SHIPPING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 May 1921, Page 5

SHIPPING

EXPECTED ARRIVALS

At Patea. Waverley, from Wellington, May 10. Kapuni, from Wellington, May 10. Waitangi, from Wellington. May 11. Hawera, from Welington, May 12. At Wanganui. Invercargill, from Wellington, May 10. Port Darwin, from Wellington, May 10. Kapiti, from Wellington, May 10. Huia, from Wellington, May 10. At New Plymouth. Kennedy, from Wellington, May 11. Flora, from Onehunga, May 11. Rarawa, from Onehunga, May 13.

No news of the Barawa having crossed the Manukau bar yesterday was received in New Plymouth last night The vessel left Onehunga at 3 p.m. with passengers and sixty tons of cargo, and the weather conditions there made it doubtful is she would cross the bar.

The Flora was timed to leave Onehunga to-day for New Pylmouth. She will take in 1000 crates of cheese for transhipment to the Piako at Wellington, and 250 casks of tallow.

The Ulimario is due to leave Sydney on May 12 for Wellington. The vessel is expected to sail from Wellington for Sydney on May 19. The Pakeha arrived at London on May 6. The vessel left New Zealand on March 22. News has been received that the Arawa left Southampton on May 5 for Wellington and Aucklnad. diminishing freights and decreasing passenger traffic have resulted in . a number of steamers be ng laid up in the Dominion (states- an exchange). The Union Copmany have the Maunganui, Monowai. Mokoia, Pateena, and Te Anau. The shipowners are naturally retaining those vessels which are most economical to run, laying up others which, although perhans faster, are more costly and hold less cargo. The paying off of so many steamers has resulted in many seamen, firemen, and stewards being thrown out of work, and there is now no difficulty in manning the vessels now running. The Waitrmarino. reached Auckland yesterday from Sailv^rancieco. Statistics comniled^by thb~€h>mber of Shipping (according l;to Lloyd'.s L:st of February 3) show that^Ehe total amount of la:d-up tonnage is fully as large as if rndeed it is not considerably larger than, was estimated. Incomplete in their details as the returns still are, they account for 5.000,000 tons of idle shipping on both sides of the Atlanta. or, to be more exact, in the Uir.ted ►States, the United Kingdom, and Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. There are other maritime countries, of course which must be affected, so that the total unemployed tonnage in the world is probably not.far short of 6,000.000 at a rough calculation. Tt is consoling to know that the number of British vessels out of employment is only 9 per cent, of the total British tonnage a.* compared with 20 per cent, in the case or bcand'jiavTian tonnage and 21 per cent, in the case of American steel tonnage.