SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 3

SHIPPING

DEPARTURES Friday, December 28. Parora, s.s. (4.50 p.m.), ">•>! ions, Miles, for Tnkomaru Buy. fvahika, s.s. (7.."0 p.m.), 1172 urns, Dalgleish, for Napier Gan bar, s.s. (8.4 si p.m.), 48S tons, Boulton, for Napier. Aivahou, s.s. (S.JiO p.m), 407 tons, •Tones, for Auckland I'nkeko, s.s. (11 p.m.), ML! tons, Barnes, for Capo Runaway. The Waimea was expec.cd to let vo Napier yesterday for Aucklaad, and on arrival at the northern port on Monday she will withdraw from the .service for overhaul. She leaves Auckland again on •!< ary 8 For Gisborne and Napier. 'Che. Kaliiku completed discharging southern cargo at (lisborne yesterday, aiid sailed last night For Napier, whence she proceeds to Dtiuediu. She loads al Dunedin on January 4, and subsequently at Oamarn', Timaru. Lyttelton, and Wellington for Napier and Gisborne, and is due here about January 14. The Rotorua is expected to complete loading Frozen meat and general cargo »( Tokoniani Bay for London this evening, when she will be despatched for Napier. The Aornngi, from Vancouver, Honolulu, and Suva, arrives at Auckland On Monday, and sails again the same day for Svdnev. where she is due on January 4.' The Niagara, from Sydney, Auckland, an dSuva, left Honolulu yesterday, and is due at Vancouver on January 4. The Tahiti, from San Francisco, Papeete, and llarotouga, arrives at. Wellington on January 14, and sails the, ne\l day For Sydney, where she is due on January 19.

The Makura, from Sydney, clears Wellington on Tuesday For llarol.ouga, Papeete, and San Francisco, and is due al the last mentioned port on January

The Awahoti sailed at 8.30 p.m. yesterday for Te Kali.) and. Auckland. The steamer is due at Auckland to-morrow, and loads on Wednesday and Thursday for coast, bays and Gisborne. The Pufceko sailed for Auckland, via Cape Runaway, at U p.m. yesterday. The Pufiki should sail to-morrow with 770 bales of wool for Napier. She is due hack here on Wednesday: The Kiritbna, which has been tran shipping wool to the s.s. Rotorua at Tokoniani Bay, is expected to arrive here on Monday to load wool tor Napier.

The Parera sailed at 4.50 p.m. yesterday for Tokoniani Bay, where she is to load wpol for Napier. The Koutunui is expected at Tolaga IJay from Tokomaru Bay on Monday to load wool for the Hawke's Hay port. The C. and D. Lino steamer Port Benison should arrive from Auckland on Mondav.

Tho'Gunbar sailed at 8.45 p.m. yesterday with 730 hales of wool for Napier. The Tiroa is expected from Auckland via Hicks Bay. to day. On completion of discharge the vessel returns north.

The auxiliary schooner Elsie Mary should leave Auckland to-day, and is duo here on Monday with general er.igo. 'lf any vessel has earned the title ol the world's wonder ship it is the Mauretania. which, though she has attained her majority, appears to go from strengtn to strength, says Syren and Shipping. Her latest performance is a round trip from Southampton to New York and back to Plymouth in 12j days, the time spent, on the other wdo being, only bt. hours. During this brief stay m port the ship bad (o be thoroughly cleaned, provisioned and bunkered with oCGO tons of oil fuel and generally prepared for her bilge contingent of east-bound passengers. The reason for the hurry was the neccsBitV of coping with the heavy rush ot tourist traffic. Though, the whole oi her saloon accommodation was fully booked, there was a big waiting list tor subsequent ships. The average speed of the Mauretnnia';; Atlantic crossing was 20. i knots, and there were periods when she did over 2h{ ; a truly marvellous achieve llieiit. The Disappearing Sailing Ship

One constantly bears people deploring the disappearance of the old-time windjammer, but few. people (states the Navy) take the trouble, to go into, the reasons of it. Yet they are not very far to seek, if one examines the figures for the numerous big sailing ships bring ing grain home from Australia this year. ThV Garthpoo!-, the last of the British windjammers, took 145 days on the passage and finished up grinding a little of her cargo into Hour with the ships ■coffee mill. The Finnish barque Faveil, a fine vessel of 1334 tons, took 2uo days from (ieelong to Falmouth. Naturally, running expenses, wages and food for the crew, etc., were going on all this time, and she has the problem of how to discharge her cargo, refit, and get out to Australia again before the middle of next February, when the charterers have the right "to cancel next years agreement. The consignees have chartered these sailing ships for the carriage of their, grain not so much on account of the old belief that a windjammer carries gram better than al steamer, but because they are cheaper, the average rale this year being round about 325, against the 42s of the steamer. Yet this saving has been more than outbalanced by the heavy financial loss of keeping the goods in a floating warehouse all those months, The British Garthpool has found considerable difficulty in securing sailormen to take her out to Australia again, but on the Continent this difficulty is overcome by the necessity of sail experience before an officer's certificate is granted by many of the northern maritime powers. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING Napier: Arrived at 7 a.m., Kahika, from Gisborne. Lyttelton : Arrived, 6.10 a.m. .to-day, Wahine, from Wellington; 6.25 a.m„ liawatiri. from Dunedin; 10.30 a.m.. Breeze, from Timaru.' WEATHER REPORT Blue skies wore reported this morning in the Bay of Plenty, Init conditions elsewhere in the North Island remained overcast, with rain at Fast Cape. A moderate northerly gale was blowing at East Cape, .and light to I fresh northerlies elsewhere. The barometer had continued the falling movement. Temperatures at !' o'clock were: Auckland and Napier 09 degrees, Tauranga 73, Opotiki and Cisi)orne 70, past Cape 60, Wang'antii 65, and Wellington 63. Rough seas were reported at East Cape; moderate or smooth elsewhere. ;