SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 21845, 8 October 1934, Page 1

SHIPPING

During the operation of the Summer Time Bill, thirty minutes must be added to the tide, sun, and moon tables. HJGH WATEIi. —To-morrow.— St. Clair; 2.20 a.m., 2.10 p.m. Taiaroa Head: 2.30 a.m., 2.00 p.m. .fort Chalmers: 3.10 a.m., 3.30 p.m. Dunedin: 3.40 a.m., 4.0 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-dav 6.24 2>.m., rises to-morrow 6.27 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. New moon Oct. 9 2.35 a.m. First quarter Oct. 10 2.35 a.m. Last quarter Oct. 30 7.52 p.m. Full moon Oct. 23 2.31 a.m. Sets to-day 6.1 p.m., rises to-morrow | 5.0 a.m. j WEATHER REPORT. The Dominion Meteorologist (Dr E. Kidson) supplied the following at 9 a.m to-day:—

Weather.—ls, blue bkj ; be, • blue sky and de* tachcd clouds; c, cloudy; o, overcast; g, gloomy; u, ugly; r, rain; s. snow; d. drizzle; p, passing showers; h, hall; q squally; I. Jighinfrig; t, thunder; /, tog; m, mist; z. haze. Wind. —0, calm; 1, light air; 2. slight breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze* !i. fresh breeze; 6 strong breeze; 7. high wind; S, gale; 3, strong gale; 10. whole gale; U, storm: 12. hurricane. Forecast. Tho following weather forecast 'was issued at noon by tho Meteorological Office, Wellington, covering the •southern district—Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Tapamii, Winton, Invercargill, Riverton, Orepuki, Bluff, Halfmoon Bay:—• A w Aerly depression of moderate intensity is approaching across the Tasman Sea, and should cross tho South Island during tho next twenty-four hours. Forecast: Moderate to strong north to west winds, backing later to south-west. Weather cloudy to overcast, and some rain likely. Temperatures becoming cold. Seas rough about Fovcaux Strait, elsewhere moderate. ARRlVED.—October 6. Waikouaiti, s.s. (3 p.m.), 3,926 tons. Watson, from Newcastle, Sydney, and Port Kembla via Bluff. October 7. Hertford, s.s. _ (9.15 a.m.), 10,922 tons, Burton-Davis, from Liverpool via I Panama and northern ports. October 8. Breeze m.v. (4.30 a.m.), 620 tons, Stewart, from Wellington. Totara s.s. (0.20 a.m.), 421 tons, Pearson, from Wellington. SAlLED.—October 6. Waimarino, s.s. (5.10 p.m.), 3,067 tons, Prosser, for Auckland via ports. Opihi, s.s. (5.15 p.m.), 1,117 tons, Russell, for New Plymouth via ports. COASTWISE MOVEMENTS. Waimarino sailed on Saturday evening for Bluff, Timaru, Lyttelton, Picton, Wellington, and Auckland. Opihi sailed on Saturday evening for Oaniaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Totara arrived from Wellington this morning and is to sail on Wednesday lor Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellj iugton, and Now Plymouth. Breeze arrived from Wellington this morning and is to sail to-night for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Wanganui, and New Plymouth. Kini is due to-morrow morning from Timaru. She is to sail to-morrow night for Greyniouth direct. Wingatui is due from Auckland via ports on Thursday and is to sail the same day for Bluff. Returning on Saturday, she will load for and sail for Timaru, Lyttelton, Pictou, Wellington, and Auckland. Holmdale is to load at Dunedin on Thursday for Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. Port Waikato is due from the north on. October 13. Shu is to sail the same day for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland, and Whangarei. Gale is due from Bluff on Wednesday and is to sail the same day lor Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, P.lcton, and Wanganui. Waipiata is to leave Auckland on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. She is due on October 17. INTEIUSLAND EXPRESS. The intorisdand express steamer Maori reached Lyttelton from Wellington at 7 a.m. yesterday. CANADIAN CRUISER COMING. Messrs H. L. Taplcy and Co. advise that tho Canadian Cruiser is due on October 21 from Montreal via Melbourne. She will discharge Canadian cargo ami commence loading for New Vork, Boston, and Halifax. From Dunedin the vessel will proceed to Lyttelton for further loading. REMUERA FOR BLUFF. 'I ho Remucra, which was delayed in discharging London cargo at Port Chalmers by rain on Friday, was scheduled to sail this afternoon for Bluff' to complete discharge and commence loading. WAIKOUAITI FROM AUSTRALIA. Tho Union Company’s steamer Waikouaiti arrived at Dunedin on Saturday ajternooii from Newcastle and Sydney via Bluff to discharge general cargo and coal. Tho freight includes transhipments ex the Marclla, Talunc. Katooniba. Mangola, Canberra, Mundalla, Mannntla, Oronsay, Ormonde, Changtc. Tanda. Cardoss, Oorrimal, Maloja, and Mongolia. The Waikouaiti is to sail on Wednesday for Timaru and Lyttelton to complete discharge, ;

