The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 555, 7 January 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL. —Mr. K. Sinclair has rejoined the Marama as chief engineer after holiday leave. Mr. A. W. Roake, fifth engineer of the Manuka, is ashore on sick leave, liis place being taken by Mr. J. S. Hardy. Mr. W. A. Scott has l-elieved Mr. P. J. Burns as engineer of the tug Terawhiti, the latter being on holiday leave.

MAUI POMARE SAILS TO-MORROW. —Spedding, Limited, advises that it is hoped to dispatch the Government motorship Maui Pomare from Auckland at 11 a.m. to-morrow for Niue Island and Apia, Samoa.

RUSSELL SERVICE. The Northern Company advises that during the summer months the steamer Clansman, taking passengers and cargo, leaves Auckland at 4 p.m. on Mondays, and at 5 p.m. on Fridays, for Russell, Opua, Whangaroa, and Mangonui.

FOR GREAT BARRIER. The Northern Company advises that the Rangitoto leaves Auckland at 8 a.m. on Thursday, instead of Wednesday, for the Great Barrier. On Wednesday she will leave here at noon for the Thames, and leaves Thames at 6 p.m. the same day for Auckland.

THAMES RACES. The Northern Company advises that to suit the convenience of racegoers the steamer Rangitoto leaves Auckland at 6.45 a.m. next Saturday and Monday for Kopu, which is about the same distance from the racecourse as from the wharf at Thames.

MOTOR-SHIP OLIVEBANK. Spedding, Limited, advises that efforts are being made to complete the discharge of the raw sugar from the motor-ship Olivebank on Friday evening, so as to dispatch the vessel from Auckland at daylight on Saturday for Sydney, where she takes the wheat-loading berth for Home.

HAURAKI LEAVES VANCOUVER.— Cable advice has been received by the local office of the Union Company that the motor-ship Hauraki left Vancouver at 6 p.m. last Wednesday with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. The vessel is expected to arrive here on January 26.

ELECTRIC TANKER BRUNSWICK.— The local office of the Atlantic Union Oil Company has received advice that the new motor tanker Brunswick is scheduled to reach Auckland on February 7 with bulk oil from America. The Brunswick is a Diesel-electric tankei', and is the largest vessel of her type in the world. The unusual feature about the vessel is that the control of the engines is carried out from the bridge and similar arrangements on a vessel have not yet been seen at . Auckland. Besides the engines all the other machinery on board is electric. She has a dead-weight capacity of 13,210 tons and her dimensions are: Length 469 ft.; breadth. 63ft.; loaded draught, 26ft lOin.

WAIRUNA IN PORT. Shortly after noon yesterday the Union Company’s cargo steamer Wairuna, from the Pacific Coast ports, via Papeete, arrived in the stream at Auckland, and later berthed at the Prince’s Wharf. She loaded at Vancouver, New Westminster, Powell River, Ocean Falls, Anacortest, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She sailed from Los Angeles on December 9. Papeete was reached on December 23 and after unloading a quantity of cargo she resumed her voyage on December 27. Fine weather prevailed throughout.

Captain J. Ryan is in command, and the following are the officers;—Chief, Mr. E. A. Stern; second, Mr. H. W. Jones; third, Mr. E. R. Pate; wireless operator, Mr. E. Heather; chief engineer, Mr. X. McMurrich; second, Mr. W. Falconer; third, Mr. B. Isaac; fourth, Mr. W. Barr; fifth, Mr. G. Williamson; chief steward, Mr. T. Taylor.

Efforts are being made to dispatch the vessel from Auckland on Wednesday for Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney to complete discharge:

CANADIAN TRANSPORTER ARRIVES.—With cargo from Montreal for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin, the Canadian National Steamship steamer Canadian Transporter arrived in the stream at Auckland this morning and, after pratique was granted, berthed at the Prince’s Wharf to unload the local portion of her cargo. The vessel left Montreal on November 25, and good weather was experienced for the voyage to New Zealand. Captain R. P. Roberts is still in command of the vessel, and has the following officers with him:—Chief, Mr. T. A. Edge; second. Mr. E. Roper; third, Mr. A. Levesque; chief engineer, Mr. G. S. Shieffield; second Mr. A. H. Easson; third, Mr. J. 11. Sutherland; fourth, Mr. E. W. Harvey: wireles operator. Mr. D. McKenzie; chief steward, Mr. J. SkinnesThe Canadian Transporter is expected to leave Auckland to-morrow evening for Southern ports.

