PORT OF BLUFF

Southland Times, Issue 25342, 22 July 1935, Page 2

PORT OF BLUFF

ARRIVED. Saturday, July 20. Pakeha s.s. (Captain E. T. Grayston) <093 tons from Lyttelton at 5.5 a.m. SAILED. Saturday, July 20. Port Hobart m.v. (Captain T. Kippins) 7448 tons for Lyttelton at 4.30 p.m. Waikouaiti s.s. (Captain W. A. Gray) 3926 tons for Sydney at 6 p.m. ARRIVED. Sunday, July 21. Wainui ss. (Captain C. C. Waters) 1633 tons from Wellington at 6 p.m. VESSELS IN PORT. Pakeha s.s. Ruahlne s.s. Wainui s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Waitaki. Melbourne, July 23. Wairnarino, Dunedin, July 25. Tamaroa. Port Chalmers. July 28 Trojan Star Glasgow July 30. Karetu, Hobart. July 31. Kanna, Dunedin. July 31. Waipiata, Dunedin, August 1. Canadian Challenger. Melbourne. August 10. Port Fairv, Dunedin. August 16 Rangitane, Wellington. August 26. Fordsdale. Dunedin, septenwer 4. Narbada. Dunedin. September 20 Nolisement. Seychelles Islands, September Zealandic. Dunedin. October 1. Canadian Cruiser, Montreal, October 23. Marama. Melbourne, November 11. Rotorua. Dunedin. November 21. Hauraki, Dunedin, December 7. Mataroa. Wellington. February 7. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Pakeha, New Plymouth, to-day. Wainui, Dunedin, to-day. Waitaki. Dunedin, to-morrow. Ruahine. Napier, to-morrow. Waimarino, Dunedin, July 25. Tamaroa. Lyttelton, July 30. Karetu. Dunedin, July 31. Kanna, —. July -. Waipiata, Dunedin, August 1. Trojan Star Port Chalmers August 2. Canadian Challenger, Dunedin, August 12. Port Fairy, —. August 19. Rangitane, —, August 28. Fordsdule, —, September —. Narbada, Newcastle. September 20. Nolisement, —. October —. Zealandic. Hmaru. October 1. Canadian Cruiser, Dunedin. October 24. Marama. Dunedin. November 11. Rotorua. —. November —. Mauraki, Melbourne. December 8. Mataroa. —, February —. GENERAL NOTES. The Union Company's intercolonial steamer Waikouaiti finished her loading on Saturday afternoon and sailed later for SydAnother departure on Saturday was that of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line vessel Port Hobart. Finishing her Southland loading in the afternoon, she sailed for Lyttelton at 6 p.m. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company s liner Pakeha arrived at Bluff from Lyttelton early on Saturday morning. She is loading "outhland products for the Home market and sails on completion for New Plymouth. The launch Hananui left on Saturday at 1.10 p.m. for Stewart Island. The motor vessel Kekeno sailed for Stewart Island at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The Union Company's cargo steamer Wainui arrived last evening from Wellington. To-day she works general cargo and sails to return to the north, via Dunedin. The same company’s Intercolonial steamer Waitaki is due to-morrow from Melbourne. She sails on completion at Bluff for DunedThe Waipiata leaves Auckland on Friday for Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She Is due on August 1 and sails the same day for Dunedin. x . The P. and O. liner Corfu has arrived at Fremantle from London. She is due at Sydney on July 25. . , , . The Waimarino sailed from Auckland on Friday evening for Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff. She is due here on Thursday and sails the same day for DuneCThe New Zealand Shipping Company's motor vessel Rangitane is scheduled to load at Bluff in August. She arrives from Wellington about t.e 26th and sails on the 28th. Her port of departure is not yet known. The Canadian Highlander, en route from Montreal, has left Panama. She is due at Auckland on August 7, and Wellington on

