SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18257, 28 November 1933, Page 3

SHIPPING

POET OF GISBORNE ARRIVALS Tuesday, November 28. Titoki, s.s., 6.50 a.m., 624 tons, R. l’earson, from Napier. H.M.S. Diomede, 9.45 a.m., Captain Cosmo Graham, from Wellington, The Waimea is expected to leave Auckland at 5 p.m. to-day with cargo for Gisborne and Napier and to arrive hero on Thursday morning.

The Titoki, with southern produce, arrived from Napier this morning and on completion of discharge and loading sailed for Tauranga. The vessel is expected to return to Gisborne on Thursday morning to load for \\ ellingtou and South Island ports. The Poolta, loading for Napier and Gisborne, left Bluff yesterday, leaves Dunedin to-day, works Oamaru and Timaru to-morrow, Lyttelton on Thursday, thence Wellington. The vessel is due at Gisborne about Tuesday next. The Federal Line steamer Cumberland is expected to complete loading frozen meat, butter, and general cargo for United Kingdom ports at Gisborne to-day and sail for Auckland.

The Norfolk, Captain R. 11. L. McNisli, is due at Gisborne on Monday next from Wellington to load frozen meat, wool, and general cargo for United Kingdom ports.,, Tiie Federal liner Northumberland, Captain H. L. Upton, is to load frozen meat, wool, and general cargo for United Kingdom ports at Gisborne on January 8.

The Margaret \Y. left. Auckland last night with coal for Tokomaru Bay. Tlu* vessel is due here on Thursday to load stock and general cargo for Westport. The Tiroa is loading at Auckland to-day In place of the Margaret W., and is to sail to-night for the Coast and Gisborne. The vessel should arrive at this port on Thursday to discharge and load for Auckland. The Pukeko 'completes loading at Auckland to-dav for tin* Coast and Gisborne. After working here on Thursday she sails for Napier, thence Auckland.

The Awaliou, with cargo from Lyttelton and Wellington, clears tin* lastmcntioned port to-night for Napier ami Gisborne. The vessel is due here on Friday.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s liner Pakeha arrives to-morrow from Wellington to commence loading frozen meat, wool and dairy produce for London.

The C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Dunedin was to commence the unloading of her outward cargo at Auckland on Monday. After discharging at Wellington', Lyttelton and Dunedin, the vessel will load for London at Wellington, Auckland, Tokomaru Bay and Lyttelton. She is to sail from Lyttelton for London, via Cape Horn and Dakar, on December 22.

Fifty-five years old and still able to make the best part of 10 knots in favorable weather is the splendid record boasted by the steam paddle tug Lyttelton, which in a few days will splash her way out of the Auckland harbor to pick up another big raft of valuable kauri logs. The Lyttelton is the sole survivor of Auckland’s once proud fleet of paddlewheelcrs. The reconditioning of the 63-year old cutter Comet at Oncliunga has been completed. She has been refitted as a motor vessel. About 30 years ago the Comet was well known on the ilanukau Harbor, being one of Mr. C. Constance’s fleet. She was built in 1870 by Mr. Mathew Sinus for Mr. William Shaldrick specially for navigating the small tidal creeks of the Manukau, and was used for transporting supplies and produce. The i (’omet is being recommissioned ! for an Auckland syndicate by Mr. €. ; Coolthard at Onehnnga. It is inI tended to use the vessel for seine (fishing in the Hauraki Gulf and on j the East Coast, and she will hold about 'five tons of fish. When the Union Company’s ship j Waitomo sailed from Auckland on * juiio 29, under the colorful Chinese 'merchant flag and renamed the Moi--1 shun, she carried with her as wireless | operator a young Now Zealander on ; his first trip abroad. The old ship, J which lay in the harbor for five years ■ and accumulated a load of mussels weighing over 100 tons, was bought by ’a Chinese shipping firm, taken first to ! Newcastle to load coal for the Philip- . pine Islands, thence to North Borneo 1 for timber and coconuts to be shipped to Hongkong. The latest letters just received by the boy’s mother in Auckland stated that she had .arrived at : Shanghai on September 20, unloaded firewood from Hongkong, and was then taken 280 miles up the Yangtse f River at a small village, loading 6500 i tons of iron ore for Watamiatsu, m | Japan. Evidently the Chinese ownj ers had found the old Waitomo too ■ big and old for coastal trading pur- ! poses and had already sold the ship to Japan, whether for scrap or repair is not told. After giving delivery ol the vessel at Osaka, the crew were, to return to Shanghai by passenger | steamer. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS I Wellington.—November 28: Sailed, Pakeha, 6.55 a.m. for Gisborne, j Sydney.—Nov. 28: Arrived, 6.30 a.m., Mamma, from Auckland. ■ Suva. —Nov. 38: Arrived, Mariposa, from San Francisco. i I/)ndoil. —Nov. 27 . Arrived, at New York, Canadian Cruiser.