POST OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21854, 3 November 1932, Page 2

POST OF BLUFF.

ARRIVED. —Wednesday, October 2.— Waikouaiti s.s. (Captain J. Rankine) 3,926 tons from Sydney at 5.25 p.m. SAILED. —Wednesday, October 2.— Nolisement s.s. (Captain Williams) 5,111 tons for Sydney at 10.30 a.m. VESSEL IN PORT. Waikouaiti s.s. EXPECTED AP.RIVALS. Holmglen, Wellington, to-morrow. Rangitikl, Wellington, November 6. Paua, Wellington, November 7. Wainui, Melbourne, November 7. Storm, Lyttelton, November 8. Waipiata, Dunedin, November 10. Waikouaiti, Lyttelton, November 12. Wainui, Wellington, November 14. Port Fremantle, Dunedin. November 18. Mahana. Wanganui, December 2. Taranaki, Dunedin, December 21. Pakeha, Dunedin, December 30. Northumberland, Dunedin, January 12. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waikouaiti. Dunedin, to-day. Holmglen, Dunedin, to-morrow. Wainui, Dunedin, November 7. Paua, Dunedin. November 8. Storm, Dunedin, November 8. Rangitiki, Lyttelton. November 9. . Waipiata. Dunedin, November 10. Waikouaiti, Sydney, November 12. Wainui, Melbourne, November 14. Port Fremantle, Lyttelton, November 21. Mahana, Wellington, December 5. Taranaki, . December 24. Pakeha. New Plymouth, January 2. Northumberland, , January 14. . INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Otranto, ex Wainui, in B shed (U.S.S.). Port Gisborne, ex imer at Bluff, in B shed (Hend.). Tainui, ex Wainui. in B shed (N.M.A.). Talleyrand, 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. The Tamatea sailed for Stewart Island at 10.25 a.m. yesterday on her weekly trip. She returns , to Bluff this morning. After waiting a day for tlie gale to subside, the Morell Line steamer Nolisement sailed yesterday morning for Sydney. The wind remained strong and the vessel, which is in ballast, seems assured of a buffeting on her voyage across the Tasman. The Union Company’s Intercolonial freighter Waikouaiti reached Bluff from Sydney with Australian mails and cargo last evening after a rough passage across. To-day she discharges her cargo and sails this evening for northern ports via Dunedin. The Wainui, which was scheduled to clear Melbourne yesterday for Bluff direct, is due here on Monday morning. She will sail again in the afternoon for Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. The Rangitiki is expected to leave Wellington at 5 p.m. to-morrow for Bluff direct, being due here on Sunday morning. The vessel will sail again on Wednesday for Lyttelton. -The Shaw. Savill and Albion Company s steamer Mahana is expected to arrive at Bluff from Wanganui on Friday, December 2. After loading dairy produce and general cargo, the vessel will sail on Monday, the sth, for Wellington and Napier, leaving the last-named port on December 16 for Home. ... The Union Company's • chartered steamer Narbada, from Newcastle, was due 'it Calcutta on Sunday. She is to load there, leaving early in December for Penang, Singapore, and Samarang, to complete for Auckland, Wellington, .Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff. En route from Japan, the Japanese motor ship Brisbane Maru left Hobart on Friday for Wellington and Auckland. She is due at Wellington to-day. When the O. and O. Line steamer Golden Cloud has finished discharging Pacific Coast cargo in New Zealand, she will cross to Australian ports to complete, and will then return to Westport to load a cargo of coal for discharge at Pago Pago to the order of the American navy. To -discharge 4400 cases of Samoan and 1600 cases of Niue bananas, the Government motor ship Maui Pomare called at Lyttelton on Monday. The consignments are for distribution in the South Island. On December 31, 1931, states the annual report of the Marine Department, there were on the register of vessels in the Dominion 65 sailing vessels of 5892 tons register, 231 steamers of 95,929 tons register, and 234 motor vessels of 8118 tons register, as compared with 65 sailing vessels of 5892 tons register, 242 steamers of 98,305 tons register, and 224 motor vessels of 773 .tons register at the end of the previous year. The' number of seamen and boys employed on board was 3597, as compared with 3680 for the year 1930. The motor ship Taranaki., which was scheduled to sail from Liverpool yesterday for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Dunedin and Bluff, comes to New Zealand via Cape Town, where she picks up cargo for the five Dominion ports. She is due at Auckland about December 11 and at Bluff about December 21. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Pakeha is to leave London on November 9 for Lyttelton, Port Chalmejs, Bluff and New Plymouth. She is due to arrive at Lyttelton about December 23, and at Bluff about December 30. The Tamaroa is to sail from London on November 30 for Wellington (passengers only), Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, and Timaru. She is due at Wellington about January 4. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line advise the following projected departures for New Zealand: From London.—February 1, for Dunedin. Lyttelton, and Timaru; February 22, for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Nelson; April 5, for Auckland, Wellington, and Hawkes Bay; June 7, for Lyttelton and Dunedin;. August 9, for ’ Wellington, Auckland, and New Plymouth; September 20. for Auckland, Dunedin, and Bluff; October 11. for Dunedin and Lyttelton; December 13, for Auckland, Wellington and Bluff. From Glasgow and Liverpool.— March 25, for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Timaru; August 19, for

Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin. On an operating table Improvised by the carpenter, two doctors, assisted by the captain. successfully operated on a seaman on board the Aberdeen-Commonwealth motor ship Coptic a few days out from Aden recently. When the ship arrived nt Sydney the seaman, who had been suffering from appendicitis, was well on the road to recovery. The sea was smooth and the operation was performed in the smoke-room without the vessel being stopped. The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Walmana is scheduled to leave Great Britain for New Zealand in ballast early in December to load for England. She is due in New Zealand about January. 10. The vessel’s former name was Waimana, but for a number of years she ran under the name of Herminius. She was recently renamed after her arrival in England from Australia. It was fifty years ago last week since an advertisement was placed in the Wellington Post calling for tenders for a direct passenger and mail steamship service between England and New Zealand. The following were among the terms laid down for the contract:—The service was to be once every calendar month, each way. commencing in April, 1883. from London, and from New Zealand in July, to continue for three years; the ships were to be not less than 3000 tons gross; the contractor was to have the option of calling first at, or leaving finally from any of the four main New Zealand ports, and was to be allowed to call at as many of the ports as desired in between arriving and departing; the voyage was to be performed each way in not more than 1200 hours; passengers were to be carried at rates not exceeding £3O for second class and £l5 for third class; Government immigrants were to be carried for not more than £l5; cargo for the New Zealand Government was to be carried for 24/- per ton (weight), and 30/- per ton (measurement); the probable quantity of Government cargo would be 14,000 tons yearly, and the number of immigrants 2500 per annum; the vessels were to be fitted with refrigerating machinery and a mail locker; the vessels were to be exempt from the payment of light and harbour dues at New Zealand ports. After the advertisement appeared The Post stated that it was thought that there would be a large number of competitors willing to undertake the service. It was probable that, in addition to the Union Steam Ship Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company, the tenderers would Include the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, and possibly Messrs Sloman and Co., of Hamburg, “whose pioneer boat, the Sorrento, will be here shortly.” the Messageries Maritimes, Messrs Money. Wigram, and Co., the company then carrying on the Torres Strait mail service, and other ship-owning firms of note. It was expected that the likelihood of the Panama Canal being completed in a few years might materially influence tenderers "as the contractor who should be in possession of the field at the time the canal is opened would manifestly enjoy a vast advantage at the outset of a new trade.” Personal Items. Captain Hay is now in command of the Taupata. Captain C. G. Matheson will he in command of the Orient liner Oronsay when she leaves London on November 12 for AusCaptain E. P. Cameron will be in command of the Orama when she leaves London on October 29. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of tlie undermentioned wireless stations yesterday : — Auckland: Canadian Constructor, Hauraki, Karetu. Niagara, Tymeric, Waipahi, Sydhav. Wellington: Antigone, Aorangi, Brisbane Maru, Discovery 11., Golden Cloud, Makura, Mariposa, Monterey, Norfolk, Opawa, Port Dunedin, Rangatira, Tainui, Tamahine, Wahine. Awarua: Monowai, Nolisement, Waikouaiti. Wainui, Sir James Clark Ross. Chatham Islands: Nil. AUSTRALIAN-N.Z. TRADE. MEETING COMPETITION. Sydney, October 20. The announcement by the Union Steam Ship Company that in future its fastest steamer, the Monowai, would be placed in the Trans-Tasman service between Australia and New Zealand can be*regarded as the direct outcome of the keen rivalry in the Pacific between this company and the American Matson Line. It is noteworthy that the Huddart, Parker Company has under offer a fast new motor-ship of 10,000 tons, and if the purchase is completed this vessel will join the Monowai and the Marama in maintaining a high-class regular service which will be extended to Melbourne. The Matson Line advertises its New Zealand service extensively in Sydney and Melbourne, and as both ports are visited regularly it was inevitable that the British companies should follow suit.

