PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21273, 19 December 1930, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Calm, Lyttelton, to-morrow. Maheno, Wellington, December 22. Corinthic, Dunedin, December 23. Waikouaiti, Timaru, December 23. Tisnaren, Wellington, December 24 . Rotorua, New Plymouth, December 27. Waipiata, Dunedin, December 29. Narbada, Dunedin, January 21. Cumberland, Port Chalmers, February 3. Port Alma, Lyttelton, February 17. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Calm, Dunedin, to-morrow. Kamona, Oamaru, to-morrow. Maheno, Melbourne, December 23. Tisnaren, Sydney, December 24. Waikouaiti, Sydney, December 24. Corinthic, , Decemoer 29. Waipiata, Dunedin, December 30. Rotorua, Port Chalmers, December 30. Narbada, Newcastle, January 26. Port Alma, , February 21. Cumberland, , February 23. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Karoola, ex Maheno, in B shed (U. S. S.) Maranoa, ex Maheno, in B shed (U. S. S.) Mongolia, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (D. qnd Co.) Orontes, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (U. S. S.) Port Campbell, ex Calm, in B shed (Hend.) Rangitane, ex Calm, in B shed (N. Z. S.) Turakina, railed from Dunedin, in A shed (J. G. W.) Westmoreland, ex Wingatui, in B shed (J. G. W.) (D. and Co.): Dalsety and Companr. (Hend.): Henderson and Company. (H.L.T.): H. L. Tapley and Company. (J.G.W.): J. G. Ward and Company. (N.M.A.): National Mortgage and Agency Company. (N.Z.S.): New Zealand Shipping Company. (0.5. C. Oreti Shipping Company. (U.S.SJ: b’nioa Steam Ship Couipuj. GENERAL NOTES. The Tamatea arrived from Port Chalmers shortly after 10 o'clock on W’ednesday evening. She left for Stewart Island at 10.15 yesterday and returned last evening. She leaves again for the Island at 3 p.m. to-day, returning on Saturday morning. Messrs Henderson and Company, Ltd., local agents for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line Ltd., advise that the t.m.v. Port Dunedin has been allotted to load for Ixmdon and is due at Bluff about January 26. The Matson liner Malolo, which was recently at Wellington in the course of her second round-the-Pacific pleasure tour, and which made a record trip between Sydney and Wellington, has a number of other records to her credit. Two were made in 1929. One is for the trip between San Francisco and Y'okohama, a distance of 4535 miles, which she did in 10 days 6 hours and 38 minutes, steaming at an average speed of 18.39 knots.. The other Was made when she did the 1276 miles separating Sydney and Auckland in 2 days 21 hours 17 minutes at an average speed of 18.42 knots. This year she made a record trip from Bangkok to Singapore, a distance of 811 miles in 1 day 15 hours 21 minutes, the average speed being 20.61 knots. She made the trip between Sydney and Wellington, 1223 miles, in 2 days 19 hours 42 minutes, at an average speed of 18.07 knots. While the P. and O. liner Razmak was being transformed into . the Union Company’s new Monowai at the Clyde Quay Wharf recently, it was noticed that when the funnels were being given their new colouring of red and black, the after funnel was given a broader band of black than its companion, although finally the black tops on the two funnels were of the same depth. When the Monowai entered the service her funnels still differed from those of other ships in the company’s service in that they were each circled by one narrow black sfripe instead of the usual two. The reason lies in the fact that the Razmak’s funnels differed in construction from those on ships built for the Union Company, and when it came to painting them a certain amount of experimenting was done with a view to obtaining the best results so far as the appearance of the ship was concerned. The broad black top was tried, but was discarded, as it was considered that it gave the ship too squat an appearance. Similarly, when two black strips were painted on the funnels they were too close together, and consequently one was done away with. Under the restrictions of the Eighteenth Amendment, champagne can no longer be used at the christening of vessels in the United States. In the case of the new Dollar liner which was to have been launched at Newport News on Tuesday last by Mrs Hoover, wife of the President of the United States, after whom the vessel is named, Mrs Hoover was to break over the bow of the vessel a bottle of water collected from all the seas over which the Dollar Line’s vessels ply, samples being included from the Atlantic,’ Pacific, China Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Red Red, and Mediterranean Sea. Mrs Hoover was the first American President’s wife to sponsor a. ship named in honour of her husband. The President Hoover, the first of two turbo-electrically driven ships for the Dollar fleet .being built simultaneously on the east coast of the States, and • her sister- , ship, which has yet to be named, will be the largest and most, modern and palatial merchant vessels ever turned out in American shipyards, and they are the forerun- I ners of a fleet of four queens of the seas contemplated under the Dollar Line building programme. The President Hoover is to go into service at New York in June, 1 1931, and will' operate in the round-the-world trade of the Dollar Company.