A WELCOME ORDER

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 14

A WELCOME ORDER

New N.Z.S. Co. Motor-ship

The placing of an order with John Brown and Co., Limited, Clydebank, .by the New Zealand Shlpp.ng Company, Limited, fur a twlu-screw refrigerated cargo motorship of 14,000 tons dw similar m design to the Essex and Sussex has revived the hopes of British shipbuilders that the eud of what we may term the little depression” is in sight states the Syren and Shipping. It has to be admitted, however, that the hopes are still slender. One swallow—even of such a size—does not make a summer, and it is a regrettable fact that this New Zealand contract is the , only one for a merchant vessel placed with any British yard during May. It is a-«o the first secured by a Clyde shipyard since March. At the present time the Clydebank establishment, although well supplied with warship work—comprising a battleship, an 8000-ton cruiser, two submarine depot ships and two destroyers-has only one merchant vessel on hand, the Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth, which is due for launching In September, so that the order from the New Zeaiand Shipping Company is very welcome.

AKAROA COMPLETING. The Shaw, Savlll liner Akaroa is now to leave Port Chalmers next Tuesday for Auckland to complete her Homeward ing. She is scheduled to clear the u° ern port finally on July 18 for Southampton and Loudon, via the Panama Canal.

THE LIMERICK. The Union Company’s motor-ship Liu l ® l ' lek is to leave I/os Angeles to-day f°r Papeete, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Australia. She Is due at Auckland on August '3.

THE MATUA. The Union Company’s motor-ship Mattiais to leave Suva to-day for Auckland, where she is due next Wednesday. She will leave the northern port again the fol lowing day for the Cook Islands, to load again for Auckland.

WAITAKI LATER. Further delayed at Lyttelton the Union Company's. Waitaki is now due at Welling ton to-morrow to complete discharge of her Melbourne cargo. She is to again on Monday for Melbourne, via Bluff.

CUMBERLAND COMPLETING. Now completing her Homeward loading at Auckland to the agency of the -New Zealand Shipping Company, the Lumber land is to dear the northern port finaßy next Wednesday for London, Hull, ana Newcastle-on-Tyne, via the Panama Canal.

AWATEA LEAVES SYDNEY. The Union Company’s liner Awatea left yesterday for Wellington. She is due herein Monday morning and will leave again next Wednesday on the return tup to Sydney.

THE WAIOTAPU. The Union Company’s Waiotapu wa-s to have left Auckland last night for thence to Melbourne, where she will loaa about July 22 for Wellington and Auckland.

PORT HARDY LATER. The Port Line steamer Port Hardy W now to leave Timaru on Monday for New Plymouth to commence her Homeward loading. She will fill up later at Auckland, Gisborne, Napier and M’ oD j The vessel Is now due here on July 26 and is to clear this port finally on July 29 for London, via the Panama Canal.

THE KAKAPO. The Union Company’s steamer Kauapo is now to load at Port Kembla on July 18 and completes at Sydney for Wellington and Napier.

TROJAN STAR’S DEPARTURE. The Blue Star Line steamer Trojan Star, which left Napier yesterday for Auckland to complete her Homeward loading is now to clear the northern port final!?’ .on July 16 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow via the Panama Canal.