SHIPPING NEWS

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13930, 12 July 1917, Page 3

SHIPPING NEWS

HIGH WATER AT OAMARU. T °- ,ln J' Ml a.m. .0.12 pm To-morrow, .. 9.38 a.m. 10.13 p.m. . SUNRISE AND SUNSET. . ltiso.. . Set. To-day 7 ;j.i .. .„ i ,-„ •' " " <«} l •!. 111, '|,;|(| p;]| To-morrow .. 7M a.m. 4.52 p.m. PHASES OP THE MOOK. Now Moon-July 19th, 2.30 p.* First Quarter-July 27th, G.lO p.m. , Full Moon-August 3rd, 4.41 p.m. Last Quarter-August 10th, 7.26 a.m.

ARRIVALS, July 11. John, s.s., m tons, (Robertson) from Duuedin, DEPARTURES. July 11, John, 5.5.,« tons (Robertson), for Wellington,

NOTES. The John arrived from Duiindin at fi; <p-;'^a>: I nii{rai«a.aii(jaftiM i, |o!iiliii}{ 220 "tons of produce for Wellington and Wangaiuii sailed at live o'clock last night 'for Wellington direct. The Comma is expected to arrive, late to-morrow night to load about 200' tons of produce for Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. A vessel to load cargo for the West Coast is expected at the end of ni;xt week, The Calm is due from the West Coast on the 17th inst. The Te Aiir.u leaves Auckland on the 14th instant for Oaniarn, via Wcllinoton, Lyttelton and Timnru and should arrive here on the 21st instant to load for northern ports. Advocates of the State purchase of the Union Company's fleet will be interested 'in tho following paragraph from an Australian paper:—Tlio Treasurer of the Commonwealth is out with the glad tidings that the purchase Of cargo-carrying ships .by Australia is a good investment, Figures •cannot lie-neither can Kcilcr.il Trcasurvrs—and Sir John Forrest states that receipts from the working of the boats to June 30 exceeded expcnti'lure. by half a million. On.c vessel, it is officially stated, made a profit of iUKfiW. So that the deal was all right. According to a statement by Lord Eustace Percy, member of the British .Mission to the United States,' British tonnage at (he end of March showed 22 per cent, in naval and military service, -1-1 per cent, was under requisition by the Government for the transportation of munitions and other supplies, 22 to 21 per, cent, was engaged in transporting grain and like food products, 20 to 22 per cent is still free, mostly in the form of passenger liners, There are now only 200, British ships in foreign service carrying Eastern supplies for Canada and the United States, Fifteen per cent of the British tonnage is carrying supplies to and from 'France and the United States.

At the Auckland Magistrate's Court last Friday judgment in the action in which the Federal Seamen's Union claimed from the Northern Steamship Company damage? for an alleged breach of.-tho existing agreement between the union and the shipping companies was given by Mr E. C. Ont'tcn, S.M. His Worship held that there had been no breach of the agreement by the defend|tnt in failing to pay overtime to members,.of, the crew.engaged.in. washing clocks on n holiday between the. hours of 7,a.m. and 8 a.m.; that clause "lL" expressly, exempted that class of work when done between those, ,hotirs. from the provisions that men should be,, free from labour- on Sundays and holidays when the vessel was.iiot.jii port, and.that .this exciiiptioii was not affected by the words'of the latter part of-clause 'li, which referred to work generally and not to any particular class of work. Judgment was given for the defendant with j;2 2s costs. Mr W. T,'Yoiiiig»i ; epreseiit'"d the Seamen's Union,'