PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 21729, 15 June 1932, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

VESSEL IN.PORT. Port Gisborne, m.v. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Storm. Lyttelton, to-day. Waipiata. Dunedin, to-morrow. Opawa. Port Chalmers, June 18. Waikouaiti. Lyttelton, June 19. Wainui, Wellington, June 20. Karamea, Port Chalmers,_ June 22. Kartigi, Dunedin, June 25. Storm, Lyttelton, June 25, Zealandic, Lyttelton, July 5. Port Hunter, Lyttelton, July 16. Canadian Highlander. Dunedin, July 19. Waihemo, Dunedin, August 18. Otira, Port Chalmers, August 25. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Port Gisborne. Lyttelton, to-day. Storm, Dunedin, to-day. Waipiata, Dunedin. June 17. Waikouaiti, Sydney, June 20. Wainui, Melbourne, June 20. Opawa, London, June 21. Karamea, Timaru, June 24. Storm, Dunedin, June 25. Kartigi, Westport. June 26. Zealandic, Gisborne, July 7. Port Hunter, Timaru, July 20. Canadian Highlander, Australia, July 20, Waihemo, Melbourne, August 19. Otira, Napier, August 27. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Carthage, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (W. S. and Co.) Esquilino, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (U.S.S.) Kamo Maru, ex Waikouaiti, m B shed (J.G.W.) . . . t J Mahana, railed from Dunedin, in A shed (D. and Co.). . . Rangitane, London portion ex Waipiata, in B shed (N.Z.S.). Troja, ex Wainui, in B shed (U.S.S.). (D. and Co.): Dalgety and Company. (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.S.): Union Steam Ship Company. (W. S. and Co.); Wright, Stephenson and Company. GENERAL NOTES. There will be no passenger service to Stewart Island this week. The mail, however, will be taken over by a smaller vessel to-day. Tile ketch Lily arrived with fish from Stewart Island yesterday at 2.45 p.m. She left again at 4.50 p.m. The Tamatea yesterday made a run to Ruapuke Island. Leaving Bluff at 9 a.m., she returned at 4.45 p.m. with a cargo of sheep and horses. The work of loading the Port Gisborne at Bluff has proceeded steadily in good weather, She is now expected to complete and sail this morning for Lyttelton. The Canterbury Shipping Company’s steamer Storm is expected to berth this morning. She discharges 50 tons of general cargo and loads about 200 tons for northern ports. She sails on completion this evening for Dunedin. The Waipiata cleared Lyttelton last evening for Dunedin and Bluff, being due here to-morrow to discharge and load general cargo. The vessel will sail on Friday evening for Dunedin. The Waikouaiti is scheduled to leave Lyttelton on Friday evening for Bluff direct, being due here on Sunday. On Monday the vessel will take her departure for Sydney direct. The Oceanic Company’s liner Mariposa, on her maiden voyage in the transpacific passenger trade, took 26 first-class passengers and 26 second-class passengers (including children) from Auckland for San Francisco last Tuesday. Goods loaded and discharged at Japanese ports during the first eleven months of 1931 aggregated 9,070.000 tons, as compared with 10,668,000 tons in the corresponding months of 1930, the decline being 15 per cent. On March 1 last there were 175 vessels of 750,000 tons gross laid up in the port of Hamburg alone, compared with 190 of 633,234 tons on February 1; while the total for all German ports was 386 vessels of 1,170,000 tons, representing 29.6 of the entire German mercantile marine. The Australian collier Balls Head is reported to have been sold to Eastern buyers. The Balls Head is a vessel of 1658 tons gross and 835 tons net. She was built at Geestemunde in 1911 and was owned by the Coal and Bunkering Company, Ltd., of Sydney. Owing to the slackness in the coal trade the Balls Head has been tied up at Sydney for some considerable time. The Union Company has made application to tlie Wellington Harbour Board for the Makura to be docked at Wellington tomorrow. The Makura, which is at present undergoing overhaul and survey at the Clyde Quay wharf, will probably remain tn dock for two or three days for completion of her overhaul and survey. She is scheduled to leave Wellington on June 28 for Auckland, thence to Sydney, where she will pick up her running in the San Francisco mail service. The motor tanker Otokia, also berthed at the Clyde Quay wharf, is to be docked at Wellington after the Makura has undocked. Owing to the depression in trade and the slackness of the passenger traffic the Oceanic Steam Ship Company’s new 19,000-ton liner, Lurline, which is being built in America, will not be placed in the Los Angeles-Auckland-Australian service with her sister ships, the Mariposa and Monterey, but she is to visit Auckland next year. When the three vessels were ordered they were intended for the Pacific passenger service to Auckland and Australia, but since then trade has fallen away to such an extent that it does not warrant the employment of the three vessels. The Lurline is to make a prolonged cruise to the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and the Orient, leaving America next January. After she returns to America from the cruise she will be commissioned in the San Francisco Honolulu service.

