EMPTY SHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 8

EMPTY SHIPS

SIDELIGHT ON TRADE DEPRESSION [Special to the - Star.'] AUCKLAND, February 26.. How the general trade depression il affecting shipping is shown by the fact that of twenty-seven large overseas vessels which will load in New, Zealand during February, March, and April ten- will have come to the dominion in ballast, bringing no cargo. They are only some of the Targe number of steamers that have come to New Zealand empty during the last two years. Numbers now come to and from England via the Cape of. Good Hope, and a larger number return to England via Cape Horn. Of the twenty-seven vessels which will leave in the next two months sixteen will proceed Home by the Cape Horn route. They are the Ardenvohr, Cambridge, Coptic, Huntingdon, Karamea, Otaio, Piako, Port Pirie, Port Alma, Port Wellington, Port Napier, Port Brisbane, Somerset, Taranaki, Zealandic, and Tongariro. They will refuel at Las Palmas, Montevideo, or Dakar. The other eleven vessels—Kia Ora, Kent, Mahia, Port Hunter, Maimoa, Otira, Ruahine, Remuera, Rangitiki, Tamaroa, and will take the Panama route. Some will refuel at Curacao, and ethers at Kingston, Jamaica,