MAILS HOME. —The Chief Postmaster has received advice that the mail which left Wellington by the R.M.S. Tahiti, via San Francisco, on December 4, arrived m London on January 5. MAILS ARRIVING.—The S.s. Ulimaroa left Sydney at noon on January 4 for Wellington with 26S bags of English, Eastern and Australian mail for Auckland. The letter portion should reach here on Wednesday, January 7. NIAGARA AT VANCOUVER. —The local office of the Union Company has been advised that the R.M.S. Niagara arrived at Vancouver at 4.30 p.m. last Friday and sails on Wednesday on her return trip to Auckland and Sydney, via ports. She is due here on January Li>. lONIC’S AGENTS. Advice I received bv L. D. Nathan and Company that the White Star liner lonic, which left Southampton last Friday for Auckland and Port Chalmers, will arrive here on February 11 to their agency. The vessel has passengers and mails for disembarkation at Auckland, and cargo tor discharge here and at Port Chalmers. THE TREGANNA. —Cable advice received bv the Canadian National Steamships states that the chartered steamer Trcganna reached Panama on December 28. and sailed the same day in continuation of her voyage from Montreal to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. She is due at Auckland about January 2S.

MAHIA'S MOVEMENTS. —The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company reports that the Mahia will leave Napier to-day to continue loading at Gisborne, V anganui roadstead, Lyttelton and Wellington. The vessel is due at Wellington on January 24, and will sail finally from that port on January 2S for London, via Panama. PORT HOBART TO LOAD. —The C. and D. Line advises that the Port Hobart is due at Auckland on January 23 from Launceston to commence loading for London, under the agency of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. The vessel will subsequently load also at New Plymouth, Wanganui and Wellington, and is to sail finally from Wellington on February 13 for London, via Panama. THE SURREY. —The Federal Line steamer Surrey reached Now Plymouth from Brisbane on Thursday to load New Zealand produce for New' York, Halifax and London. Her other loading ports are Wanganui, Wellington, Napier, Gisborne and Auckland. The vessel is due at Auckland on January IS. and six days later she is to be dispatched for New York. The New Zealand Shipping Company are the local agents. ROTORUA DELAYED. —The New' Zealand Shipping Company advises that bad weather lias delayed the loading of their liner Rotorua at Napier, and the vessel will not leave there until to-morrow night for Wellington. She is due there on "Wednesday morning to complete loading, and will now sail finally from Wellington at noon on Thursday for Southampton and London, via Pitcairn, Panama and Curacao.

CAPE YORK CLEARED PANAMA. — The Cape York Motor-line Company’s motor-ship Cape York is reported to have cleared Panama last Wednesday in continuation of her voyage from Port Arthur, Texas. The vessel is bringing case oil and other petroleum products for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Napier, New Plymouth, Beauty Point, Geelong and Adelaide. Her arrival at Auckland is expected about January 29. PORT CAROLINE TO LOAD.—The C. and D. Line advises that the Port Caroline is due at Opua on January 23 from Port Kembla to load for London, Avonmouth. Liverpool and Glasgow. The vessel will subsequently load also at Auckland (Heather Roberton, Ltd., agents), Gisborne, Napier, Timaru and Wellington. She is due at Wellington on February 14, and will sail finally from that port on February 17, proceeding Homewards via the Panama route. TAMAROA RETURNING. —After being delayed loading at Gisborne owing _to heavy rain, the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tamaroa reached Wellington on Saturday to continue loading. To-mor-row the vessel is to sail for Auckland to fill up with refrigerated and general cargo for London. She is due next Thursday. With passengers and mail she is to be dispatched from Auckland for Southampton and London, via Panama, on January 19. A. S. Paterson and Company, Limited, are the local agents.

NEW USE FOR STEAM^IS —The Shipping Board recently granted an application of the Western Maryland Railway for the use of a maximum of 20 cargo vessels now tied up in the James River for the purpose of storing grain at the Port of Baltimore in order to relieve the serious situation which now* confronts the railroads due to shortage of grain storage facilities. The vessels thus brought into service are not now in use for any other purpose. The period over which the charter arrangement will continue will be from six to twelve months, and it is specified that the number of vessels to be used will range from 5 to 20. The charter hire for the first five vessels will be at the rate of 4,500 dollars a month, from the sixth to thn tenth ship, inclusive, an additional 340 dollars a month a ship will be paid. For the eleventh to the fifteenth ship, inclusive, an additional 200 dollars a month a ship will be paid, and for the 16th to the 20th ship, inclusive, an additional 250 dollars a month a ship will constitute the payment to the board. The Western Maryland Railway agrees to take out such insurance as will fully protect the Fleet Corporation from any loss or damage to the cargo from any cause while it is aboard these vessels.

