PORT OF AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17178, 4 June 1919, Page 5

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

\ ARRIVES. ».^M IA (6 '?° P- m -'i "3 "tons, Dorling, irpm Whangarei. In saloon— Murphy, Utfiott, someivillc, .Laing, Taylor, MacK" cth . McLood, Harvey, Edge, Freeman, Uompton, Brook, Willeocka, Maokereth, £„ t.'',R a,kos ' Finlaysou, Maxwell, Wilson, McKay, Campbell. Howard, Niccol, feller, Irwin, Coatcs, Whitelaw. Fimllay (2), am ?f,. Taylor. Lang, Conlan and ii ■:. "i? m .9 re . Devcson, Carter. Cliff. Elliott, Collins, Stuart, Foote, Moir. tausina, Worsnop and child, Thomassen, pJi m S W w ! \r Howa , r , d - You "« <"><' child. Messrs. ftOgft, McNcrr, Hale, Young, Wigmoro, Shaw, burrow, hooday, Jack, Peterson, McKic, RnS«'' u Slofta ". Wade, Findley. Cliff { \ McC ?."' Mallandinc, SI rß' Susht - Tiawwoll. Hyman, Pindl.v >l s W; P ?ni*? on V. Wlki - Smeath, Au-T'w omCrvl!lc - , lod . d - J»»l*». x Tung, AUSCII. Harden Rickard, Pinlayaon. ■« Lam&TO' Smith, Struthei-s, Bell Grico, Sr'R*," 611 ' j *«""»» Hon,-. Price, ! if met, Birch. Anderson, Lamb y. Williams Ahomas, Waring. Nelson. Whitelai (2) fiSw,' Smnwnas. Worsu.p. Ellison. Cowan , North 0 3 r• n t C 0 o•' DS • Martm ' aUd 15 *Wf^itiU^^Co 0 " 5 '^ 11011^1 '- 1 from AI P MARIE J" »-»•». 215 tons, *-* ftom Paeroa.-Norlhern Co. ' hSrSW' schooner (11 a.m.). 139 tons, from Gisbornc.-EmsraUi and Ford. . VESSELS "DUB TO DAY. \\aiptahi, frftni Mangapai, 11 p. m . lamwiia, from Nethorton, 7.30 p.m. VESSELS SAILING TO-DAY. Rpijßeveen, for Sydney, noon. JManaia, for Whangarei. 10 p.m. Ngatiawa, for Opotiki. 8 a.m. wwruarw. for Coromandcl, C n.m. -Unman, for Whakatauc. 10 a.m. Gael, for Great Barrier, midnight. VESSELS EXPECTED AT AUCKLAND. INTERCOLONIAL A.V3 COASTAL. Kaituna, from Newcastlo, June 4. lalune. from Islands, Juno S. \\aimarmo, from Lyttdton, June 6. Mapounka, from East Coast, June 6, Kaltanoa, from Westport, June 6. iarawora, from South, Juno 6. Alokoia, from Duncdhi. June 12. OVEHSHS ' Western Comet, from New York, due Northern Chief, left Ban Francises, April 22. Antiope, barque, left* San Francisco April 23. Port Chalmers, from New York, June 16. City of Dunkirk, from New York, Juno 7 Waitomo, from Calcutta, June. Port Pine, from London, Juno 18. Ruapemi. from London. July Jfi. Karamca, from London, sails June. Kv.m&ra, from London, sails Juno. Waimana. from Loudon. June 26. Tahiti, from. London, July IG. TRANSPORTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. .Ruahinc, cue Wellington, July ;i » Kilipeh!!, due Auckland. July 18. \vaimana. due Auckland. June 06. Piinicssin, due Wellington, Julv 1. Mauriganui, duo Port Chalmers! July 1 Tahiti, due Auckland, July 16. PROJECTED DEPARTURES FROM AUCKLAND. Rogsoveeii, for Sydney, June 1. Mokoia, for South. Juno 14. Niagara, to. - .Vancouver. Juno 10. Papatca, for London. June 16. VESSELS IN PORT. Paparoa, Queen's Wharf. P..M.S. Niagara. Queen's Wharf. Moeraki, Queens V>nari. Laurel Whalea. Central IVhart. Southern Cross, Hobson Wharf. Abomama, King's Wharf. Rogßcvecn, Central Wharf. Wanaia, at Chelsea. Hinomoa, Central Wharf. Ysabel. schooner. Kind's Whatf. Ar&hura. King's Wharf. Kauri, King's Wharf. Katoa, Hobson • Wharf. ' . 1 Flora, King's Wharf.

