Shipping

Southland Times, Issue 22917, 16 June 1936, Page 2

Shipping

PORT OF BLUFF VESSEL IN PORT. Port Huon s.s. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Coastal Traders Kiwitea. Dunedin, to-morrow. Waitaki, Wellington, to-morrow. Waipiata. Dunedin. June 18 Karetu. Port Chalmers. June 22. Waikouaiti Sydney June 24 Waitaki Melbourne June 29. Paua, Dunedin. June 30. overseas- traders Norfolk. Dunedin. June 18. Canadian Conqueror. Dunedin, August 13 Tairoa. Australia. July 2 PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Coastal Traders Kiwitea. Melbourne, to-morrow. Waitaki, Melbourne, to-morrow. Waipiata, Timaru, June 18 Karetu. Sydney June 22 Waikouaiti. Dunedin. June 24. Waitaki Dunedin June 29 Paua. Wellington, July 1. □’lerseas Traders Port Huon, Lyttelton, to-day. Norfolk, Lyttelton. June 20. Canadian Conqueror. August 13 Tairoa. Timaru. July 3 BLUFF BOUND Kiwitca, left Westport June 9 for Timaru, Dunedin. Bluff (due to-morrow). (Union Steam Ship Company) Waipiata, left Auckland June 11 Wellington. Lyttelton. Dunedin and Blui. (due June 18) (Union Steam Ship Comnanv) • Norfolk, left Liverpool April 12 tor Auckland (arrived May 21) Wellington (arrived May 31) Lvttelton. Dunedin and Blutf (due June 18). (J. G. Ward and Co.). Tairoa. left Liverpool April 28 tor Australia (to discharge), thence to Bluff (due July 2) (National Mortgage and Co.. Dalgety and Co.) BRITISH PASSENGER STEAMERS Mataroa iel't Southampton May 15. due Wellington to-morrow. Rangitiki. lelt uondon May 28: due ui?kiand luly I Akaroa, left London June 10; due Wellington July 15. Rangitata. leaves London June 25; aue Port Chalmers July 29. PACIFIC MAI! SERVICE Aorangi. leaves Sydney June 18; due Auckland June 22. Vancouver July 10 (U.S.S. Co.). Niagara, leaves Vancouver to-morrow; due Auckland July 6, Sydney July 11. (U.S.S. °Monterey, leaves San Francisco June 23, Los Angeles June 24 for Sydney and Melbourne, via ports (H. L. Tapley and Co.). Mariposa, leaves Melbourne June 20, Sydney June 24, lor San Francisco, via ports. (H. L. Tapley and Co.). Makura, relt San Francisco June 4; due Wellington tune 22. Sydney June 27 lU.S.S Co) . 4 Maunganui, left Sydney June 4; arrived Wellington June 8; due San Francisco June 26 (U.S.S. Co.). DOMINION BOUND. Northumberland, left London May 28 tor Auckland (due July 6) and Wellington (July 12) (Union Steam Ship Company) Tairoa, left Liverpool on April 28 toi Australia (to discharge) and New Zealand; due Bluff July 2. (National Mortgage and Lo.) Canadian Cruiser, rett Hama* May i tor Dunedin (due June 26). Lyttelton and Wellington (due July 2). via Australia. (Union Steam Ship Company) Port Dunedin, ten uondon May 16 tor Weilington (due June 21), ana Auckland (Henderson and Co.) Golden State, left Los Angeles June 1 tor Auckland (due June 27’ and Wellington (July 1). (H. L. Tapley and Co.) Piako. left Cardiff May its. in qallast. ror New Zealand (due July 1) (Union Steam Ship Company) „ „„ t City of Batavia, left Montreal May 30 tor Auckland (due July 9) and Wellington (J G. Ward apd Co.). Tuscan Star. left Liverpool May 24 tor Auckland (due June 29), Napier (July 4), Wellington (July 7). Lyttelton and Dunedin (J E. Watson and Co.) Keifuku Maru, left Milike May 26 ror Auckland (due June 19). Wellington (June 22). Lyttelton and Dunedin. (J G Ward and Co.). City of Canton, left New York May 24 and Newport News May 28 for Auckland (due June 25), Wellington (June 30). Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia. (J. G Warn and Co ) Hauraki. left Los Angeles June » t( > r Auckland (due July 1). Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia. (Union Steam Ship Company). , „„ . . Matakana, left xxmdon May 20 for Australia and New Zealand (to load Homeward July-August). (Dalgety and Co., National Mortgage and Co.). Raranga, left Liverpool May 23 for Australia (to discharge) and New Zealand (to load). (Dalgety and Co., National Mortgage and Co.). _ „ . T , Fordsdale, left London June 5 for Lyttelton (due July 20), Port Chalmers, Bluff, and Hawkes Bay, via Suva. (Dalgety and Co.; National Mortgage and Co.). City of Delhi, left Montreal for Dunedin and Lyttelton, via Australia. (J. G. Ward left New York yesterday for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, (J. G. Ward and Co.). LOADING IN NEW ZEALAND Port Huon, at Bluff; thence to-day to Lyttelton New Plymouth and Wellington (due June 26) Sails for London via Cape Horn on