PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21274, 20 December 1930, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Friday, December 17.— Kamona s.s. (Captain W. Wighficld), arrived from Westport at 8.15 p.m, . VESSEL IN PORT. Ramona s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Calm, Lyttelton, to-day. Maheno, Wellington, December 22. Corinthie, Dunedin, December 23. Waikouaiti, Timaru, December 23. Tisnaren, Wellington, December 24 . Rotorua, New Plymouth, December 27. j Waipiata, Dunedin, December 29. Narbada, Dunedin, January 24. Port Dunedin, , January 26. Cumberland, Port Chalmers, February 3. Port Alma, Lyttelton, February 17. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Calm, Dunedin, to-day. Ramona, Oamaru, December 22. Maheno, Melbourne, December 23. Tisnaren, Sydney, December 24. Waikouaiti, Sydney, December 24. Corinthie. , December 29. Waipiata, Dunedin, December 30. Rotorua, Port Chalmers, December 30. Narbada, Newcastle, January 26. Port Dunedin, . January 28. Port Alma, , February 21.\ Cumberland, , February 23. GENERAL NOTES. . . 1 The Union Company’s collier Kamona arrived from Westport at 8.15 p.m. last evening. She is expected to finish discharg- : ing her cargo of coal on Monday and to sail in the afternoon for Oamaru.

The Tamatea left for Stewart Island at 3 p.m. yesterday. She returns this morning and leaves for the Island again in the evening.

The Union Company’s intcr-coloni; . freighter Waikouaiti, now at Lytteltoi ’ goes to Timaru and then on to Bluff. Tl vessel is due at Bluff on December 29 an sails the following day for Sydney dircc .q Messrs J.-G<-Ward and Company advii hl the following sailing of Federal steamei from Liverpool: Cumberland, December 2 e. for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Poi ts Chalmers and Bluff; Otaio January 3 ft ' u Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dm ™ edin; Tekoa January 31 for Auckland, We lington, Lyttelton and Dunedin; Hertfor 3 - February 14 for Auckland, Wellingtoi 8. Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and New Plj #• mouth; Orari March 14 for Aucklant Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Lyttelton an Dunedin; Opawa April 25 for Aucklant L Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Th L Otaio, Orai and Otawa are making thei ~ initial voyages. It was announced at San Francisco r< I. cently that as the result of a successft campaign carried on by the San Francisc e, Chamber of Commerce for the last thre 1, years, millions of dollars worth of foreig cargoes which were now being entere - through other Pacific Coast ports to th exclusion of San Francisco, would be er - tered there in future. An assurance to tha 3 effect was given with the announcetnen 1 by the Chamber of Commerce of an agree 4 ment signed by all the leading transpacifi 5 steamship lines and railroad companies t 1 absorb wharfage charges levied by the Har 5 bour Commission upon cargoes held at Sai 8 Francisco in transhipment for a period ex ceeding ten days. “By sharing this burden “ the carriers-, have not only placed Sai I, Francisco on a parity with Seattle, whicl has heretofore received thousands of ton of cargoes annually that might logical! have entered this port, but have reducei the handling and storage charges to ver; much less than the northern port,” th b chamber’s statement said. ‘‘This new in ducement will benefit not only the ship per of merchandise from Oriental countrie to interior points in the United States, bu r. will attract a vast amount of new busines to steamship and rail lines. Coincident witl Ihe agreement of the carriers to absorl wharfage charges, which amount is L - cents a ton for thirty days, the chambe was successful in persuading the Harbou Board to discontinue limiting the storagi period on incoming cargoes to ten days ‘ thereby giving the shipper the same advan tages in San Francisco that he has pre 3 viously enjoyed in Seattle. The ten-da; storage limit was originally imposed hen to discourage the use of wharves for ware house purposes. Signatories to the agree I ment are the Southern Pacific Company < Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway j Western Pacific Railway, Nippon Yusei , Kaisha Steamship Company, Dollar Steam . ship Line, Java-Pacific Line, Yamashitr J Shipping Company, Klaveness Line, Mitsui i and Co., Oceanic and Oriental Navigatior i Company, Union Steam Ship Company ol New Zealand, and the Matson Navigation 1 Company. J THE MAHENO. ■ The Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamer Maheno leaves Wellington ' at l p.m. to-day for Bluff direct. The ves- ' sei is due on Monday morning at 3.30 a.m ’ and sails at 3.30 a.m. on Tuesday for Melbourne direct. ’ TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. Auckland, December 19. ArrivedKartigi 1.10 a.m. from New Plymouth; Poolta 3.45 a.m. from Newcastle; Soina 5.25 p.m. from Dunedin. I Sailed:—Tisnaren 6'p.m. for Wellington, Wellington, December 19. Arrived:—Kaimai 5 a.m. from Greymouth; Wahine 7 a.m. from Lyttelton; Maheno 8.20 a.m. from Lyttelton; Breeze 1.40 p.m. from Onekaka; John 3 p.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed:—Huanui 5 a.m. for Gisborne; Marama 3 p.m. for Lyttelton; Wahine 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, December 19. Arrived Maori 6.40 a.m. from Wellington; Calm 7 a.m. from Wellington; Waikouaiti noon from Dunedin; Himatangi 1.20 p.m. from Picton; Waikawa 2.20 p.m. from Napier. Sailed: —Calm 325 p.m. for Bluff; Raranga 6.20 p.m. for Dunedin; Maori 3.35 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, December 19. Arrived: —Waimarino 7.15 a.m. from Lyttelton; Canopus from Lyttelton. Honolulu, December 18. Arrived: —Niagara. San Francisco, December 18. Sailed: —Nucula. London, December 18. Sailed:—Ruahine. Suva, December 19. Arrived: —Aorangi from Auckland.