INCOMING PACIFIC MAILS. Paloona, due Wellington, about June 21. Makura, due Auckland, about July 2. Tho Arahuro, which is laid up for overhaul and survey, »3 to go into dock this morning for cleaning and painting. Tho waterfront was very quiet yesterday owing to the holiday. All tho vessels in port were idle except the Dutch steamer Koggovecn. which is to sail for Sydney today, and the >'ew Zealand Shipping Company's steamer I'aparoa, which was discharging a part-cargo of coal loaded in America. Alt the vessels were draped with bunting in honour of the King. ; The collier Rakanoa left Woatport for Auckland late on Monday. She is due hero on Friday. The Cniori Company's Island steamer Flora arrived from the Eastern Pr.fifie. curly yesterday and anchored in the stream for medical inspection. She was declared a clean ship and berthed at the. King's Wharf at 9.30 a.m. She had an uneventful trip round the Islands, and made an unusually smart trip from Rarotonga to Auckland in 0; days. She did not call at Mskatea Island for phosph&tcs ( but has brought practically a full cargo oi fruit. She is timed to sail again for Tahiti and Parotonga at 3 p.m. on Friday. The Richardson steamer Mako, which is berthed at the King's Wharf, is timed to sail for the East Coast bays at 1 p.m. tomorrow. The departure of the Royal Mail steam ir Moans from Wellington fci San Francisco has been postponed until Friday The Union Company has received adyico that the Palcona arrived at San Francisco from Wellington, via way ports, last Wednesday. She was scheduled to sail again for Wellington yesterday. The Royal Mail steamer Makura, en route from Auckland to Vancouver, via way ports, left Honolulu for Vancouver on May 27. She wfts due at Vancouver yesterday. The largo sailing ship Star of Lapland arrived at San Francisco on April 21 with a cargo of -1906 tons of wheat from Sydney. She made the mn in 071 days.

There is very little cargo offering in England for America. Most of the vessels which take a full lord to England return to America in baUast. It 13 understood that a well-known shipbuilding firm in Scotland is bending all its eflortß to complete a couple of liners in four months' time for a London company of ship-owners, who will open a regular lino to tho Mediterranean at the end of .Lily or early in August. For special reasons the British line must be inaugurated this summer, and the pressure at the yards to complete these ships seems to promise a record in ship construction. In accordance with the statement of Mr. Edward N. Hurley that tho oil-burning cargo carrier would replace the coal burners, it is learned that orders had been issued, for tho conversion of the 100 steel cargo carriers originally equipped to use coal as fuel, built on the Great Lakes for the American Shipping Board. Tho work of changing these vessels 60 that they may burn oil is in progress, and it was said the tint of the 100 ships recently completed would be available for service within a short period.

