SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 6

SHIPPING

PORT OF WELLINGTON. HIGH WATER. To-day—4h 10m a.m.; 4h 39m p.m.. To-morrow—sh Cm a.m.; 5h Ssm p.m. ARRIVALS. July 23—Pateena, s.s. (7.20- p.m.), 1212 tons, ruin, from • Nelson and Picton July 24—Mapourika, s.s. (5.20 a.m.), 1203 tons McDonald, from Auckland July 24—Maori, s.s. QO.SS a.m.), 3412 tons, Manning, from iyttelton ' "" DEPARTURES. July 23—Hlnemoa, s.s. (3.15 p.m.), 542 tons, nollons, for southern lighthouses July 24—Kamona, s.s. (8.30 a.m.), 1125 tons, Uankin, for Westport July 24—Hineraoa, s.s. (6.40 a.m.), 842 tons, Bollons, for Lyttclton July 24—Blenheim, s.s. (7.40 a.m.), 120 tons, Wilkinson, for Havelock EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kipple, Gisnorne, 21th InvercarglU, ,Wa,nganul, 24th Queen of the South, Foxton, 24th Wakatu, Kalkoura and Lyttelton, 24th Monowai, northern ports, 24th Mararoa, Lyttelton, 25th Pateena, Nelson and Picton, 25th Wairau, Picton, 25th Kaitoa, Nelson, 25th Kamo, Grey mouth, 1 28th Kahika, Greymouth, 26th Hawera, Patea, 26th PROJECTED DEPARTURES Maori, lyttelton, 24th Wakatu, Kaikoura and Lyttelton, 24th Nlkau, - Nelson, 24th Wairau, Picton, 24th Komata, Westport, 24th Itlpplo, Napier and Gifborne, 24th Pateena, Pictbn onlj'. 24th Kapiti, Wanganui, 25th Hawera, Patea, 25th ?|uoen of the South, Foxton, 25th nvercargill, Wniiganui, 26th Manuka, Sydney, 26th Pateena, Picton and Nelson, 26th BY TELEGRAPH. WAXGANUI, 24th July ' Sailed—lnvercargill (7.55. a.m.), for Wellington • • NfcLSON, 24th'July' Arrived—Kennedy (1 a.nt.), from Welling- ' ton TTo sail—Kaitoa (0 p.m.), for Wellington ' PERSONAL. Mr. E. H. Lowe, chief. officer, of the Ka-. Nona, has been transferred to another Union Company's steamer in a similar capacity in place of Mr. A. F. lonian, who has taken the former's post on the Kamona Mr. C. B.'Madden, purser of the To Anau, las been passed as medically fit' for ' active' service, and will go into camp on the 15th " .Vugust ■ , Mr. B. W. Gan^ell, second engineer of the lamona, came ashore, from the vessel yester>ay , INTERESTING FIGURES. Striking figures on the work done in the shipping repair yards of Great Britain were published on the 20t1i May last. From 3rd August, 1917, when the Directorate got the ' Wganisation to work, until 25th April, 1918, the /ards have repaired nnd restored 5307 vessels, .•epresenting a- gross tonnage of 1G,150,000. This gives a weekly average of 414,105 gross, tons, but the weekly average for somf weeks past has risen to more than 500,000 gross tons, and is steadily rising. The amount restored in one week reached 598,000 gross tons. Five ships, each over 20,000 tons, 1 have left the yards ready for service in a single week , Owing to the Manuka' 3 late arrival from Sydney blio will not make her usual trip to Lyttelton, but will remain at Wellington until 6 a.m. on Friday, when she will...sail ,for Sydnej and Ilobart • .... The scow Hazel Repton, bound to, Melbourne with cargo from Dunedln, ran into • the full force of the gale, and put' into ' Lyttelton on' Saturday for shelter. The vessel ' had her boom carried away during the gale, and she will probably wed refitting The Government steamer Hinemoa left her berth yesterday afternoon, and took up an anchorage in Worser Bay. Before 7 o'clock this morning: she left the harbour on-her neriodical trip of. inspection of the southern' lighthouses •, An offer to construct concrete ships in 1 Australia has been received by the Acting Minister of the Navy (Mr. Poynton) from'the Fcrro Concrete Shipbuilding Corporation of Los Angeles, California, which is building Ihese ships for the United States (reports Sydney Shipping list).'- The corporation offers to' send experts to Australia to work on a fee basis, to build ships of from 3500 to 5000 tons Jeadweight, on a. fiat-rato basis per ton, or upon cost, plus a percentage, the Government , So find the site and undertake the necessary iredging. Mr. Poynton said that he was :onsiderlng the proposal of the corporation, which claimed that work could be done for the most part by unskilled labour in -one third less time than steel ships, and at half She cost It is reported that the first wireless telegraph and telephone installation on board a Spanish merchant steamer, the Key Jaime 1., has just been completed. The system adopted Is American, but the plant has been manufactured in Spain. A second steamer, the Lulio, is being equipped with a similar plant. The range of the installation is 300 miles for radio telegraphic purposes, and' half this range for radio' telephony. If the trials of the radio telephonic communication between ship and ship prove successful; a land station will be built at Barcelona, which will' be linked up with the city jind suburban network, and thus afford means of communication 'between . land stations and . ehips-on the, high seas ( . 1 The Luckenbach Steamship Company, of New Fork (states an exchange) has increased its sapital from 10,000,000 dollars to 25,000,000 dollars. This step was taken so that the capitalisation of the concern should be more in keeping irith its interests, which have expanded considerably since the beginning of the war. The company, whose activities have been curtailed by Government control, as is the case with . ill American shipping concerns, operates services normally to Australia, the Far East, South America, nnd San Francisco