June 27 .Henderson and Co) Tekoa, at Wellington. Salls to-morrow for London, Avon.nouth, Liverpool, ManChester and Glasgow, via the Panama Canal. (Union Steam Ship Company). Waiwera, at Napier; thence to Gisborne. Opua and Auckland. Sails June 30 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow, via Cape Horn. (National Mortgage and Co.; Dalgety and Co.). Ruahine, loads at Auckland June 19; thence to Tokomaru Bay, Napier, New Plymouth and Wellington (due July 10) Sails on July 15 for London, via the Panama Canal. (Union Steam Ship Company). Port Denison, loads at Wellington June 26; thence June 30 to New Plymouth and Auckland Sails on July 10 tor London, via Cape Horn (Henderson and Co ) Norfolk, loads at Port Chalmers to-day, thence to Bluff. Lyttelton. Wellington (due June 29). New Plymouth and Auckland Sails on July 14 for London, Avonmouth Liverpool and Glasgow- (J G Ward and C °Port Dunedin, loads at Auckland June 29; thence to Opua. Gisborne, Waikokopu. Napier. Wellington (due July 12). and Wanganui. Sails on July 18 for Southampton and London, via Cape Horn. (Henderson and Co ). LOADING FOR NEW ZEALAND Manju Maru, leaves uapan June ZO tor Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton and Dunedin (J G Ward and Co). Port Alma, leaves Liverpool July 2o ior Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin (Henderson and Co • Port Hobart, leaves London July 16 tor Dunedin )v" md Pluff via Suva ri, nderson and Co.) Canadian ar, leaves Montreal June 19 for Auckland (due August 1). Wcllingion (August 6). Lyttelton. Dunedin and Bluxl (due August 13). (Union Steam Ship ComP Ashburton, leaves New York July 31 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. (J. G. Ward and Co.). Brisbane Maru, leaves Moji July,. 2 , for Australia, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland. (J. G. Ward and Co.). City of Dieppe, leaves New York July J for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia. (J. G. Ward and Co.). Limerick, leaves Los Angeles July 26 for Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Lyttelton. Dunedin and Australia. (Union Steam Ship Company.). Narbada, leaves Calcutta August 4 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff. (Union Steam Ship C'wahvera, leaves London August 26 for Suva, Lyttelton, Bluff and Timaru. (Dalgety and Co.; National Mortgage and Co.). GENERAL NOTES. The Tarnatea sails at 8 o’clock to-day for Port Chalmers for overhaul. During her absence her Stewart Island run will be taken over bv Mr H. Roderique’s Kekeno. Work was continued yesterday on the Port Line steamer Port Huon, and it is now expected that she will complete to-night and sail for Lyttelton, New Plymouth and Wellington, the final port on her present voyage. At Bluff she is loading 46,441 packages of frozen meat and quantities of hemp, liver meal, rabbitskins, grass seed and sllpe wool. The Union Company’s steamer Opihi, which has been laid up In the stream at Wellington for a number of years, was moved round to the patent slip recently for inspection and survey. The Federal steamer Norfolk reached Port Chalmers last Thursday from Lyttelton to complete discharge of her Liverpool cargo and to commence her Homeward loading. She is to leave there again to-morrow for Bluff, Lyttelton, Wellington. New Plymouth and Auckland to fill up. The vessel is due at Wellington on June 29 and Is to clear Auckland finally on July 14 for London, Avonmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow. Cabled advice has been received by the Shaw. Savlll Company that the Maimoa reached London last Wednesday. She left Auckland on April 25, for London. Avonmouth Cardiff, Liverpool and Glasgow, via Cape Horn. Cabled advice has been received by the Union Company that its motor-ship Hauraki cleared Los Angeles at 1.30 p.m. last Wednesday for. Papeete, Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Dunedin and Australia. She is due at Auckland on July 2. Cabled advice has been received by the New Zealand Shipping Company that its motor-liner Rangitane reached London last Wednesday. She left Auckland on May 7

