The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

NUCULA TO SAIL.—The Admiralty tanker Nucula is to sail at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning with mail for the Tongan Islands and oil and stores for H.M.S. Dunedin at Apia.

MAUNGANUI’S TRANSHIPMENTS.— The Maunganui, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday morning from Sydney, brought transhipments ex the Moreton Bay, Maloja, Taipipg, Orvieto, Karanui, Port Said, Maru, Urella. Macedon, Runic. St. Albans. Canberra. Kowawa, Mooltan, and Naringa. The Maunganui is timed to leave at 3 p.m. today on her return trip to Sydney.

MAFtAMA POSTPONED.— The Union steam Ship Company advises that its intercolonial passenger steamer Marama. Which was previously announced to sail SJViPt? P cl 9? k this afternoon for Sydney, will not sail until ten o’clock this evenmg, having been held up in her loading operations by the wet weather. SHI P-TO-SHORE PHONE RECORD.— The longest ship-to-shore telephone call ? i IS )t at which w as made on December 21 last by a party in San Fran'R:h?. talked with relatives aboard “?® .. than m mid-Atlantic. The conversation lasted three minutes and was been tocal? aS ° lear aS if the call had ROY EV^Ri J # I T OM T- HOUSE AT NICTHEAZ L * — ln accordance with a dec . ree * new custom-house is to be constructed at Nictheroy, which is but one-half hour’s distance from Rio de Heretofore shipments were through Rw, and then shipped across the bay by ferry, and in view of the very small amount of direct importais expected to occur with the buildmg of the Nictheroy custom-house, cargo from abroad consigned * A , - lct ? er ? y will continue to discharge at Rio de Janeiro and the shipments will continue to be sent from Rio to Nictheroy by ferry. NORTHUMBERLAND DUE AT MID-NIGHT.—-The Federal steamer Northumberland is expected to arrive in the stream from Liverpool at midnight to- j night, according to her latest wireless advice. The vessel has a cargo of general merchandise from West Coast United Kingdom ports, the local portion of which will be unloaded at Queen’s Wharf. To discharge the remainder, she will later be dispatched for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Fort Chalmers. The New Zealand Shipping Company is her local agent. PASSENGERS BY REM U ERA.—The New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Remuera. which is due at Auckland on February 26 from London and Southampton, via the Panama Canal, is bringing port. * QW * ng saloon passengers for this First Saloon.—Mrs. A. M. Allen, Miss A ’ leaser. Mr. R. D. Horton. biX Richard and Lady Winfrey, Mr. A. Johnson Mr. A. D. Chaid, Mr. A. Steel, c* % ee iv M £. and Mrs. J. T. Thistle-ton-Smith, Mrs E. M. L. Lloyd and daughter. Mr. J. R. c. Smith, Miss A. I. Smith, j Rev. E. T. and Mrs. Murray, Mr. J. Scott, . w - Cockroft, Mr. H. G. ChaterFatysitt, Mr. J. F. Crocker, Mrs. J S. Curtis, Mrs. C. I. Curtis, Mr. W. T. Curtis, Mr. F. H. Milsted, Mr. and Mrs. T. ■ -^? ve * . Mr -_ E- C. Bacon, Major B. M. Fdwavds, Mr. W. J. Campbell, Mr. A. t* s? lU^. - Mr * al \ d Mr «* J - J. Cridlan, Mr. L. C. Tipper, Mr. A. G. Smith, Mr. M. Young Mr. H. Rankin, Mr. J. B. SmalM r ’ F ’ Batho > Mr. E. Patchett, Mr. Mrs D. Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. S. fV snil5 n ilt ley * Mr. C. W. H. Glossop, Mr. Cl. H. Pattmson, Mr. R. Hornby, Mrs. R. Fergusson, Miss B. Smalley, Mr. A. W. Redford, Mr. E. H. Taylor, Mr. A. Canham, Mrs. A. Hellaby. Second Saloon.—Mrs. F. McNeill and child, Miss M. Anderson, Miss A. KenW. C. F. Fetch, Mr. .T. Upton, Mr. Vv . Dunlop, Mr. E. Watson, Mr. W. E. Nosworthy, Mr. A. 11. Aleoek, Mr. C. Powell, Mr. J. H. Rowland, Mr. V. p Chalk, Mr. A. West, Mr. W. E. Crump! Mrs. R. Tabor, Miss L. C. Davies-Colley. For Wellington the steamer has the following passengers:—First saloon: Mrs E. M. Elkington, Mrs. J. M. Riddiford and three children, Miss H. Slater, Miss E. Edwards. Second saloon: Mrs. J. Mauser, Mrs. E. Quinlan and two children, Mr J- Tj ’ -McFerran, Mr. B. J. Ware, Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Plumb. There are also 45 third-class passengers. MARAMA’S PASSENGERS.—The following passengers are booked to sail by 11 ti Union Steam Ship Company’s passenger steamer Marama which is announced to clear port at 10 o’clock tonight for Sydney:— First Saloon.—Misses M. Armstrong, B. Creighton, P. C. Rolleston, R. M. Pagni, A* 7r’ Pa S ni > p - p agni, S. A. Jack, A. r T -.A orton * E - p - Jameson, G. Gordon, Mitchell, J. A. Melville, H. V. Hooker, L. M. Forest, I. P. Turner, C. Morgan, -M. J Rock, C. S. Elliott, O. Clarke, V Inder, M. P. Robson; Mesdames R. E * Doidge, M. L. Austin and child, I.’ M. B. Sewell, J. Langland, M. ■*- . I agni, D. M. Robson, E. M. Arlington and child, J. S. Emanuel and child, A. C. Yelland, Henry Marks, A. E. Moore, G. Shaw. L. Smith, A. W. Perry, E. F. Crawford, H. M. Pryce, F. E. Weideman, J. Anderson and child, W. E. Winks, W* Iv. McLean, J. Potts, L. Amos, E. Sharenberg. A. B. Turner, H. Hanner, F Kehoe, D. N. Hintenian, A. K. McGregor, C. D. Melville, D. M. Tooth, E. Bell. C. G. Cherrington and child, F. C. Allery, M. O’Keefe, W. W. Anstiss, A. C. Svkes, ■V. Allen, R. Inder, H. J. Josephs, A. J. Agland; Messrs. W. L. Hewson, A. M. Creighton, J. Langland, F. Aldinger, W. H- Nunn, F. W. J. Pagni, L. A. Wootton, G. Coulter, J. S. Emanuel, S. C. Arlington, S. Smith, J. M. Kelly, A. C. Yelland, G. Shaw, L. Smith, H. P. Norton. J. Anderson, J. Sharenberg, S. Barry, W. E. Winks, W. K. McLean, J. Potts, W. V. Worth. J. D. Fitt, A. B. Turner, A. K. McGregor, C. D. MelvilLe, D. M. Tooth, F. C. Allery, W. W. Anstiss, E. G. Banks. H. P. L. Jollye, A. C. Sykes, R. Inder, H. J. Josephs, A. J. Agland, H. Maxwell, L. R. Hey wood, W. J. Heselhurst, R. J. Lobston, L. A. Sykes, J. R. Northway L. G. Northway, A. Johnston. J. Johnston, H. Tressider, T. W. Elliott, G K Hansard, Prof. H. E. Babbitt, Major j’ M. MacLulic.k, Hon. Henry Marks, Dr. A. E. Moore, Dr. F. E. Wiedeman, Bishop W 9* Cherrington, Sir James Gunson. Capt. T. G. Meadows.

