The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

MAKURA DUE 6 A.M. —Early this afternoon a wireless message was received from the Makura stating that she expects to arrive in the stream from Sydney at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. ZEALANDIC'S MOVEMENTS.- The Shaw, Savill and Albion motor-ship Zealandic arrived at Nelson on Sunday to continue her Homeward loading. She is due at Wellington on Friday for further loading, and from there will proceed to Lvttelton and Port Chalmers, to fill up. ” The Zealandic is scheduled to clear the Otago port on April 24 for London and Hull, vie. the Panama Canal.

SOUTHERN CROSS FOR MELANESIA. The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross is scheduled to leave for Melanesian mission stations at 3 p.m. today.

TAHITI.—The Royal Mail liner Tahiti is scheduled to clear "Wellington at 4 o’clock-»this afternoon for Sydney in completion of her voyage from San Francisco. THE ROTORUA.—CabIed news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that its liner Rotorua, en route from Wellington to London, arrived at Panama on April 3 and cleared v--o Jon the following- day. GABRIELLA COMING.—With general cargo from Melbourne, the Union Coms intercolonial cargo steamer Gabriella cleared Devonport (Tasmania) at 4 p.m. on Saturday for Auckland. The vessel is due at this port at the end of this week. CANADIAN EXPLORER DELAYED.— .the Canadian National Steamships vessel Canadian Explorer has had to await transhipments from the Waimea at King’s Wharf and was expected to leave at noon today for New York, Boston and Montreal.

HERMINIUS AT HALIFAX.—The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Ilerm ini us, en route from Auckland to London, via New York, Boston and Halifax, is reported to have reached Halifax last Sunday. LIVERPOOL CARGO.—The C. and D Line motor-ship Port Huou is scheduled to leave Liverpool on April 12 with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. She is due at Auckland about .May 17. THE POOLTA.—The Union Company reports that the Poolta was expected to leave Napier yesterday for Greymouth, thence to Sydney, Brisbane. Grafton and 'Newcastle, to load for Auckland. Napier, Dunedin and Bluff. MARAMA LEAVES PAPEETE. Cabled news has been received by the Union Company that the Marama, from Wellington, left Papeete on Friday morning for San Francisco, where she is due on April 12.

HUIA LOADING FOR MELBOURNE. —The Nobel Explosive Company’s auxiliary schooner Huia is now loading at Western Wharf. She is to sail toward the end of the week with general cargo for Melbourne. NIAGARA SAILS 5 P.M.— I The Union Company’s Royal Mail liner Niagara is announced to sail at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Vancouver, via Suva, Honolulu and Victoria, in continuation of her voyage from Sydney, taking passengers, mails and cargo. She is due at Vancouver on April 25. THE VVAIPAHI.—The Union Company advises that its Island fruit steamer Waipahi, from Wellington, arrived at Napier at 3 0 o’clock tills? morning. She sails from there tomorrow night for Gisborne and Auckland, and is scheduled to leave here on April 16 for Apia to load fruit for this port.

PORT CAROLINE SAILS TOMORROW. —The Commonwealth and Dominion Line vessel Port Caroline, now at Queen’s Wharf completing her loading for London, is scheduled to sail at noon tomorrow for that port, via the Panama Canal. Heather, Roberton, Ltd., is the local agent. MELBOURNE PASSENGER SERVICE. The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Maheno arrived at Bluff from Melbourne yesterday morning, en route to Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. The vessel is due at Wellington on Friday and she is to be dispatched for Melbourne, via Bluff, on Saturday. CANADIAN COMMANDER DUE FRIDAY.—The steamer Canadian Commander has sent no radio message, but the local office of the Canadian National Steamships expects her to arrive at Auckland from Halifax on Friday next. She lias general cargo for discharge at Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. EGERO TO SAIL THURSDAY.—The

Shell Oil Company’s local office advises' that the tanker Egero, under charter to that company, is to have engine repairs and overhaul executed at Western Wharf and is to sail on Thursday morning for Balikpapan. She was to complete discharging her bulk petrol cargo at Western Wharf today. MAKURA DUE TOMORROW MORNING.—The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger liner Makura is due in port early tomorrow morning from Sydney with passengers, mails a.nd cargo. After pratique has been granted she is to berth at the wharves, but no berth had been allotted her this morning. The Makura is to sail or. her return trip to Sydney, at. 3 p.m. on Friday. MARAMA’S MOVEMENTS.—Advice received from the Union Steam Ship Company states that the Royal Mail passenger steamer Marama, now en route from Wellington to San Francisco, where she is due on Saturday next, is to leave there on April 17 on her return.trip to Wellington, via Papeete and Rarotonga. She should reach Wellington on May 9.

