SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 5

SHIPPING

PORT OF GISBORNE ARRIVALS Tuesday, December 3 IVkura, in.v.. 8.35 a.m.. 719 lons. C \V C'olrticutt, from Napier. DEPARTURES Monday, December 2 Koutimui, in,v., 2.40 p.m., 167 ions, Nairn, for Napier. Tiroa, s.s., 5.10 p.m., 206 ions, G. LMcDonald, for Napier. The Waiinii (Captain C. C. Waters), wii'i souiherii cargo, leaves Napier al 3 p.m. to-day and on completion of discharge and loading here to-morrow i,-; to return to Napier, thence Wellington. The steamer is to load again for Napier and Gisborne leaving Bluff on Monday next.

The Gabriella, loaded with coal from Newcastle and general cargo from Sydney. is en route tn Castlecliff, Napier and Gisborne. Tlio steamer is expected to arrive here about December 11. The Poolla loads coal at Weslpprt about. Friday, completing at Greymoulh, fo 1 - Miramar. Wellington and Gisborne.

Tin' New Zealand Shipping Company's' steamer Tekoa is due at Gisborne about December 10 or 12 to load frozen meat. butter and general cargo for London, and at Tokomaru Hay aliout December 22 to load frozen, meat and wool.

The Pukeko loads at. Auckland today and sails ihis evening for flicks Bay, Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay and Gisborne. She arrives here on Thursday and after discharge and loading proceeds to Napier. The Paknra arrived al 8.35 a.m. today from Vvellington, via Napier. On completion of working here this afternoon she departs for Lyttelton in order to 1 load there on Thursday for Waikokopu, Gisborne and the Coast. The Margaret W. completes loading at Auckland this evening and sails for Tokomaru Bay. Tolaga Bay and Gisbomc. She arrives here on Thursday and after discharging and loading returns to Auckland.

The Koutunui sailed at 2.40 p.m.. yesterday with wool for Napier. The vessel discharges there to-day and then returns to Gisborne in order to load a further shipment of wool here to-mor-row for the ITawke's Bay port. The Tiroa. which cleared Gisborne at. 5.10 p.m. yesterday with wool for Nipier, returns to this port early tomorrow morning.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Reinuera. which left New Zealand on October 26. arrived at London yesterdav morning. Bookings for the Christmas period on the inter-island steamers are particularly heavy this year. Although there is still ample accommodation for pas sengers prior lo Christmas Day. if h reported that, compared with other years, Ihis season promises to establish something of a record. Already male traveller-; are being issued with berths in the smoke and dining rooms, but women still have the advantage of being able 10 .secure cabins. An interesting arrival at the Caslleeliff Wharf. Wanganui. is the. Greek vessel Nemea. 51.01 tons gross register, which arrived with a cargo of sulphur from Japan. She is officered entirely bv Greeks and the crew, with the exception of four Chinese, is also Greek. Captain A. Cacovantns lias command and has sailed the ship all over the world, mostly employed in carrying wheat cargoes from South America lo European countries. Much interest; attaches to the visit ol the Shaw, .Savill and Albion Company s motor vessel Waipawa which is at present at Tort Nelson, for the reason that she is (he longest vessel tn enter Nelson harbor. On February 1 last the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rot.orua broke all previous records lor the port in this respect ami on Wednesday the Waipawa eclipsed, her record, being sonic 10ft. longer. Under the control of her new owners, a British firm, the former Cnion Company's tanker Otokia left Dnuedin on Wednesday. direct for San Pedro, California. The vessel, which is in firstclass order after undergoing an extensive overhaul at Port Chalmers, is under i.|,,-. command of Captain Sailer and manned bv a Japanese crew. At. San Pedro |lf. Olokia will load 10.000 ions of oil (uel for delivery at a Japanese port. The I'nitcd Slates Lines have had the ti,,,,, limit .luring which they arc to build a new Manhattan extended by GO d'ivs It will lie remembered that when ,]',;. company was given permission by (he Shipping Board Bureau to lay np ll,e. Leviathan if was stipulated that a sister-shin to the Manhattan and Wisbi„uton was to be laid down within six mouths otherwise the company would become liable to a penalty of 1,000,000 dollars (£200,000), states the Syren and Shipping. The lime limit having now expired, the Secretary of Commerce has insisted that a. preliminary application to build the ship must be made to him by October 10. and that tenders are to |,;. received and opened by November 12. The contract is tn be placed by December 16. and failure to comply wit" these provisions will mean the forfeiture 0 f the £200.000 ••'liquidated damages. 11 is made an express part of the new a KVP ?ment that the ship will conform lo the latest safety regulations, which are to be revised in the light of recent disasters. The United Stales Lines w, I therefore he obliged to submit Iresh plans incorporating these improvements. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Napier.-Dec. 3: Arrived, al 3.10 ~ m Koutunui. from Gisborne; at 7.45 a.m., Tiroa, from C.isborne Napier.- Dec. 3: Sailed, at 10.00 ;,.„,.. Tiroa. for Gisborne.