SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 22559, 29 January 1937, Page 3

SHIPPING

The times given in the following tables are standard, and half an hour must be added to each to convert it to daylight saving time. HIGH WATER. —To-morrow. — St. Clair: 4.55 a.m., 5.16 p.m. Taiaxoa Head: 5.5 a.m., 5.26 p.m. Port Chalmers: 5.45 a.m., 6.6 p.m. Dunedin: 6.15 a.m., 6.36 p.m. THE SUN. Sets to-day 7.46 p.m., rises to-mor-row 4.57 a.m. PHASES OF THE MOON. Hast quarter Feb. 3 . 11.34 p.m. New moon Feb. 11 7.4 p.m. First quarter Feb. 18 3.19 p.m. Full moon Feb. 25 7.13 p.m. Set to-day 7.27 a.m., rises to-morrow 8.44 p.m. WEATHER REPORT. The Government Meteorologist (Dr F. Kidson) supplied the following at 9 a.m. to-day:— Bar. Ther. W. Wellington—N.W. 4 29.78 60 O Greymouth—E. 2 29.84 55 OMR Christch’ch —N.W. 1 29.66 69 03 Timaru —N.N.E. 1 29.69 63 C Z Oamaru —N.E. ... 2 29.70 59 O Dunedin—S.E. ... 2 29.67 59 B 0 Nuggets—N.E. ... 2 29.61 So C •Bluff—N.W. ... 4 29.57 58 C Weather.—B, blue sky; be, blue sky and detached clouds; c cloidy; o, overcast; g, gloomy; u ugly; *•, tain; s, snow, d, drizzle; p, passing showers; h, hail; q. squally; I, lightning; t, thunder; f log; m, mis ; z, haze* Wind.—o, calm; 1. light air; 3, slight breeze; 3. gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; 5, fresh breeze; 6, strong breeze, 7, high wind; 8, gale; 9, strong gale; 10,. whole gale; 11, storm; la, hurricane arrived. —January 29. Port Whangarei, m.v. (4.30 a.m.), 504 tons, Holmes, from Wellington. Waimarino, s.s. (10.10 a.m.), 3,067 tons, Bruce, from Auckland via ports. IN PORT AT NOON TO-DAY. Vessel* Berth. Southland Port Chalmers (laid up). Remuera Port Chalmers. Canadian Constructor Port Chalmers. Wakakura Rattray street. Ranui Rattray street. P. Whangareißattray street. Waimarino—Cross wharf. VESSELS TO ARRIVE. —At Dunedin and Port Chalmers. • Feb. 3 3 Vancolwr Limerick p e b. 3 Australia H°uCT a V.V." Feb. 5 Melbourne . Feb 11 London Waijjawa • ,3 Liverpool Durham ® PTnlifai Can. Highlander ... L<* * Sydney Maru # eb 20 Australia Sanr°!ri.;;;:;: p: y u*** Bencruachan tvb- 23 Australia Huntingdon New “York Northumt'Mand -b. » **_ New York Hauraki March 3 Los Angeles A rawa ' March 4 London Anhoft t. t' arch 6 v • Mex,c< ; Hertford March 6 I-ivcrpoo Cambridge March 15 L.verpoo^ Citv of Glasgow March 21 llaltlax Melbourne Maru ... March 21 tendon March 24 London Ena March 28 Los Angeles City of Brisbane ... Aprjl 14 New York Cumberland April 17 Lsverpool Brisbane Maru April 18 Japan Tongariro May 12 Liverpool Sydney Maru May 19 Japan Norfolk June 19 West Coast Melbourne Maru ... June 19 Japan Cambridge June 26 Liverpool —At Other Ports.— Ramsay Auck Feb 1 Antwerp Tamaroa Wgt’n, Feb. 3 London Rangitiki Auck., Feb. 11 London Rotorua Wgt n, Feb. 14 London Port Gisborne Wgt’n, Feb. So ...... London Bosworth Auck., March 6 Immingham Port Hobart Auck., March 7 ... Liverpool Raranga Auck., March 10 ... London Rangitata Wgt’n, March 11 ... London Mataroa Wgt’n, March 27 ... London Akaroa Auck., April 34 London OVERSEAS SAILINGS. Tainui Wgt’n, Feb. 3 London Port Kowen Wang., Feb. 6 London Cornwall Lytt., Feb. 8 Liverpool Port Townsville Auck,, Feb. 9 London Waimana Auck., Feb. 11 London Cornwall , Lytt.. Feb. 11 London Fordsdale Lrtt., Feb. IS London Zealandic Pt. dims, F'eb. 26 ... London Tamaroa 1... Wgt’n, Feb. 26 London Sydney Maru ......... Auck., Feb. 27 Japan Hauraki Dun., March 13 ... Australia Waipawa .....' March 19 London Melbourne Maru ... Auck.. March 31 * Japan City of Brisbane ... Dun., April 14 ... Australia Brisbane Maru Auck., April 28 Japan Sydney Maru ~ May 36 japan MOVEMENTS. —Coastal.— Port Whangarei arrived this morning from Wellington, and will sail tonight for Wellington, Wanganui, and New Plymouth via ports. Waimarino arrived this morning from Auckland via ports. Kaimai sailed yesterday afternoon to complete discharge at Timaru of her coal cargo from Westport. Gale is due on Monday from Wellington to load for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Wanganui. Wainui is now due on Monday, and will sail the following day for Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne via ports. Miro, with explosives from Auckland, is expected on Monday, and after discharge will sail the same day for Auckland. Holmglen is due on Wednesday to load and sail the same day for Wehngton, New Plymouth, and Port Waikato via ports. Awahou is expected on Thursday to Joad for Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington. Picton, and Wanganui. Waipiata left Auckland yesterday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Bluff, and is due here on Wednesday. Waipabi is scheduled to load here on Wednesday for Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth via ports. —Overseas.— Fordsdale was expected to leave Lyttelton this evening, and is due here tomorrow. She sails about Wednesday for Bluff, Waikokopu, Wellington, and Lyttelton, sailing finally from the latter port on February 15 for London. Huntingdon sailed yesterday afternoon for New Plymouth to complete discharge of her Liverpool cargo and begin loading. The vessel will also load f.t Wellington, Auckland, and Bluff, and will return to Port Chamers about February 24 to compelte. She is scheduled to sail finally on February 26 for London and West Coast ports. Remuera, from London via northern ports, sails to-morrow afternoon for Bluff, Timaru, Wellington, and Auckland to complete loading for London. Limerick from Vancouver via northern ports, is due on Wednesday. She will complete loading at Bluff, from which port she will sail for Pacific coast ports. Huia is expected bore about the first week iu February to discharge .explosives from Melbourne. Cornwall is loading homeward in New Zealand, and is scheduled to arrive here on Tuesday from northern ports.

