SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18387, 3 May 1934, Page 3

SHIPPING

POET OF GISBOKNE ARRIVALS Thursday, May 3 Margaret VV, ia.s., 10.10 a.m., 394 tons, J. R. Owen, fronTAuckland. Waiinea, s.s., 10.60 a.m., 504 tons, A. F. Inman, from Auckland, The Waimea arrived from Auckland this morning. She is expected to sail this evening for Napiei. The Poolta, which is loading for Napier and Gisborne, works Oamaru and 'l'iniaru to-day, and is expected to leave Lyttelton to-morrow. The steamer is due at Gisborne about Tuesday nr Wednesday next. The Kini, with coal from Greymouth and Westport, is now at Wellington, she is due at Gisborne early next week, via Napier. The Now Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua, /which is loading frozen meat, wool and general cargo at Tokomaru Bay for London, is expected to sail early to-morrow for Auckland. The Remucra will load frozen meat, wool and general cargo for London at Tokomaru Bay about June 1.

The Pukeko, on route from Auckland, worked Tokomaru Bay this morning and is expected to arrive here this afternoon. The vessel sails to-night for Napier, Portland, and Auckland. The Awahou is due at Gisborne tomorrow from Wellington and Napier. On completion of discharge and loading she departs for Lyttelton. The Koau completes lightering at Tokomaru Bay to-day and comes on to Gisborne to load general cargo to-mor-row for Wellington. The Margaret W. arrived to-day from Auckland. On account of the rough weather the vessel did not work Coast bays, but it is expected that she will work them on her return trip to Auckland.

The Tiroa and the Karoro are expected to complete lightering the Rotorua at Tokomaru Bay to-day and return to Gisborne to-morrow.

An anchor, thought to be hundreds of years of age and a relic of the old buccaneering days, was recovered accidentally from the harbor of Port Royal, Jamaica, by the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tainui, which has arrived at Auckland from London. The anchor was picked up by the Tainui when her own anchor was being lifted after she had been granted pratique at Port Royal. The remarkable/ thing was that the Tainui’s anchor fluke hooked through the ring of the old anchor on the sea bed, the ling being only iust large enough to go over the .fluke. ’ The recovered anchor was a very massive iron one, which had once Leon .fitted! with a large wooden stock, but the stock had rotted away. STEW CARGO VESSELS LONDON, March 23. Shipping companies welcome the news that the passenger liners from New Zealand are being well filled. Round voyages last season were booked by an appreciable number, and it is expected that their popularity will be much greater next year. The publicity that has been given to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shaw’s voyage will probably have a good effect. Good progress is being made with the three new motor cargo vessels which are •being built for the Shaw, Savill Line. Their names are to be Waipawa, Wairangi, and Waiwera. The Waiwera is* due to leave for New Zealand on September 12, and the Waipawa on November 14. These three ships will have passen ger accommodation for 12 people. The new motor cargo vessel now being built by Messrs. John Brown and Com pany. of Clydebank, for the _ Commonwealth and Dominion fleet, is to be named Port Wyndham, after the port in the north Of Western Australia. _ This town, it will be remembered, is the centre of the cattle trade for this part of Australia.