The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 2

The Log Book

PERSONAL.—Captain E. Thomas is in command of the steamer Antinous, which arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday morning from Ocean Island, and his officers are: Chief, Mr. B. VI. Stephens; second, Mr. T. J. Davies; third, Mr. J. R. Ross; chief engineer, Mr. J. Hudson; second, Mr. ,T. .Tones: third, Mr. B. Davies; fourth, Mr. L. Leneghan; radio operator, Mr. F. Me* ENTON DISPATCHED.—In continuation of her voyage from New York, the A. and A. Line's chartered motor-ship Enton sailed last night for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Australia. WAIPAHI SAILED.—The Union Company's Island steamer Waipahi sailed for Cook Islands yesterday afternoon to load a fruit cargo for A.uckland. She is scheduled to return to Auckland on July 16. NORFOLK'S MOVEMENTS. The Federal Company advises that the Norfolk left Napier* at midnight on Monday for Wanganui, where she was due yesterday morning for further loading. She will then proceed to Picton and Wellington to fill up. and is due at Wellington on Saturday. She is scheduled t< • clear that port finally on June 20 for London. Avonmouth. Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, via the Panama Canal.

THE ULIMAROA.—The HmldartParker Company's intercolonial passenger steamer Ulimaroa is to sail from Wellington at noon tomorrow for Sydney, taking passengers, mails and cargo. She is due at Sydney on Tuesday morning. ULIMAROA’S TR ANSH I PM ENTS.— The Huddart-Parker steamer Ulimaroa, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday morning, from Sydney, brought transhipments ex the NaJdera. Xecknr, Taronga. Orvieto, Orford, Oronsay, Sierra, and Moldavia. MARAMA FOR AUCKLAND. The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Marama is to leave Sydney tomorrow afternoon for Auckland with passengers, mails and cargo. She is due at this port on Tuesday morning next. ROTORUA LEAVES BALBOA.—Cabled news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that the liner Rotorua, en route from London and Southampton, cleared the Panama r*a.nal on Saturday last lor Auckland. She is due at Auckland on July 14. WAITEMATA SAILS SATURDAY.—At present at Prince’s Wharf unloading the local part of her cargo from Pacific Coast ports, the Union Company’s steamer Waitemata is to sail on Saturday for Wellington, Melbourne, and Sydney to complete discharge. POLZELLA DUE SUN DAT.—With a full cargo of raw sugar for discharge at Chelsea Wharf, the steamer Polzella is due at this port on Sunday, according to her last radio report. The vessel will unload her cargo to the agency of Speilding, Ltd. THE AORANGI. —The Union Company advises that its Royal Mail motor-liner Aorangi is to sail from Sydney this afternoon for Vancouver via Auckland, Suva. Honolulu and Victoria., The vessel is due here on Monday morning and she is scheduled to resume her voyage at It a.m. on Tuesday. The Aorangi is due at Vancouver on July IS. SUGAR FROM CUBA. —The new British steamer Dalfram, 4,750 tons, left Cuba on June 4 with a cargo of raw sugar for Auckland, where she is due about July 5. She will be followed by the Norwegian steamer Penybryn, 4,251 tons, which is scheduled to leave Cuba early in July with a further cargo of sugar for Auckland. H.M.S. DUNEDIN FOR TONGA.—A departure from Auckland at six o’clock this evening will be H.M.S. Dunedin, which is proceeding on a cruise to the South Sea Islands. Her first port of call will be Nukualofa, Tonga. The warship will also visit Fiji, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. She is to return to Auckland on August 2. CANADIAN CONSTRUCTOR. The Canadian National Steamships steamer Canadian Constructor arrived at Dunedin yesterday. From Dunedin she will proceed to Bluff, Wellington and Auckland. The vessel, which is loading general cargo, is expected to leave Auckland on July 4 for New York, Boston and Montreal. CARGO FROM THE EAST.—The Union Company’s Indian trader Narbada left Newcastle for Calcutta on Tuesday. The vessel is to load Eastern produce at Calcutta. and also at Penang, Singapore, and Samarang for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton. Timaru. Dunedin, and Bluff. Sho is scheduled to clear Calcutta early in. August. NIAGARA CLEARS VANCOUVER.— The Royal Mail liner Niagara cleared Vancouver at noon yesterday for Sydney via Victoria, Honolulu, Suva and Auckland. The vessel has passengers, mails and cargo, and is due at this port on July 14. Resuming her voyage the following day, the Niagara is scheduled to reach Sydney on July 19. TAINUI SAILS SATURDAY.—A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., advise that the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s liner Tainui, now at Queen’s Wharf completing her cargo for London, is to be dispatched on her Homeward voyage at daybreak on Saturday. The vessel will also take passengers and mails, and will proceed via the Panama Canal to Southampton and London. THE WAIMARINO.—The Union Steam Ship Company advises that its new cargo steamer Waimarino, now at Lyttelton putting out cargo from Durban, is expected to leave there tomorrow for Wellington and Auckland. She should clear Wellington on Saturday for this port, and will complete discharge of her South African cargo here. She will then enter the coastal service. KING JOHN DUE 10 P.M. —A further radio message received by Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., from the King Line motor-ship King John, states that she expects to arrive in the stream here from Ocean Island at 10 o’clock tonight. The vessel has a cargo of phosphates foidischarge at Auckland and Wanganui. Put out the local consignment at King’s Wharf. TURKISH AUTHORITIES' REQUEST. —The Turkish Lighthouse Administration has requested authority to increase the lighthouse fee levied on steamers entering Turkish ports, its claim based on the fact that while, operating expenses have been mounting steadily, its revenue has been decreasing. ft is pointed out that before the war approximately 15,000 steamers passed through Istanbul annually, while the number at present is about 3,200 a year.

