SHIPPING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26917, 1 November 1948, Page 7

SHIPPING

WHARVES WILL BE BUSY After a comparatively quiet period on the Dunedin and Port Chalmers waterfronts, activity will quicken this week. Three vessels, two coastal and one overseas, arrived at Dunedin on Saturday, and another large overseas cargo ship, the Haparangi, is expected at Port Chalmers to-morrow. The new five-ton electric travelling crane on the Birch street wharf was used for the first time on Saturday, when it loaded bunkers on the coastal steamer Wakakura. High Water.—St. Clair, 2.25 a.m., 2.47 p.m.; Taiaroa Head, 2.35 a.m., 2.57 p.m.; Port Chalmers, 3.15 a.m., 3.37 p.m.; Dunedin, 3.45 a.m., 4.7 p.m. The Sun.—Kises at 5.15 a.m.; sets at 7.28 p.m. Phases of the Moon.—New moon: Today, 6.02 p.m. First quarter; November 9, 4.46 a.m. Full moon: November 17, 6.21 a.m. Last quarter: November 24, 9.2 a.m. ARRIVED Saturday, October 30 Waipiata, s.s. (7.20 a.m.), 2830 tons, Freeman, from Bluff. Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., agent. Kairanga, s.s. (8.50 a.m.), 2830 tons, Brown, from Auckland, via ports. Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., agent. Tlmaru Star, m.s. (1.30 p.m.), 8577 tons, Goudie, from London, via northern ports. J. W. Swift and Company, Ltd., agents. SAILED Saturday, October 30 Kanna, m.s. (3.30 p.m.), 941 tons, Edwards. for Oamaru and ports. BERTHAGE LIST FOR TO-DAY Wakakura Birch street Holmdale Rattray street Kairanga Rattray street Waipiata Victoria wharf Timaru Star Victoria wharf Waipahi Port Chalmers Kaikorai Port Chalmers EXPECTED ARRIVALS Haparangi, Liverpool, to-morrow. Holmglen, Wellington, November 3. Narica, Miri, November 3. Wainui, Wellington, November 3. Waitaki, Melbourne, November 4. Paua, Wellington, November 10. Mill Hill, Sydney, November 15. Wairata, Calcutta, November 15. Cistula, Miri, November 19. Norfolk, Liverpool, November 24. Stafford, Liverpool, November 26. City of Sydney, Montreal, November 27. Waiwera, Liverpool, December 5. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Kairanga, Oam., Lytt., Auck., to-day. Waipiata, Tim., Lytt., Auck., to-morrow. Holmdale, Oam., Wgtn, Wang., to-morrow. Wakakura, Auckland, to-morrow. Waipiata, Tim., Lytt., Auck., to-morrow. OTHER DOMINION PORTS Auckland.—Saturday, arrived; Yacht Kathleen (8.15 a.m.), from Nukualofa.Sailed: Femmoor (6.50 a.m.), for London; Orari (1.50 p.m.), for London. Sunday, arrived: Kakapo (7.45 a.m.), from Westport. Sailed: Sedgpool (3 p.m.), for Nauru. . New Plymouth.—Sunday, arrived: Neocardia (8 a.m.). from Auckland. Wellington.—Saturday, arrived: Paua (10.55 a.m.), from Gisborne: Wingatui (3.35 p.m.), from Westport; Manuka (10.30 p.m.), from Chatham Islands. Sailed: Nikau (8.20 a.m.), for Nelson; Wakanui 8.20 a.m.), for Nelson; Pearl Kasper (8.55 a.m.), for Nelson. Sunday, arrived: Moraybank (4 p.m.), from Auckland. Lyttelton.—Saturday, arrived Empire Dirk (8 a.m ). from Oamaru. Sunday, arrived: Narcia (7.30 a.m.), from Abadan. Oamaru—Sunday, arrived: Kanna (9.30 a.m.), from Dunedin. OVERSEAS MOVEMENTS Gravesend, October 30.—Arrived: Rangitata, from Auckland, for London; Huntingdon, from Port Chalmers for London; Black Prince, from Auckland, for London. Sailed: Kaikoura. for Auckland. Curacao, October 30.—Sailed: Port Wyndham, from Bluff, for London; Rimutaka. from London, for Auckland.