Second Saloon.—Misses K. Talbot M. Tiffen, B. Henderson, M. J. Steele J. Batten, J. G. Brownlee, C. M, King* L J. Atkinson, M. Nuttall, M. Bailey ’(2)’ F. R. G. Foyer; Mesdames E. M. Deuscher, S. Lee and child, L. Capper, E A Wolfender and child, G. E. Fordham and two children, P. Grant, A. Johnston, N. Batten, M. Anderson, C. Penniket, F W Gibbons and two children, C. Atkinson* L. A. Bailey end child, F. Foyer E Kil ’ ner 51 GalfieW, L. M. Mestain; Messrs. D. R. H. Beaumont, H. W. Ladbrook, G. Toung, A. J. Gallagher, G. Paul, G. Ogle S. Bee, B. Capper, E. A. Wolfender, G. P.' Leles, D. Mackay, W. TVarburton, P Grant, F. W. Gibbons, A. E. Foyer, C. T Johnston, W. McA. Johnston, T. Penniket, D. C. Wright, A. Cameron. L A Twyman. L. T. Luhr* and 57 steerage’ including Id Chinese and three Indians.

MAKO TO LAY UP.—Messrs. Watkin and Wallis advise that the Richardson Line coastal steamer Mako, which arrived from Napier at 5 o'clock last evening, will be laid up indefinitely. TAMAROA SAILS.—The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tamaroa. sailed for Wellington yesterday afternoon to complete the discharge of her cargo of general merchandise from London. SUGAR FROM PERU.—The motor-ship Weirbank left Peru on February 1 with a cargo of sugar for discharge at Auckdnal .where she is due on Februarv 26. Spedding, Limited, is the local agent. BRUNSWICK DISPATCHED. —The electric tanker Brunswick was dispatched yesterday afternoon for Wellington to continue unloading petrol for the Atlantic Oil Company. She will afterward go to Melbourne and Sydney to complete discharge. RIMUTAKA’S MOVEMENTS.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka arrived at Wellington on Tuesday evening from Tokomaru Bay, and will sail tomorrow for Picton and Lyttelton tc> complete loading. She is scheduled to sail finally from Lyttelton on February 26 for London via Panama Canal. MAMILIUS DISCHARGING. The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Mamilius, which has been unloading basic slag from at King’s Wharf, was expected to complete discharge today. She is expected to sail about Tuesdav for Oamaru, where she will commence .loading refrigerated cargo for England. L. D. Nathan and Company, Limited, is the local agent. PORT PIRIE TO LOAD.—The Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Pirie arrived at Opua last evening from Wanganui to continue loading refrigerated and general cargo for England. She is to leave Opua at nine o clock on Sunday morning for Auckland, where she is due on Sunday afternoon. She win afterward go to Gisborne and Wellington to complete loading, and is to be dispatched from Wellington for London, Panama, on February 24. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company is the local agent. LAUNCHED.—'The Talune. the third of the five new Union Company s cargo vessels, was launched on December 30 by the Blythswood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Scotstoun. The vessel, which is 330fu in length, 45ft in breadth, and 22ft Sin in depth to upper deck, is intended for the Sydney -Hobart trade. She has one complete deck, with a lower deck in No. .1 hold, a forecastle, ana a long combined poop and bridge and is well equipped for the rapid handling of cargo, having 14 powerful and coaling gaffs on each mast in addition to the ordinary derricks. The l 3rc, R® llin & machinery will be supphed by Messrs D. and W. Henderson 01 one set of triple-expansion, inverted, direct-acting, surface-condensing engines hating cylinders 23*in, 40£in and titiin iri respectively, and a stroke of •isin. Two cylindrical boilers working under forced draught and burning oh fuel will provide the steam. The vessel knots!