PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 24 November 1934, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

ARRIVED. Friday, November 23. Waikouaiti s.s. (Captain J. G. Watson) 3926 tons from Lyttelton at 3.40 a.m. Ruahine s.s. (Captain G. Kinnell) 10.869 tons from Port Chalmers at 4 a.m. VESSELS IN PORT. Ruahine s.s. Waikouaiti s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Kallngo, Dunedin, to-morrow. Breeze, Wellington, November 26. Maheno, Wellington, November 26. Norfolk, Melbourne, Australia, November 28. Paua, Lyttelton, November 29. Waipiata. Dunedin, November 29. Parera, Wellington, December 3. Mamari, Dunedin. December 31. Opawa, Port Chalmers, January —. H.M.S. Leith, Dunedin, January 22. Narbada, Dunedin, January 27. Port Hobart, New Plymouth, February 14. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Kallngo, Greymouth, November 26. Maheno, Hobart, November 26. Norfolk, —, November —. Breeze, Dunedin, November 26. Paua, Dunedin, November 30. Waipiata. Dunedin, November 30. Ruahine. Lyttelton. December 1. Parera, Dunedin, December 3. Opawa, New Plymouth, January —. Mamari, Napier, January —. H.M.S. Leith, West Coast Sounds, Janusry 28. Narbada. —. January —. Port Hobart, —, February 17. GENERAL NOTES. The Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Waikouaiti, from Lyttelton, reached Bluff early yesterday morning. She is discharging coal and general cargo; and loads timber and other Southland products for Australia. She will probably complete tills afternoon and sail for Sydney. The New Zealand Shipping Company s liner Ruahine arrived at Bluff at 4 a.m. yesterday from Port Chalmers and later began discharging cargo from the Homeland. She has a quantity of cheese, butter and general cargo to load for the English market. Completion should be reached towards the end of next week and departure will then be taken for Lyttelton. • The Kalingo now leaves Dunedin to-day. She arrives on Sunday at Bluff and sails on Monday for Greymouth. The coastal steamer Storm will return to Lyttelton next week for overhaul. The Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company’s new motor-freighter Walpawa, on her maiden trip to the Dominion from Liverpool, has left Balboa. She is now due at Auckland on December 7. The Canadian Conqueror, which left Lyttelton on October 3 fur New York, Boston, and Halifax direct, arrived at New York on November 13 and sailed on November 15 for Boston. The New Zealand Shipping . Company s motor-ship Opawa is to leave Liverpool today with cargo from West Coast ports of Great Britain for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff and New Plymouth. She is due at Auckland on January 2. Under charter to the A. and A. Line the City of Glasgow was scheduled to leave New York on Thursday for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia. She is expected at Auckland about December 24. The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Akaroa is now scheduled to clear Southampton on November 27 for Auckland and Wellington. She is due at Auckland on December 30. The- New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Tekoa, which left Auckland on October 1 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow, is reported to have reached Liverpool. During the week ended October 5. 980 vessels, representing 886,521 net register tons, used the Port of London. Four hundred and seventy-four vessels (714,916 net register tons) were to and from Empire and foreign ports and 506 vessels (171,605 net register tons) were engaged in coastwise traffic. The arrivals included eleven meat cargoes, viz. three from Australia, three from New Zealand, two from South America and three from North America, comprising 374,000 carcasses of iamb and mutton, 67,000 quarters of beef, quantities of pork, rabbits and sundries. THOSE WHO KNOW, I am rather proud of the fact that I have the privilege of the friendship of quite a lot of the twenty to thirty dockmasters of the Sort of London. They are all men who have ad to do with big ships, most have extra master's tickets and have held command in steam (one, at least, in sail), and the sum total of their experience is matchless. Taking it by and large I should say that they they would all harmonize in the chorus, “The amount of rot that is written in sea yams just bangs Banagher." Every now and then, if I come across a sea yarn which appears readable as a story and watertight from a navigator’s angle, I pass it on to one of my friends and ask for his opinion. Sometimes the reply is, "Yes, he s pretty good on ships, but I think he slips up on monsoons once or twice”: or, "This chap knows the North. Atlantic trade, but he’s all wrong about Persian Gulf tankers.” Once, when I cautiously asked for a verdict on a certain sea novel, the answer was, "If it hadn’t been your book I’d have shied it into the drink 1 One place the feller sails his ’ship’ starn first!”—From an English reviewer. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday:— Auckland: Aorangi, Elmbank, Erlangen. Hauraki, Kent, H.M.S. Leith, Marama, Maridal, Maui Pomare, Omana, Recorder, Strathaird, Trojan Star, Waipahl, Waiwera, Wingatul. Wellington: Armando Diaz, Canadian Challenger, Kanna, H.M.S. Laburnum, Maori, Mariposa, Mataroa. Monterey, Niagara, Rangitata, Rangitiki, Raranga, Remuera, South Sea, Tamahine, Tamaroa, Wahine, Wanganella. Awarua: Abel Tasman, City of Delhi, Dalcross, Kalingo, Makura, Matai, Maunganui, Monowai, Ngakuta, Waikouaiti, Wairun a. Chatham Islands: Nil. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS, (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) Auckland, November 23. Arrived: Strathaird 2 p.m. from Brisbane; Elibank 7 p.m. from Nauru IsHuia 8.20 a.m. for Melbourne. To sail: Wingatul 6.30 p.m. for New-

castle; Waipiata 10 p.m. for Wellington. Wellington, November 23.

Arrived: Tuscan Star 5.20 a.m. from New Plymouth; Wahine 7 a.m., Waimarino 8.5 a.m. from Lyttelton; Titoki 10.35 a.m. from Napier; Totara 11.10 a.m., Storm 11.20 a.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed: Armando Diaz 6 a.m. for Brisbane; Titoki 5.10 p.m. for Nelson; Totara 6.15 p.m. for New Plymouth; Waimarino 6.40 p.m. for Auckland; Wahine 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton. To sail: Breeze 9 p.m. for Bluff; Storm 11 p.m. for Picton. Lyttelton, November 23.

Arrived: Wainui 5.45 a.m. from Timaru; Maori 6.45 a.m. from Wellington; Foxton 5.35 p.m. from Foxton. Sailed: Abel Tasman 11.20 a.m. for Dunedin; Wainui 3.30 p.m. for Wellington; Raranga 7.5 p.m. for Magellans; Maori 8.15 p.m. for Wellington. (Rec. 1 p.m.) Sydney, November 23. Sailed:—Monowai 5 p.m. for Auckland. Dunedin, November 23. Arrived: —Whangarei 9.30 a.m. from Lyttelton; Dalcross 7.30 p.m. from Lyttelton. Sailed:—City of Delhi 4.15 p.m. for Sydney; Port Whangarei 6.20 p.m. for Timaru. Sydney, November 23. Arrived.—Parracombe from Auckland. London, November 22. Sailed.—Makura from San Francisco; Waipawa from Balboa; Sultan Star from Willenstad.