HERTFORD FOR PORT CHALMERS. The Federal Line steamer Hertford arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday morning from Liverpool via Panama Canal, Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton. She was berthed at the George street wharf, where the local portion of her Home cargo will be discharged. For the Homeward voyage the Hertford will load at Port Chalmers, Gisborne, Wellington, New Plymouth, and Auckland. The vessel is to sail from Auckland on November 2 for London via Panama. HALS. LABURNUM'S CRUISE. H.M.S. Laburnum, which was undocked last Wednesday after undergoing refitting at the Devonport naval base (Auckland), sailed on Thursday on a cruise to Tauranga, Picton, Wanganui, Nelson, New Plymouth, Wellington, and Gisborne. She will return to Auckland on January 15. XARETU FOR AUSTRALIA. The' Karetn left Wellington last Thursday for Westport to load for New Plymouth. The vessel will then proceed to Melbourne, Edithhnrg, and Adelaide to load for Bluff, Dunedin, Tirnaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Castlccliff, New Plymouth, and Auckland. ROTORUA’S SAILING DATE. The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the departure of the Rotorua from Auckland for London has been postponed until 5 p.m. on Monday, October 15. The vessel has been delayed in loading on the coast owing to had weather. THE CANADIAN VICTOR. The Canadian Victor left Montreal on September 30 for Australia, Dunedin, and Lyttelton. She is due at Dunedin on November 27. TAMAROA FROM LONDON. Tile Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tamaroa is due at Auckland from London and Southampton on October 11 with cargo for Auckland and Wellington. After discharge the vessel will load at Lyttelton, Wellington. Auckland, and Napier. She is scheduled to, clear Napier for Southampton and London on November 6. RANGITIKI LEAVES PANAMA. The motor liner Rangitiki, cn route from London to Auckland and Wellington, arrived at Colon fin October 4 and cleared Panama Canal on October 5. The vessel is due at Auckland on October 24. A RECORD DISCHARGE. What is probably a record' foiGl-Apid-' discharge of hulk cargo at Lyttelton was established on Wednesday in the discharge of phosphates from the steamer Lady Charlotte. Using four of the Harbour Board’s electric grab cranes and some of the ship’s own grabs, the vessel discharged 2,300 tons in eleven hours. MESS TABLE GOSSIP. Captain H. L. Upton, of the Northumberland, has been appointed to the command of. the Federal Company’s new motor liner Durham, which is to leave Liverpool on October 13 on her maiden trip to Australia. Captain E. 11., Lowe is now in command of the Tamahine, relieving Captain R. M. Kane, who is taking tem-"' porary command of the Marama, relieving Captain G. B. Morgan for orders. Captain J. F. Spring-Brown is taking command of the motor liner Aorangi at Sydney to-day, relieving Captain T. V. Hill for holiday leave. Captain A. H. Davcy is in command of the Monowai, and his officers are:— Chief, Mr D. N. M'Leisb ; second, Mr F. W. Gibson; thizxl, Mr R. B. Steere; fourth, Mr G. E. Langley; chief engineer, Mr N. M'Caig ; second, Mr W. C. Falconer; third, Mr E. M. Denhy; fourth. Mr O. J. Clegg; filth, Mr 1). A. Gibb; sixth, Mr J. B. Campbell; seventh. Mr J. W. Sinclair; eighth, Mr C. E. Sundbye; ninth, Mr .1. P. Leonard; tenth, Air A. H. Sneyd ; eleventh, Mr N. F. Holdernoss; electrician, Mr T. AlTlvoy ; second, Air G. B. Forbes. Mr Af. Henderson lias joined the Karetn as third engineer in place of Air J. At. Dalziel, who has gone on leave. Air A. H. Al'Conville has been transferred to the Karepo as second engineer in place of Air AV. A. Scott, who has gone on leave. Captain G. A. Grey has taken command of the .Karetn, and his deck officers are:—Chief. Air A. Af. Lucas; second, Air G. AV. Knox; third, Air J. C. Sadleir. Captain K. Hewitt has taken command of the Wingatui at Auckland, and Ids dock officers are:—Chief, Air G. AA r . Kent; second, Air AV. Kehoe; third, Air H. J. Kemp. . Air R. F. Dewar has joined the Kmi as second officer, relieving Air R. Duffncr for orders. Air J. .laves lias joined the Ngatoro as second officer, relieving Air A. A\. Rahbitts, who has come ashore sick. Air L. B. Bourkc is rejoining the Aorangi as senior third officer, relieving Air A.". 1. APKenzic, who is coming to AVellington for orders. Afr D. R. AUPhail. who has been on sick leave at Greymouth, is proceeding to Sydney on holidays. PALESTINE PORTS. Improvements costing £1,500,000 constructed only last year at the port of Haifa are already proving inadequate to meet the heavy traffic, and congestion lias resulted during the season just terminated. Out of a total export crop of about 5.400,000 rases of citrus fruits Haifa has handled approximately 2,000,000 cases, as against . 3.200.000 cases exported from Jaffa, the balance having been shipped via Port Said. On one occasion during March there were twenty-six steamers in Jaffa roads which were unable to utilise Haifa owing to the congestion, and it is considered that unless Haifa adopts the methods employed at Valencia and other Spanish ports for loading fruit it is going to be a bottle-neck for the ex- 1 port trade to Palestine. CAPTAIN OF THE CONWAY. Captain F. A. Richardson, D. 5.0., A.1.N.A.. R.N., who is retiring for health reasons, has held the position as

