LATE SHIPPING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 935, 31 March 1930, Page 12

LATE SHIPPING

PORT NAPIER FROM NEW YORK.— With general merchandise and pas- ‘ sengors from Hew York, the Commoni wealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Napier arrived in the stream at 10 o’clock j List night. She unloads the local por- ; lion of her cargo to the agency of the I Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering I Company. The vessel left the American port on February 27, and encountered heavy weather on the trip down the Atlantic Coast. The temperature for three days was 23 degrees below freezing point (Fahrenheit), and a blizzard struck the i ship with a velocity of SO miles an hour. 1 However, the Panama Canal was reached and cleared on March 8, and from then ; on the Port Napier made a fast run to ; this port in fine weather, averaging 12.:* knots from Balboa to here. J , The following passengers arrived from Xew York by the vessel:—Miss Hvatt, ; Miss Leighton, .* and Messrs. College. 1 Hyatt, Leighton, and Attwood-McKillip. j After she has discharged the local part ■| of her cargo at Prince’s Wharf, tho Port ! Napier is to sail at daybreak tomorrow i for Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin to • complete unloading. Her loading ports thereafter will be Bluff, Timaru, Lyttelj ton and Port Chalmers. I Captain C. A. Robinson is in command, j and has with him the following officers: I Chief, Mr. D. G. H. Bradley: second. Mr. C. Post; third. Mr. C. Brvce; fourth. Mr. Hancock: chief engineer, Mr. ,T. Brdiger: ! second. Mr. C. Massey; third, Mr. .1. ; Johnston: fourth., Mr. X. C. Stewart: fifth, i Mr. \\\ K. Reeves: rixrh. Mr. K. Dar--1 C. Duff us anil C. F. Fives: radio opera- ! tor, Mr. A. McNiven: chief steward, Mr. I L. A. Ball. OVERSEAS LONDON, March 30.—Arrived: A! ill* s iil< -i: From I,ivcn b C j mb» idg for New Zealand.