The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

ARMADALE THIS AFTERNOON.— Wireless advice has been received by the local agents, the New Zealand Shipping Company, from the chartered steamer Armadale, fixing the time of her arrival at Auckland from New York as four o'clock this afternoon. The vessel will berth at Queen’s Wharf. PHOSPHATES FROM NAURU.—-Ac-cording to wireless advice received by the local agents, Henderson and Macfarlane, Limited, the steamer Dionyssios Stathatos is due at Auckland from Nauru Island tomorrow afternoon. A start will be made at unloading the local consignment of her cargo of phosphates at King’s Wharf on Monday morning, and it is hoped that the vessel will be despatched next Friday for New Plymouth and Wanganui to complete discharge. TOFUA’S PASSENGERS.—The Union Company’s Island passenger steamer Tofua, which sailed this morning for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, took the following passengers:—Miss H. Burgess, Miss A. M. Harding, Mr. D. G. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R. Brown, Mr. L. B. Lawton, Miss W. B. Chapman, Miss B. Hope, Mr. P. D Chapman, Mr. A. E. G. Cookson, Mr. C. B. Peppin, Hon. Alport Barker, Miss H. Taylor, Miss E. Bell, Miss M. Keery, Miss H. Brooks, Miss P. Gass, Miss E. W Bath, Miss C. G. Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, Mr. K. D. Hjorring, Mr. H. J. Tyreman, Colonel D. Campbell, Mr. A. Ross, Mr. R. Barber, Mrs. B. A. Martyn Jiiss O. R. Baster, Miss P. Aitken, Miss J?* Hawkins, Mrs. M. Christmas, Miss E. N. J. Wills, Mr. C. N. Mardon, Mr R. A. Keeling, Mr. A. Hall-Skelton, Mrs. F - J- Speed, Mr. and Mrs. A. Aitken and child, Mr. G. R. Anderson, Mr. A. Mills Mr. W. M. Jenkins, and 23 steerage, including three Chinese.

ULIMAROA’S PASSENGERS. The following passengers left for Sydney by the Huddart-Parker Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Ulimaroa. which cleared port for that destination this morning:— First Saloon.—-Mr. D. A. Gilmore, Mr. G. tTt Dr. Lester, Mr. Lester; junr., Mr. Dean, Mr. Goodwin, Mr. O V M * G - Faunce, Mr. Bouttell, Mr. Howden, Master Howden, Mr E Shaw, Mr. C. D. Mcßae, Mr. K. Williamson, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. J. A. Anscombe, Mr. S. W. Foley, Mr. W Cawkwell, Mr. C. Cawkwell, Mr. R. N. White, Mr. Tope, Mr. McMurtry, Mr. Craswell, Mr. and Mrs. Crookston, Dr. and Mrs. Curtis-Elliott, Mrs. Jameson, Miss J. Gubb, Miss E. Gubb, Miss Walmsley, Miss J. N. Robinson, Miss M. A. Loomes, Miss M. G. Ford, Mrs. Cawkwell, Miss Winslade, Miss Hunter, Miss M. A. McLean, Miss Trenchard Smith, Mrs. Cornes, Miss Saran, Mr. and Mrs. Tressider, Miss Jackson, Miss T. Yates, Miss J. Yates. Miss A. Waddell, Miss P. Lewins, Miss Bradonvich, Miss G. B. Ivey, Miss G. Williams, Miss A. E. Wishart, Miss Kell, Mrs. E. Williamson, Miss White, Miss White, Mr. Thorpe, Mr. Glover, Master Glover, Mr. L. G. Oxby, Mr. and Mrs. W. Morrison, Mr. V. Mclvor, Mr. H. Cheek, Mr. J. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. K. Reid, Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. Good, Mr. W. B. Lyddiard, Mr. A. B. Rouselle, Rev. H. Datson, Mr. W. D. Angwin, Mr. and Mrs. Rose, Mr. D. Hutton, Mr. J. R. Brookes, Mr. F. C. McLean, Mr. H. Sutherland, Mr. S. C. Spence, Miss P. McWatt, Mrs. L. McWatt, Miss Freeman, Miss McCartie, Miss McCartie, Miss Mace, Miss Mace, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brown, Miss Blaney, Mrs. Heldt, Miss G. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. MqLaughlin. Miss Feriadt, Miss Hilldebrand, Miss N. S. Loombes, Mr. and Mrs. Fenwick, Miss J. Irvine, Miss A. Cousins, Miss C. Murrell, Miss E. Dabimett, Miss H. Tarry, Miss O. V. Haddrell, Miss C. Armstrong, Miss L. M. Browning, Mrs. Burrell and infant. Miss Dougdale, Miss E. Carey, Mrs. Mather, Miss Wrench, Mrs. F. Connell, Mrs. F. Booth, Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. E. Elliott, Mrs. Samuels, Mrs. J. Burns, Master .1. Abel, Mrs. J. W. 'Williamson, Miss H. L. Williamson, Mrs. E. Abson, Miss Henry, Miss Henry, Miss Henry, Mr. A. Sparrow, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. J. P. Williamson, Mr. F. C. Williamson. Mr. W. Russell-Wood, Mr. Gray, Rev. Mr. Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. Booker. Mr. C. G. Bayliss, Mr. Colquhoun; and 86 second-class.

