SHIPPING

Southland Times, Issue 23461, 18 March 1938, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF BLUFF EXPECTED ARRIVALS Intercolonial And Coastal MAUNGANUI. Wellington. March 21. WAIMARINO, Dunedin, March 22. OMANA. Lyttelton, March 22. PAUA. March 25. WAIKOUAITI. Sydney, March 29. KARETU, Port Chalmers, March 30. WAIPIATA, Dunedin, March 31. MAUNGANUI. Melbourne. April 3. Overseas RANGITATA, Port Chalmers, tomorrow. ANHALT. Timaru, March 20. BENVENUE, Timaru, March 25. TAIROA. Oamaru. March 26. PORT ALMA. Timaru, March 28. MAMARI, Sydney. April 1. BRISBANE STAR, Dunedin. April 4. PORT SAINT JOHN. Dunedin. April laRUAHINE, Lyttelton. April 19. OTAIO, Port Chalmers, April 21. WAIPAHI, Dunedin, April 18. MAUNGANUI, Dunedin. April 4. NARBADA, Dunedin, May 4. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Intercolonial And Coastal MAUNGANUI. Melbourne. March 21. OMANA, Adelaide, March 22. ■WAIMARINO. Dunedin, March 22. WAIKOUAITI, Dunedin. March 29. KARETU, Sydney, March 30. WAIPIATA, Dunedin, March 31. MAUNGANUI, Dunedin. April 4.

Overseas ANHALT. Dunedin. March 21. RANGITATA, Lyttelton, March 27. BENVENUE. Port Chalmers, March 28. PORT ALMA, London. March 30. TAIROA, Lyttelton. March 30. MAMARI. Dunedin. April 4. BRISBANE STAR, Lyttelton, April 6. PORT SAINT JOHN, New Plymouth. April 15. OTAIO, . April 23. RUAHINE. April 25. NARBADA, Newcastle, May 4.

VESSELS DUE AT BLUFF Intercolonial And 'loastal

WAIMARINO. due at Bluff Hom Dunedin on March 21; sails the same day again for Dunedin. (Union Steam Ship Co.). MAUNGANUI, due at Bluff from Wellington on March 21; sails from Bluff the same day for Melbourne, via Milford s °und (due March 25); leaves Melbourne on March 30 for Bluff (due April 3); leaves the following day for Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. (Union Steam Ship Co.). OMANA, due at Bluff from Lyttelton on March 21; sails the same day for Adelaide. (Union Steam Ship Co.). KARETU, due at Bluff from Port Chalmers on March 24; sails the same day for Sydney to load. (Union Steam Ship Co.). WAIKOUAITI, due at Bluff from Sydney on March 29; sails the same day for Dunedin. (Union Steam Ship Co.). WAIPIATA, due at Bluff on March 31 from Dunedin; sails the same day for Dunedin. (Union Steam Ship Co.). Overseas RANGITATA. left London on February 4 for Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers; leaves Port Chalmers tonight for Blurt (dtfe tomorrow)- Leaves Bluff March 27 for Lyttelton. (Union Steam Ship Co.). RUAHINE, left London on February 24 for Wellington (due April 13), Port Chaimers, Lyttelton and Bluff (due April 22). (Union Steam Ship Co.). , ANHALT, arrived at Auckland on January 6 from New Orleans; due at Bluff from Timaru on March 20; sails the following day for Dunedin (H. L- Tapley and Co.) BRISBANE STAR, left Liverpool on February 12 for Auckland (arrived March 15); thence to Wellington, Lyttelton. Dunedin and Bluff (due April 4). Leaves Bluff April 6 for Lyttelton. (J. E. Watson and Co.). PORT ALMA, left Bluff on March 12 for Nelson; thence to Wellington, Timaru and Bluff (due March 28); leaves Bluff finally on March 30 for London. (J. E. Watson and Co.). TAIROA, loads at, Oamaru from March 23 to 25; thence to Bluff (due March 26)., Lyttelton, Wanganui and Wellington. (Dalgety and Co.: National Mortgage and Agency Co.). MAMARI, loads at Bluff from April 1 to 14; thence to Port Chalmers, New Plymouth and Auckland. (Dalgety and Co.; National Mortgage and Agency Co.). PORT SAINT JOHN, due at Bluff from Dunedin on April 13 and sails on April 15 for New Plymouth to begin loading. (J. E. Watson and Co.). SUSSEX, left Liverpool February 26 for Auckland (due April 7). Wellington (due April 14), Lyttelton (due April 19). Port Chalmers (due April 23) and Bluff (due April 26). (J. G. Ward and Co.). NARBADA, left Calcutta on April 2 for Auckland (due May 2), Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff (due May 4), via Rangoon. Penang, Singapore and Samarang. (Union Steam Ship Co.). GENERAL NOTES The Union Company’s Maunganui’was to reach Lyttelton yesterday to continue discharge of her Melbourne cargo. She will sail for Wellington and return to Bluff on March 21 before proceeding on her last trip to Melbourne in this service. The Union Company advises that the Nevz Zealand Shipping Company’s passenger liner Rangitata will arrive at Bluff tomorrow from Dunedin to complete discharge of her London cargo. The vessel will sail next week for Lyttelton. From Noumea the German steamer Anhalt Is due at Bluff from Timaru on Sunday to load wool. The vessel will complete at Dunedin and Wellington. The Blue Star Line motor-vessel Brisbane Star is to complete discharge of her Liverpool cargo at Port Chalmers on March 29 and will begin loading, sailing the following day for Bluff where she is due on April 4. The Brisbane Star will sail from Bluff on April 6 for Lyttelton, Wellington and Auckland to complete. Cabled advice has been received that the Blue Star Line motor-ship New Zealand Star reached London last Friday. She left Napier on February 7 for London, via the Panama Canal. Cabled advice has been received by the Federal Company that the motor-ship Otaio, en route from Liverpool to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff, cleared Curacao last Friday morning. She is due at Auckland on April 1 and at Bluff on April 21. The Blue Star Line motor-vessel Empire Star was to leave Liverpool last Saturday for Auckland, Napier, Wellington. Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. She is due at Auckland on April 12 and at Dunedin about April 24. WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE The following vessels are within range of the undermentioned wireless stations:— Auckland: Endeavour, Aorangi, Kalingo, Matua, Ngatoro, Waitaki, Brisbane Maru, Larchbank, Middlesex, Monterey, Port Chalmers. Wellington: Matai, Rangatira, Tamahine, Wahine. Awatea. Gabriella, Kauri, Kekerangu, Maunganui, Niagara. Omana, Wanganella, James Cook, Akaroa, Biddlestone. Eulima, Huntingdon, Loch Don, Mahana, Mariposa, Northumberland, Piako, Port Alma, Port Auckland, Port Melbourne, Rangitane, Rangitiki, Remuera, Tamaroa, Solheim, Swartenhondt. Awarua: Karetu, Limerick, Waikouaiti, Triona, China, Maetsuycker. Maloja, Mooltan, Drama, Orion, Orontes, Queen Mary, Strathaird, Stratheden, Tainui. RECENT REDUCTION IN DUES VESSELS DIVERTED TO PANAMA ROUTE Following a reduction in Panama canal dues at the beginning of this month nearly all liners loading in New Zealand for the United Kingdom and scheduled to take the Cape Hom route to England, have been diverted to the Panama canal route. No details have yet been received of the actual reduction in the canal dues (says The Dominion), but the fact that so many ships have been ordered to take that route Home, indicates that the reduction is fairly substantial. For the last four years the number of liners leaving New Zealand for England has been fairly evenly divided between the two routes. From the middle of 1931 till the end of 1933, all vessels leaving for England, except passenger liners, used the Cape Horn route, but for over 10 years before 1931, all ships proceeded Home via the Panama canal. After England went off the gold standard in 1931 sterling fell considerably in terms of the American