Two British oil-tank steamers arc reported sold to Belgian owners, and several more to French and Italian owners. It is reported that the French and Italian buyers paid about i' 215,000 each for the boats. the vessels have a carrying capacity of about 7860 tons on 25ft 3in draught, with engines 27in, llin, ami 73in, by l&in stroke, three boilers, 15ft, 15ft Gin, by lift Gin, 1801b pressure, forced draught, and a epeed of 11 knots. Owing to the dangerous nature of the coast and the consequent frequent wrecks, salvage work has always been of considerable in)gortmce in this district, writes Mr. W. inicc Wallace,. Vice-Consul at Corunna, Spain. This work ban been increased by the war, during which many vessels were sunk off this coast by submarines. 1 he largo profits from the business, which before the war was largely in German binds, nave attracted the attention oi capitalists in ftorCorn Spain, and an important company has wen organised to engage in salvage work.. this company is well equipped, but owing to the great ' extension of its activities, new purchases ore constantly being made. There is therefore an important market in Corunna for the sale of the latest devices renaming to this work, and of machinery for the reduction of the salvaged metals. The return of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the week 'March 27 records nine launches or preparations for launching of the society's lite-boats, Since «,o beginning of this year 179 lives have been saved, and the total number of lues saved since 1821 is 57,038. Though the New Zea'and Government has announced that restrictions on vessel.) carry ing passengers from Australia to New Zealand have been lifted, it is not at present known when tho stranded passenger* will get a steamer home. The Union Company reported that nothing was known as to the movements of their intercolonial steamers, and the Hnddart-Parkor Company reported likewise. Diamond Shoal;, off Cape Hatteras, the 11 graveyard e< ships," has now been marked with a new light to replace the one torpedo.- J by a German submarine last year, reports an exchange- Congress tailed to appropriate £90 000 for a new lightship, but the IJureiiu cf Lighthouses recently issued ordars for tin relief ship of the service to proceed to Di i : mond Shoals as soon as her present tour ol reli«f is concluded. Tim famous reef 13 now marked by a gas and whistling buoy. Til" Eastern Australian Company's steamers, which were requisitioned by the Imperial Government at the beginning of the war. have now resumed their pre-war running between Sydney. Bong Kcng and Japan. The St. Alban* is timed to leave Sydney on June 18 for those ports, to be followed by the Eastern at the end of June.

The Waimanco. which is loading at JjJttoltou for Auckland, has been delayed by rain, and it is not known when ah© will sail. ; The Union Company's barque Dartford left Newcastlo on Wednesday lost for Callao (South America) with a cargo of coal. 1 , Tba steamer Kahu will leave Wellington for the Chatham Islands to-morrow, and will call at Wait.iugi, Owenga and Whangaroa. A mail by tlie vessel closes at Auckland at 5.30 u.m. to-day. Although tho Western Comet scat a wireless message stating.that alio would reach Auckland from Now York yesterday, sho had not put , in an appearance at a lato hour, hut will probably arrive early this morning. Sho will berth at the King's Wharf to discharge. THE MOERAKI. No official announcement hits been mado by the Union Company as to whether tiio Moeraki will sail for Sydney to-day with the Niagara's through passengers. .Arrangements were being made to despatch the Mooroki, but nothing definite is known as to her movements. FIRST SHIPS TO FLY JEWISH FLAGS. The first vessel to fly tho Jewish national flag is a steamer plying between Jaffa and Constantinople. A number of Jewish shipowners at Odessa havo asked permission from the allied authorities to open a steamI ship lino between Odessa, Constantinople, and Jaffa. Two passenger chips are to bo Placed in this service, and they arc both to fly the Jewish flag. TOFDA AND MAHENO. It is understood that tho Toiua, which arrived at Dunedin last • week from London, has made her last trip as a troopship, and will now bo returned to the Union Com- ! pany by the Imperial Government The 1 Tofua. has been engaged trooping for the | past four years, and has proved a very use--1 ful unit of tho transport.flcet. No announcement has yet been niodo'regardioj her future movements. i It was rumoured that tho Mahcno, which . has been encaged as a hospital ship for over four years, was also about to be returned 10 I t|io Union Company, but up to the present timo no confirmation of the report had been received by the company from tho Imperial Government. All her hospital fittings tiro being removed at Port Chalmers, and the Union Company expects cable advice from Lumlon as to whether the vessel has been released from Imperial charter. BUILDING OF MEAT CARRIERS. Six largo meat carriers aro being built on the lytic for tho Federal, Shaw. Savill. and Commonwealth and Dominion linos. Hawthorn, Leslio and Co. havo nearly completed the Port Nicholson for the Dominion line. She 14 500 ft long and has a deadweight carrying capacity of 12.7i2 tons. « , in and Hunter arc building two for tho federal line, and Palmer and Co. are build-! ing a third. Two have been k inched. The' Armstrong. Whiurqrth Co., aim Palmer and, Co. are building one each for the Shaw, bavill line. , the last five steamers are 450 ft long and will bo able to carry 3200 tons of I meat apiece.

