PORT OF GISBORNE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 5

PORT OF GISBORNE

PHASES OP THE MOO®.

NOVEMBER. (Standard Time.)

TIDES AT GISBORNE WHARF

NOVEMBER. (Standard Time.)

SHIPPING ARRIVALS Friday, November 7 Pakura, s.s. (5 a.nu), 700 tons, Coldicutt, from Wellington, via Napier. departures Thursday, November 0 Waimea, s.s. (2 p.m.), '>o4 tons, Gardner, for Napier. Margaret W, motor slup (4 p.m-.), 394 tons, L. D. Clark, for Auckland. Patera, s.s. (5 p.m.), 344 tons, Miles, for Westport. Availou, s.s. (5.30 p.m.), 410 tons, W. S. Clark, for Auckland. The Waimea arrived at Napier early this morning from Gisborne, and sails this a for Auckland, wihho s )u loads again on Monday and Tuesday tor Gisborne and Napier. The Wainui eommences loading again at, Dunedin early next, week for Napier and Gisborne. r Phe Gabrieli a, loads eoal at Newcastle next, week for Gisborne, Napier, and Pieton. . The New Zealand Shipping Co. s steamer Hertford is due at Tokomaru Bay next week to load frozen meat and general cargo for Loudon. The 0. and U l . Line slimmer Golden West is due at Gisborne about November 26 from New Plymouth with benzine and general ravgo'frnm American purls. On 'completion of discharge she loads frozen produce, sailing filially from Gisborne for Honolulu and. Pacific Goast ports. The motor ship Awalton sailed last evening, and is due at Auckland to-mor-row to load again for Coast bays and Gisborne.

The Pakura arrived this morning from Wellington, via Napier, and returns south this afternoon.

The Parera was dispatched last everting for Westport, and after discharging her shipment of stock she loads eoal for Tokomaru Bay. The motor ship Margaret W sailed yesterday afternoon for Auckland, where she loads next Monday and Tuesday for Gisborne and Const bays.

The Tiroa, which is expected to complete her annual overhaul to-morrow, sails on Monday evening for Tokomaru Bay to lighter the Hertford, Mr. ,1. Farrell, chief officer on the coastal steamer Tiroa, who was admitted to tho Cook Hospital last Monday, suffering from a fractured jaw as a result of slipping and striking.the deck, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. In the meantime his place will be taken by Mr. Taylor, of Napier. Captain J. Beighton, who is in command of the Ferndale, which arrived at Lyttelton a few days ago from London, was for 14 years in the service of the Union Steam Ship 00., having had command at various times of the steamers Wanaka, Pukaki, Rosamond, and Taviuni. He was in the South Sea Islands at the commencement of the war, and proceeded to Australia, where he joined the Australian Navv. He commanded the German liner Kanstatt, which was seized at Brisbane when war broke out, and took that vessel from Sydney to England. After leaving the Navy ho commanded’ various of the Bay ste/imers for seven years.

The Commonwealth and ■ Dominion motor freighter, Port Alma, carrying the first shipment of new season s wool, from Sydney, made the direct passage to .Dunkirk jn record time. She clipped nearly seven hours off tlie time for a similar journey, last- year, when she secured victory in the annual “wool derby.” The Port, Alma left Sydney at 4.15 p.m. on September 23, and reached the roadstead at Dunkirk at midnight‘on October 25, her time, without taking time differences into account, being 32 days 7 hours 45 minutes, as against 32 days 15 hours 11 minutes oip the same journey last year. She only made one stop on route —at Aden to refuel.

The secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has received tlie following advice from the superintendent of the Awarua radio; “The following navigation warning was broadcast by Sydney radio at 5.52 p.m. : ‘The master of the Ooulburn reports that at 7.40 a.m. on November 6 she struck a. submerged object in latitude 36 degrees 31 minutes south, longitude 150 degrees 20 minutes east.’ ”

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING Auckland -. Arrived, Tongnriro, from Liverpool, 9.10 a.m. Napier: Arrived at 2.30 a.m. today, Waimea, from Gisborne, Wellington: .Arrived, Wainui, 10.10 ,p.m. yesterday, from Gisborne.

THE WEATHER (Last Night’s Forecast) A rather sharp depression has been passing rapidly east of the Dominion to-day! A moderate anticyclone is moving over the northern Tasman Sea, while a new depression is now covering southeastern Australia. Winds: Moderate to strong south-westerly, decreasing and later veering to westerlies again in the south. Seas (N.Z. waters): lt.it Iu ■ i rough soutli of- CastlepoiiiL and about Cook Strait, elsewhere smooth to moderate. Tasman Sea: Moderate south-west winds later veering to north west with smooth to moderate seas in the eastern Tasman. Weather: Cool and changeable with showers at- first in most districts, but soon improving generally.

(To-day’s North Island Report.) Blue skies were reported at East Cape and further north this morning, but conditions elsewhere in the North Island were overcast and unsettled. Fresh to strong south-westerly breezes were genend. The barometer showed little movement. Temperatures at 9 o'clock were: Auckland 59 degrees, Tauranga 52, Opotild 56, East Cape 58, Oisborno and Napier 55, and Wellington 50. Rough seas were reported between Gape Campbell and Castlepoint ; moderate or smooth elsewhere. (Midday Forecast) The indications are for moderate to strong southerly winds, and veering by west to north. There is a prospect of fair weather with cool, but rising temperatures. Barometer little movement. Seas and tides moderate.

Full Moon. Nov. Oth. 0.58 p.m. Last Quarter. Nov. 111th. 11.57 p.m. New Moon. Nov. 20th. 9.51 p.m. Last Quarter. Nov. 28th. 5.48 p.m.

High Water. Low Water. a.m. p.m. a.in. I). in. 7 Friday 5.39 0.10 0.00 0.06 8 9 Saturday Sunday 0.36 7.31 7.14 8.08 0.28 1.18 0.59 1.49 10 Monday 8.22 8.50 2.05 2.37 11 Tuesday 9.11 9.43 2.50 3.24 4.12 5.01 12 Wednes, 9.59 10.29 3,.ii> 13 Thursday 10.47 11.10 4.24 It 15 10 17 Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 11.36 0.05 0.54 1.40 0.00 0.28 1.2 0 2.12 5.14 0.09 7.00 8.03 5.53 0.40 7.40 8.33 9.27 10.21 11.19 0.02 1.00 1.55 18 19 20 21 23 Tuesday Wednes. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 2.38 3.32 4.30 5.30 0.32 7.33 3.00 4.01 5.00 0.02 7.04 8.01 9.03 10.03 11.02 0.00 0.10 1.11