SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 5

SHIPPING

POET OP GISBORNE ARRIVALS Thursday, November 2 Port Nicholson, s.s., 5.45 a.m.. 10,000 ions, S. E. Gregory, from Auckland. Margaret \V, m.s., 7.40 a.m., 394 tons, J. il. Owen, from Auckland. Waimea, s.s., 8.15 a.m., 504 tons, A. F. Inman, from Auckland. L’ukeko, m.s., 9.45 a.m., 736 tons, S. Jones, from Auckland, via the Coast. DEPARTURES Thursday, November 2. Tamaroa, s.s., 6.30 a.m., 12.351 tons, G. Williams, for Auckland. The Waimea arrived from Auckland Ibis morning and after discharge sailed for Napier. The l’oolta, loading for Napier and Gisborne, left Timaru last night, leaves Lyttelton to-day, and is to sail from Wellington on Saturday. Tire vessel is due at Gisborne on Tuesday next. The Titoki is en route from Tauranga to South Island ports, via Wellington. The vessel is to load again for Napier and Gisborne, leaving Dunedin on Tuesday next, working Timaru on Wednesday, Lyttelton on Thursday, thence Wellington. She is expected to arrive at Gisborne about Tuesday, November 13. The Federal Line steamer Norfolk is due at Gisborne on December 4 to load frozen meat, general cargo, and dairy produce for United Kingdom ports. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Nicholson arrived early this morning to load wool, butter, and cheese. It is expected that she will be dispatched to-morrow evening for Napier and Wellington. The vessel is expected to clear the lastmentioned port on November 10 for London, via Capo Horn and Montevideo. The Margaret W arrived at 7.40 a.m. to-day from Auckland. She. sailed later witli wool for Napier and general cargo for the Coast and Auckland. The Pukeko, with cargo from Auckland, arrived at 9.45 o’clock this morning. She will sail to-night for Napier, thence Auckland, The Awaliou arrived this afternoon from Lyttelton and Wellington, having called at Napier and Wnikokopu en route. The vessel is to sail to-night for Wellington. The Tiroa is to leave Auckland on Saturday with a shipment of coal for Tokomaru Pay. The vessel then comes to Gisborne, but is to return to Tokomaru Bay to lighter the Rrmgitiki on November 12. The Monowai, which is to sail from Auckland for Sydney this afternoon, is scheduled to arrive at Sydney on Sunday afternoon to enable through passengers for Melbourne to connect that night by train for Melbourne, so that they will arrive in time for the Melbourne Cup. On the vessel’s recent trip from Sydney to Auckland she made the passage in less than three days, after encountering strong southerly winds and rough beam seas in the Tasman Sea, her speed during the passage being not less than 18-J knots. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's liner Tamaroa sailed at 5.45 a.m. to-day for Auckland, from which port 'she will he dispatched for London, via Panama. Her Gisborne loading comprised 9070 carcases of lamb, 433 carcases of pork, 33 carcases of mutton, 170 packages of frozen sundries, and 7205 boxes of butter. The Waipnhi, which has been laid up at Auckland for over a month, is to be recommissioned to replace the Karetu in the Aueldand-Fiji-Tonga service during the summer months. The Waipahi's first trip is to he taken to supply' fruit for the Christmas trade. The Karetu will be withdrawn from the service after she arrives at Auckland from Tonga and Fiji on November 7. The Waipahi is scheduled to leave Auckland on November 15, Sydney on November 22, Nukualofa on December 4, Suva on December 7, arriving back at Auckland on December 13. Thereafter she will run a monthly service to the islands The old Kahika has reached the second stage of demolition at the shipbreakers’ hands at Port Chalmers. The top hamper has been largely removed by acetone cutters. A railway crane is being used to lift the scrap metal into railway trucks. , As six acetone cutters are operating the hull should be ready for the Japanese scrap ship, which is due shortly. The shipbreakers’ method of removing the Kahika’s mainmast was new to Otago. Instead of the usual rigging of gear, removing the mast coat, and unstopping the mast, an acetone cutter bit through the metal at the deckline, and the mast fell on the deck. News was received this week that the well-known White Star Line steamers Gallic, 7912 tons, and Delphic, 8006 tons gross register, both built in 1918, have been sold to the Clan Line Steamers, Limited. Burns, Philp and Company’s new motor-ship Malaita, which was recently launched at Glasgow, sailed from that port on October 21 for Middlcsborough. She was to have left Middlesborough on October 25 for Singapore, Rabaul, Samarai, Townsville, Brisbane, and Sydney. The Malaita is 3300 gross tonnage, and will later be employed in the island trade. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS London.—Nov. 1: Sailed, Ruahine, from Colon; Port Dunedin, from New York; Melbourne Main, from Shimonoseki. Napier.—Nov. 1: Sailed, Awahou, 11.45 p.m., for Gisborne.