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., New Zealand agents for White Star Line and Associated Companies, have received advice that to take care of the large movement to Ireland for the Eucharistic Congress at Dublin this month, the Red Star liner Lapland has been designated to proceed to Dublin and anchor outside the Kingstown Harbour, to be used as a.floating hotel for members of the pil*

grimage during the congress. The Lapland, with a large party of Eucharistic pilgrims, headed by Cardinal Daugherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, left New York on Monday, and call first at Cobh (Queenstown), where some members of the party will disembark for a sightseeing trip by motor and rail to Dublin, and there join the ship again. After the congress the Lapland will leave Dublin for Havre and continue her regular itinerary to Antwerp. The White Star liner Doric carried a Eucharistic party from Montreal on June 10, and. like the Lapland, will anchor at Kingstown to be used as a hotel for the members of the pilgrimage. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday :— Auckland: Aorangi, Elverlc, Karetu, Kartigi, H.M.S. Laburnum. Marama, Recorder, Tainui, Voco, Waikawa, Waipahi, Yarravllle. Wellington: Karamea. Mahana, Maori, Mariposa, Maul Pomare, Monterey, Monowai. Niagara. Nucula, O. B. Sorensen, Port Dunedin, Port Melbourne, Rangatira, Rangitane, Rangltata, Rangitiki, Tamahine, Tymerlc, H.M.S. Wakakura, Welcombe. Awarua: Canadian Conquerer, Canadian Constructor, Coptic, Matai, Maunganui, New Zealand, Port Gisborne, Waikouaiti, Wainui. Chatham Islands: NIL TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. Auckland, June 14. Arrived: Karepo 6.45 a.m. from Westport; Marama 8.40 a.m. from Sydney. Sailed: Canopus 5.35 p.m. for Westport. To sail: Marama 9 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, June 14. Arrived: Maori 7 a.m. from Lyttelton; Kalingo 7.50 a.m. from Newcastle. Sailed: Paua 11.50 a.m. for Napier; Rangitane 12.15 p.m. for London; Monowai 3 p.m. for San Francisco; Maori 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, June 14. Arrived: Orepuki 6.10 a.m. from Timaru; Opihi 6.25 a.m. from Timaru; Rangatira 6.50 a.m. from Wellington; Holmdale 7.20 a.m. from Timaru; Maui Pomare 8.5 a.m. from Apia; Wingatui 10.15 a.m. from Timaru; Waipiata 1.40 p.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Orepuki 12.45 p.m., Holmdale 3.5 p.m., Maui Pomare 5 p.m., Opihi 5 p.m., Rangatira 8.35 p.m. all for Wellington; Canadian Constructor 5.15 p.m. and Waipiata 8.25 p.m. for Dunedin. Dunedin, June 14. Arrived: Wainui 7.30 a.m. from Bluff. Sailed: Wainui 2.10 p.m. for Lyttelton.