SHIPPING AND THE EMPIRE.—The Empire Marketing Board is doing a good work, by posters in the streets as well as by advertisements in the newspapers, in reminding all and sundry that ships are to the British peoples what railways are to other nations, writes the “Shipping World.’’ The board is emphasising, in particular, the efficient manner in which Canadian produce is handled on the Great Lakes of the North American Continent, with their ancillary canals, as well as on the high seas. British shipowners have an interest in this Canadian transport movement since, as is pointed out, “within the last two years, orders for forty of these lake boats have been given by Canada to Britain, bringing contracts worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to British shipyards and providing wages and employment for large numbers of British workers on the North-East Coast.” On the other hand, the development of traffic between the great grain areas of Canada and Europe has enabled Canada, during the last few years, to place orders in British shipyards for four liners of 20,500 tons, five passenger and cargo ships of 10,000 tons, and five of 5,000 tons, and now the Canadian Pacific Steamships has ordered from Messrs. John Brown and Company, Ltd., a fourth vessel of 40.000 tons. The board suggests that increased Empire trade means more cargoes for British ships. As the great countries of the Empire find fresh markets for their produces, so must ; they have more ships to carry them. “In the development of Empire trade lies the hope of British shipbuilding and the px-osperity of the workers in the shipyards of Belfast, the Clyde, the Mersey and the North-East Coast.” These are considerations not to be ignored when we think of the future of inter-imperial trade.

STEAMER OR WA R E HOUSE?—An interesting point has just been decided in arbitration in regard to the practices of various shippers and consignees in the using of a vessel as a kind of warehouse, which takes place more* particularly in respect to steamers discharging all their cargo overside into lighters, writes “Fairplay.” In one such case recently in which the cargo arrived somewhat heated, owing to its having been shipped too green, the consignees elected, under their contract with the vendors (a contract to which, of course, the owners were not privy), to sample every bag prior to its delivery, some bags being put in one lighter and some in another, the result being that, as the slings of cargo were landed on the deck for weighing, considerable delav took place before, after weighing, the bags could be put into the lighters. Moreover, some of the slings appear to have Been divided, some bags being put into one lighter and some into another. Of course, it must be evident that the delivery of cargo in such a way would be prejudicial to the dispatch of the vessel The consignees maintained that they took their delivery and exercised their sampling rights in accordance with the custom, and also according to their contract terms. The shipowners replied that as they were interested in the weights they had allowed the weighing on deck’ although they were not bound to do this* but they strongly objected to the steamer being used instead of a warehouse The parties not being able to arrive at a satisfactory decision, the dispute was referred to arbitration, and J understand that the finding of the umpire was that the mode of delivery was not in accord ante with English law and practice and that be awarded a small sum for ’ thp detention of the vessel against the charterers and receivers in this connection.

PIRI DUE—The Nobel ' schooner Phi is . xpeet.d from aS* ■ Napier, to-day. si •. I the remainder of her hardwood (cargo at King's Wharf. • CARGO FROM LIVERPOOL st.•; l nier Westmoreland was i leave Liverpool on Saturday with*? * 1 for Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton 7?' ! Dunedin. She is due here about v : ; ruary 12. *»• PORT PIRIE LEAVES PANAu The and I’. Line has been * - ,by cablegram that the fort piriC;^ | Panama ou December 30 for New ' ports, eu route from New York. I due at Auckland on January 21. 5 ! MAM ILI US AT SUVA.—Cabled has been received by the Shaw and Albion Company that the arrived at Suva last Tuesday I from London. She will leave 1 Friday for Lyttelton, where the ve»« due Wed nest 9y. PORT ALMA LEAVES PAN AM* Cabled news has bet received C. and L> Line that the fort Ainu Z j route from London, left Panama Tw/ 1 her 30 for Port Chalmers, New Plymouth, She is due at the Ot-t" port on January 19- Ul ®* CORNWALL LEAVES PANAMA Cabled news has been received by jT New Zealand Shipping Company thatr Federal steamer Cornwall arrived ~ Panama on December 20 from Livers*? and sailed again on December 27 f New Zealand ports. The vessel is at Auckland on January 16.