AORANGI TOMORROW. —The Royal Mail motor-liner Aorangi, which left Suva on Thursday evening en route from Vancouver to Auckland and Sydney, is expected to arrive here at 2.30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. After inspection in the stream, the vessel will berth at Prince’s Wharf to disembark passengers and discharge mail and general cargo. She is announced to resume her trip to Sydney at eleven o’clock on Monday evening. t

LIGHTING A LINER. —Ship lighting is a branch of marine electricity which has developed so slowly as to be almost unobserved, writes the “Syren and Shipping.” In large passenger liners the technique of lighting has proceeded on parallel lines with that of “shore” decoration in so fax as this can be applied to ships—even in cargo carriers there is a noticeable improvement. The modern passenger liner requires so many lamps, not only as a complete contract but also for spares and renewals, that a good many lamp-making firms find shipowners very good customers. Larger lamps of higher wattage are called for, and where formerly these were arranged as single units, now they are fixed in groups in the public rooms. There is also a distinct vogue for concealed lighting in conjunction with more modern styles of decoration. A big liner may have in use at one time as many as 6,800 individual lamps; these, with the spares carried for replacements, repuresents a valuable contract to any progressive lamp-making company.

CUNARD LINE’S PLANS.— Sir Percy Bates, deputy-chairman of the Cunard Steam Ship Company, went to the trouble of denying categorically the story to the effect that his firm had placed orders for two 60,000-ton liners, states the “Syren and Shipping.” He would not express any opinion as to the probability of them doing so in the future, but he added, if the cablegram from Montreal may be trusted, that the company would have to consider carefully before embarking on such an ambitious programme. There was no particular necessity for denying the report, as it was not taken seriously by anyone who knew the rudiments of the present position on the North Atlantic, but the denial was welcome all the same, if only because it showed how far astray people go who write about things of which they have not sufficient understanding. The same may be said of the stories about fitting to the Mauretania new gadgets capable of increasing her speed to more than that of the Bremen. But there is still another Cunard Line yarn, „ this time concerning the Aquatania. It is that the re-engining of this most efficient and most successful of vessels is being seriously considered, and that the directors have a mind to give her a quadruple screw arrangement of geared turbines, capable of making her travel at a speed of 28 knots. At present she has quadruple screw direct-driving turbines, and her speed is between 23 and 24 knots. Whether her speed can be increased by from four to five knots is a point which the technical advisers of her owners are quite capably of answering satisfactorily. The lines of the hull were not designed for such a high speed; but that, too, is a matter for the experts, and, after all, it is merely a case of providing the necessary horse-power, operating through the most economical and most efficient of mechanism. If it is worth while it can be done, but the cost will be heavy, and the money would go a considerable distance in paying for a wholly new ship.