The Log Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 2

The Log Book

CORNWALL SAILING.— Tn continuation of her voyage from Liverpool, the Federal steamer Cornwall is leaving Auckland at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. lONIC SAILS TOMORROW.— With passengers, mails and cai'go, the White Star liner lonic, now filling up at the Queen’s Wharf, leaves Auckland at 5 o’clock tomorrow afternoon for Southampton and London, via Panama. PORT MELBOURNE AT LONDON.— The Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Melbourne, which left Wellington on October 26 for London, via Montevideo, is reported to have reached London on Sunday. REPAIRS TO CABLE. —The Pacific Cable Board’s repair ship Iris salied at 9.15 o’clock this morning to rectify an interruption which has occurred in the Wellington-Sydney cable about 240 miles from Wellington. PORT HOBART SAI LIN G.— Efforts are being made by the Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Company to dispatch the C. and D. Line’s motor-ship Port Hobart from Auckland tomorrow evening for London, via Panama. She is at present loading at the Central Wharf. KAIKORAI WITH COAL. —Cable advice received by the local office of the Union Company states that the collier Kaikoi-ai left Port Kembla at 2.30 p.m. last Saturday for Auckland, where she is due on Friday with a full cargo of coal for discharge at this port. After arrival here, the vessel will pay off. ULIMAROA AT WELLINGTON. —The Huddart Parker’s inter-colonial passenger steamer Ulimaroa arrived at Wellington at 9.5 o’clock this morning from Sydney. She leaves Wellington at noon on Friday on her return trip to the New South Wales port. The Ulimaroa is the only passenger steamer to arrive at New Zealand ports this week from Sydney. NORFOLK TO LOAD. —The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Federal steamer Norfolk leaves Timaru tomorrow for Auckland, where she is due on Saturday to continue loading for Home. From this port the vessel proceeds to Gisborne, thence Wellington and Napier, to fill up, and is announced to sail finally from Napier on December 27 for London, via Panama. CAMBRIDGE DUE TOMORROW.— Leaving Gisborne this afternoon for Auckland, the Federal steamer Cambridge is due here tomorrow and will bei'th at the Queen’s Wharf to continue her loading under the agency of the New Zealand Shipping Company. From this port the vessel proceeds to Wanganui, thence Lyttelton and Wellington, to fill up, and is scheduled to clear the latter port finally on December 2S for London and West Coast ports of England, via Panama. BEULAH ARRIVES. —With a cargo of redwood from San Francisco and bananas from Nukualofa, the motor-vessel Beulah arrived in port this morning and berthed at Central Wharf. She cleared San Francisco on October 14 and enjoyed line weather throughout her trip. She called at Fanning Island, Washington Island, Apia (Samoa), Suva, Vavau, Haapai and Nukualofa in that order for the purpose of discharging general cargo. Nukualofa was cleared on Tuesday last for Auckland. The vessel brought the following passengers from Nukualofa:—Miss E. Jones, Miss M. Harford and Mr. S. BriggS. A. G. Frankham, Ltd., agent for the Beulah, hopes to dispatch her for Wellington tomorrow afternoon to complete unloading. , The vessel is commanded by Captain H. G. Wigstein. MARAMA’S PASSENGERS. —The Mararna, which left Wellington on Friday for Sydney, took the following passengers:—Saloon: Mr. R. M. An tell, Mr. G. Abbott, Mr. F. W. Allen, Mrs. J. Allen, Mrs. J. Barber, Miss Britten, Mr. W. Brown, Mrs. M. A. Bryan, Mrs. P. V. Berry and infant. Misses V. D. and J. R. Berry, Miss J. Booking, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Bailey, Mr. L. Venn Brown, Mr. A. W. Chapman, Mr. A. L. Charleton, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. M. K. Case, Miss J. Cable, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chisholm, Miss M. Crane, Mrs. M. E. Dunham, Mr. C. E. Hunt Davis, Mr. J. Dawson, Mr. J. E. Davies, Mr. R. Francis, Mrs. A. H. Fernandez, Mr. Firth, Mr. C. T. Gardner, Mr. W. C. Guthrie, Miss H Mulvaney Gray, Mr. T. B. Godbolt, Miss D. M. Godbolt, Mr. A. C. Heron, Mr. G. Hasler, Mr. J. H. Hides, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison, Miss M. E. Hunter, Mr. G. R. Hoare, Mr. Hodges, Mr. J. J. Higgs, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Jones, Mr. G. A. Kimber and infant, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Leitch and child, Rev. D. A. Murray, Rev. A. Miller, Captain and Mrs. D. McDougall, Miss J. D. Muir, Mr. D. Macgregor, Mrs. E. M. Mackay, Miss J. B. Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Mackay, Mr. T. D. McNee, Mrs. K. H. and Miss Macky-Dill, Mrs. R. A. Macgregor and two children, Miss E. J,. Mastermann, Mrs. J. J. Nieholls, Mrs. M. Phillips, Miss E. M. A. Primmer, Mr. T. Primmer, Sir Lennon Raws, Miss J. Roberts, Mrs. L. Ryan, Miss J. Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. L. Stimpson, Miss E. D. Small, Mr. Spencer, Dr. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Steere, Mr. R. C. Todd-Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thorpe, Miss Toussiant, Mrs. Tyrel, Miss J. D. Thornbear, Mr. H. Turner, Miss R. Thornbear, Mr. Taylor, Mr. G. E. Turner. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Urquhart, Mr. H. Wright, Mrs. E. Walker, Mrs. M. Williams, Master B. Williams, Mr. L. Weisberg, Miss F. Wilson, Mr. R. F- York, Mr. J. Q. Anderson, Miss E. Conway, Mrs. F. Dash wood, Mr. R. L. Freeman, Mrs. M. C. Forrestal, Mr. R. A. Gaffney, Mr. Grove, Mrs. L. E. Jaekson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kambeltz, Mrs. V. N. and Master Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. L. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. H. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Morgan, Mr. E. A. Morgan, Mr. G. McGowan, Mr. J. McKenzie, Mr. R. Ormsbv, Miss S. Phillips, Mrs. A. Phillips, Miss J. Palmer, Mrs. S. Phillips, Mr. R. L. Robinson. Mr. Reed, Mrs. E. Scott, Miss C. M. Smart, Miss L. Steward, Mrs. H. St. Clair, Miss G. Trail, Mrs. H. D. Wise, Miss H. M. Warr, Mr. and Mrs. A. Yates. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kwnn and two children; and 34 steer-

