SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18855, 5 November 1935, Page 3

SHIPPING

PORT OF GISBORNE

DEPARTURES Monday. November '1 Tiroa. s.s., 7 p.m., 206 tons. .1. \\ 11. Holmes, for Napier.

The Waiiiui is expected to leave Napier at 4 p.m. to-day For Gisborne. On completion of discharge and loading icrc to-morrow the vessel will return to .Vellington, proceeding thence to Bluff, where she is lo commence loading again next week for Napier and Gisborne. The Pttkeko leaves Auckland to-night with cargo for Coast bays. Gisborne and Napier. She arrives here on Thursday and sails the same day for Napier. The I'akura arrives to-morrow irom Wellington, via Napier. On completion of discharge and loading she returns to Wellington, where she will undergo stirvev. The Awahou is proceeding to Lyttelton to load there on Thursday lor Waikokopu. Gisborne and the Coast. She will load at Wellington on Friday and Saturday for Napier and Gisborne. The vessel i's due here on Tuesday next. The Koutunui loads cement at Portland to-day for Napier and Gisborne. She arrives here on Thursday. The Margaret W. completes loading at Auckland to-night and departs for Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Hay, and Gisborne. She arrives here on Thursday and returns later to Auckland. The King Malcolm completes the discharge of her shipment of bitumen for Gisborne this evening and sails lor Napier. Wellington. New Plymouth, iivltelton. Duneclin and Bluff. Her Gisborne cargo comprised 900 drums and MOO casks. Lloyd's Register shows that the ship was built in 1925 by D. and \V. Henderson. Glasgow, and that her overall measurements arc 400 ft. in length. 59ft. in breadth, and 25.9 ft. in depth. An unusual feature of the ship's construction is her corrugated sides. There are two corrugations on each oi the ship's sides just below the waterline, projecting about 2ft. from the normal line of her hull. The corrugations commence near the, bow and are carried practically the full length of the ship. Several improvements were claimed for this construction, 'which was embodied in a few ships built about the .same time.

The aux. scow llorouta completed the discharge of her cargo of posts Ibis morning and commenced loading maize for Auckland.

The Tiroa sailed at 7 p.m. yesterday with a further cargo of wool for Napier. She returns early to-morrow morning.

SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Napier. -Nov. 5: .Arrived.. 8 a.in Tiroa. from Gisborne.