PORT OF BLUFF.

Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF.

SAILED. Friday, December 23. Waipiata s.s. (Captain E. R. Lowe) 2826 tons, for Dunedin at 4.20 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waikouaiti, Sydney, December 26. Taranaki, Dunedin, December 30. Northumberland,- United Kingdom, January 3. Kerepo, Hobart, January 4. Pakeha, Dunedin, January 7. Storm'. Lyttelton, January 9. Waimana,' Lyttelton, January 12. Surrey, Dunedin. January 14. Wairuna, Dunedin, January 15. Rotorua, Port Chalmers. February 20. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Waikouaiti, Dunedin, December 26. Taranaki, Timaru, January 3. Karepo. Dunedin. January 4. Northumberland, New Plymouth, January Pakeha; New Plymouth, January 9. Storm, Dunedin, January 9. Wairuna, Melbourne, January 15. Waimana, Wellington, January ■ 16. Surrey, Port Chalmers, January 20. Rotorua, , . February 23. INWARD CARGO ON HAND. Largs Bay. ex Walnul, in B shed (D and Co.). Maloja. ex Waikouaiti. -In B ahed (W. S and Co.). Mataroa. ex Storm. In B shed (N:M.A.). Nleuw Zeeland, ex Waikouaiti, In B shed (D. and Co.). '' •< . GENERAL NOTES. The Tamahine leaves at 10.15 a.m. to-day for Stewart Island. She returns to Bluff at 3.45 p.m., sailing again for the Island about 4 p.m. to return to Bluff about 10 p.m. The motor ship Taranaki left Lyttelton yesterday for Dunedin, thence Bluff to discharge West Coast of the United Kingdom cargo and to load for London etc. The vessel is due at Bluff on Friday, and is expected' to sail for .Timaru about January 3. The Shaw Savill and Albion' steamer Pakeha with London cargo to discharge, is now due at Bluff on January 7, and is ex- . pected to sail for New Plymouth on January 9. The Waimana is expected at Bluff from Lyttelton about January 12 to load meat, dairy produce and general cargo for London etc. She Is expected to sail for Wellington about January 16. The Port Fairy, en route from London to Wellington, left Panama on December 17. She Is due at Wellington on January 8. The Federal Line steamer Surrey is due at Auckland on December 29 from Liverpool. She has cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Shaw, Savill'Company has received a wireless message from the liner Mataroa, which left Auckland on December 14 for Southampton and London, via the Panama canal, reporting that she has been experiencing fine weather, and that all on board are well. The Shaw. Savill Company has received cable advice that the liner Tamaroa, en route from London and Southampton to Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and Timaru. cleared Balboa on the morning of December 17. She is due at Wellington on January 4. After spending 10 days In the Haurakl Gulf carrying out gunnery exercises, H.M.S. Laburnum returned to Auckland on December 16. She will leave Auckland on January 17 on her summer cruise to southern ports, calling at Napier, Dunedin. Timaru, Lyttelton. Akaroa, Wellington and Picton. She will then return to Auckland. During the week ended November 4, 1200 vessels, representing 905,017 net register tons, used the port of London. Four hundred and ten vessels (683,959 net register tons) were to and from colonial and foreign ports and 790 vessels (221,058 net register tons) were engaged in coastwise traffic. Five vessels discharged meat cargoes in the port of London during the week; two from Australia and New Zealand, the Cambridge and Themistocles and three from South America, the Highland Chieftain, Almeda Star and El Uruguayo. Altogether nearly 150,000 carcasses of lamb and mutton. over 100,000 quarters of beef, quantities of pork and rabbits and approximately 40.000 packages of sundries were distributed to the London market and throughout the country or placed into cold storage. The signalman on duty at the Adderley Head signal station discovered shortly before 6 a.m. on Monday that the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s' whistling and flashing buoy had broken from its moorings outside the head and was drifting towards the harbour. The tug went out and towed the buoy into port.- It was found that a link in the big mooring cable had carried away about eight fathoms down. An endeavour is to be made to grapple for the remainder of the chain and the buoy will be replaced within two or three days. The Huddart. Parker Company’s new liner Wanganella will enter the intercolonial service from Sydney on January 12, when she will sail for Wellington. The vessel will make an excursion trip to Milford Sound, leaving Wellington on January 16, and arriving back there on January 20, and sails the same day for Sydney. The Wanganella is 9560 tons gross, with graceful and modern lines, cruiser stern, and two funnels. There are. seven- watertight bulkheads dividing the ship into eight' ■ ivatertight : ■ compartments. The 7/anganella has-three complete steel decks, with spacious promenade and boat decks. The passenger accommodation Is spacious and luxuriously furnished. Berths are provided for 304 first-class passengers, including the special suite of rooms, 81 single berth rooms, and 73 three-berth rooms. There are also 104 berths for second class passengers, 28 two berth and 16 three berth rooms. Personal Items. Mr W. Smart, second engineer of the Waipiata, is ashore on holiday leave,- his place.being taken by Mr L. Blomfield. Mr A. w. Bagley has rejoined the Kai nial as second engineer after holiday leave Mr W. M. Jackson is now third engineer of the same vessel. ; Mr C. W. Pirie has rejoined the Waipah) as chief engineer in place of Mr W. W Houghton, who has joined the tanker Otokia in a similar capacity. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were within range of the undermentioned wireless station.’ Golden Eagle. KJranga, Marama, Monowai* Monterey, Niagara, Otokia t