Omana will load at Adelaide and Edithburg early in February for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland. . ~ Manju Maru, from Japan via northern ports, is expected on Wednesday to discharge and load for her home ports. Northumberland, which left New York on December 15, is due here via northern ports on Sunday. Durham, from west coast of England ports via northern ports, is due here on February 13. Waipawa is expected on February 11 from London via Suva. She will discharge and load, and is scheduled to

sail about February 15 for Lyttelton, New Plymouth, Bluff, Opua, Napier, and Auckland. Zealandic is duo here on February 21 from London and United Kingdom ports to load. She will sail finally on February 26 from Port Chalmers for Southampton via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. Anhalt, from Gulf of Mexico via northern ports, is due here on March 6. Canadian Highlander, from Montreal via northern ports, is due her© on February 16, to proceed later for Bluff to discharge. Port Nicholson, from Waikokopu, is due on February 20, and will sail on February 24 for Wellington. She sails finally from that port on February 27 for London via Cape Horn. Bencruachan is expected to arrive at Port Chalmers from Bluff on February 22, to sail two days later for Dunkirk. INTERISLAND EXPRESS. The interisland express steamer Wahine arrived at Lyttelton from .Wellington at 6.40 this morning. Passengers and mails for the south connected with the express. TRANSPACIFIC MAIL SERVICES, —Northbound. — Niagara left Sydney on January 21 for Vancouver via Auckland, Suva, and Honolulu. She arrived at Auckland on January 25 and is due at Vancouver on February 12. Aorangi is to leave Sydney on February 18 for Auckland, Suva, and Honolulu. She is due at Auckland on February 22 and at Vancouver on March 12. —Southbound. — Niagara is to leave Vancouver on February 17 for Sydney via Honolulu, Suva, and Auckland. She is due at Auckland on March 8 and at Sydney on March 13. Aorangi is to leave Vancouver on March 17 for Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, and Sydney. She is due at Auckland on April 5 and at Sydney on April 10. AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND. Waikouaiti, from Newcastle and Sydney, discharges at Bluff, Dunedin, Timaru, and Lyttelton, and is due here on February 2. Karetu is expected to load at Newcastle about February 2, at Sydney on February 5, and will complete at Hobart on February 8 for Bluff Dunedin, Timaru. and Lyttelton. She is due here on February 14. Wanganella left Melbourne on January 27, and is to leave Sydney to-mor-row for Auckland, where she is due on February 3, She leaves that pout on February 5 for Sydney, where she is due four days later. Marama left Melbourne on January 27 for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington. She is due here on Tuesday, February 2, and will sail the following day for Timaru and LyttelAwatea left Sydney on January 26 for Wellington, where she was due to-day. She leaves that port on February 2 for Sydney, where she is expected on February 5. Maungauni is to leave Sydney to-mor-row for Wellington, where she is due on February 3. LONDON’S SHIPPING. During the week ended December 11, 1,239 vessels, representing 1,041,474 net register tons, used the Port of London. Of these 514 vessels (795,217 net register tons) were to and from Empire and foreign ports, and 725 vessels (246,257 net register tons) were engaged in coastwise traffic. The arrivals included six meat cargoes—five from