THE lONIC.—L. D. Nathan, Ltd., advises that the White Star liner lonic is due in the stream at Wellington at 5 o’clock this afternoon from London and Southampton, according to her latest wireless report, and is to berth at 6 p.m. The vessel has passengers and mails for New Zealand and general cargo for discharge at Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and Bluff. PAKEHA DUE TOMORROW.—Having left Napier at 1 o’clock this morning, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s steamer Pakeha is due in port at 8 a.m. tomorrow to complete her loading for Rotterdarn and London. The vessel is to berth at Central Wharf and will load under the agency of A. S. Paterson and Co. The Pakeha is to be dispatched finallv from here at 5 p.m. on Saturdayon her Homeward voyage, via the Panama Canal. THE TANKER ACOSTA. —The local office of the Shell Company has received advice that the tanker Acosta is expected to arrive from Tarakari. Dutch East Indies, on Thursday. The vessel has a full cargo of bulk petrol for discharge into the company’s- tanks at Auckland and Wellington. Built at Xewcastle-on-Tyne in 1928, the Acosta’s tonnage is 2,634 gross. She is owned by the Venezuela Gulf Oil Company, and her port of registry is Maracaibo, Venezuela.

SIDELIGHT. A Texas company tanker, heavily laden with gasoline, was ifbout to cast off from her dock when a very important looking, withal veryinebriated. little man walked with excessive dignity up the gangplank and addressed himself to one of the deckhands. “I wonder, ol’ man,” he said, much in the manner of one man of the world to another, “if you could spare a bit of petrol for my cigarette lighter.” LOAD LINE CONFERENCE. —All maritime nations have been invited by the British Government to attend a conference on load lines, which will convene in London on May 20. It is understood that the conference will be concerned with the report of the load line committee of the Board of Trade on merchant vessels, tankers and lumber carriers, which was made public several months LINERS AND GRAIN.—As showing the extent of the liner interest in the carriage of grain, it may be stated, says “Fairplay,” that last year tramp steamers carried 54 per cent. or 42,435,429 bushels, of the total amount of grain exported from Montreal during the past j season of navigation, the baalnce, I namely, 37,000.550 bushels, having been I taken by the liners. The percentage carI ried by tramp steamers is the lowest since 1923, when it represented only 43 per cent, of the total. I MORE GYRO-COMPASSES FOR THE MERCHANT MARINE.—An unusually large number of orders for Gyro-Com-pass equipments during the first months of the new year are reported by Sperry Gyroscope Company, Inc., says the “Nautical Gazette.” Among the most recent orders reported are those which have been received for complete compass equipments for the three new vessels of the Canadian National Steamship Line—the Prince David, Prince Henry and Prince Robert, and for the two new vessels of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines. It is also reported that the Sperry Company is supplying Gyro-Com-passes and Gyro-Pilots for the two new tankers now* building at the Sun shipyards at Chester, Pa., for the Tidewater Oil Company, and for eight Moore and McCormack ships of the American Scantic Line, the orders for which were received last December.

U.S. LINES’ PLANS FOR TWO SUPERDINERS READY.—PIans for the two new super-liners which will run with the Leviathan in the United States Lines’ North Atlantic service have been finished, and have been presented to the Shipping Board, reports the “Nautical Gazette.” The vessels are to cost approximately 30,000,000 dollars each and are designed for a contract speed of 28j knots, although they will be able to step beyond this speed. The new super-liners, plans for which were dra,wn by Theodore E. Ferris, prominent American naval architect and marine engineer, are to be 962 feet long over-all, with a beam of 107.5 feet and of 53,000 gross tons. They will have accommodation for 2,600 passengers. These specifications outclass the Leviathan, which has an over-nil length of 950.7 feet and a beam of 100.3 feet. Construction of the two liners depends upon a construction loan from the Shipping Board amounting to 75 per cent, of the building cost, and a contract for the carriage of United States mail from New' York to Southampton at the rate specified for vessels of the class in which they will come. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Pakeha. Moeraki, Tofua, June, Wairuna, Maui Pomare. Wichita, Port Hardy, Canadian Britisher, Winton. Port Hobart. Canadian Explorer, Southern Cross, Weirbank, Tairoa, Ventura, Niagara. Chatham Islands.—Southern Princess, Remuera, Wainui. Wellington.—Maori. Wahine, Tamahine, Arahura, Rangitiki. Aorangi, Wakakura, Otokia, Port Victor, Northumberland,- Tahiti, lonic, Canonesa, Tasmania, Kaponga, Middlesex.

