MAUNGANUI COMING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 12

MAUNGANUI COMING

Union Royal Mail Liners

The Union Royal mail liner Maunganui is to leave Sydney to-morrow for Wellington, being due here on Monday. She will sail again the following day for Rarotonga, Papeete nnd San Fraueisco. The Makura is scheduled to leave San Fraueisco to-day for Wellington and Sydney, via Papeete and Rarotonga. She is due here on September 16 aud In Sydney on September 21. MATAKANA EARLIER. The Shaw, Savill steamer Matakana in now to leave Auckland finally to-morrow afternoon for London, by way of Montevideo and Teneriffe." WAIRJNGI LOADING. The Shaw, Savill motor-ship Wairangi, scheduled to reach Bluff to-day from Pore Chalmers in continuation of her Homeward loading, will •call at Wellington next Wednesday after loading at Lyttelton, and will complete at Auckland. She is to clear Auckland finally 911 September 14 for Southampton and London, by way of CapeHorn and Las Palmas.. FORDSDALE DISCHARGING. The Shaw, Savill steamer Fordsdale, which since Monday morning has been continuing discharge of her Liverpool cargo at the King’s Wharf, will leave again ou Friday for Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff, where she is to complete discharge. CANADIAN CHALLENGER AWAY. Canadian National Steamships’ Canadian Challenger left Wellington yesterday afternoon for New York, Boston and Montreal. She loaded a fairly large shipment of wool at this port. , PORT FAIRY FOR TIMARU. ■ The CoinmenweaJth and Dominion Line's Port Fairy, which is at present discharging at Bluff," is to leave there to-day for Timaru,. She will there complete discharge of her Loudon cargo, and will commence Homeward loading. The Port Fairy will then load at Oamaru. Wellington, being due here on Wednesday next, Wanganui. New ' Plymouth and Auckland, where she is to complete. She will clear Auckland finally- on September 18 for London, via Cape Horn aud Dakar. HERTFORD TO SAIL. The Federal steamer Hertford, now completing Homeward loading at Auckland, is to sail finally to-morrow for London, Avoumouth, Liverpool and Glasgow. The Hertford is due a.t London about October 12. CITY OF GLASGOW. The Federal steamer City of Glasgow, which baa been discharging cargo from New York on the New Zealand coast, was scheduled to have left Dunedin yesterday to complete at Australian ports. SURREY LEAVES PORT CHALMERS. The Federal Company’s Surrey, completing discharge of her Liverpool cargo, and loading Homeward, at Port Chalmers, was to have left there yesterday for Oamaru and Bluff. She is due at Wellington "from Bluff on Monday, and will afterward complete at New Plymouth, Opua and Auckland. She will sail finally on September 20 tor London aud West Coast ports of the United Kingdom. RANGITANE EARLIER. The New Zealand Shipping Company's motor-liner Rangitane, now loading Homeward at Bluff, will leave there to-morrow for Lyttelton, where she is due on Friday. She is now expected at Wellington on September 3. WILLESDEN IN PORT. The steamer Willesden, for which G. IT.Scales Limited are agents, arrived at XVellington yesterday morning from Nova Scotia, via Aucklaniirwith a cargo of newsprint. She will leave to-day to complete discharge at" Lyttelton anil Dunedin. The Willesden will then proceed to Suva to load sugar and copra for a port not yet disclosed. ALFIE CAM RETURNS. The Australian trawler Alfie Cam returned yesterday from fishing off tlie New Zealand coast. She put iu to buuker before returning to Australia. TONGARIRO REPORTS. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a radio message from the Tongarlro. which left London on July 25 for New Zealand, stating that she expects to reach Wellington on Sunday at 3 p.m. She will complete discharge at Lyttelton. LONDON’S SHIPPING. During the week ended July 5, 8-16 vessels, representing 868,436 net register tons, used the Port ot Loudon; 469 vessels (723,066 net register tons) were to and from Empire aud foreign ports and 3.> vessels (145,3(4 uet register tons) were engaged iu coastwise trallic. The arrivals included eight meat cargoes, viz., four from Australia, two t’roiu New Zealand and two from South America, comprising 284,000 careases of lamb and mutton. 116,000 .quarters of beef, quantities of pork, rabbits aud sundries.

UNION-CASTLE LINERS. The Union-Castle Line have decided that the first of their two new mail .motorships now under construction by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Liiu.ted, at Belfast, shall be called Stirling Castle. She was to be launched on August 15, aud. is expected to bo ready to take her place in the South African service about the middle of January, 1936.

MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. Receipts from traffic through the Manchester Ship Canal in the month of May totalled £92,771, compared with £S9.'-oO in May, 1934, an increase of £3521. The total for the first five months of the year was £474.966, against £467.368 in the corresponding period of last year, an advance of £6698.

FREIGHT INDEX NUMBERS. The Chamber of Shipping index number of freights for June, 1935, is given as 17.7 ti, which shows a decrease of 0.9 a per cent, comnared with the previous mouth, but Is 3.14 per cent, higher than a. year ago. The European Waters group index number at 19.64 is a decrease of per cent, on the month, though 0.46 per cent, higher than lu June, 1934. In the Rea Sea, India and Arabia group only ono rate was available for May—rice ports to UK. Continent. This at 15.50 is 6.87 per cent. lower than a month- ago. The rate for Australia to the U.K. at 18.01 shews an increase of 2.21 per cent, on the month and an Increase of 4.10 per cent, on 'bo vear The Argentine, Uruguay index number, 17.15. Is the same as for the previous month aud Is 3.25 per cent, higher than a year ago. Canada at 10.17 Is an increase of 10.22 per cent, on the month and is 17.77 per cent, higher than a year, ago. In the three last-uamed trades minimum freight schemes are in operation, lhe index number for the United States group at 16.88 is a decrease of 4.10 per cent, on the mouth, but is 14.29 per ‘-•ent higher than in June. 1934. The time-charter rate is 14.94, an increase of 2.lX> per cent, on the month aud of 11.08 per cent, on the year.