August 12, after which she is to proceed to Australia. . , ~ The following passengers have left New Zealand to join the Orsova. which left Sydney on Saturday for London, via the Suez Canal:—Rev. H. K. Archdall. Mr W. H. Archdall. Miss L. F. Archdall, Mrs L. Archdall, Mr John Agnew. Mr S. Booth. Mrs M. Booth. Mr J. Baird. Mrs M. W. Booth. Mr H. C. C. Bellam. Miss E. K. S. Clive. Mr C. M. Coventry. Miss H. M. Crighton. Miss M. D. Coward. Mr J. W. Crighton. Mr J. C. Dear. Mr E. W. Bungay. Mrs J. I. Banks and Infant, Mr D. Gilroy. Miss M. I. Gordon, Mrs G. E. E. Gresham. Master J. E. Gresham, Miss L. Gibb-Brown. Mr F. A. Gresham. Mrs E. Hinchcliffe. Miss M. F. F. Hooper. Mr L. Hayter. Mrs A. Leyland. Mr L. H. B. Longmore, Miss V. McKelllgih, Miss J. T. Milne. Miss M. A. McKinnon. Mrs J. J. McClennan. Mr S. B. McClennan, Miss B. J. V. Morris, Mrs A. Nicholson. Mr R. H. Nicolson. Miss E. Nathan. Miss M. M. Pearson. Miss G. F. Kendall, Mr J. D. Pargeter. Mr R. S. Russell. Mr Rawnsley. Mr H. J. Springhall, Mrs S. H. Springhalt. Mr S. G. Sidford. Mrs M. Samuels. Miss E. A. Stark, Miss B. G. Stark. Mr William Southall. Mr S. D. K. Stride. Mrs E. E. Smith. Captain J. Stewart Dick. Miss F. W. White, Mr J. Wattie. PERSONAL. A well-known seafarer. Captain Robert Owens, died at his home, in Herne Bay. Auckland, recently, at the age of 86. Out of the GO years he spent at sen. Captain Owens was “in steam ’ for only six months, being for that time first officer of the Auck-land-owned steamer, the Little Agnes. Although he had been wrecked three times, he had never suffered a day’s illness of any kind until a slight paralytic stroke, which occurred at Newcastle in 192 j, forced him to leave the sea. AUSTRALIA'S SUPER-LINER. • Built by Messrs Vickers Armstrong. Bar-row-in-Furness, England, and launched In November last from Brisbane by wireless by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, the new 24.00 C-ton Orient Line Royal Mall steamer. Orlon, will make her trials on July 22 and 23 and will make her maiden voyage from Australia to England at the end of November. She will sail again in March 1936. Already passenger booking for the first voyages from Australia are heavy; particularly lor the March voyage, for the sailing is in the height of the "homeward passenger season." The vessel takes her name from the brilliant group of stars which, to the peoples of both hemispheres, almost, one might say. are best known and, certainly, are among the most beautiful in the heavens—the constellation Orion. Strikingly modern m external appearance and internal equipment, the Orion must command attention from the public and shipbuilders. Her appearance will have something ot ‘‘stream-lining.’’ Though she is of great power and speed, she will have only one mast and one funnel: a departure from the conventional in liner construction and made expressly to afford still more deck space and passenger comfort. She will probably be painted cream with a slight admixture of brown, over a green waterline. One of the important new fashions which she will set is the provision of windows instead of port holes right on the ship's side. The Orion will be the largest liner serving Australia. Her dimensions are: length, 665 feet; breadth, 82 feet; draft, 30feet; speed 21'a knots and she will carry 486 first class and 653 tourist-class passengers. For a long time the boat deck has been a featu : of the Orient liners. and in the Orion the top deck will be a huge space for sports and games. It is interesting to compare her with her predecessors and to gauge the owners’ sense of what new demands the public makes upon the liner ot 1935. Although she is distinctly larger than the Orontes class. 24.000 tons gross instead of 20.000 and 82 feet beam instead of 75. she is designed to carry fewer passengers in more room / cabins and the place of thirdclass has been taken by tourist-clnss. The 486 first-class passengers will all be accommodated in one- or two-berth cabins (except for a few 3-berth cabins for families). Man" of them will have inter-communicat-ing doors, and the number of special staterooms with private bathrooms has been substantially increased. All first-class cabins will have bedsteads. Children also have been specially studied. In the first-class they have a separate dining-room and in both classes a splendid playroom and a deck. The 65.3 tourist-class passengers will be accommodated in one-, two-, three-, and four-berth cabins, many of them again intercommunicating. Hot and cold running water will be laid on to all first-class cabins and in tourist cabins there will be cold running water. The C deck has been continued right aft to give another deck to the tourist class passengers and there are two ingeniously arranged open air swimming baths, which can. when the snip is cruising. be thrown into one large "Lido." Lifts will be fitted in botli classes and the ship s shop and hairdressing