SHIPPING NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1925, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

ARRIVALS April '. i' 'gukuta, >.s, i.l K.-t.I, D.>n> Au.klaml, DEPARTURES I 7~k I Kninini. - s \ s) Crisp, t> Wellington IN PORT Ngnk.iti. llnnnr.':: NOTES fhe Kaimni sailed L.-i uiglu Ur ' Wplltugti'n with «o;:l. limlur and g'i'I oi a I cargo. | The Inga is due from GiLorne ioI day to load tinibei for Sydney. The Xgakuta arrived yesterday I morning from ~nd. She is load- ! tog coal and timber for New Plymouth and Auckland, and is expected to sail Tlh lliumala is completing loading •t cargo of timber for Meiobnrne and Adelaide. The Uoolana is due front Koutu on Thursday to complete loading timber for Melbourne. The Kahika sailed from Dunedin on Thursday with general cargo for Grcymouth. She calls nt Timaru. LyttelI ten. Now Plymouth and Westport on I route. ■ The Gabriella is due from Wanganui mi Friday to load timber for Melbourne. ' The Waimea leaves Onchunga today for Nelson ami Coast with general cargo. The Opnn loaves Wellington to-day for Nelson and Coast with general cargo. The Orepuki was scheduled to leave Lyttelton yesterday for Nelson and Coast with general cargo. The Tees sailed from Chatham Islands for Lyttelton with a cargo of sheep on Saturday 1 . After discharge, she will resume her West Const running. The Kniinngata is due from Wellington. via Westport, this week, to load ooa] and timber for Wellington. As Ihp result of protracted negotiations between the German Government and the German shipowners and. shipbuilders the former has undertaken to subsidise shipbuilding. The aim is as much to help the yards to increased employment and to produce a barrier against further unemployment as to assist shipping concerns. The grant is, in fact, officially termed a ductive lea re for thosd without employment.” Tt has been fixed at 50,000 000 marks per annum. Whilst the gale was nt its height and the sea was being lashed into fury the other dav, the keen scrutinising observer of Stirling Point Pilot Station, Mr William Gifford, saw a small craft being tossed hither and thither ar the mercy of the sea (reports the Bluff Press’). An alarm was raised and the staff of the Harbour Board tug Theresa Ward was called out. When the men reached the wharf another message was received fcom Mr Gifford to the effect that the oyster boats Rita and Kareka, which were battling in for the harbour in the teeth of the gale, were making for the fishing boat, “which had by this time found anchorage. Shortly afterwards the little craft, which had lost her petrol in the rough sen, slipped her anchor and was brought in safely by the Rita. THE MOTOR SHIP FNTON. En route from Antwerp to Auckland and New Plymouth, the Enton a singlescrew motor ship, is making her maiden trip. She is carrying 800 tons of basic slag. The Enton was bnilt to the order of the Avenue Shipping Company (Ltd). Constructed to Lloyd’s highest class, she i s of the single-deck shelter-deck type, with top-gallant fore castle, and is 375 feet long between perpendiculars, 52 feet 6 in wide (extreme), and 28 feet 3in in depth (moulded) from the upper deck. A deadweight of over.. 8000 tons is carried on moderate draught. The vessel is coming to the agency of the New Zealand Shipping Company. WARNING TO MARINERS. The lighthouse-keepers at Tiritiri : HanralV Gulf) are being dispensed with after this month as the light is being changed into an unwatched auto matic light. In connection with the matter the following warning to mariners has been published in the tbz- ( ette:— ‘ ( Mar;nei\-. arc hereby notified that on and after the evening rf A • i 1 30th, 1925, a group-flush;?'/ while showing two flashes every 30 yem ■';< length of flash Iwo rwo’ d•■. r. | : -> ■ 'p i tween flttshe :ix . »’id l ‘ i

groups 20 seconds, visible 20 mPe;. Will be exhibiled from (be ligluhrnno on Tiritiri Mntangi in I' a of, Hie existing fixoil i''-,ld. Lie.. >■ '. .bl, , ir ,. „f Visibility emni:. .m-I-tcred.