SHIPPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 3

SHIPPING

PORT OP GISBORNE

ARRIVALS Thursday, September 24

Awnliou. m.v.. 5.2 a p.m., 410 tons. G. Nairn, fvoni Auckland, via lokoniavu Pay. . .

DEPARTURES Friday. .September 25

Alaignvct W., m.v., 12.10 a.m., 394 tons. It. Hurl;, lor Auckland, via Toko111a ni Hay.

The Wainui is to load at. Bluff on Monday, at- Dunedin on Tuesday, work Oamnrti and Timaru on Wednesday and Lyttelton next Thursday, thence Wellington. She should arrive at Gisborne again about Wednesday, October 7.

The I’ata (Captain A’asln) 101 l Greymouth at 5 a.in. yesterday with coal, posts and timber tor Gisborne, where she is due to-morrow morning to discharge. The Pakura loads at- Wellington today and to-morrow lor Napier, Waikokopii, Gisborne and the Coast, the ship, which has cargo from Lyttelton also, is due here, on Tuesday io discharge. The Awaliou arrived at 6.25 ji.m. yesterday from Auckland, via 'lokomani Bay. She was unable to commence unloading ibis morning on account ol the wet weather, but it was hoped to make a start this afternoon. After discharge the vessel will load for Auckland. The .Margaret W., which left Gisborne at 12.5 a.in. to-day, worked Tokoiharu Bay later iu the. morning en route to Auckland. She is due at Auckland tomorrow afternoon, and on Monday and Tuesday will load there tor the Ooasl and Gisborne.

The Blue Star Line’s vessel Napier Star is now expected to. reach Gisborne on Sunday night from Liverpool, via Panama, 'in order to commence her Homeward loading on Monday. The Shaw, Savill motor ship Wnipawa, now discharging on the Australian coast, made a record passage on her run out from London to Fremantle. The Wnipawa left London at 6.56 p.m. on August 11 and berthed at Fremantle on September 7. at 8.2 a.in. The dis tanee from London lo Fremantle, 9718 miles, was done in 24 days 4 hours 9 minutes. 'Throughout the voyage the average sjiecd was 16.75 knots, and the vessel was delayed hv fog oil’ Gibraltar for three hours. This passage of the Waipawa is thought' to he the fastest from the United Kingdom to Australia, via Suez, that so far lias been made. A dense fog enshrouded Timaru liarhour oil Wednesday, and the overseas vessel Narbada was unable to make port. Tu the evening the Port Hobart arrived from Dunedin, and she also was obliged to stay the night in the roadstead', as the fog was still very thick. The Union Company’s cargo steamer Kanna. which lias been sold to ilie Japanese, will jivoceed In Australia to tow to Japan the Union Company's steamer Lnongana. which also has been sold, lo th(> Japanese. The T/mngana if •i steel steamer of 2448 lons gross and was built, at Dumbarton. Scotland, in 1904. Although owned by the Union Company she was always engaged in the Tasmania.-Australia passenger ajid cargo service under the auspices of the Tasmanian Steamships Proprietary, Limited,

The chairman of directors of Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited, Air. M. G Anderson, who presided at the annual' meeting of shareholders, held in Adelaide recently, said that orders had been placed with the Caledon Shipbuilding Company, Limited, lor two 50CO tons deadweight cargo steamers, which would he. named Bel tana and Dungaree, after well-known pastoral properties in South Australia. Adelaide Airwavs, Limited, was incorporated on Aumist 16. 1936. with a nominal capital of "£250.000. Practically the. whole oi the issued capital was hold in equal proportions hv Adelaide. Steamship Company, Limited, and the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Limited. Adelaide Airwavs acquired S.A. Airways on February'lß. and AY.A. Airways. Limited, from July 10. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS Suva.—September 24 : Sailed, Alotilerey. for San Francisco. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE Auckland.—Afaiai. Gabriella, __ Maui Pomare, AVaipahi, Cumberland, Kalinin, Hororata, Nairnbank, Rangitaue, Wairangi and Welcomhe. Wellington.—Maori, Tamahine. Rangntira, Leith, Nucula. Wellington. Aorangi, Awatrn, Kalingo, Niagara. AVaiiganella. Pnua. Auretta. Flise. Alanjjosa,' Afonterey, Napier Star, Rangitiln and Port Fairy. Awania. —Kaivaiiga, Knrotu,. Makura, Alaungaiini. Omaua, AVaikonaiti, AAaitnki. Canadian Scottish. ( hifukn Afaru. Dunedin Star, Hertford. AT.ooltnn, Narbada, Xiomr Zeeland. Orion, Port Hobart. Pontypridd. Queen Alary, South Africa, Tamaron, Strathaird, ami Zonlandie. Chatham Islands.—South Sea,