The Huddart, Parker Co., has despatched to London three officers who will inspect and take delivery of the motor liner Achimota, an up-to-date well-fitted passenger vessel of 10,000 tons, which has never been commissioned since its completion for the British and African Steam Navigation Company last year. It is this vessel which will take up the running of the Zealandia. The Union Company and the Huddart, Parker Company will thus have in the Tasman two ships capable of a speed as great as, or greater than, tha of the United States sister ships Monterey and Mariposa. The Monowai is credited with the ability to reach 23 knots and her best time for the journey between Sydney and Wellington without being extended is 66 hours, only a few hours behind the record for the Syd-ney-Auckland run now held by the Mariposa. Moreover, both the Monowai and the Achimota will be able to offer a very high standard of comfort and convenience to intercolonial passengers.

The competition offered by the United States line is regarded in shipping circles in Australia as equivalent to dumping of the worst kind, and it is certain than an appeal will be made to the Commonwealth and the New Zealand Government to take legislative steps to prevent it. It was recently pointed out that the Monterey, the Mariposa, and the Lurline —the latter is now nearing completion—were built on a basis of a 75 per cent. Government loan, repayable over 25 years, at a low rate of interest, stated to be 14 per cent. In addition they receive a mail subsidy of ten dollars a mile on the outward journey from San Francisco, which amounts, on the two liners now in service, to more than £200,000 a year. British and other foreign ships carrying mail out of United States ports are subjected to discrimination in the amount of mail poundage paid. ■ Another argument advanced in favour of action by the Commonwealth to prevent the United States Line from trading between Australia and New Zealand, is the fact that British ships are prevented by the United States “coasting regulations” from trading between Hawaii and the United States mainland. For this reason the United Royal Mail Line was forced to exclude Honolulu from the itinerary of the ships That used to run in the Sydney-Auckland-San Francisco sendee. Wellington is now the New Zealand port of call instead of Auckland. Against this is set the fact that the Monterey and Mariposa trade between Suva, Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne.

TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Wellington, November 2. Arrived; Rangatira 7 a.m., Gale 1.45 p.m. and Waimarino 3.15 p.m. from Lyttelton; Opihi 10.45 a.m. from New Plymouth; Paua 7.35 p.m. from Gisborne. Sailed: Matai 8.5 a.m. for Northern lights; Brisbane Maru 5 p.m. for Auckland; Gale 6.5 p.m. for Wanganui; Opihi 6.15 p.m. for Dunedin; Rangatira 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, November 2. Arrived: Wahine 6.50 a.m. and Wingatui 8.5 a.m. from Wellington; Totara 6.55 a.m., Storm 7 a.m. and Holmdale 9 a.m. from Timaru. Sailed: Totara 2.10 p.m., Storm 2.25 p.m., Holmdale 3.30 p.m. and Wahine 7.55 p.m. for Wellington; Wingatui 4.10 p.m. for Dunedin. Dunedin, November 2. Arrived:—Orepuki 5.30 p.m. from Wellington. London, November 1. Arrived. —At Colon, City of Adelaide. Sailed.—From Teneriffe, Tairoa; from San Francisco; Golden Coast, from Curacao, Huntingdon. K