SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18258, 29 November 1933, Page 5

SHIPPING

POET OF GISBORNE ARRIVALS Wednesday, .November 29. Pakeha, s.s„ 5.50 a.m., 10.481 tons, W. ,T. Williams, from Wellington. DEPARTURES Tuesday, November 28. Titoki, s.s., 12.25 p.m., 624 tons, R. Pearson, for Tauranga. Cumberland, s.s., 5.15 p.m., 11,446 tons, T. L. Malt by, for Auckland. Tlie Waimea left- Auckland last evening, is due. here to-morrow morning, and on completion of discharge and loading will sail for Napier. The Titoki completed discharge here yesterday and sailed for Tauranga. The vessel is to return to Gisborne to-morrow afternoon to load for Wellington, Lyttelton. and other South Island ports. ’the. l’oolta, loading for Napier and Gisborne, leaves Dunedin to-day, works Oamaru and Timaru to-morrow, Lyttelton on Friday, thence Wellington. The vessel is due at Gisborne about Tuesday next.

The Kini is to load at Westport and Greymouth, commencing about December . with coal for Napier and Gisborne. The Aornngi, from Sydney, via ports, arrives at Vancouver on Friday.

The Niagara, from Vancouver, via ports, left. Auckland yesterday and arrives at Sydney on Saturday. The Makura, from Sydney and Wellington, leaves Rarotonga on Saturday for Papeete and San Francisco. The .Maunganui, from San Francisco, leaves Papeete on Saturday for Rarotonga* Wellington, and Sydn-ey.

The- Federal Line steamer Cumberland completed loading frozen meat, butter and general cargo for United Kingdom 'ports here yesterday and sailed for Auckland. The Pakeha arrived from Wellington to-day and commenced loading frozen meatj wool, and dairy produce. She is expected to leave on Thursday night for Bluff, Port Chalmers and Napier. The vessel sails from the lastmentioned port mi December 15, and is expected to arrive at London, via Montevideo, on Jan

nary 22. ’I he Margaret W was to arrive at Tokomaru Bay at 10.30 a.m. to-day to discharge coal from Auckland. The vessel is to sail later for Gisborne, where she is due to-morrow to load stock and general cargo for 1\ estport. The Pukeko is en route from Auckland to Gisborne. The vessel is due here tomorrow morning and is expected to sail later in the day for Napier, thence Auckland.

Iho Tiroa cleared Auckland at. 1 o'clock last night for Gisborne. The vessel is due here to-morrow and alter discharge and loading is to sail the same day for Coast bays and Auckland. The Awahou, with cargo from Lyttelton and Wellington, is tine at Napier to-morrow, and will come on later to Gisborne. The Blue Star Line steamer Sultan Star, en route from London in ballast, is reported to have cleared Balboa last Friday for Napier, where she is due on December 14 to commence her homeward loading. The Canterbury Company has been advised that its new motor-ship Breeze, which left Glasgow on November 18, is due at Capetown on December 19. She will then load at Durban on December 22 for Dunedin and Lyttelton, and is due at Dunedin on January 25. 30-DAY SERVICE ENGLAND TO NEW ZEALAND LONDON, Nov. 28. The Blue Star’s two new 12,0C0-tqn motor-ships, will be 515 ft. long, 70ft. wide and 43J,ft. deep, and will have a sea speed of 16 knots. Each will contain a large amount of refrigerated space. They are intended mainly lor cargo, and their high speed will enable them to reach New Zealand in 30 days. There is luxurious accommodation lor 12 passengers. FORMER GERMAN VESSELS Three large cargo vessels formerly owned in Germany, but now sailing under the British Hag, will visit Auckland during the next- few days. All three were built for German owners at the Bremer Vulkan yards, hut were surrendered to the Allies at the eon elusion of the war. They are now owned by the Federal Line. The Cumberland, which is due from Gisborne, was ordered by the HamburgArnericn Line and completed in 1919, her original name being Wendland. After being surrendered to Great Britain, she was sold to the Federal Line. The Hertford, formerly the Friesland, which will arrive on December 4 from Liverpool, was completed in 1917 for the. same owners. She. too, was handed over in connection with re)Kiration settle nients and later sold to her present owners. The Norfolk, which is due from Gisborne on December 7, was completed in 1918 and named Sauerlaud Tn 1919 she passed into the hands of tlie Federal Company in the same manner as the other two ships. Two other vessels owned by the company were acquired in the same way. They are the Huntingdon and the Cambridge, which originally were named Munstevland and Vogiland respectively. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Auckland.—Nov. 28: Sailed, Waimea, 6.35 p.m., and Tiroa, 8 p.m., for Gisborne. Suva.—Nov. 29: Arrived, Waihcmo, from Newcastle. Sailed, Mariposa, for Auckland. _ . . Sydney.— Nov. 29: Arrived, Kartigi, from Greymouth. Sailed, Huin, for Now Zealand. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE Auckland: Abel Tasman, Canadian Highlander, City of Bedford. Cumberland, Kaimiro, Karame;., Mariposa, Niagara, Teakvvood, Wnikawa, Waipahi. Weirhank, and Yarrowville. Wellington: Akaroa, Aorangi, Cambridge, Cornwall, Diomede, Golden Coast,' Hertford, Makura, Maui Poinave. Monterey, Nankwa Main, Pakeha, PortDunedin, Rangatira, Hangitata, Rangitiki. South Sea, Taimii, Tamahine, luscan Star, Veronica, Wahirie, and Waikonati. Avarua: Bear of Oakland, Canadian Challenger, Jacob Ruppert, Kinross. Maunganui, Meiko Main. Pari a. Port. Gisborne, Rotorua, South Africa, and Wainni.