PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 21831, 7 October 1932, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Norfolk, Port Chalmers, October 9. Nolisement, Juan de Nova, October 1 • • Storm. Lyttelton. Oct °*»r 13. Plymoith. October 17. Wainui. Melbourne, October 17. Port GlsW n e. Dunedin. October 20. Paua. WSnington. October 24. Wainui. Wellington, October 24. Kiwitea. Melbourne, October 24. Rangitikl, Wellington. November 10. Taranaki, Dunedin, December 21. Pakeha. Dunedin, December 30. Northumberland, Dunedin, January 11. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Storm, Dunedin, October 13. Waikouaiti. Sydney, Oct° b % 14. Norfolk, Timaru. October 16. Wainui, Dunedin, Oc.ober 17. H M.S. Diomede. Dunedin. Octobe. !»■ Port Gisborne. Timaru, October 23. Wainui, Melbourne. October 24. Paua. Dunedin. October 25. Kiwitea, Dunedin, October 25. Rangitikl. . November 12.. Nolisement, port anl date indefinite. Taranaki. . December 24. Pakeha, New Plymouth, January 2. Northumberland, . January INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Cathay, ex Wainui, in B shed (W. S. and C'canberra, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (U Changte, ex Waikouaiti. in B shed (0.5. C. Ormonde, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed Kendsbury, ex Wiikoualti, in B shed railed f-om Dunedin, in A shed Wainui. in B shed (W. S. al ßaranga, ex Waipiata. in B shed (N.M.A.). Yarra, ex Waikouaiti, in B shed (U.S.S.). GENERAL NOTES. The Bank Line motor- ship Comilebank is due at New Plymouth to-morrow with sulphur from Galveston. ■ V The motor ship TJranakl left Las Palmas on September 27 in continuation of her voyage from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. She sailed from Auckland on August 26 after completing loading. The Bank Line steamer Tymeric was to clear Wanganui on September 30 for Sydney, where sne will be docked for inspection following her grounding while entering the port at Wanganui on September 17. From Sydney she will proceed to Newcastle, where she will bunker for a further trip to the Islands. After lying idle in England since the end of June the Shaw, SavUl and Albion liner Mataroa is scheduled to leave Southampton for Wellington and Auckland on October 7. She is due at Wellington on November 9. The assistant secretary of marine, Mr B. W. Mlllier. advises that a new copy of Chart No. 1423, Port Nicholson, showing large corrections, has been published and may be purchased at Mercantile Marine offices. Existing copies are thereby cancelled. The motor ship Southern Cross, which is due at Auckland this week from Greenwich, is fitted with two Gardner Diesel engines of the two-stroke type. Each develops 120 h.p. and has five cylinders, 9in diameter by Ilin stroke. Al 9 h.p. two-cylinder Gardner high-speed Diesel engine is used to drive the auxiliary machinery, including a dynamo, water pump and air compressor. The vessel is 106 ft overall, 90ft waterline and 25ft beam, and was built by J. S. White and Co., of Cowes. „ At the annual meeting of the West Coast Refrigerating Co., Ltd., it was stated by the manager that the coastal vessel Hawera, when steam propelled, did 66 trips in a year, carrying a total of 62.949 crates, with an average load of 947 crates. Now, as a motor-ship, the -vessel had done 56 trips, carrying 76,428 crates, an average of 1356 crates for a trip. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterclay:— Auckland: Aorangi. Canadian Challenger, Kaimiro, Kalingo, Morlnda, Port Gisborne, Remuera, Sydney Maru, Waipahi. Wellington: Comilebank. Discovery 11., H.M.S. Dunedin, Kanna, Maimoa, Maori, Mariposa, Maunganui. Monterey, Niagara, Orarl, Paua, Port Huon, Port Victor, Rangatlra. Rangitata, Rangitikl. Raranga, Sir James Clark Ross, Tamahine. Tekoa. Awarua: Canadian Cruiser. Kiwitea. Makura, Matai, Monowai, Nolisement, Waikouaiti. Wainui. Chatham Islands: Nil. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 6. Arrived: Maimoa 4.45 a.m. from Wellington; Karepo 1.10 a.m. from New Plymouth; Remuera 11.30 a.m. from Wellington. Sailed: Wingatui 8 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, October 6. Arrived: Maori 7 a.m. and Orepuki 1 p.m. from Lyttelton; Waikawa 6.15 a.m. from Auckland. Sailed: Port Victor 5.15 p.m. for Auckland; Gale 5.40 p.m. for Dunedin; Orepuki 6.40 p.m. for Wanganui; Maori 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, October 6. Arrived Rangatira 6.50 a.m. from Wellington; Waipiata 8.15 a.m. from Timaru; Pakura 2.45 p.m. from Giaborne. Sailed: Waipiata 5 p.m. and Rangatira 9.10 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, October 6. Arrived: Norfolk 8 a.m. from Lyttelton; Waikouaiti 8.15 a.m. from Bluff; Antigone 8.15 a.m. from Lyttelton; Port Whangarei 10 a.m. from Wellington; Waimarino 11 a.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Storm 1 a.m. for Oamaru; Port Whangarei 9 p.m. for Timaru.