MASTERS' AND MATES’ EX A Ml', i TlONS.—Coptain H. S. Blackbourne Wellington, formerly Nautical AdvfeeJ ! the Marine Department, has recehi news from England that the report £ the departmental committee which hat been sitting for some months past on tb question of masters’ and mates* certifi" cates has at last been sent in to Board of Trade, and In this report th committee has advised that Cap-ah Blackbourne’s Nautical Tables and otW should be allowed for use by candidate in the Board of Trade examinations. SUPER-LINERS AND THEIR CC$~ —Thu general public have taken a && deal of interest recently in the price for Atlantic lines, writes “Fairplay,” aw some writers in the Press have estinuZj the cost of a 60-t'OO-ton boat at £7.000,000 sterling. Unfortunately, authority for such an assertion has nr* been given. Indeed, the first categories statement which we have had dea.inf with the cost of these large vessels * a , made recently by Sir George McLzrt Brown, the European general managethe Canadian Pacific Railway Compj-r. which has just contracted for a steaa*Of 40.000 tons gross, to steam 24 knots for the trade between Southampton ud Quebec, and to be equal in luxurious accommodation to anything afloat, whet b mentioned that this vessel and the Krpress of Japan, of 25.000 tons gross ai j with a speed of 21 knots, recently ordered. would cost “very near tr> £ 5,000.000.” The Mauretania, of 30.6 T-; tons gross, cost in 1907 nearly £2,000,0b but she was a new, and at the time a very costly venture, and a repeat of k* to-day would not probably work out £- more than 21 years ago; the Leviathan! of 59,957 tons gross, and which has a speed of 24 knots, ran into abou! £2,000,000 to build pust before the tra” and it is to be presumed that, assuming that costs have increased 60 per cent since she was contracted for, a siirilavessel would involve an expenditure of about £3.200,000. No information hai been published regarding the cost of tha new White Star and Cunard liners, which will l>e of about 60,000 tons gross each, and have a very high speed, but ther* is no doubt that it will work out at very much less than the probable figure referred to—in fact, one builder recently gave it as his opinion that they would not cost more than £4.000,000 each. The Europa and Bremen, of 47-000 tons gr<teach, and which are reported to be designed for a speed of 27 knots, were insured for builders* risks for £2.060,0* each. So far no arrangements have been made by the Norddeutscher Lloyd for the insurance of the boats, but it is prebable that they will not be covered for their cost, which, on the basis of the Leviathan, would probably be in the neighbourhood of £3,000,000.

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland: Tofua, Kartigi, Euton, Allybryn, Tekoa, Sawikla, Trewidden. Chatham Islands: Matakana, Corinthi.. Cornwall. Wellington: Maori, Wahine. Ngaio, Arahura, Port Wellington, Rotorua, Mahia. Port Denison, Ruapehu. Marama, Ulimaroa, Tutanekai, Port Hardy, Sum? Iris, Dana, Canadian Britisher, Aiair.:lus, Bloemfontein, Tamahine. Awarua: C. A. Larsen. Sir J. C. Ross, X. T. Nilsen Alonso, City of New York, Makura, Tahiti, Karetu. PORT OF ONEK'JNGA—DEPARTURES SATURDAY OREPUKI (4 p.m.), 575 tons, TVhaistrom, for Nelson. ARRIVALS YESTERDAY EAEAWA (7.30 p.m.), 1,077 tons. Bark, from New Plymouth. „ . ARAPAWA (2.30 p.m.). 251 tons. Per., from Raglan and Kawhia. ARRIVALS TO-DAY HAUTURU (12.10 a.m.), 270 tons, Fowler-Jackson, from Hokianga. The Rarawa now sails from Onehunga at 6 o’clock this evening for New Plymouth, and is due back on Wednesday morning at 7.30 o’clock. The Arapawa is to leave Onehunga at 3 o’clock this afternoon for Wanganu. and is due back on Friday. The Hauturu arrived at Onehunga this morning from Hokianga, and sailed a: four o’clock tliis aftemon for Raglan. Kawhia. and Waikato Heads. The Orepuki left Onehunga on Saturday afternoon for Nelson and West Coa-. ports. The Kaitoa is expected at Onehunga early next week from Nelson to loud io* Pic ton and Nelson.