for London, via the Panama Canal. The following passengers for New Zealand are travelling by the P. and O. liner Mooltan, whicli arrived at Sydney last Thursday from London:—Miss Matthew, Mr and Mrs Smith, Mr Smith, Jun., Mr Davis, Nir Matsis, Mrs Neilson. RETIRING COMMODORE. Captain E. J. Thornton, R.D. (retired R.N.K.), Commodore oi the J?, and O. Fleet, retired on April 22 from his command of the Viceroy of India and from the P. and O. bervice. It will be remembered that Captain 1 hornton signalized his appointment as Commodore only a few months ago by assisting in the rescue of a large number of the passengers in the White Star liner Doric when she was in collision while on a cruise in the Mediterranean, and her wireless call for help was answered by the Viceroy of India and the Orient liner Orion. Both these ships steamed to the rescue finding the Doric in a thin mist, and both the rescue ships took off passengers from the damaged liner, Ihe Viceroy of India accommodated about 250 passengers, her own ship’s company lending clothes and giving every possible assistance to accommodate comfortably the rescued cruisers. Captain Thornton, who was born at Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School, went to sea m 1b92 in the full rigged ship Cromdale owned by Donaldson Rose of Aberdeen. She was a very well-known ship in the Australian wool trade and Captain Thornton spent over four years in her, making four voyages to Australia and one to San Francisco. He completed his apprenticeship in the ship and for a time was third mate in her. He joined the P. and O. in 1897 as supernumerary fifth officer and continued in the company’s service in a number of ships on the Eastern and Australian runs until 1914. This regular peace service was interrupted by troopship work at the time of the Boer War and Boxer Rising. During the Boer War Captain Thornton was in the Nubia when she was employed in trooping from England, and for this service he received the South African Transport Medal. In the Boxer Rising again he was in the Sumatra trooping from Calcutta carrying Bombay Cavalry and Bengal Lancers and mule batteries, the ship being fitted for accommodation of horses and mules. In 1914, Captain Thornton joined H.M.S. Caesar, battleship, as a Lieutenant R.N.R. For about a year he was on patrol work in the Channel and Mediterranean; then for a period was in Bermuda as chief examination officer. It will be remembered that dur ing the war all vessels under no matter what flag were boarded by the Chief Examination Officer and party on arrival in port so that it might be ascertained the vessel was “on her lawful occasions” and did not carry anything in her cargo which was against the rules. Following this period, Captain Thornton came home to command the armed patrol vessel Lady Blanche and in her was on the Milford Haven and Rosslare Patrol. In his last six months' service he was on the Admiral’s Staff in Milford Haven. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE. The following vessels were expected ta be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations yesterday:— AuckLind: Matai, H.M.S. Dunedin. Kaimiro, Omana, Waipahi, Wairuna, Wangnnella, Benholm. Canadian Britisher, Keifuku Maru. Limerick, Wichita. Wellington: Maori, Marama, Tamahine, H.M.S. Achilles, Nucula, Kekerangu. Port Whangarei, Akaroa, Athelviscount, Empire Star, Mataroa, Port Adelaide, Ruahine, Remuera, Tamaroa, Tekoa, Wairangi, W. B. Walker, Waiwera. Awarua: Abel Tasman, Karepo, Karetu, Kiwitea, Makura, Maunganui, Monowai. Triaster, Triona, Waikouaiti, Waitaki, Strathnaver. Chatham Islands: South Sea. OTHER PORTS COASTAL AND OVERSEAS (United Press Association.) Auckland, June 15. Arrived: Waipahi 1.20 p.m. from Cook Islands. Sailed: H.M.S. Dunedin 2.55 p.m. on cruise to South Sea Islands. To sail: Omana 8 p.m. for Portland; Waipahi midnight for Suva. Wellington, June 15. Arrived: Waipiata 7.15 a.m. from Auckland; Holmglen 1.40 p.m. from Mercer; Rata 2.45 from Westport. Sailed: Ruahine 3 p.m., Kartigi 4 p.m. and Port Whangarei 6.5 p.m. for Auckland; Holmdale 6.30 for Dunedin; Marama 7.50 and Waipiata 8.5, for Lyttelton. Lyttelton, June 15. Arrived: Kapiti 11.30 a.m. from Wanganui. Sailed: Empire Star 1.30 p.m. for Wanganui; British Governor 2.15 p.m. for Balik Papan; Parera 4.45 p.m. for Wellington; Nikau 5.30 p.m. for Nelson; Maori 8.15 p.m. for Wellington. Dunedin, June 15. Arrived: Waitaki 1 p.m. from Wellington. (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, June 15. Arrived: Monowai 1.40 p.m. from Wellington; Mariposa 3 p.m. from Auckland. London, June 14. Arrived: At London, Port Nicholson; at Vancouver, Niagara; at Balboa, Tamaroa; at Las Palmas, Coptic. Sailed: Maimoa, from London; Akaroa, from Southampton.