SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 3

SHIPPING

PORT OP GISBORNE ARRIVALS Monday, May 14 Akina, trawler, 3 p.m., 42 tons, J. Holt, from Napier. Tuesday, May 15 Awahou, m.s., 9 a.m., 410 tons, C. VV. Coidicutt, from Napier. DEPARTURES Monday, May 14 ; Poolta, s.s., 5.15 p.m., 1675 tons, F. J. G. Warren, for Wellington. The. Waimea is expected to leave Auckland at 5 p.m. to-day and to arrive here on ‘Thursday morning to discharge, after which she will sail for Napier. The Poolta completed the discharge of her southern cargo here yesterday and after loading sailed, for Wellington. The vessel is to load for Napier and Gisborne, leaving Bluff on Monday next, Dunedin on Tuesday, working Oamaru and Timaru on Wednesday, May 23, and Lyttelton on May 24, thence Wellington. The steamer is due at Gisborne again about Wednesday, May 30 The Federal Line steamer Cornwall is expected to arrive .at Gisborne on Friday morning from Auckland to load frozen meat, wool, and general cargo for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool, 'Manchester and Glasgow.

The Pukcko is expected to leave Auckland to-night with cargo for Coast bays, ‘Gisborne and Napier. She is to discharge hero on Thursday. The Awahou arrived this morning •from Lyttelton, Wellington and Napier. 'On completion of discharge and loading here to-day she departs for Wellington, where she will load oil Thursday for Napier and Gisborne. The Margaret W. loads coal at Westport for Tokomaru Bay to-day, and is expected to leave early to morrow morning. ' The Tiroa completes loading at Auckland to-night and sails for the Coast and Gisborne. She is due here on Thursday. . The trawler Akina, which arrived .from Napier at 3 p.m. yesterday, was taken on to the slip this morning for overhaul. . The C. and D. Line vessel Port Melbourne continued loading in the roadstead to-day. It is expected that she will be dispatched to-night for Wellington. She was originally set down to leave the southern port on May 23, but it is now hoped to dispatch her on Saturday next for London, via Montevideo. The Altair this morning commenced the discharge of her shipment of motor spirit from Auckland. She is expected ,to sail to-night with empty drums for Auckland. Construction of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Ling’s new motor-freighter Wai'vyera, 13,000 tons deadweight capacity, is ’now well forward, and she will leave London, on her maiden trip to New Zealand, on September 12, bringing cargo for Suva, Pprt Chalmors, Lyttelton, and Ne\y Plymouth. She should arrive at Port, Clialinevs about October 21. The Shaw, tjayilf Company,' has two other 'motor-ships for the New Zealand-Eng-'iaiia trade now being built. When com plpted they will be named the Waipawa ‘arty Wairangi. The Waipawa will be ‘•ready for commission shortly after the Waiwera, and she should leave London \oif her maiden trip on November 14. •The Wairangi was ordered six months ;after construction started on the other ,t\yo ships, so she will not he in service .until 1935 Metagama, twin-screw cargo and passenger steamer, 12,420 tons gross, 7424 tons net, built by Barclay, Curie and Company, Glasgow, 1915, S.S. No. 3, 1927, owned by Canadian Pacific Steamships, Limited, has been sold-to Douglas and Ramsey, Glasgow, for demolition for aliout £IB,COO. She has been lying up off Southend since January, 1931. “Wellington is undoubtedly one of the ‘finest commercial harbors in the. world, ‘said Captain Keane, commodore of the Ryans Bay Yacht, and Motor-boat Club, at the chib’s annual smoke concert. Its facilities for commerce, lie wont on, were tyqrticularly efficient. The Harbor Board 'nad, gone about its business in a very 'creditable manner, and; it was a remark•able fact, that the assets of the hoard, ‘were about £3,000,030, whilst the liabilities amounted to £1,250,000. Five miles of berthing space were new under the board’s control. It had been said that ‘■the farmer was the backbone of the 'country, but tile farmer was helpless '’without the support afforded by watei '•communication. The port facilities and transport provided for the farmers’ goods was very elaborate, and the ships which sefvej the Dominion were among the best in the world. It was a fact •little referred to that the whole of flu ■primary produce of New Zealand was ‘carried' by ships under the British flag. jßyitisb shipowners had made much money out of the New Zealand trade, mid this should do a lot towards equalising the adverse trade balance. i SHIPPING TELEGRAMS ■ Westport.—May .15: Arrived, Margaret W, 1.10 a.m., from Gisborne.