SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 5

SHIPPING

POET OF GISBORNE ARRIVALS Thursday, December 7. Waimea, s.s., 6.30 a.m., 504 tons, A, F. Inman, from Auckland. The Waimea arrived from Auckland this morning. She is expected to sail this afternoon for Napier. The Poolta is to load for Napier and Gisborne, leaving Bluff on Monday next, Dunedin on Tuesday, working Oamaru au<l Timaru on Wednesday, Lyttelton on Thursday, thence Wellington. The vessel is due at Gisborne again about December I!). The Titoki, which is loading for Napier, Gisborne and Tauranga, left Dunedin yesterday, leaves Timaru today, and Lyttelton to-morrow, thence Wellington. The vessel is due at Gisborne about Tuesday next, and after working this port will sail for Tauranga.

The Kini, from Westport and Greymouth with coal, is on route to Napier, and is due at Gisborne about Saturday to discharge. The Federal Line steamer Northumberland is to load frozen meat, dairy produce, wool and general cargo at Gisborne for United Kingdom ports about January 8.

The New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Kangitata is to load at Tokomaru Bay about January 14, taking frozen meat, wool and general cargo for London. The Altail’s departure has been postponed until to-morrow morning, when the vessel will sail for Auckland. The Margaret W. is due at Tokomaru Bay this afternoon, and after discharging her shipment of coal from Westport she is to sail on Saturday for Hicks Bay and Auckland. The vessel will load at Auckland on Monday and Tuesday for the Coast and Gisborne, arriving at this port on Thursday, December 14. The Rakura arrived here early this afternoon from the Coast and Auckland. She is expected to sail to-night for Napier and Auckland. The PiiUeko loads at Portland to-day. and at Auckland on Monday and Tuesday for (he Coast. Gisborne and Napier. The Awalimi, with cargo from Wellington and Napier, is due here to-mor-row. After working this port the vessel sails for Lyttelton, loading there on Monday and at Wellington on Tuesday for Napier and Gisborne. Bluff last year experienced a record year, 133 colonial and overseas vessels having visited the port. This placed Bluff third to Auckland and Wellington with regard to the number of such vessels arriving during that period. The coastal motor vessel Holmglen was forced to put in for shelter at New Plymouth on Saturday. Tho vessel, which was on route from Port Waikato to Wellington, ran into a strong southerly gale. After battling for 12 hours against heavy pounding seas running up from Cook Strait, the Holmglen had only made 15 miles of progress, so it was decided to run back to New Plymouth. SHIP-BREAKING ACTIVITY If the, rate of the first nine mouths of 1933 is maintained, the amount of world tonnage disposed of for scrapping purposes will for the full year approximate 2,000,000 tons gross. Figures compiled by Lloyd’s show that ship-breakers have acquired during 1933 : First quarter, 386,009 tons gross; second quarter, 460,000; third quarter, 570,000 tons gross. Those figures do not include American demolitions. In 1932 the United States of America scrapped about 700,000 tons gross, while for the rest of the world the tonnage sold for demolition purpose -, was slightly less than 1,000,000 tons. The figures show that the demolition rate, is accelerating. Radi quarter this year has shown a higher total than its immediate predecessor, and the highest, total recorded for this year was in the final month of the third quarter—September—when ship-breakers acquired about 210,000 tons gross. Further evidence of the present high rale of ship-breaking activity is afforded in statistics published by the Bureau Veritas. During August, the names of no fewer than 70 steamers were removed from the register, of which 55 were broken up. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Tokomaru Bay. —Doe. 7: Sailed, Pakura, 5 a.m., and Tiroa, 10.30 a.m., for 'Gisborne. Auckland. —Dec. 6: Arrived, Norfolk. 8.40 p.in., from Gisborne. Wellington.—Dec. 7: Arrived, Poolta, 12.15 a.m., from Gisborne. Sydney.—Dec. 7; Arrived, Ngakuta, from Greymouth. Melbourne.—Dec. 7 : Arrived, Maiko Mam, from Dunedin,