SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1918, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF HEW PLYMOUTH. Friday, July 12, ms. PHASES OF TH3S MOON. .)UlA\ 16th—First Quarter, <i.i p.m« 24th-—Full Moou, S\ll jl.iu. 3lsl—Last Quarter, 32.50 a.m. THE TIDES. High water at New Plymouth to-day nx '11.55 a.m.; to-niujrotv, at 12.11 a.m. and 12.32 i p.m. | TIIE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 7.17 a.id. and sets at 4.43 p m.; to-morrow, rises at 7.16 a.m. and i sets at 4.44 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from Onehunga, to-night. Kin I, from .Wellington, to-day. Corlnna, from south, Sunday. Karamu, from Greymouth, Tuesday. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. ARRIVED. Wellington, .Tuly 11.—'Baden Powell, 2.45 p.m., from New Plymouth. SAILED. Wellington, July 11.—Klnl, 5,15 p.m., for New Plymouth. - , THE RARAWA DELAYED. The .Now Plymouth manager of the Northern Steam Ship -Company received word yesterday afternoon that the Rarawa was unable to leave Onehunga, owing to the gale, and will leave at 9.30 this morning. She will leave the breakwater to-morrow (Saturday) evening at the usual time. JAPAN'S GREAT SHIPBUILDING AIMS. The course of the war has given to Japan a great opportunity for transportation as far as ships are concerned. As ships of every nation have been drawn from ocean traffic Japanese ships have taken their .places. But this ship traffic development has been surpassed by the Japanese shipbuilding development. Last year Japan built nearly a million tons of shipping? a growth of almost five times the largest amount built in any year before the war. For shipbuilding steel plates are needed. Pig iron is the basis of steel making, but Japan's production of pig iron is less than 600,000 tons. Hence she must ■jet steej f rom other countries. England is closed to export trade at present. The United States has not been closed as regards steel delivery, but the United States Government recently put an embargo on it. This was a blow to Japan, It stopped work on no Jewer than 77 ships, aggregating 638,000 tons.