Australia and o.ne from South South America, comprising 236,000 carcasses of Jamb and mutton, 49,000 quarters of beef, quantities of pork, rabbits and sundries. Eighteen timber laden vessels arrived at the Surrey Commercial and Millwall docks, with 27,000 tons of softwood timber. Thirty-two vessels totalling 279,904 tons gross register used the Tilbury passenger landing stage during the month of November, RARANGA BRINGING SLAG. The Shaw, Savill Company has been advised by cable that the steamer Raranga left Antwerp on Saturday morning with a cargo of. basic slag for discharge at Auckland and New Plymouth. Coming by way of the Cape of Good Hope, she is due at Auckland about March 10. ASHORE AND AFLOAT. Captain T. V. Roberts has command of the Shaw, Savill Company’s new passenger liner Arawa, which left Southampton on January 22 for Wellington, where she is due on February 27. Captain Roberts last visited New Zealand some five or six years ago as captain of the Shaw, Savill steamer Waimana. Since then he has been in the Bay Boats, first in the Hobson’s Bay and later in the Largs Bay. Captain M. T. Holm, formerly of the Port Waikato, has exchanged ships with Captain W. J. H. Holmes, of the Port Whaugarci. ADJUSTING SHIP’S COMPASSES. The owners of ships at Lyttelton with compasses needing adjustment are seriously perturbed because there is at present available at Lyttelton no compass adjuster licensed by the Government, according to the secretary of .the Lyttelton Harbour Board (Mr C. H. Clibborn). The harbour board has been asked by the shipping firms to support their request to the Minister for Marine (the Hon. P, Fraser) to license a competent adjuster as soon ns posible. Mr Clibborn remarked that in the early days Pile bay, beside Ripa island, on the south side of Lyttelton harbour, was used for swinging sailing ships when their compasses were being adjusted. In the centre of the bay there was still a dolphin with a ring of piles giving various compass hearings. The ship’s bow was moored to the centre dolphin and her stem was then warped to an outer pile, with a given bearing, so that any deviation of the ship’s compass could be detected l and adjusted. AT OTHER PORTS. AUCKLAND. January 28.—Sailed: Tanranga (10 p.m.), for Newcastle: Wajpiata (9 p.m.), for Wellington. WELLINGTON, January 28.—Arrived: Waimana (1.8 p.m.), from New

Plymouth. Sailed: Gal© (12.5 p.m.), for Picton; Karepo (4.55 p.m.), for New Plymouth; Rangatira (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. LYTTELTON, January 28.-—Sailed: Awahou (4 p.m.), for Wellington; Waitaki (5.35 p.m.), for Wellington; Waimarino (5.45 p.m.),'for Dunedin; Rangatira (8.25 p.m.), from Wellington; Port Townsville (9.5 p.m.), for Wellington; Waipahi (9.45 p.m.), for Wellington. IN RADIO RANGE. The following vessels are expected to be within range of tbc undermentioned wireless stations to-night:— Auckland.—Alatai, Kairanga, Matua, Alaui Pomare, Niagara, Canadian Highlander, Brisbane Alaru, China Exporter, Durham, Port Hardy, Salvus, Samoan, Tento. Wellington.—Rangatira, Tamahine, Wahine, Limerick, Akaroa, Huntingdon, Alanju Maru, Norfolk, Port Alma, Parracoombe, Port Bowen, Port Fairy, Rangitane, Rangitiki, Taranaki, Trojan Star. Awarua.—H.Al.S. Leith, Alarama, Almmganui, Narbada, Omana, Port Whaugarci, Waikouaiti, Triaster, Triona, Arawa, Cathay. Dunedin Siar. Fordstlalc, Bay, Alaloja, Aloldavia, Alongolia, Narkunda, Niou Zeeland, Orforcl, Orion, Ormonde, Orontes, Remuera, Thorhild, Strathnaver, Vinemoor. Chatham, Islands.—South Sea.