PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 25307, 10 June 1935, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

ARRIVED. Sunday, June 9. Westmoreland s.s. (Captain E. R. Kemp) 9000 tons from Adelaide at 1.45 p.m. VESSEL IN PORT. Westmoreland s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS * Storm. Wellington, to-day. Waitaki, Melbourne, to-day. Waikouaiti, Lytieiton. June 13. Waimarino. Dunedin. June 13. Canadian Cruiser, Melbourne, June 14. Kaimiro, Dunedin, June 15. Waipiata. Dunedin. June 20. Karetu, Sydney, June 20. Rotorua, Port Chalmers. June 26 Ruahme, Port Chalmers, July 22. Port Fairy, Dunedin, August 16. Fordsdale Dunedm. September 4 Narbada, Dunedin, September 20. Zealandic Dunedin October l Marama. Melbourne, November 11. Hauraki. Dunedin. December 7. Mataroa, Wellington. February 7. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Storm, Dunedin, to-day. Waitaki, Dunedin, to-day. Waikouaiti, Sydney. June 13. Waimarino, Dunedm. June 13. Westmoreland, Port Chalmers, June 13. Kaimiro, Greymouth, June 15. Canadian Cruiser. Dunedin. June 17. Waipiata, Dunedin, June 20. Karetu, Sydney. June 20. Rotorua. Lyttelton. June 29. Ruahlne, Napier, July 27. Port Fairy. —, August 19. Fordsdale September - Narbada, Newcastle. September 20. Zealandic timaru October i Marama. Dunedin, November 11. • Hauraki. Melbourne. December 8. Mataroa, —, February — GENERAL NOTES. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Westmoreland arrived at Bluff from Adelaide early yesterday afternoon to begin her Dominion loading for West of England ports. At Bluff she takes in 9300 freight carcasses of frozen meat, 2000 crates of cheese. 500 boxes of butter, 418 bales of wool, 175 bales of hemp, 125 casks of tallow and a quantity of grass seed and sundries. Completion will probably, be reached to-morrow afternoon and departure will then be taken for Port Chalmers. The Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Waitaki Is due at Bluff about 1.30 a.m. to-day from Melbourne with Australian mails and cargo. On completion of working she sails for Dunedin. The Kaimiro leaves Wellington to-morrow for Lyttelton. Dunedin and Bluff. She is due here on Saturday and sails the same day for Greymouth. The Waimarino left Auckland-on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She is due at Bluff on June 13. The P. and O. liner Narkunda'has arrived at Fremantle from London and is scheduled to reach Sydney on June 13. .The master ot the Holmglen has advised the Marine Department that at 10.30 a’m. last Wednesday he passed a big tree with roots and double trunk, dangerous to navigation, in position Pencarrow lighthouse north, magnetic, 16 miles distance. , The tanker O. B. Sorensen left San Francisco on May 22 with a petrol cargo for the Shell Company for discharge at Auckland and Wellington. She is due at Auckland about June 16. . , . The Shaw, Savill and Albion Steamer Fordsdale is scheduled to leave Liverpool on July 13 for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Fort. Chalmers and Bluff. She Is due at Auckland on August 19. The Fordsdale Is scheduled to reach Bluff on September 4. The naval tanker Nucula sailed on Friday morning from Auckland for the South Sea Islands, where she will refuel the warships Dunedin and Diomede. She is due at Suva to-morrow to replenish the Dunedin’s bunkers. ’ c , H.M.S. Dunedin, flagship of Commodore the Hon. E.-R. Drummond, sailed on Wednesday from Auckland on a three months voyage to the South Sea Islands. She Is scheduled to return to Auckland on August 30Under charter to the A. and A. Line, the City of Salisbury is reported to have reached Cristobal. Panama. The vessel is en route from New York to Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Dunedin and Australia. She is due at Auckland about June 25. The Government motor ship Maui Pomare, with fruit from Apia and Niue Island, is due at Lyttelton to-day. Mr T. J. Gardiner is the local agent. The Commonwealth and Dominion .Line steamer Port' Curtis has reached London from Wanganui. She was despatched from Wanganui, via Cape Hom and Sk Vincent on April 19. . ,

