SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 5

SHIPPING

PORT OF GISBORNE

ARRIVALS Monday. September 10 Phantom, steam trawler, 4 p.m.. 44 'tons. Warluirtoii, returned to port. The Waiinca is expected to leave Auckland at 5 p.m. to-day with cargo lor Gisborne, and to arrive here on Thursday morning to discharge, after which she will sail for Napier. The W.'iiiiui. loading for Napier and Gisborne, left RlnlV yesterday, leaves Dunedin to-day. works Famarii and Tiiuai ii tomorrow. Lyttelton on Thursday. thence Wellington. The steamer is due at Gisborne' about Tuesday next,. The Piikeko i- expected to leave Auck-

land to-niu.ii 1 with cargo for the Coast, Gisborne and Napier. -Site, slmuhl work iiere on Thursday. The Awnliou has been delayed at Lyttelton and is not expected to leave until to-dav. She will load at Wellington tomorrow. T'he vessel is due at Gisborne on Saturday, and alter discharge and loading sails for Wellington and Lyttelton. She will he laid up for a week at Lyttelton for overhaul.

(In completion of loading at .Auckland Ui-day the Margaret W. sails for Tokonaiti l’a v . Tolaga Isav and Gishorue.

She is due here on Thursday. The (and IT bine vessel Port Hobart is din- at Gishorue on Erulay from L-vt-lelton to load meat, hid ter. and general cargo for London. The ship will proceed later to Tokomani Bay, where she will emitilltii* Homeward loading. The Port llohavt completes at Napier and Wellington, sailing finally from the lastmentioned port on September 25 tor London, via Gape Horn and Dakar. The Gisborne bTieepfarniers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company are the local agents. The steam trawler Phantom, which left Gisborne yesterday Cnorning lor Napier, met heavy sens. and. realising that there would lie a rough trip across Hawke's Bav. the clew trawled for a time off Table Gape and then ret timed to port, berthing about- 4 p.m. The vessel will depart for Napier as soon as weather conditions are more favorable.

Reported to be the oldest oil-tanker afloat, the Dutch vessel .1. lb Aug Kessler. which arrived at Auckland from Ha'iik Papau on Saturday evening, had her seaworthiness tested severely when die em oiuitered 1 lie cyclonic storm vliieh recently swept the Tasman Sea tnd caused delay to the steamers Mamma and Narbada. During the Anrm the tanker was hove-tu for 20 hours, and for several days her decks veio awash with seas breaking cm hoard. One wave reached as high us the boat leek amidships mid lifted the starboard 'ifebnat out of the chocks. In spite of the severe buffeting, she suffered only minor damage.

The annual return of shipping passing 'll rough the Sue'', Canal last year was 5423. of which 2974 were British. The gross and net tonnages were nearly seven times as great as the German ships, which come next.

The Cunard-White Star liner Albortie, 18.940 tons, has been sold to Japanese ship-breakers for about £34.000. the highest price ever paid for a merchant ship for breaking up purposes.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Sydney,—Sept. 10: Arrived, Mariposa 1.10 p.m.. from Auckland.