The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

AORANGI CLEARED SUVA. —The Royal Mail liner Aorangi arrived at Suva; from Auckland at ten o’clock yesterday! morning and sailed in the evening in con- : t.inuation of her voyage to Honolulu and ! Vancouver. She is due at Vancouver on I December 6. ULIMAROA LEAVES SYDNEY. —CabIe adivee received by the local office of Jiud- 1 dart Parker. Limited, states that the intercolonial passenger steamer Ulimaroa left Sydney at. noon yesterday for Auckland. She is due here on Tuesday morning and will berth at the Queen's Wharf to land her passengers, mails and cargo. EOSWORTH ON MONDAY.— Due at Auckland on Monday morning from Galveston, Texas, the steamer Bosworth will berth at the Queen’s Wharf to unload the local portion of her sulphur under the agency of A. G. Frank ham, Ltd., before proceeding to Australia to complete discharge. RANGITATA LEAVES HOME.— Ac- I cording to cable advice received l>v the j New Zealand Shipping Company, the new j motor-ship Rangitata, from London, left j Southampton yesterday on her maiden voyage to New Zealand. Her first port of i call at New Zealand is Auckland, where she is due on December 24. NEW HAIN LINERS. riio Ham j Steamship Company, Ltd., is inviting! tenders for tiie building of cargo vessels j each of about 8,000 tons carrying capa- ; city, fitted with boilers fired with pulverised coal. The main engines are to be single-screw quadruple - expansion with exhaust turbine, and the ships will have a service speed of 15 knots. The type of pulverising machinery to be em- 1 ployed is liie Howden-Buell system.

KAIRANGA SAILS MONDAY.—The Union Company’s collier Kairanga is to be dispatched from Auckland on Monday for Gladstone, Queensland, to load again for New Zealand. CLANSMAN’S CHRISTMAS RUNNING. —The Northern Company advises that arrangements have been made for the Clansman to leave Auckland for Russell ; and Northern ports on Saturday, Decern- \ ber 21. 011 the return trip she will leave ; Mangonui lor Auckland, via way ports, , on Tuesday, December 24. On Thursday, December 26. the vessel will be dispatched from Auckland for ; Russell, with passengers for the Russell 1 6 Qn Saturday, December 28, she is to \ leave Auckland for Russell and Northern ; ports, and on the return trip she is to leave Mangonui for Auckland, via way ports, on Monday, December 30. On Friday, January 3, the Clansman will commence her summer running, ana will afterward leave Auckland for Russell and Northern ports twice a week. TRANS-PACIFIC CARGO STEAMERS. —The Union Company advises the following movements of vessels engaged in the trans-Pacific cargo services:— The W'aikawa leaves Suva today for Vancouver direct. The Waihemo leaves Sydney on November 26 for Vancouver via Fiji. I The Waitemata leaves Nelson today j for New Plymouth, thence to Westport I and Vancouver direct. The Hauraki left Auckland last night j for Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, and returns to Vancouver via ! Fiji and Fanning Island, i The Wairuna left Dos Angeles on No- ! vember 16, and is due at Lyttelton on j December 33, thence to Dunedin, New ! Plymouth, Napier and Auckland, and reI turns to Vancouver via Fiji, j The Waiotapu leaves Los Angeles to--1 morrow, is due at Papeete on December 9, at Auckland on December 21, thence to Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. _ : The Tyr left Vancouver on November ! 14, is due at Brisbane on December 12, 1 thence to Sydney and Melbourne, i The Indien leaves Vancoucer on De- ! cember 12 for San Francisco and Los An- ! geles to complete loading for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney. Forward loadings at Pacific Coast ports are approximately as follow: — The ‘Waitemata will load during; January for Auckland, Wellington, Bluff. Melbourne and probably Sydney. She is to clear Los Angeles on January 21 and is due at Auckland on February 35. The Waihemo will load during January for Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin and New Plymouth. She is to clear Los Angeles on January 31, and is due at Napier on February 26. _ „ , _ The Haux-aki will load during the second half of January and early February for Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. She is to clear Los Angeles on February 5 and is due at Auckland on February 28.