UNION COMPANY SHIPS. After lying idle at Wellington for several months, the Union Company's passenger steamer Marama will, after overhaul and survey, resume running early next month, taking the place of the liner Monowai. She will leave Wellington on July 12 on her first trip to Sydney. The Monowai will make a winter cruise to the islands, leaving Auckland on July 9 and returning on July 24. This cruise, when instituted last year by the Marama, proved so popular that well over 100 intending passengers were unable to obtain accommodation. It embraces calls at Nukualofa, Vavau, Apia. Levuka and Suva, including a call at Niuafoou, or Tin Can Island. Many hundreds of philatelists in search of novelty last year took advantage of the Marama’s call at Niuafoou to have letters postmarked by the “Tin Can” mall, and this year the Monowai will no doubt also carry a heavy mail to that lonely little island- Lying midway on the 600-mile stretch between Fiji and Samoa, Niuafoou has a population of about a thousand natives and a couple of whites. It is an active volcano, the whole centre of the Island being a crater lake, surrounded by a ring of cliffs from the top of which there is a steep fall to the sea. There is neither lagoon nor harbour, and only one or two precarious landing places for boats. When steamers call off the Island with mails, these are sealed in tin cans and thrown overboard. The natives used to. swim off to pick them up, but since one of the islanders was eaten by a shark swimming has become unpopular with them, and nowadays a canoe goes out. On her return from this cruise the Monowai will lay up for overhaul and survey at Wellington. She will leave again on September 6 for Sydney, where she will enter the Vancouver mall service, making one complete round trip in place of the motor liner Aorangi, which Is to undergo overhaul and refit at Sydney. Extensive Improvements are to be made to the Aorangi's first-class passenger accommodation, which will cost approximately £40.000. The alterations will eliminate a number of cabins on C deck, greatly enlarge the remaining cabins on that deck and provide wider passage-ways. A number of additional single-berth cabins and cabins with bathrooms will be provided, while a running hot and cold water service will be installed in the altered part -ot the accommodation. On her last trip south in August before laying up the Aorangi will leave Vancouver two days earlier than usual and will make a call at San Francisco, while she will also continue through from Sydney to Melbourne. When the Monowai re-enters the Sydney service the Marama will transfer to the Melbourne-Bluff-Dunedin-Lyttel-ton-Wellington service, in which she will start running early next November. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. ’ The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations during the week-end:— Auckland: Melbourne Maru, Port Gisborne, Monowai, Napier Star. Armadale, Beatus, Canadian Scottish, H.M.S. Dunedin, Karepo, Karetu, Niagara, Nucula. Wellington: Abel Tasman, Maori, Napier Star, Rangatlra. Tamahine, Waipahi, Makura, Plako, Aldington Court, Aorangi, Coptic. Golden Cloud, Huxunui, Kaimiro, Lacklan, Mahana, Mariposa. Monterey, Mataroa. Maui Pomare, Port Darwin, Port Whangarei, Rangitata, Rangitiki, Remuera, Rotorua. Yoseric. , ~ Awarua: Makura. Monowai, Akaroa, Alflcam. Balaklava, Canadian Britisher. Cape York. Maunganui, Omana, Waitaki, Wanganella, Westmoreland. Chatham Islands: South Sea. • ———— ' TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, June 9. Arrived (Saturday): Kaimai 8 pan. from Wellington. 1 - Sailed (Saturday): Wirigatui 1.20 pan. for Oamaru. Arrived (Sunday): Akaroa 9.15 a.m. from Gisborne. Sydney (Nova Scotia), June 7. Sailed: Canadian Victor. Los Angeles, June 7. Arrived: New Zealand. I New. York, June 7. Arrived: Canadian Highlander.