SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 19535, 18 April 1927, Page 1

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. ' —To-morrow.— 'St. Clair: 3.44 a.m.. 4.4 p.m. Taiaroa Head; 3.54 a.m., 4.14 p.m. Rorfc Chalmers: 4.34 a.m., 4.54 p.m. Dunedin: 5.4 a.m., 5.24 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day, 5.29 p.m.; rises to-mor-row, 0.47 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON;

Set to-day, 7.15 a.m.; rises to-mor-row, G. 31 p.m. ARRivED.—April 17. __ Kurow, s.s. (7.50 a.in.). 2,625 lons, Ross Clark, from Auckland_ via_ ports. Raranga, s.s. (4 p.m.), 7,955 tons, H. Gordon, from London via Colon, Panama, and Auckland. ARRIVED.—ApriI IS. Kahika, s.s. (6.10 a.m.), 1,172 tons, Whitcfield, from Gisborne via ports, i. Breeze, s.s. (11.40 a.m.), 553 tons, Sheppard, from Wanganui via ports. VESSELS EXPECTED AT DUNEDIN —Coastal.— Kurow, Auck. via ports, April 17. Kahika, Audi, via ports, April IS. Breeze, Wang, via ports,, April 19. Calm, Wang, via ports, April 20. Oreti, Inver.’, Port Craig, April 20. Opihi, Westp’t via Timaru, April 20. Holmdale, Wang, via Well., April 21. Wingatni, Anck. via ports, April 22. Storm, Wang, via ports, April 22. Gale, Wanganui via ports, April 23. Katoa, Auck. via ports, April 26. Kamo, Westport via Bluff, April 26. Waipiata, Auck. via ports, April 26. Progress, P. Waikato, p’ts, April 29. —lntercolonial and Overseas.Raranga, London, April 17. Canad. Challenger, Halifax, April 21. Mocraki, Melh. via Bluff, April 26. Karetu. Newcastle, Sydney, April 26. Rort Denison, Liverpool, April 28. City of Khols, Now York, April 28. Somerset, Auck., Napier, April 29. Denham, New York, April 29. Queen Maud, Louisbnrg, April 30Kniranga, Newcastle, Syd., May 4. Crosskeys, Los Angeles, May 4. Port Curtis, London, May 5. Waiknwa, Bunbury, May 5. Port Darwin, Wanganui, May 8. Cumberland, Liverpool, May 10. Canadian Britisher, Halifax, May 17. Queen Eleanor, St. John, May 17. West-Carmona, Los Angeles, May 18, Arawn, Liverpool, May 24. Anstralind, New York, May 26. Port Hardy, London, May 28. Waikouaiti, N’eastle. Syd., April 29. Sussex, Calcutta, May 7. * PACIFIC MAIL SERVICES. Aorangi left Vancouver April 6 for Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu and Suva; duo Auckland April 26. Niagara left' Auckland April 12 for Vancouver via Suva and Honolulu ; due Vancouver April 29. Tahiti leaves San Francisco April 20 fA'Yl'diiujftcii .vad -Sydney da-TvpeOiE and Rarotonga ;‘duo Wellington May 9. Makura leaves Sydney April 21 and Wellington April 26 for San Francisco via Rarotonga and Papeete; cine San Francisco May 13. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kittawa, Auck. via ports, to-day. Breeze, Wang, via ports, April 19. Kahika, Gish, via ports, April 19. Calm, Wang, via ports, April 20. Kaikorai, Bluff. Sydney. April 20. Middlesex, Timaru. Lytt., April 21, Holmdale, Wang, via- ports, April 21. Oreti, Inver., P. Craig, April 21, Opihi, New Ply. via ports, April 21. Kurow, Anck. via ports. April 22. Canacl. Challenger, Well., April 22. Storm, Wang, via ports, April 22. Gale, Wang, via ports, April 23. Raranga, Bluff, Nelson, April 23. Wingatni, Anck. via ports, April 23. Waipiata, Auck. via ports, April 27. Moeraki, Melb. via ports, April 27. Kamo, Gisborne via ports, April 27. Karetu, Sydney via ports, April 27. Queen Maud, New Ply., April 27. Katoa, Anck. via ports, April 27. Progress, P. Waikato, p’ts, April 29. City of Khois, Hobart, April 30. Denham, Hobart direct, April 30. Port Denison, Lyt., Wang., April 30. Wnikouaiti, Syd. via ports, April 30. Kairanga, Syd. via ports, May 5. _ Crosskeys, Melbourne direct, May 5. Port Curtis, Timaru. N. Ply., May 8. Pfc. Darwin. Lon. v. C. Horn, May 10.

