SHIPPING.
PdRT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IT, 21)17, PHASES OF THE MOON. 15th—New moon, 6.5 a.m. 22nd—First quarter, 10.5 a.m . 20th—Full moon, 6.18 a.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day Ut 11 a.m. and 11.23 p.m.; to-morrow, at 11.42 a.m. and 12 p.m. THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 4.53 a.m. and sets at 7.7 p.m.; to-morrow, rises at 4.62 a.m. and sets at 7.8 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Corinna, from Onehunga, Monday. Rarawa, from Onehunga, Tuesday. Rarawa-, from Onehunga, Friday. Percival, Brayshaw and family. Swan, arrived" ■ November Ift—Rarawa, s.s., 1072 tons, Bark, from Onehunga. Passengers: Misses McDonald, Kennedy; Mesdames Robert, Chapeltori, Gibbons and child; Messrs Chapelton, Gibbons, Stewart, Wilson, Gordon, Neall, Nops, McLauchlan, Messenger, Powdre, Wybourne, Connolly, Gaubstone, Jeffreys, Cooper, Anderson, Rev. Walker. four steerage. Nov. IC—Kini, s.s'., 1122 tons, Plaits, from Wellington (5.15 p.m.). : SAILED. Nov. l6.—Huia, s.s., for Waitara (0.50 p.m.). •Nov. 16.—Rarawa, s.s., for Onehunga. Passengers-: Misses Stotfc, Ramson, Williams,, Newman; M&sdamcs Fedorawicz, Pcrcival, Brayshow arid family, Swan, Phillips and. 2 Children, Newman, Vickers; Messrs Fedor.owicz, Abbott, Wi'lls, Jeffrey, -AUonv Messenger, Wilson, Waltoji, Reed, Brayshaw, Ramson, Heald Brown; Archdaatott Hawkins; 1 Steer•age. ■ ' '•■"- -■
THE KINI. The Kini arrived at 5.15 p.m. yesterday and will probably sail late to-night for the goutly, after discharging 500 tonß of coal and a considerable quantity of transhipments. THE RARAWA. The Rarawa arrived yesterday morning, with passengers as above and 88 tons of cargo. She returned to Onetmnga at the usual hour last night. THE HUIA. The Wellington Steamship Company's Hula sailed for Waitara at 0.50 last night, where 25 tons of cargo were discharged and tlie vessel sailed at a late hour for Wellington. Would it be a proposition to start the building of wooden ships in Otago? The reply is to some extent probleinatical, states the Dunedin Star, for the proposition is yet untried, but there are some practical people who .regard it favorably. The governing factor is the scarcity of iron shipping owing to war conditions. To meet the demand created by this deficiency it is said that Otago could produce auxiliary wooden vessels up to 800 or 1000 tons on a profitable basis. As the leading place in the Dominion for iron shipbuilding, the iron frames needed for composite ships coulbl be produced here with little difficulty. The Dominion can supply the timber, and Otago's large ship-repairing industry can find the shipwrights. Such vessels would be propelled by sails supplemented by oil engines. So far no crude oil engines have been made locally, ■but the success which has attended the manufacture of petrol engines supplies grounds for believing that crude-oil engines could also be produced with equal success, provided the demand materialises. Altogether the proposition bears the impress of being practioal, and a little material encouragement on the part of the Government would probably serve to give wooden shipbuilding in Otago a start on a larger scale than hitherto attempted. And it would help materially to solve a war difficulty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1917, Page 2
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