SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 3

SHIPPING

POET- OP GISBORNE . ARRIVALS Thursday, December 13. Port Campbell, s.s., 7.20 a.m., 8308 lons, Thrower, from Bluff. DEPARTURES Wednesday, December 12. Wainui, s.s., 2.10 p.m., 1633 tons, A. 11. Howie, for Wellington. Thursday, December 13. Karoro, m.v., 12.10 a.in.. 88 tons, A. Thomson, for Tokoinaru Bay. Norfolk, s.s., 3 a.m., 10,948 tons, R. H. T..' McNish, for Tokoinaru Bay.

The Wainiea left Auckland, yesterday afternoon rvith cargo for Gi&bonie and Napier. The vessel is due here to-morrow morning and. after working this port will sail for Napier. 'The Wairnn completed the discharge of her Auckland cargo here yesterday and after loading sailed at 2.10 p.m. for Wellington. .The vessel is to load for Napier and Gisborne, leaving Dunedin on Monday next, working Oarnaru and Tima.ru on Tuesday, and Lyttelton on Wednesday. She should reach here about Saturday, December 22.

The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Norfolk completed loading frozen meat and general cargo for United Kingdom ports here yesterday and. sailed early to-day for Tokoinaru Bay, where she arrived at 7.30 o’clock and is now loading frozen meat, and general cargo. The vessel is expected to sail oil Saturday for Auckland.

The Karoro sailed early this morning for Tokoinaru Bay, where she, was to join the Tiroa in the lightering of theNorfolk. Both lightering units are expected to return to Gisborne on Sunday morning. The C. and D. Line steamer Port Campbell arrived at 7.20 a.m. to-day from Bluff to continue loading for London. After taking in meat, butter and wool she sails*for Wellington and Lyttelton to complete. The vessel will be dispatched from Lyttelton on December 29 for England, via Cape Horn and Montevideo. The Pukeko should arrive at Gisborne about 4 p.m. to-day from Auckland, via Coast bays. On completion here tonight. she sails for Napier, and returns later to Auckland, via the Coast. The Awaliou, with cargo from Wellington and Napier, is due here to-mor-row morning and is to sail the same day for Lyttelton. At the South Island port she loads on Monday for Waikokopu, Gisborne, and the Coast. The Margaret W. worked Hicks Bay and Tokomaru Bay this morning, and Toiaga Bav this afternoon, en route from Auckland to Gisborne. The .vessel arrives to-night and commences discharge to-morrow morning., The New Zealand Shipping Company’s motor vessel Rnngitata has radioed that she expects to arrive at Auckland at 7 a.m. on December 19. The vessel has Christmas mails from England. Aboard The new Federal Line motorship Durham, which arrived at Sydney recently on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, are 36 young cadets, who will become officers of the British mercantile marine. A first-class training is given the boys. ft is an expensive task for the company, extra instructing officers and more accommodation being necessary than for ,a regular crew. A premium of £4O is lodged by each cadet, but this is largely refunded when the cadet, completes his course and joins a ship. The Australian freighter Iron Chief has been sold by Interstate .Steamships, Limited, to Essex Oak Company, Limited, an English firm. The vessel will load <i full cargo of sugar at. Fiji for the United Kingdom. The Iron Chief, a vessel of 4560 tons, was only built in 1930, and arrived in Sydney in August, 1930, to replace tlie steamer of the same name which was wrecked on the North Coast in .1928. She was engaged in the Port Pirie-NowcaStle trade for some time, but has been laid up at Newcastle for the past three years.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Shipping Company’s new steamer Waipawn will .arrive in Napier shortly on her maiden voyage to New Zealand. The Waipawn Borough 'Council has decided in mark the occasion of the visit to Napier in January of the new boat in view of the fact that it lias the same name as the borough and a meeting of citizens of Waipawn has been held. An excursion is to be run to Napier, when citizens and children will visit the Wnipawa as she lies in the roadstead. A trophy is to be presented for competition among the crow of the steamer, and photographs of Waipawa and the district will probably be presented to the ship.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Auckland.—Dec- 12 : Sailed, Waimea, 12.45 p.m., for Gisborne.