The Kahika will sail to-morrow evening for Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne via ports. The Kurow will sail tomorrow for Bluff and Port Craig. The Kittawa will sail to-morrow for Auckland via ports. The Wingatni will leave Wellington to-morrow for Lyttelton and Dunedin. She will load out on Thursday lor Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. The Opihi left Westport at 11.30 p.m, ’on Saturday for Lyttelton and Dunedin. Duo here on Wednesday, she is to load out on Thursday for Nelson, New Plymouth, and Westport via ports. The Ruahine is to leave Lyttelton to-morrow for Wellington, and is to leave the capital port at daybreak on April 23 for Southampton and London via Pitcairn Island and Panama. The Kamo will load at Westport about Thursday for Lyttelton, Oamaru, and Dunedin. The Breeze arrived to-day irom Wanganui via ports. She should sail to-morrow on the return voyage. The steamer Baron Graham is expected at Auckland on Wednesday with a cargo of raw sugar from Cuba. THE FERRY SERVICE. The Maori, from Wellington, arrived at Lyttelton at 6.50 a.m. yesterday, and passengers came south by the 8.50 express to-day. AUSTRALIND AT COLON. En route from Now York to Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Wanganui, the A. and A. Line’s chartered steamer Anstralind reached Colon on Monday. The vessel is due at Auckland about May 10. CAMBRIDGE AT LONDON. Cabled news has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that .the Cambridge arrived at London on April 11 from Lyttelton. Tlio vessel sailed from Lvttelton on Match. 1. DEVON AT GLASGOW.

From New Zealand via America and Canada, the Federal lane steamer Devon reached Glasgow fast Monday. The vessel sailed from Wellington on February IB for New York, Boston, Halifax, Glasgow, Avonmouth, Manchester ,aud Liverpool,

THE RARANGA. From London via Panama and Auckland, the S.S. and A. Line steamer Raranga arrived at Dunedin yesterday, and was berthed at the Victoria wharf. The vessel has a largo quantity of general cargo for discharge at this port. The Raranga sailed from London on February 26, and encountered strong westerly winds and rough head seas until she was well past the Azores. In consequence she reached Panama on March 16, haying averaged .only 11.1 knots. Next day she cleared Balboa. Fine weather prevailed in the Pacific, and tiro speed from Balboa to Auckland averaged 12.6 knots. Captain H. Gordon is in command, and he has associated with him the following officers:—Chief. Air F. G. Brookes; second, Mr F. Eadon; third, Mr T. Turnbull; surgeon, Dr R. B. Martin; chief engineer, Mr W. Moore; second. Air E. Spencer; third, Air T. Clark; fourth, Air A. Foukls; fifth, Air J. Cornerand; sixth, Air AI. Afanchan; seventh. Air R. Stewart; chief refrigerating engineer, Air W. Alathews; second, Air J. Fletcher. The Raranga will go to Port Chalmers about April 22 to load Irozen meat and other freight. She will sail from this port about April 23 lor Bluff and Nelson to complete discharge and continue Homeward loading. THE NORTHUMBERLAND. The repair work to the Federal Line steamer Northumberland is nearly completed at Auckland. The vessel is expected to come out of dock on Wednesday, and commence loading frozen meat for London. From Auckland she will go to Waikokopu, Napier, and Wellington to complete her cargo. ORAAIA’S PASSENGERS. The following passengers for New Zealand were aboard the Orient liner Oinma, which was due at Sydney irom London last Wednesday :—Major’ Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, ALP., Colonel A. Hacking, D. 5.0., M.C., Dr and Airs J. Thomson, Air and Airs H. Belshaw and child, Air and Airs O. H. Davies and child, Air and Mrs H. 1 1 . J. Padwick, Airs Pollard. Airs Lyell, Airs Craig, Airs Garrey, Mr H. R. E. Black, Air A. S. Cunningham. Mr A. R. Fcnn, Mr B. J. Jackson, Air N. L. Wright. AVITH PRIDE OF PLACE. The William Mitchell, which is now the only full-rigged ship owned in the United Kingdom, has left Alelbournc for Callao with 39,031 bags of wheat, shipped by the Victorian Wheatgrowers’ Corporation. This ship made a very long passage, from Wilmington (North Carolina, tI.S.A.) to Australia, and when she arrived nt Melbourne she was dry docked, cleaned, and painted. As she is now in fine order she is expected to make a good passage to the South American port, and alter discharging her cargo will proceed to another port to load for the United Kingdom. LABURNUM AND WAKAKUBA. JJ.AI.S. Laburnum, which has been on a, cruise round the southern ports, was expected to return to Auckland last Wednesday evening. H.M. minesweeper Wakaknra was to be commissioned that day for the first time. She'left port’early in the morning to i iw( targets out, into the .gulf, tor the Laburnum, -winch was to engage Iff luff calibre gun practice before coming in. Both vessels wore to return to port in the evening. HOWARD SMITH. LIMITED. The chairman’s address to the ordinary general meeting of shareholders of Howard Smith, Ltd., held at Melbourne on March 24, stated: — “The financial return from your two largest interests —i. 0., shipping and collieries, continues unsatisiactory. This is again due to the unsettled industrial conditions which have prevailed during the period. Although this position was stressed twelve months ago, its seriousness justifies repetition. “The wholesale regulations by law of industries throughout the Commonwealth " under Arbitration Courts’ awards, Peace Act, and other tribunals, constitute such an ever increasing financial, time-wasting and administrative burden as to well nigh strangle the industries themselves. The turmoil, disputes, and strikes arising irom the interpretation of the innumerable conditions of these awards continue unabated. Although the community has long realised that legal arbitration in Australia, instead ot preventing in dustrial disputes mid strikes, has on the contrary created and multiplied them, yet neither Government nor Parliament has taken any action to amend the overloaded industrial, arbitration system in the direction ot deflation, nor in making it what was originally intended—i.e.. an antisweating Act. “Comment continues to be made in the public Press, as well as in Parliament, in regard to the Navigation Act, and the Australian Steamship Owners are from time to time indicted with not having augmented their passenger fleets. The manifest answer is that frequent strikes, greatly increased expenditure in the ’ form of payments to employees under industrial awards, Navigation Act obligations, overhauls, high initial cost of modern passenger tonnage, and coastal railway competition, ■ collectively make the cost of operating new passenger steamers on the Australian coast out of all proportion to their revenue.

