accepted by the navigators of all nationalities. One of these could be ‘Right’ or ‘Left,’ but not both.”

■ SOMERSET SAILING.—A departure : from Auckland at 1 p.m. to-day was jto be the Federal Steam Navigation Company’s Somerset for 'Wellington, to continue the discharge of her Liverpool TOFUA SAILS MONDAY. —With passengers. mails and cargo, the Union Company’s Island passenger steamer. Tofua, is to be dispatched - from Auckland at 11 a.m. on Mondav for Fiji ! Tonga and Samoa. She is at Queen's Wharf. | WAIHEMO ON TUESDAY.—Due at ! Auckland on Tuesday morning next, ao- ! cording to her radio report of several j days ago. the Union Company’s Waihemo | will berth at Queen’s Wharf to put out the local portion of her cargo from the | Pacific Coast. The remainder is for ! Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney. I LORNASTON REPORTS.—At mid-day will arrive in the stream* at Auckland { iroin Nauru Island, according to her wire- ' less report received by the local agents. Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane. Ltd. I She will discharge the whole of her cargo I at King’s Wharf. | KARTIGI DUE TO-MORROW.—The , Union Company’s steamer Kartigi, which j left Greyniouth on Thursday morning for Auckland, is expected to arrive here at 8.30 a.m. to-morrow. After discharge the vessel will sail for Westport and Grey mouth before going to Launceston and Melbourne. NORDHVAL RADIOS. —En route from Pacific Coast ports of America, the Danish motor-ship, Nordhval, has reported by wireless to the local office of the Union Company that she expects to arrive here about midnight on Tuesday next. The vessel berths at Queen’s Wharf and after discharge sails for Melbourne and Sydney. DANYBRYN TO DOCK.—Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane, Limited, advise that the Danybyrn is expected to complete the discharge of her phosphate cargo at King's Wharf about Thursday next, when she will dock at Calliope to have her hull cleaned and painted. She sails later for Westport for bunkers. GOLDEN CLOUD SAILING.—The American steamer Golden Cloud is expected to complete discharge of the local consignment of her cargo from Pacific Coast. Canadian and American ports toi day, and the local agents, Henderson and Macfarlane, Limited, announce her departure at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Wellington, Timaru and Dunedin. GLENEDEN SAILS TO-DAY. —The steamer Gleneden, which has been discharging sugar at Chelsea, went into dock at Devonport yesterday afternoon. The local agents, Robert Millar and Company, announce that the vessel will sail this afternoon for Westport. thence Makatea Island, where she will load phosphates for Newcastle. NIAGARA FROM VANCOUVER.—The R.M.S. Niagara, which left Suva at noon yesterday in continuation of her voyage from Vancouver to Auckland and Syd--1 nev, has reported by wireless that she

expects to arrive at Auckland on Monday morning. The vessel will berth at Prince's Wharf to land her passengers and discharge her cargo and mail. At noon the following day, Tuesday, she is to continue her voyage to Sydney. TRANS - PACIFIC SERVICES—The Waitemata will leave Port Chalmers on December 3 for Westport, Suva and A ancouver. The Sussex will leave Los Angeles on December 1 for Hobart, Beauty Point, Melbourne and Adelaide. The Wairuna left Anacortes on Thursday for San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Waikawa left Suva on November 16 for Vancouver, where she is due on December 7. The Hauraki left Sydney on November -16 for Honolulu, where she is due on December 3, and will proceed thence to Los Angeles. The forward loading dates at Pacific j Coast ports are approximately as follow: The Wairuna. loading for Papeete, I Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney, is to leave San Francisco on De- f cember 4, and Los Angeles on December 8, and is due at Auckland on January 5. The Hauraki will load at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancourver, leaving the last-named port on aJnuary 5, for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney. She is due at Auckland on January 29. The Waikawa will load for Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff, and New Plymouth at Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She will leave Los Angeles on January 4 and is due at Napier on January 31. The Waitemata will load at Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney. She is to clear Los Angeles on February 3, and is due at Auckland on February 28. PORT OF ONEKUNGA—ARRIVAL TO-DAY RARAWA (7.45 a.m.), 1,077 tons, Bark, from New Plymouth. The Rarawa, which arrived at Onehunga this morning from New Plymouth. sails again at 4 o’clock on Monday afternoon for the same port. The Hauturu was to have arrived at Onehanga to-day from Hokianga. She sails again on Monday afternoon for ; Raglan, Kawhia and Port Waikato.