dollar, and the cost of the Panama canal dues increased enormously. It was then that almost all vessels from New Zealand to England ceased to use the Panama canal and proceeded via Cape Hom. This route is about 500 miles longer than that via Panama, and is about two days extra steaming for most of the vessels engaged in this trade.

Towards the end of 1933 the American dollar fell, and sterling rose above parity in terms of the dollar. This led to a number of vessels beginning to use the Panama canal again, and since then both routes have received about an equal share of the Homeward-bound vessels from New Zealand.

With the present substantial drop in the Panama canal dues and the almost wholesale diversion of vessels now loading on the coast, it appears that the Cape Hom route will be used almost solely by ships carrying cargo for Montevideo or Rio de Janeiro. OTHER PORTS COASTAL AND OVERSEAS AUCKLAND, March 17. Arrived: —Hertford 7.35 a.m. from Liverpool; Olivebank 1.55 p.m. from New Plymouth. Sailed: —Port Chalmers 12.20 p.m. for Wellington. To Sail:—Waitaki 11 p.m. for Portland.

WELLINGTON, March 17. Arrived: Port Waikato 5.10 am. from Auckland; Gale 6.30 a.m. from Wanganui; Wahine 7 a.m. from Lyttelton; Storm 10.15 a.m. from Wanganui; Northumberland 11.5 a.m. from Napier; Melbourne Maru 11.40 a.m. from Auckland; Karu 11.45 a.m. from Nelson; Kaimiro 4.50 p.m. from Greymouth; Holmglen 6.10 p.m. from Lyttelton; Eulima 7.20 p.m. from Balik Papan; Holmlea 8.20 pan. from Picton. To arrive: Dessau from Auckland.

Sailed: Waimarino 7.20 p.m. for Lyttelton; Wahine 7.50 p.m. for Lyttelton; Wanganella 8.30 p.m. for Sydney. To sail: Karu 10 p.m. for Dunedin; Omana 10 p.m. for Lyttelton; Gale ll t p.m. for Picton. LYTTELTON, March 17.

Arrived: Rangatira 6.40 a.m. from Wellington; China 7.40 from Wellington; Pakura 10.45 from Wellington. Sailed: Pakura 7.45 p.m. for Wellington; Maunganui 8.35 p.m. for Wellnigton; Raingatira 8.25 for Wellington. To sail: China 9.45 p.m. for Dunedin. DUNEDIN, March 17. Arrived:—Karetu 1.40 p.m. from Bluff. Sailed: —Limerick 4.40 p.m. for Melbourne; Tainui 5.30 for Lyttelton.