PHOSPHATE VESSEL NOW NOT COMING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 3

PHOSPHATE VESSEL NOW NOT COMING

SHIPPING

The British Phosphate Commission’s Triona is now not coming to the Port of Otago, but will unload her total phosphate cargo from Makatea at Lyttelton. This advice was received yesterday. It is understood that the diversion has been made to enable a quick despatch from New Zealand to be accomplished. Both the Marabank and Ramon de Larrinaga arrived yesterday, although work on them was delayed because of rain. High -Water.—To-day: 4.13 a.m., 4.41 p.m.; Taiaroa Head, 4.23 a.m., 4.51 p.m.; Port Chalmers, 5.3 a.m., 5.31 p.m.; Dunedin, 533 a.m., 6.1 p.m. To-morrow: St. Clair, 5.11 a.m., 5.38 p.m.; Taiaroa Head, 5.21 a.m., 5.48 p.m.; Port Chalmers, 6.1 a.m., 6.28 p.m.; Dunedin, 6.31 a.m.. 6.58 p.m. The Sun.—To-day: Rises at 4.42 a.m.: sets at 8.27 p.m. To-morrow: Rises at 4.42 a.m.; sets at 8.27 p.m. Phases of the Moon.—Last quarter: December 23, 5.12 p.m. New moon: December 30, 9.44 p.m. ARRIVED Friday, December 17 Marabank, s.s. (7.30 a.m.), tons, Kechnie, from the Gulf of Mexico, via pOrte H. L. Tapley and Co., Ltd., agent. Ramon de Larrinaga (4.15 p.m.), 4644 tons, Wilson, from New York, via ports, New Zealand Shipping Company. Ltd., agent.

BERTHAGE LIST TO-DAY Ramon de Larrinaga Birch street Marabank Birch street Kaitoke Rattray street Kopua Victoria wharf Kaikorai Port Chalmers * Wainui Port Chalmers Karetu Port Chalmers Waipahi Port Chalmers Waiwera Port Chalmers EXPECTED ARRIVALS Katui, Wellington, December 20. Kairanga, Auckland, Wellington, Dec. 21. Waipiata, Bluff, December 22. Buccinium, Persian Gulf, December 23. Vinland. Nova Scotia, December 24. Waimarino, Auckland, December 24, Holmdale, Wellington, December 31. Lautoka, Adelaide, early January. Wakakura, Auckland, early January. Shitrabank, Gulf of Mexico, January 7. Kaikoura, London, January 7. Coral Stone, New York, January 11. Port Fairy, London, mid-January. Waitemata, Vancouver. mid-January. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Kaitoke, Wellington to-day. Waiwera, New Plymouth, to-day. Ramon de Larrinaga, Wellington, Dec. 20. Kopua, Lyttelton. Brisbane. December 21. OTHER DOMINION PORTS Auckland.—Arrived: Ceramic (12.25 a.m.), from Liverpool; Kakapo (7.20 a.m.), from Westport; Karepo (8.20 a.m.), from Greymouth; Karitane (11.20 a.m.), from Coffs' Harbour; New Golden Hind (6.30 p.m.), from Raoul Island. Sailed; Derrycunihy (12.30 p.m.), for Napier; Corabank (3.55 p.m.), for Nauru. New Plymouth.—Arrived: Comliebank (8 a.m.), from Makatea. Sailed: Norfolk (7 p.m.), for Wellington. Wellington.—Arrived: Koutunui (12.30 a.m.), from Napier; Kaimai (2.45 a.m.), from Westport; Echo (5.15 a.m.), from Blenheim; Breeze (7.20 a.m.), from Wanganui; Stafford (7.25 a.m.), from Dunedin; Holmglen (9.50 a.m.), from Wanganui. Sailed: Kairanga (1.15 p.m.), for Lyttelton. Lyttelton.—Arrived: Port Waikato (6.15 a.m.), from Chatham Islands; Paua (1.20 p.m.), from Bluff. Sailed: Alfred Clegg (3.35 p.m.), for Wellington. To sail; Gale, for Wellington; Port Waikato, for Chatham Islands; Wairau, for Wellington. Blufft—Arrived; Waipiata (9 a.m.), from Dunedin.