UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21121, 23 March 1934, Page 19

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY

STAFF APPOINTMENTS \NNOI"NCKI> r-t,.% , =5.1-,. iiniM, If. ■ WELLINGTON. March 22. . I The Union Steam Ship Company J j announces the follo.ving stafT appoint- j I 'neiils: - | ! Head odice: Mr J. W. Matthewson. assistant general manager; Mr C. B. V. \ Woeller. neneral traflie manager. ! Con.-iquent on tl.v retirement of Mr ; D. Carter. Ijrancii manager at Alickrmd. on snperannint ion as from April j : .Mi. the following chang"s are also j I announced: - : 1 Mr .1. N. (fiv» oranch manager . at On :.-)chnrcl». (•> be branch manager at Auekltiiid. : Mr A. li. Thompson, branch man- j nger at New Plymouth, to bo branch j manager at Christchurch. j Mr W. C.. Mander. branch manager ] 1 at Timaru. to be branch manager at Nt \v Plymouth. ! Mi- Ii" 11. Dooie. ollicer-in-charge at [ hlenheim. to be branch manager at Timaru. | Mr L L. Derbidge. Christchurch j branch, to be oTieer-in-charge at } Blenheim. Mr •!. N. Greenland, who was born ; at Westport, lias been in the service j ot the Union Steam Ship Company since IPOS. He spent a few years in the We-tport oftlce and four years at sea on the comiitiny's vessels as purser. During the war he served in the "Wellington Mounted Rifles, and on his | return he was attached to the Wei- j !im;ton ollice. In 1022 he was ap- j pointed sub-manager ai Lyttelton and j in 102 i) branch manager at Timaru. He has been branch manager at j Christchurch since 1030. j Mr A. H. Thompson, of New Plymouth. who will succeed Mr Greenland as branch manager in Christchurch. was born in Dunedin. and lias been in the company's service since his boyhood. He was branch manager in Auckland fur a period after the ; war and was then transferred to New , Pl\mouth. He is known in the company's st rvice as -Shipwreck"' Thompson." having been twice wrecked while at sea on the company's once m the Penmen and once in the Kawatiri in Tasmania. dr I. L. Derbidge. v. no has been appointed oiVicer-in-charge at Blenheim, : is at present head passenger clerk m the Chr'stehureh oflice. He will be replaced by Mr E. J. Moon, a member of the Christchurch stal'. PORT OV WELLINGTON 11 ! ( INCH 10 ASK IN SlllPriM. J tonna<;k . < t

s , , ( « sl <m.iiij isiu.i WELLINGTON, March 22. More than per cent, of the total J imoorts and 2'5 per cent, ot the total i exports of the Dominion passed i through the port of Wellington last. ! year. The tonnage of shipping ar- ! rivals increased by -l.ti per cent., com--1 pared with the previous year, and the average net tonnage of shi))s showed I a relative increase. j According to Hie annual report of the secretary, presented to a meeting of the Harbour Board to-night, tlv j total net register tonnaKC ot trading ' \essels entering the port during the ' year ended September ISO was :i,Ga2,7()4, an increase of 159,21.13 tons. For comparison with those ports combining arrivals and departures, the total net register tonnage of trading vessels that arrived and departed from and to overseas and coastal ports dur- , iiiu the year was T,0!!7.4!M. The total trade of the port remained about the same a> for the previous year, the j figures being 1.468.192 tons, compared . with 1. tons. Exports continue ! to increase, but imports show a further though small decline. The net surplus j of the board for the year was ,L(i424, | compared with .C 5574 for the previous ! year ' DISTINCTIVK SHIPS id any peisun.- regard the white hull;; and yellow funnels of the liners t Sirathnaver and Strathaird as ;m innovation from the P. and O. Company's traditional black hull, bull" uppcruorks. and blacK tunnel. Actually thev are only a revival, for as far back a tee Jubilee el:!;-.-, o! 11587 the P. and O. Company from time to time has painted its most noteworthy ships in this fa-hion. and several faniuu> isiut< have had while hulls for their in -! U ,v years. Wiiii I lit* Stratnaver and Stratha.rd i: ha- pro.ed so popular and so j suitable for tile Australian service that there i ;i possibility of it be--■oi.ii", ■ permanent, and a probability oi the new liner Slralhie.ure. now un- . ili r construction at Mes.-r.- Vickers- ■ Annstrofig's. Ltd. being sinularl, lini-'ied. : I I \ ! I j