Awarua.—Maheno, Citv of New York Eleanor Boling, Sir J. C. Ross, Otaki,’ Raranga, Karetu. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—DEPARTURES YESTERDAY TUT A XEK AT (2.30 p.m.), 811 tons, Burgess, for New Plymouth. NGAPUHI (4.30 p.m.), 703 tons. Bark, for New' Plymouth. HAUTURU (5 p.m.)* 270 tons, Jack-son-Fowler, for Raglan and Kawhia. ARRIVALS TODAY II OKI A N G A (7 a.m.), 271 tons, Kennedy, for Hokianga* DEPARTURES TODAY r> *l 0 T AKI ,( 10 - 30 129 tons, W. Robertson, for Raglan. _Jj-AVTURU left last night for Raglan Thur"jlv S due back at OneHOKIA.NGA 1 ill” ived at 7 o'clock this on the retuin XuAPUH, which left for New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, is expected ba wrwi J*r 30 i 5 V m - on Wednesday. P nehun^a this morning for Kawhia and Waikato Heads day morning 6 on Thu fl

WEIRBANK FOR LYTTELTON.— Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., advised that the Bank Line motor-slhp Weirbank was to sail at noon today for Lyttelton to complete unloading her car go of phosphates from M aka tea Island, th* local portion of which she put out at King’s "Wharf.

THE STOWAWAY PROBLEM

BRITISH MARINERS’ VIEWS

Captain W. V. J. Clarke, speaking oa “Stowaways” at the Southampton Master Mariners’ Club recently, said tb« act of stowing away had become so prevalent that it was now regarded as an act of very great seriousness (report* “Lloyd’s Gazette”) Since the war it had become increasingly difficult to mote about the world on account of the more rigorous migration laws. "When ships reached foreign ports, their crews were tallied both off and on board the vessels. If any member of the crew* of the vessel deserted, the owners were heavily

fined. Shipowners were frequently compelled to keep stowaways on board theii ships in a foreign port, and apart from the vigilance required to see that they did not manage to get ashore, they wen also compelled to bring them back again. In the case of a British subject there was little, if any, difficulty with regarc to landing them, but in cases where tre s tow a way was not British, and had nc papers to prove his nationality, the problem of how to get rid of the offender was indeed a difficult one. As an example of the difficulties wnici. faced shipowners on account of the rigid immigration laws imposed by the majority of countries since the war, Captain Clarke related details of a case in wnicti a negro fireman was involved shorn after hostilities v. ere concluded. Tne negro in question, he. said, was signed on as a fireman in North Virginia, and being about 50 years of age, had certificate, as the State in which nhad been born had not adopted suai measures until more recent times. tm negro sailed in the vessel for LardtfU and discharged his duties in an entirety satisfactory manner. He was there part off, but his articles provided that n« should be paid wages until shipped nom« to an American port. A passage ''as booked for him in a well-known shipp.A company, but upon arrival in New 'Hr he was refused permission to lam*. sent back. A second passage in the .nip of another line was secured for him. duwith the same result, and when he cros-w the Atlantic a third time in a ffiner longing to yet another company, tne w cials of Ellis Island knew him so wjw sight that he was again refused leave land, on the grounds that he could w prove that he was an American subject, and that he was illiteratean obvious dilemma, the company w ‘ . first brought him to Cardiff were■ faced with no other alternative than ij send the man to school for v l ?,J n wa «s meanwhile continuing to pay h ls * w * all the time until he finally lanaea * It” made* him (the speaker) think tgathere was something m the jocular P nouncement of one skipper wh° afar*® that the safest way in dealing with i wrecked people was to make i their names on a piece of paper taking them from the water.