SHIPPING DISORGANISED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1909, Page 7

SHIPPING DISORGANISED.

LARGE NUMBER OF VESSELS LAID UP. Some idea of the disastrous effect of the strike upon employers and workers in other industries may be gathered from its result in the shipping trade. Up to last Saturday the following interstate steamers had been laid up at Sydney : — Age, 2284 tons, Howard Smith Co. ■ Cycle, 3987 tons, Howard Smith Co. Buninyong, 2070 tons, Howard Smith Co. Gabo, 2060 tons/ Howard Smith Co. Tyrian, 1455 tons, Howard Smith Co. Barwon, 2999 tons, Huddart, Parker and Co. Moorabool,. 2996 tons, Huddait, Parker and Co. Komura, 2112 tons, M'llwraith, M'Eacharn and Co. New Guinea, 2674 tons, M'llwraith, M'Eacharn and Co. Kooyong, 2296 tons, M'llwraith, M'Eacharn and Co. Derwent, collier, Howard Smith Co. Karitane, 1376 tons, Union Steam I Ship Company's line. The Century, Australian mail line, is laid up at Newcastle. The Era, Chillagoe, and Barrabcol, all Howard Smith liners, have also been withdrawn from service, and are tied up at Melboiirne. The Union Company, as already reported, has decided to withdraw some of its boats from commission owing to the strike, and to curtail the Tasmanian service The steamer Paloona, on arrival at Sydney from Hobart on Wednesday, will ( be withdrawn, and a service will be maintained by the steamer Westralia every ten days. The Karoii, one of the Union boats, employed in the Tas-manian-Sydney trade, h.is received orders to return to New Zealand, while her sister liner in the trade, tho Karitano, will be laid up at Sydney. In connection with tho Mjlbouxna tfi

Launceston service, the turbine steamer Loongana will make only two trips per week, leaving Launceston on Tuesdays and Fridays, and Melbourne on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Waihova, one of the cargo boats of the line, has been fixed to load a full cargo of Westport coal at Westport for Fremantle. This coal is intended for the flagship Powerful, which, shortly proceeds, to Colombo to bo recommissioned. The following vessels belonging to the Southern Coal-owners' Association will be laid up : — Pareora, Five Islands, Mount Kembla, Palmerston, lierga, and Kurrara. The Bellambi Company's fleet will also be laid up, comprising the steam colliers Bellambi, Marjorie, Malachite, and Currajong. The Wallarah Company's fleet, viz., the Beulah, Wallarah, and Illaroo, have already been laid up ; also the Newcastle colliers Duckenfield, Alice, Wallsend, Sphene, Beagle, Galava, Murray, Helen Xicoll, Lubra, and Queen Bee. The Adelaide Steamship Company announced last Friday that owing to the strike of colliery employees it had been found necessary to cancel the proposed sailing of the steamer Wollowra to West Australia, via Melbourne and Adelaide.