SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 January 1934, Page 8

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER, JANUARY, 1934. Jan. 6— 1.45 a.m.; 2.2 p.m. Jan. 7 — 2.20 a.m.; 2.40 p.m. Jan. 8— 3.2 a.m.; 3.25 p.m. Jan. 9 — 3.50 a.m.; 4.15 pm These times have been altered to conform with Summer time. DEPTH OF THE BAR The depth of the bar and river at high water yesterday was: —Bar. 24ft; river, 22ft. ARRIVED Nil. SAILED Nil. IN PORT Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Rata, Westport, Monday. Kaimiro, Westport, Tuesday. Kini, Westport, Friday. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Kaimiro, New Plymouth, early. Kini, Miramar, early. SHIPPING NOTES The Rata is due on Monday from Wellington, via Westport. The Kaimiro is due on Tuesday, from Westport, to load for New Plymouth and Auckland. The Kini is due on Friday from Westport, to load coal and timber for Miramar and Wellington. OTHER PORTS. WESTPORT, January 5. Arrived, Kini from Greymouth. LONDON, January 5, Sailed: Hororata, from London. SUBSIDIES QUESTION. LONDON, January 4. The shipping industry has begun the task of supplying Mr. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade) with information on which to decide the question of subsidies. Probably it will be finished in time to enable the Chamber of Shipping to consider it at the end of the month.

NEW P. AND 0. LINER.

CALCUTTA, January 4

Sir Alexander Shaw, Chairman of the P. and 0. Company, speaking at a dinner in honour of Lord Brabourne, the new Governor of Bombay, said his company were laying down a large vessel with a speed greater than the Viceroy of India, which would be employed on an express service between Bombay, Marseilles and London. Probably it would be named the Strathmore, and be ready for service in the autumn or 1935. SUfifZ CANAL MISHAP LONDON, January 5. A Port Said Message stated that the Esperance Bay is aground in the Bitter Lakes section of the Suez Canal. Traffic is unobstructed but the vessel may have to discharge cargo before its release.