commander of H.M. Cadet Ship Conlyay with groat success for about seven years, having succeeded Captain H. W. Broadbent. - ' An “ Old Conway ” himself, Captain Richardson joined the ship in 1900 and i left it in 1903 as chief cadet captain and King’s gold medallist. After four years in sail he joined the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company, in which he to chief officer. Three years later he was one of the R.N.R. officers who satisfied the requirements of the Admiralty, and was given a naval commission as lieutenant of the supplementary list. In 1916 he Was transferred to the general service list for meritorious service. Most of Captain Richardson’s naval service was in destroyers, his first command being the Osprey, which he took over in July, 1910. He gained the Distinguished Service Cross in the following year for gallant action against enemy submarines, his last command in the Navy, with the rank of lieuten-ant-commander, being the destroyer Wolverine. He was relieved of her in December, 1926, and then took over the command of the Conway. PORT DUNEDIN FOR AUCKLAND. The motor vessel Port Dunedin, en route from Liverpool, reports that she is expected to' reach Auckland this afternoon. She will later , complete discharge at Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Nelson. FORMER TROOPSHIP ARAWA. The German steamer Konigstein, winch was reported in a cable message from New York as having been on fire at sea some 400 miles east of Boston, is a ship that was once well known in the New Zealand trade, for she is none other than the former Shaw, Savill, and, Albion liner Arawa. Built by Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Arawa was launched in February, 1907, and made her maiden voyage from London to New Zealand in that year. For about twenty years the Arawa—the second ship of that name in the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s fleet—was closely associated with the New Zealaud-London trade, in which she carried some thousands of passengers. When the war started, the Arawa was taken over and fitted out as one of the twelve transports that carried the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to Egypt. The Arawa and the Corinthic carried the Thirteenth Reinforcements from New Zealand to Liverpool in 1917. The Arawa also brought several drafts of soldiers back from England tp New Zealand in 1917-19. She was commanded throughout the war by Captain H. Clayden, who was subsequently appointed marine superintendent in the South Island for the Shaw, Savill, . ; nmL Albion Company. The Arawa was afterwards commanded by Captain R. S. Lewis, now marine superintendent at Auckland, and later by Captain W.' G. Summers, who is now in command of the Akaroa. About six or seven years ago the Arawa and the Matatua were sold by the Shawv Savill, and Albion Company to German owners, and were fitted out for the transport of motor cars from the United States to Germany, and they have been engaged in the transAtlantic trade ever since. The Arawa was renamed Konigstein, and was stripped of her passenger accommodation when she passed under the German flag. PACIFIC MAIL SERVICES. —Southward.