PORT OF TIMARU.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 28 July 1933, Page 19

PORT OF TIMARU.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Holmglen, Dunedin, this day. Storm, Dunedin, tnis day. Port Hobart, Oamaru, this day. Port Dunedin, Port Chalmers, this

day. Totara, Wcstport, July 29. John, Dunedin, July 29. Waipiata, Dunedin, July 30. Waikouaiti, Dunedin, July 30. Port Whangarei, Dunedin, July 31. Holmdale, Dunedin, August 1. Calm, Dunedin, August 1. Kanna, Walpole Island, August 2, Wainui, Dunedin, August 2. Titoki, Dunedin, August 2. Opihi, Oamaru, August 3. Tainui, via ports, August 5. Waimarino, Oamaru, August 7. Kent, Bluff, August 7.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Holmglen, Lyttelton, this day. Storm, Lyttelton, this day. Totara, Port Chalmers, July 29. Port Dunedin, Wellington, July 29. Waipiata, Lyttelton, July 31. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, July 31. Port Whangarei, Auckland, July 31. Holmdale, Lyttelton, August 1. Calm, Lyttelton, August 1. Port Hobart, Port Chalmers, Aug. 1 Kanna, Lyttelton, August 2. Wainui, Lyttelton, August 2. Titoki, Lyttelton, August 2. Opihi, Lyttelton, August 3. Waimarino, Picton, August 7. Tainui, Lyttelton, August 7. Kent, Lyttelton, August 8. Wingatui, Dunedin, August 12. Narbada, Dunedin, September 30.

REBUILDING A VESSEL.

After 29 years' service as a trawler and a coastal trader, the small steamer Baroona is being reconditioned at Auckland and converted into a motorvessel. The work of renovation has been proceeding for the last four months, and is not expected to be completed until about November, reports the "New Zealand Herald." The vessel recently spent two years in "Rotten Row" at Auckland, but an examination showed that the hull, constructed of Australian hardwood, was thoroughly sound. She is being refastened throughout and workmen have almost completed the construction of a new deck. A poop deck will be added later. Some of the equipment from the old mission steamer Southern Cross will be incorporated in the reconstructed Baroona. These fittings include the bishop's room and the cabins used by the captain and the wireless operator in the Southern Cross. The foremast from the mission steamer also will be placed in the Baroona. It is proposed to equip the Baroona with a Diesel motor of 150 horse-power, so that in all essential respects the vessel will be a much smarter and more modern craft at the end of the overhaul. Although it is not yet known to what use the Baroona will be put, there is a suggestion that she may enter the Pacific Island trade. She is a vessel of 120 tons gross and is 107 feet long. She was built in Newcastle, Australia, in 1904. and was engaged for some time in the Helensville-Dargaville trade. Later she was a trawler.

PERSONAL,

Captain W. Hurley is at present in command of the Canopus, relieving Captain T. Rowlands for holidays. Mr D. McKinkie has joined the Maori as second mate, relieving Mr W. H. Millward. Captain George Owens, commander of ttic motor-ship Warwick Castle and commodore of the Union-Castle Line fleet, lies retired after 50 years' continuous sea service. After a long and distinguished career in the service of the Orient Line of Royal Mail steamers, and in the Royal Navy during the Great War, Commander H. G. Staunton, commodore of the Orient fleet, has retired. Advice to this effect was received from London by the Sydney branch of the company last week. Commander Staunton has been granted 12 months' leave. His last command was that of the R.M.S. Otranto. TITOKI TO REPLACE OREPUKI. The Anchor Company's coastal steamer Titoki was due at Wellington yesterday from Nelson to go' on the Patent Slip for cleaning and painting. She will sail to-morroW for Dunedin under charter to the Union Company, replacing the Orepuki in the Dunedin-Napier-Gisborne-Tauranga trade, while the latter vessel undergoes overhaul, and survey. HEAVY SEAS. SHIPPING FURTHER DELAYED. The heavy sea which has been running on the east coast for the last three days has caused further delay to shipping. The motor-ship Ashburton, which left Wellington at 2.35 on Wednesday afternoon for Lyttelton, did not arrive until 1.50 yesterday afternoon. The motor-vessel Alynbank, which was expected at Lyttelton yesterday morning from Auckland, sent a sage that she would not arrive at Lyttelton until 5.30 this morning. THE WELCOMBE. The British steamer Welcombe, which loaded a full cargo of wheat at Lyttelton for Shanghai, completed discharge at that port and proceeded to Miike to bunker. She left the Japanese port on July 11 for Queensland, where she will load for the United Kingdom. THE KARAMEA. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line motor-ship Karamea is expected to arrive at Lyttelton this afternoon from Bluii for further loading. She is to sail on Monday for Wellington and Auckland, and is to sail finally from Auckland on August 8 for London, via Cape Horn.

THE PORT HOBART. The Port Hobart was expected to leave Nelson on Wednesday last lor Oamaru to continue loading. She will also load at Timaru, Port Chalmers, Bluff, and Lyttelton. She is due here on August 6 and is to sail on August 8 for Wellington to complete. The Port Hobart is to sail finally from Wellington on August 12 for London, Avonmouth. Liverpool, and Glasgow, via Cape Horn and Dakar. THE TAINUI. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's liner Tainui, which arrived at Wellington on Sunday from London and Southampton, left Wellington yesterday for Auckland to complete discharge. She will load at Timaru on Thursday next, and will complete at Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. The Tainui is to sail finally from Auckland on August 23 for Southampton and London, via Panama. Rao Bahadur M'Ganga Raju, one of the wealthiest bankers in the Province of Andhra, India, has celebrated his 60th birthday by giving away his weight in gold, silver and jewels. His generosity is based on the popular superstition that any person who does this before he is 61 is assured of a long life.