RADIO COMPASS STATION'S. Radio compasses, i.e., radio instruments winch arc ah o to determine the direction ot radio signals transmitted (rom vessels at sea are being installed on tho Atlantic and will! coasts. Radio compass stations are divided into two classes, those which are designed to operate independently, and those which are designed to furnish positions ii harbour entrances to guide vessels to the entrance buoys. The former stations have been ocated with a view to giving good cross bearing to ships which are from 50 to 100 miles distant from the coast, while the latter class have been located with a view to furnishing vessels wi.. positions when they are within 30 miles of the entrance to tho cuter channel. Harbour-entrance radio compass stations also differ (rom those acting independently, in that they are controlled by a central control station.

WHITE STAR WAR SERVICE. .. Tna lining of the censorship has allowed the publication of. the account of the valuable services rendered by the White Star Line during the war. The fine typo of large speedy steamers which tho company owned at the outbreak of bostiljites was recognised by the British Government as suitable for war work. In. August, 1214, th» Oceanic, teutonic, Ccdric, and Laircntic were requisitioned and fitted out as armed cruisers for policing the great trade routes. Tho Oceanic,was lost at the end of 1911. Tho Laurentic. after achieving results worthy of one oi the largest and finest steamers in the Canadian trade, met her fate through submarine attack off the coast of Ireland in January, 1017. The Teutonic, tho first British mercantile armed cruiser, and the product of the late Mr. T. H. Jstnay'a farsighted and patriotic policy, after constant duty in tho North Sea, is still in the Admiralty service. The company lost the following vessels by enemy action:—Britannic, 18,15$ tons gross; Oceanic. 17,274 tons; Arabic, 15,601 tons; Laurentic, 11,802 tons; 11 Cymric. 13.037 tons; Afric, 11.999 tons; Gcorgic, 10,077 tons; and Delphic, 8273 tons, The Britannic which was the largest steamer afloat, was a new vessel. She was engaged entirely as a. hospital ship. On her fifth voyage she was submarined or mined in tho /Egcan Sea on November 21, 1916. On her first voyage she went to Mudros and took back 3300 sick and wounded to Southampton. On tho next three' voyages she called a Mediterranean port, where wounded for England were transferred to her . from vessels that had brought them from Mudros. The Olympic was another vessel which put up a fine record. During the Gallipoli campaign slu: carried as many as 8000 troops ion one occasion. She also took vast numbers of Canadian soldiers and Chinese labour | battalions voyage after voyage acros3 the 1 Atlantic, and when America joined the Allies she carried American troops in thousands. Twelve months ago, when she won ncaring i the entrance to the English Channel tho | look-out man sighted a submarine on tho , .mrfare. At once the forwards guns blazed I out, and with the helm hard over the | Olympic swung round and crashed full 1 speed into the enemy. A destroyer in the | escort remained and rescued 31 survivors of , tho submarine's crew of 60. Tho Olympic 1 also made a name for herself by rescuing the crew cf K.M.S. Audacious when tho man-of-war was sunk, No fewer than 325 officers, engineers, pursers, and surgeons of the White Star Line were attached, to the navy during hostilities, and the distinctions gained by them wore many: while it is gratifying to add, that th« achievements, of tho men who continued in the loss conspicuous, but equally dangerous, duties of the merchant service received their duo reward from tho Government And the low ratings arc as justly entitled to a meed of praiso as Ihoso on the upper deck, for, by their unflinching courage end resolution throughout the struggle, they maintained the unsullied prestige inherited from generations of British seamen. •