— Niagara is to leave Vancouver on October 10 for Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu and Suva. She is due at Auckland on October 29 and Sydney on November 3. Mariposa is to leave Los Angeles on October 17 for Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu, Pago Pago, and Suva. Sh© is due at Auckland on November 2 and Sydney on November 5. Maunganni is to leave San Francisco on October 24 for Wellington and Sydney via Papeete and Rarotonga. She is due at Wellington on November 12 and Sydney on November 17. Aorangi is to leave Vancouver on November 7 for Auckland and Sydney via Honolulu. She is due at Auckland on November 26, and at Sydney on December 1. Monterey is to leave San Francisco on November 13 for Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne via Honolulu, Pago Pago, and Suva. She is due at Auckland on November 30, and Sydney on December 3. —Northward.— Aorangi is to leave Sydney on October 11 and Auckland on Octobei. 16 for Vancouver via Suva and Honolulu. She is due at Vancouver on November 2. Monterfey is to leave Sydney on October 17 and Auckland on October 20 for Los Angeles via Suva, Pago Pago, and Honolulu, She is due at Los Angeles on November 3. Makura is to leave Sydney on October 25 for San Francisco via Rarotonga and Papeete. She is due at San Francisco on November 16. Niagara is to leave Sydney on November 8 and Auckland on November 13 for Vancouver via Suva and Honolulu. She is due at Vancouver on November 30. Mariposa is to leave Sydney on November 14 and Auckland on November 17 for San Francisco via Suva, Pago Pago, and Honolulu VESSELS IN WIRELESS CALL. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Ahaino, Dalveen, Fordsdale, Kalingo, King William, Limnea, Matai. Nucula. Port Dunedin, Tamaroa, Wanganella, Waipahi, Wellington. Canadian Conqueror, Canadian Leader, Kartigi, Maori, Port Hunter, Rangatira, Rangitata, Rangitiki, Rotorua, South Africa, Storage! - , ; Tainni, Tamahino. Awarua.—Abe! Tasman, City of ’Winchester, Golden Cloud, Makura, Mannganui, Monowai, Recorder, Waitaki, Wyatt Karp. TELEGRAPHIC ADVICE. AUCKLAND. October 7.—Arrived: Sydney Maru (2 p.m.), from Wellington; Port Wlmngarei (1.20 p.m.), from Wellington. WELLINGTON, October C.—Arrived: .Tolin < L-lo p.m.). from Lyttelton. Sailed: Waikawa (12.10 p.m.), for New Plymouth; Totara (1.50 p.m.), for Oamaru ; Kini (3.10 p.m.), for Timaru;

Poolta (3.20 p.m.), for Westport; Gal« (4 p.m.), for Bluff; Breeze (5.5 p.m.) for Dunedin; Storm (9.30 p.m.), for Wanganui; Maori (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. October 7—Sailed: Port Hunter (9.15 a.m.), for Napier. Arrived ( Rangatira (7 a.m.), from Lyttelton; Kartigi (1.40 p.m.), from Napier j South Africa (2.50 p.m.), from Auckland. October 6—Sailed: H.AI.S. Wakakura (1 a.m.), for Plcton. LYTTELTON, October 6.—Sailed j Hertford (6.5 p.m.), for Dunedin; Rangatira (8.30 p.m.), for Wellington. October 7—Arrived: Alaori (6.55 a.m.), from Wellington. BLUFF, October 6.—Arrived: Walmarine (1.15 p.m.), from Dunedin. SYDNEY, October 6.—Sailed: Wanganella (8 p.m,), for Auckland. VANCOUVER, October 6.—Arrived: Canadian Victor, from Sydney.

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