“The statement of profit and loss discloses that the nett earnings lor the year were £211,607, as compared with £211,041 in 1925. After providing for the interim dividend paid in September, there remains available £111,607, from which your directors recommend the declaration and payment of a final dividend for the year of 5 per cent. These appropriations, amounting to £200,000, leave a balance of £11,607 14s 9d. which, added to the amount of £46,506 0s 9d brought forward from last year, makes, a total of £58,113 1.5 s 6d, which your directors recommend, he carried forward. The principal variations of the present balance-sheet compared witii that of a year ago are. as follows:—Deposits with accrued interest are less by £36.149. The increase of £102.237 in creditors is .principally represented by funds held by your company ,nn account of subsidiary interests. On the assets side, freehold property' reveals an increase of £4,004. being* further payments on account of the purchase of freehold in Collins street west. Leasehold property, stocks of coal, and general stores allow only slight variations. Plant and gear has decreased by _ £9,756 to £58,054, accounted for chiefly by the disposal of the coal hulks Jerfalcon at Melbourne, and Derwent • at Cairns, and the usual provision for depreciation. Amount due _by debtors is £109,602 more, due mainly to advances made by your company to Caledonian Collieries, Limited, in connection with the construction of its power station at Cockle Creek,- New South Wales.' Cash at bankers and in hand, £38,078, reveals an improvement in the company’s cash position pf £26,793.’'

IKALA FROAI MONTREAL. The New Zealand Shipping Company announces that the steamer Jkala is fixed to sail from Montreal on May 25 with cargo to discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Melbourne, and Sydney. THE SOMERSET’S LOADING. The New Zealand Shipping Company reports that the Somerset i« flue at Auckland on April 19 from Brisbane to commence loading for Hull and London. Later the ship will- load' at Napier, Port Chalmers, and Wellington, and she is due at this port about April 29 to take, in frozen meat, dairy produce, fruit, wool, and general cargo. Her departure from Wellington for Home via Panama is fixed lor about May 7. ARAWA LEFT BALBOA. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Arawa cleared Balboa on Monday en route from London and Southampton with passengers and cargo inr New Zealand. The cargo is for discharge at Auckland and Wellington. She is due ■'it Auckland on May 0. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. April 17.—Arrived: Hnrunui (6 p.m.), irom Upua. WELLINGTON, April 17.—Arrived: Port Denison (7.20 a.m.), Irom Auckland; Storm (9.15 a.m,), Irom Wanganui; Katoa (10.30 a.m.), Irom New Plymouth; Tees (10.50 a.m.), from Lyttelton;-Wingatni (3.30 p.m.), a.m.), from Foxtou; Totani (3.50 from Napier. April 16—Sailed: Breeze ,(1.5 p.m.). for Dunedin; Kahika (1.10 p.m.), tor . Dunedin. April 17—Sailed: Gale (2 p.m.), lor Onakaka.

LYTTELTON, April 17— Arrived: Kaiwarra (6.40 a.m.), Irom Newcastle. ’April 18—Arrived; Kennedy (12.30 a.m.), from .'.Wellington. Sailed; Karon- (6.40 a.m.), for Greymouth. TIMARU, April 16.—Sailed: Kurow (6.15 p.m.), for Dunedin. BLUFF, April 17.—Arrived: Anamha (8 p.m.), from Dunedin. • SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.-Ar-rived; Tahiti, from Sydney. TENERIFFE,- April 15.—Sailed: Medic, for London.

P.ERIM, April 15.—' Lcvcnbank, eu route to United Kingdom; Tnuraine, en route to Dunkirk; Peru, en route to United Kingdom. LONDON, April 15. —Arrived: Mntatua, from Napier. NEW 7 YORK, April 15.—Arrived: Port Campbell, from Bluff; Canadian Explorer, from Bluff. COLON. April 15.—Arrived; Arawa, from Glasgow; Canadian Britisher, from Halifax. ■ . ,

HONOLULU. April 15.—Sailed Aorangi. for Sydney. LIVERPOOL. April 15.—Sailed Matakana, for New Zealand ports.

(For 'continuation seo Late Shipping.)

Last quarter April 25 9.51 a.m. N civ moon May 2 0.10 a.in. , First quarter May 9 2.57 a.m. Full moon Mav 17 G.33 a.m.