SHIPPING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 4

SHIPPING.

PHASES OF THE MOON. NovuMßxa. Last Quarter 2nd 8.19 New Moon .. ~ .. ,t 9th 2.57 a- m * First Quarter loth 9.11 P.-®*-Frill Moon .. ~ .. 24th 0.2 S a.m. THE SUN. Rises to-day at 4.31 a.m.; eots at 7.15 p.m. THE WEATHER. November 15.—Fine; very warm in tho forenoon. 8 a.m. Noon. 5 p.m. Barometer ... .. 29.70 29.75 29.65 Thermometer .. Min.,so; max. 68. WEATHER REPORTS. (Pbb Exited press Association. ) WELLINGTON, November 15. * Tho following is the official weather report at 4 p.m.:— Station, Wind. Weather. liar. Then 2ape Maria, N.E., fresh, cloudy ... 30.07 70 Itussell, N,, light, cloudy 30.05 70 Auckland, N.E., fresh, overcast ••• 30,13 6b’ Tnurauga, N.E., fresh, overcast 30.11 68 East Cape, N., fresh, cloudy 30.22 72 Gisborne, N.E., light, fair 30.19 69 Napier, N.E., breeze, overcast 30.15 69 Castlepoint, N., light, cloudy Wellington, N,, fresh, cloudy 30.02 63 E’ew Plymouth, N.E., breeze, lair ... 30.10 64 Cax>a Egmont, N.E., Iresh, cloudy ... 30.0 D6B Wanganui, N,, light, fair 1 30.09 68 Farewell .Spit, N. iresh, fair 30.00 65 Gape Fonhvind, N., fresh, cloudy ... 29.90 67 Greymouth, N., breeze, mist 29.90 60 Stephen Island, N., fresh, cloudy ...* 30.01 55 Capo Campbell, N., fresh, cloudy ... 29,90 60 Kaikoura, N.W., light, fair 29.88 73 Akaroa Light, N.W., fresh, cloudy ... 29.80 68 Nuggets, N.E., light, overcast Bluff, 8.E., light, overcast 29.60 60 WEATHER FORECAST. Following is the official weather forecast: .—Present indications are' for northerly to westerly winds, strong to gale, and cloudy /and unsettled weather, with rain following generally. The barometer is falling every(where. HIGH WATER. November 15 — a.m. p.m. At Taiaroa Heads 9.19 9.44 At Port Chalmers 9.59 10.24 At Dunedin 10.29 10.54 DEPARTURES. November 15. Karamea, s.s., (10.40 a.m.). 5267 tons, Christie, for Newcastle. Dorset, s.s. (6.15 a.m.), 8734 tons, SomersYine, for New Plymonth. New Zealand Shipping Company, agent. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. WELLINGTON, November 15.—Arrived: Waiotapu (7 a.m.), from Auckland; Mararoa (8.20 a.m.), from Lyttelton. Sailed: Tregenna (11.50 a.m.), for Lyttelton; Nardana (3.10 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Rimutaka (3.15 p.m.), for Lyttelton; Mararoa (7.50 p.m.), for Lyttelton. November 15. —Arrived: Ngabere (6.5 am.), from Westport; Maori (6.30 a.m.), from Wellington; Corinna (6.55 a.m.), Kamo (8.10 a.m.), and Gale (8.20 a.m.), from Tima.ru. Sailed; Gale (12.15 p.m.), Corinna (5.50 p.m.), and Maori, for Wellington; Kaimanawa (4.25 p.m.), for Auckland. BLUFF, November 15.—Sailed: Calm (7.20 pjn.), for Dunedin. NEWCASTLE, November 14. —Sailed : Wingatui, for Bluff. TABLE BAY, November 14.—Sailed : The-.mist-odes, for Albany. TACOMA, November 14.—Sailed. Wolsum. SAN FRANCISCO, November 14.—Hailed; West Nilus, for Auckland, CRISTOBAL, November 14.—Trevethick, for Australia. PERHI, November 14.—Passed: Cooee, en route from Brisbane to London; Largs Bay, cn route from London to Fremantle. GIBRALTAR, November 14.—Arrived; Orvieto, from London. Passed: Arendskerk. LONDON, November 14.—Sailed: Athenic, for Wellington. The Dorset left Port Chalmers yesterday morning to continue discharging and loading at New Plymouth. Her final port of departure is Auckland. The "Vt aikouaiti, which has just under-gone survey overhaul, will leave Port Chalmers for Newcastle and Sydney to load for Bluff, Dunedin, and Lyttelton. The Karamea left yesterday morning for Newcastle. 'She will bunker there, and will probably return to New Zealand. The C)repuki is due here on Sunday from Craig to discharge a cargo of timber. The Kini will leave this afternoon for Lyttelton, Wellington, New Plymouth Westport, and Greymouth. ’ The Opihi left Wellington last night for JJuncdin. Siic is due here to-morrow, and jaali sail the same day for Bluff, returning- on Tuesday, when she will leave for Wellington and New Plymouth. The Korn at a is due here on -Sunday from Auckland, via ports, and will sail the following day for Auckland. The Calm is due here this morning from Bluff, and will also sail to-day for Oamaru Timaru. Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, and Wanganui. The Turakina is duo at Auckland from the west coast ports of England on Sunday, and will sail later for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, LOADING MADE EASY. A new mechanical device for loading butter. cheese, or frozen mutton into ships was' employed recently at Auckland, for the first time New Zealand, at the steamer Magana. Tho machine (says the Herald) consists of a steel frame, one end of which stands in the hold of the ship and the other end on the wharf. Running over the frame, and driven by an electric motor, is an endless chain oi canvas pockets, each 4ft wide. Into each pocket, as it moves past, is placed a box of butter, or cheeto, or a carcase of mutton, which is carried down the hold, and e-utcmatically deposited on a tray at the bottom. The machine is capable of handling 2000 boxes or carcases an hour, compared with 800 by a ship’s derricks. PAST YEAR’S LOSSES. The latest statistical summary published by Lloyd’s Register of Shipping shows that 716 ships of more than 100 tons, and aggregating 887,812 gross tons were totally lost, broken up, or condemned in tho course of last year. This reduction in the world’s effective merchant tonnage was more than offset, however, by the launching during 1922 of 1963 vessels of 2,100,074 tons. The tonnage scrapped or dismantled totalled 371,101 tons, and was the highest ever known, as it exceeded by \U23 tons the previous maximum attained in 1910. In spite of this record showing, no appreciable inroads will be made on the world’s superfluous shipping unless much more is accomplished in the way or removing obsolete or inefficient tonnage. In order to etimulate this process of elimination and to provide work for the unemployed, it has been suggested in Great Britain that the Government should provide the funds to pay for tho wiping out of one million tons of antiquated shipping annually for a number of years. The removal of such an amount of tonnage could not fail to strengthen the ship sale market to the resultant benefit of foreign ship owners, who would have contributed nothing for the scrap heap. Such an altruistic scheme does not stand much chance of adoption. > WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the under-mentioned wireless stations last night:—Auckland: Canadian Challenger, City of Naples, Kaitangata, Kauri, Lorenzo, ” Niagara, Physa, Rakanoa, Sonoma, Tobia, Turakina. Waikawa. Fort Denison. Wellington: Maori, Mararoa, Ngaio, Wingatui, Waihora, Arahura, City of Birmingham, Dorset, Moeraki, Kaimanawa, Waipori, Waimarno, Knroiv, Coolana, Waitemata, Arama, Trogenna, Rimutaka, Nardara, Remuera. Chatham Islands: City of Naples, Arawa. HOW MANY ROPES HAS A SHIP? If you were to ask the average landsman —and, probably, not a few modern sailors — how many ropes there are in the rigging of a sailing ship they would, if they ventrued upon any answer at all, guess a matter of thousands. Down at the docks, looking np at the tangled top-hamper of any sailing vessel, you would bo inclined to regard tho task of computation as little short of impossible. Yet it is a very easy matter, for there are only five ropes aboard a ship. Of course, there is in somo sort a catch about it (says a writer in an English exchange), hut the fact remains that the five niece- of the gear of a ship are called ropes. The rest are lines, sheets, gaskets, and the like. The five ropes are; The man-rope, or what a landsman might cal! the rope “hand rail’’ of the accommodation ladder. The footrope, which is stirrupped beneath the yard from mast to yard-arm, and on which the men stand when handling sail; the bolt-rope, that is the rope -which edges the sail as the hem of a handkerchief; the bucket rope, or bucket handle; the bell-rope. Some old sailormen will quote the towrope as a sixth, but that is not correct because it is more properly called the hawser. Apart from these, nothing aboard a ship ifi technically a rope. A landsman may call them ropes, but then a landsman thinks mostly that a sheet in a sail and a bend a knot. Next time you happen to sec a Bailing ship try the question on a friend, and let him waste a few minutes in trying to estimate the number of lifts and bunt-lines, and clew-lines, and braces. He will never guess that there are only five ropes among the lot of them.