SHIPPING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16871, 28 October 1925, Page 5

SHIPPING.

The Kaliika leaves Napier this evening and will be discharging produce in the i midst cud to-morrow. (*n completion here she sails for Dunedin to load again for Napier and Gisborne via. the usual ports. The Katoa. leaves Auckland to-morrow with t.nrgn for Gisborne and. will be discharging in (lie roadstead on Saturday, alter which she proceeds to Napier, thence Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Both the Maori and Yv alii lie will make daylight trips between Wellington and Lyttelton on December 23 and 24, in addition to tho ordinary evening trip, in order to cope with the extra traffic. The Awahou is due at Auckland tomorrow, and will load general cargo for Tokomaru Bay, Toiaga Bay, and Gisborne. sailing on Friday evening. The Putiki is now expected at Wellington about thu end of the week, and will load for Napier and Gisborne. The Tiroa. is expected to clear Auckland for Coast bays and Gisborne tonight. and' is clue at this port on Friday nTght or early on Saturday morning. Tho patent hatch covers cm the Union (bmpany’s liew cargo steamer Waipahi attracted considerable attention after the vessel berthed at Dunedin. These hatches are a.n innovation so far as New Zealand ships are concerned. They arc of corrugated steel, and have supplanted tint usual wooden hatches. The steel covers fit oyer the hatches like a lid of a. box. They are opened by means of steal purchases led from iron standards. They are attached to hinges and are lifted by the electric winches aind made fast to tho standards while cargo is being worked. Viewed end-on the .Waipahi gayo one the impression that her docks were divided by several bulkheads. All the ship’s winches arc electrically driven, ancl there is, , consequently, a.n absence of the rattle and clatter usually associated with steamdriven winches.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Auckland : Sailed at 6.30 p.in., Aorangi for Vancouver. Arrived, at 9.vu a.m.. Suffolk, from Liverpool. Napier: To sail at 7 p.m., Tvnhika. for Gisborne. t WEATHERREPORT. A southerly moderate gale was blowing tfis morning at Napier ; fresh southeast breezes at Cape Maria and Cape Egmont; fresh- south-south-west at Gisborne; fresh south-west at East Cape; light breezes elsewhere. Tho weal her generally was fine, excepting at Gisborne where it was reported as squally. Temperafuie readings at 0 a.m.: Cape Maria 67, Auckland 57, Tauranga. 65, East Capo 51, Gisborne 50. Napier 54. Capo Egmoul 52, Wellington 54, Cape Campbell 53. STATE OF THE SEA. Heavy seas were running at East Cape; rough at Gisborne; considerable at Castlepoint; moderate at Cape Maria, Tauranga, Napier, Cape Campbell and Cape Egmont; heavy swell at Cape Palliser; spiootli at Tiritiri.