GOLDEN CLOUD'S MOVEMENTS.— Now at Wellington loading for her return trip to the Pacific Coast, the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company’s steamer Golden Cloud is to leave there tomorrow night for Napier to complete her cargo. The vessel is to sail finally from Napier on Monday for Nukualofa, ' Where she will load copra, and proceeds i thence to Honolulu, where she will take on a quantity of sugar. From Honolulu she sails for San Francisco. PORT FREMANTLE DUE 5 P.M.—The Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor-ship Port Fremantle is due in the stream here from London at 5 o’clock this evening, according to her wireless advice. The vessel has a number of passengers for New Zealand, and a cargo of general merchandise * for discharge at Auckland. Port Chalmers and Bluff, the local consignment of which will be unloaded at Queen’s Wharf to the agency of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. GOLDEN WEST DUE SATURDAY.— Inward bound from Los Angeles, the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company s cargo steamer Golden West is due at this port late on Saturday night, according to her last wireless conwnunication. The vessel has a cargo of timber, case oil and general merchandise from Pacific Slope ports for unloading at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. She will put out the local portion of her cargo at King’s Wharf to the agency of Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd. DIRECTOR HONOURED. Director Carl Stimming, of the North German Lloyd, has just been honoured bv the University of Erlangen, Bavaria,' with the degree of Doctor of Laws, in recognition of his efforts toward the development. of the new German merchant marine. The University, in conferring this honour, stated that Dr. Stimming was one of those whose untiring zeal and energy were responsible for surmounting the many difficulties that beset the rehabilitation of Germany’s commercial fleet. STEAMER BREAKS PREVIOUS RECORD.—The Luckenbach Line freighter J. L. Luckenbach has carried off the speed honours for commercial vessels r>n the trip between San Pedro, California, and Delaware Breakwater by making the voyage in 14 days 10 hours 3 3 minutes running time, including about eight hours in transiting the Panama Canal. On this trip "the J. L. Luckenbach also cut down her own previous record on this voyage by a day and a-half. She logged 4.771 miles and showed an average speed of 13.7 S knots.

ARGYLLSHIRE RADIOS. -The New }' a *y -I' S Earner i wireless message from its steamer Argyllshire stating that sell expects to j arrive at this port from Liverpool on | Monday morning. The vessel has a vargt j iron era I merchandise from M est t oast . i’lifted Kingdom ports for discharge at Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Port j Chalmers and New Plymouth. She has • been allotted a berth at Queens H harf. ■ CITY OF KHARTOUM LEAVES NEW YORK. —The A. and A. L.in< Steamer City of Khartoum cleared New York on June 17 with a cargo of general F-is tern American merchandise for discharge at Auckland. Wellington Lyttelton Timaru, Dunedin and »dne>. la v e s' S el which belongs to the Ellerman and Buck nail interests, cleared Newport News on June 21 and is due here on Jul> .-•< to the. agency of the New Zealand shipping Company. INTERESTING MOTOR-VESSEL.— j An interesting motor-vessel has been completed by Messrs. Burmeister | and Wain, Copenhagen, for the Bornholm Steamship Company, which maintains a dailv service between Copenhagen and the island of Bornholm. Constructed to the ! highest class of the Bureau V eritas, she ■ is 254 ft. -Sin. in length overall, -Joft in . length between perpendiculars, 9in. in moulded breadth. 22ft. bin. in moulded depth from the upper deck, and of 1.390 tons gross and SOI tons net. The load draft is 13ft. Din. There are two holds, with a capacity of 29,200 cubic feet, and on the lower deck forward there is an insulated space of 1,000 cubic feet All the deck machinery is electrically driven. The steering gear being of the tdectiichvdraulic type, and made by Messrs. John Hastie and Co., Greenock, bleeping accommodation is provided on board the vessel for altogether 264 persons—most Of it in well-funrnislied cabins. The Public rooms for lirst-class passengers include a dining saloon capable of seating o 4 persons, a smoking room, and a women s saloon. All are tastefully decorated and luxuriously furnished. In the third-class accommodation, there is a dining saloon. The heating and ventilation of the vessel’s interior having received special attention, the ship is electrically lighted throughout. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— . Auckland. —Laburnum, Tofua, vvajparn, Voco, Otokia, Moeraki. Port Fremantle, Southern Cross, King John. Kaiwarru, Golden West, Mahan a, Polzella, 'Woolgar, Dunedin. Argyllshire, Aorangi. Chatham Islands. —Papanui. Wellington.—Maori, Wahine, Tamahme, Arahura, Westmoreland, Kaponga, Kckerangu, Athel, Regent, Rangitane, Niagara, Norfolk, Kangitata, Tutanekai, Karetu. Awarua. —Tahiti. Makura, Omana. PORT OF ONEHUIVGA—ARRIVALS YESTERDAY ARA PAW A <5.15 p.m.), 291 tons, Pert, from Dargaville. DEPARTURES YESTERDAY HAUTURU <3.30 p.m.), 270 tons, Jack-son-Fowler, for New Plymouth. ALEXANDER arrived from Wanganui lato this morning, and leaves tomorrow afternoon foi* Nelson and Picton. ARAPAWA arrived from Dargaville 5.15 p.in. yesterday and leaves for Wanganui 3 p.m. today. HAUTURU left for New Plymouth 3.30 p.m. yesterday and returns Friday, 7 a.m. HOKIANGA, which was bar-bound at Ilokianga, is expected today. Her departure, scheduled for today, is uncertain. IvAITOA arrived from South Island on Saturday morning, and loads for Nelson and West Coast ports. She sails the following day. RONAKI has been delayed and returns from Raglan and Kawhia at 6 a.m. torn or row.