saloons have received a more important position. Australian maple has been used in the decoration ot the public rooms and the furniture of the cabins. The ventilation of Orient liners has always been thorough, and in Orion the air in the first-class dining saloon will be specially treated, as It were, "washed and mangled," to control its temperature and humidity. All the latest precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of passengers. Lifeboats are fitted in the latest form ot gravity davit. Fire-resisting metal has been largely used, and automatic "sprinklers" have been fitted throughout. The Orion's engines are of the high pressur;: twin-screw single-re-duction geared turbine type, designed to give 24.00(1 h.p. and a speed of 21 (i knots. The electrical installation will provide not only the auxiliary machinery, but also lighting and heating in the accommodation. The inferior decorations throughout have been placed in the hands of a single architect. Mr Brian O'Rorke, and no effort has been spared to have every detail of her equipment well designed, modern and in complete harmony. Throughout the accommodation is reflected consideration for passengers' convenience and no end of innovations tend to avoid waste of space which might be useful to passengers—in cabins, public rooms and decks. An import'd development concurrent with the advent of Orion Is the inauguration of a service entirely new to the Orient Line i.e., provision in three steamers of first-class and tourist-class passengers instead of first and third. The Orontes and the Orford, the two youngest of the 20,000-ton sisters, are being converted this year for the carriage of first-class and tourist-class. Thus, including the Orion and the two steamers already carrying one-class tourist, the Ormonde and the Orsova, there will be a frequent and regular service of Orient Line ships available for tourist-class passengers. The purpose of this change is to meet the growing demand from passengers who want to travel comfortably but prefer not to pay for the luxury of first-class. The outstanding features of the tourist-class of the Orion will be spacious games and promenade deck; special children's room and playdeck; built-in tiled swimming bath and dressing rooms; large public rooms and small tables for parties of 4, 6 and 8 throughout dining saloon; cabins roomy and fitted with chests-of-draws, wardrobes, reading lamps, bells and Vi-spring mattresses; baths and lavatories naar the cabins; many outside cabins and a large number of single and two berth cabins; punkah louvre system of ventilation In every cabin, under the control of the passenger; passenger lift. There will be many, throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand anxious to see the proud lady Orlon: for she should be a decorative and distinguished addition to the British passenger trade. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations over the week-end: — Auckland: Aelybryn, Emma Maersk, Canadian Scottish. Ornana, Port Adelaide. Aorangi. Benholm. Columbia. Doric Star, Fiona, John Knudsen. Kanna, Lacklan, Maui Pomare. Monowai, Port Whangarei, Sp w’e t llington: Hertford, Maori, Rangatira, Tamahine, Aelybryn. Emma Maersk. Kalingo. Makura, Ornana, Akaroa. H.M.S. Diomede, H.M.S. Dunedin, Fernhill, James Cook, H.M.S. Leith, Marama, Matai, Nucula, Rangitane, Rangitiki, Rotorua, H.M.S. Wellington. Awarua; Coptic, Makura, Port Hobart, Toorak, Antiope. Huntingdon, Kaimiro. Karetu, Maunganui. Ngakuta, Port Huon, Waikouaiti, Wairuna, Waitaki, Wanganella. Chatham Islands: South Sea. TELEGRAPHED REPORTS. COASTAL AND OVERSEAS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, July 21. Sailed (Saturday): Columbia 10 a.m. for Nauru Island. Arrived (Sunday): Canadian Scottish 7 a.m. from Adelaide; Port Adelaide 11 a.m. from New Plymouth. (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) London, July 20. Arrived: At Cristobal, Port Fairy and City of Glasgow. Sailed: From Boston, Canadian Britisher. Wellington, July 21. Arrived (Saturday): Holmdale 6 a.m. from Wanganui; Maori 7 a.m., Waipiata 7.5 a.m. from Lyttelton; Canadian Victor 7.10 a.m. from Auckland; Breeze 7.45 a.m. from Lyttelton; Karepo 2.45 p.m. from New Plymouth; Hertford 6 p.m. from Auckland; Storm 11.45 p.m. from Wanganui.

Arrived (Sunday): Rangatira 7 a.m., Parera 10.40 a.m. from Lyttelton; Waipahi 10.50 a.m. from New Plymouth. Sailed (Saturday): Holmdale 1.5 p.m. for Dunedin; Waipiata 1.25 p.m. for Auckland; Maori 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton; Breeze 11 p.m. for Wanganui. Lyttelton, July 21.

Arrived (Saturday): Rangatira 6.45 a.m. from Wellington; Parera 8.55 a.m. from Timaru.

Arrived (Sunday): Maori 7 a.m. from Wellington; Nikau 12.5 p.m. from Nelson; Port Hobart 4.15 p.m. from Bluff. Sailed (Saturday): Coptic 3 p.m. for Port Chalmers; Parera 4.10 p.m. for Wellington; Rangatira 8.20 p.m. for Wellington.