SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1933, Page 8

SHIPPING

HIGH AV ATER, MARCH, 1933. (These times have been altered to conform with Summer time.) March 9 —9.10 a.m.; 9.30 p.m. March 10 —9.50 a.m.; 10.10 p.m. DEPTH OF THE BAR The depth of the bar and river at high w r ater yesterday was: Bai. 23ft. Sins.: river, 20ft. Sins. ARRIVED Nil. SAILED March 9. —Kaimai, 784 tons (Hackworthi, 8.30 a.m., for Wellington. IN PORT Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Rata, Wellington, to-night. Kaimiro, Auckland, early. Gabriella, Napier, early. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Rata, Tarakohe, to-morrow. Kaimiro, Wellington, early. OTHER PORTS SYDNEY, March 9. Arrived: Karetu from Auckland. Sailed: Kalingo for Wellington. LONDON, March 8. Sailed: Tairoa from Kingston; Norfolk, from A-vonmouth. SHIPPING NOTES

The Kaimai sailed this morning, with coal, for Wellington. The Rata is due to-night from Wellington, via Westport, to load coal for Tarakohe and Wanganui. She is scheduled to sail to-morrow morning. The Kaimiro leaves Auckland today with general cargo for Greymouth. She will load coal and timber for Wellington. The Gabriella leaves Wellington tonight for Greymouth, via Napier, with general cargo.

FERRY SERVICE

WELLINGTON, March 7.

Winter sailings in the Wellington — Lyttelton ferry service will commence shortly. The Wahine will be withdrawn and laid up at Wellington over the winter months. The service until next summer will be maintained by the Rangatira and the Maori, which has been laid up at Wellington oyer the summer and is now undergoing overhaul.

WANGANUI HARBOUR CONTRACT

WANGANUI, March 8

The Wanganui Harbour Board let a contract to-day for £12,812 for the raising of the harbour entry moles to eighteen inches above full tide. The work will commence immediately, and must be finished within fifteen months. An Auckland firm was the successful one among fifteen tenderers.

SUEZ CANAL CHANGES

LONDON, March 8.

Advocating League intervention, Sir Arnold Wilson, at the Individualist luncheon, described, the Suez Canal Company as a parasitic growth on the shipping industry. The average dividends of forty per cent, sharply compared with the shipping companies’ agreement, in 1883 to reduce transit duties on loaded' vessels, to five francs a ton, tvhen the dividends reached twenty-five per cent.