* aVCrase speed ’ PORT OF LONDON TRADE !NC , R LASE—The traffic figures for the fort London for the eight months’ from The vember . are remarkable. The total tonnage for arrivals and departures amounted to 39,605,279 net reg--istered tons. This is a record in the Mstory of the port, and is 2.095.251 net registered tons higher than for the siiffi-' lar period in 1925, the previous best. Analysed a little further, the figures show that the tonnage of vessels with Icin S vrfon US ir S - all the ports °f the United Kingdom during the eight months in l by 7 ’ 5 per cent - and that London s increase in this category was 6.2 per cent. London's increasing activity is derived from widespread sources, increased arrivals being shown from India. South j' P J „ r ‘ ca ' * he I aited States. British West l?r d '® s - °b'ana and British Honduras the rn-v Ts, ' 3 ; l ° f Africa - Morocco the Emope ports. BaUie and X orth of „JL he ~o f London Authority’s figgoods °hanaied hv "it"was *’tV’ y <98,640 tons) higher during" the eight months ended Xovemher las! than durIn IS - S ’ an tnerease the goods "warehoused ared Wlt * 1928 on the total 1 5 o? e J,rr« months’"“wso? oorresponding eight other d ports as oomnared with «^SS?t n be The development of industrv creased] ffiSSfa"? pff>noirnes effected bf rc ,’ ari, l the reduced charges" 1 wh.Vh P T n S 'X to a app L to ‘shipowner.; of over LSoO.OOo' p'er aanurn’ at ' h * ra ’ P

COPTIC POSTPONED.—DeIayed | a her loading operations by the wet. weather the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company*! motor-ship Coptic, at present at Queen'* Wharf, is now anno 1 need to sail at S i P-m. tomorrow for Wellington, Timaru, and Lyttelton, to complete filling up far London. A. S. I’aterson and Company h are the local agents. WAITE MAT A DUE TOMORROW.—A further radio message from the Unin;i Company’s cargo steamer Waitemata, to* ward bound from Los Angeles, and other Pacific Coast ports *o Auckland, statat that she expects to arrive in port at I o’clock tomorrow afternoon. She hat .been allotted a berth at Prince’s Wharf, and after she has unloaded the locai portion of her general cargo will sail for j Wellington. Bluff ar.d Australian ports to complete discharging. OTAKI COMING.—EII route from | York to Auckland, and A. and A. Line's chartered steamer Otak* arrived at Sura yesterday morning. Advice received from the New Zealand Shipping Company stx :es that she is expected to leave there this afternoon for Auckland. The vessel should arrive here late next Tuesday, and, after she has discharged th» local portion of her cargo, is to be dispatched for Wellington, Lyttelton attf Dunedin to complete. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— ” The following vessels are expected to § be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland: Niagara, Tof ia, Maui Pomai*. Otaki, Port Pirie, Kalingo, June, Kai* ranga, Coptic-. Marama, Ulimaroa. Chatham Islands: flangitata. Wellington: Maori, Wahine, Tamahin*. Arahura, Aorangi, H.M.S. Dunedin Tainui. Maunganui. Rio Dorado, Argyll- H shire. Brunswick, Tamaroa, Herminius. | Plume, Rangitane, Karamea. Awarua: Sir ,T. C. Rc-ss, C. A. Tawh. Southern Princess, Kosmo s, Boling. City of New York, Makur? Hinemna, Gabriella. Canadian ChaHenger. Tahiti, Maheno, Karetu, Golden Cloud. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARAPAWA is expected back from Wanganui next Tuesdav. HAUTURU is expected tn tail «t j j o’clock this afternoon for Hokianga, ano » is due back on Sunday morning at • | o’clock. NGAPUHI is due back from New Plymouth at 7.30 o’clock tomorrow morniWand is expected I<> sail on her return trip at 4 o’clock on Mondnv afternoon. HOK TANGA sailed at 6.20 o clock 1»!’ evening for Hokianga.