Port Denison, Rangitata, Ruahine, Surrej Voco. Wellington: Aorangi, Brunswick, Huntingdon. Kalingo, Mahana, Mariposa, Port Brisbane. Port Hunter, Port Sydney, Rangatira, Rangitane, Rangitiki, Tamahine, H.M.S. Veronica, Wahine, Zealandia. Awarua: Canadian Leader, Makura. Maunganui, Strathaird, Waihemo, Waikouaiti, Yarraville. Chatham Islands: Nil. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Auckland, December 23. Arrived: Otaio 12.20 p.m. from Bluff. Sailed: Waipahi 11.35 a.m. for Suva; Marama 4.20 p.m. for Sydney; Otokia 5.10 p.m. for Los Angeles. Wellington, December 23. Arrived:—Rangatira 7 a.r., Storm 10.45 a.m., Opihi 2.45 p.m. and Poolta 3.45 p.m. for Lyttelton. To arrive:—Kaimai from Napier; Kini from Oamaru. Sailed:—Brunswick 5 a.m. for Auckland; Rangitane 7 a.m. for London; Storm 12.25 p.m. for Picton; Zealandia 3.15 p.m. for Sydney; Port Whangarei 5.15 p.m. and Wingatui 5.35 p.m. for Auckland: Kana 6.5 p.m. for Grey- ■ mouth; Opihi 6.25 p.m. for Nelson; Rangatira 8 p.m. for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, December 23. Arrived: Wahine, 6.10 a.m., from Wellington; Veronica, 7.15 a.m., from Tauranga; John, 11.25 a.m., from Timaru. Sailed: Astoria: 4.20 p.m., for Port Chalmers; John, 5 p.m., and Wahine, 9.25 p.m., for Wellington. Dunedin, December 23. Arrived: Tarraville 10.30 a.m. from Wellington; Orepuki 5.30 p.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Gale 6.30 p.m. for Timaru. (Rec. 9.25 p.m.) Sydney, December 23. Sailed—Monowai (4.45 p.m.) for Auckland. London, December 22. Sailed.—For New Zealand, Ardenvor, from London; Kent from Plymouth; Maunganui, from San Francisco.

“Intellectual snobbery is as much to be deprecated as social snobbery,” remarked the headmistress of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, Miss E. M. Johnston, in her annual report presented at the breaking-up ceremony last week. “And, in any case,” she continued, "boys and girls who show no special ability at school often prove, In later life, excellent citizens.”