The Mara ma is due at Sydney today, and sails next Friday for Auckland, where she is due on Tuesdav, December 17.

CARGO FROM PACIFIC COAST. —An expected arrival at Auckland from the Pacific Coast ports on December 23 is the Union Company’s cargo steamer Waiotapu with cargo for discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.

WAIPAHI WITH FRUIT. —Early this morning the Union Company’s Island fruit steamer Waipahi returned to Auckland from Suva and berthed at the Prince’s Wharf to land her fruit and mails. Fair weather was experienced by the vessel throughout the voyage. She is to leave here at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Westport, where she loads for New Plymouth and Auckland.

NEW UNION STEAMERS. —Advice has been received that the Karepo, the second of the two new cargo steamers built by Cammel, Laird and Company, Ltd., at. Birkenhead for the Union Steam Ship Company, has sailed from the Mersey for Wellington, where she is expected to arrive about January 16. The first of the two ships, the Kaimiro, commanded by Captain J. Rankine, left Birkenhead on October 16 for Wellington, via the Panama Canal, and is due there about December 17. The new ships are similar in design to the Kartigi class.

NEW ORIENT LINER. —The fifth 20,000-ton vessel to be added to the Orient Line fleet within the last five years, the Orontes, arrived at Sydney last week on her maiden voyage from London. The Orontes was built at the Vickers-Armstrongs’ Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness, and wns launched on February 26, 1929-. She is 664 ft in length, and has a 75ft beam. Like her sister ships, she was designed specially for the mail service between England and Australia. She is fitted for the carriage of two classes of passengers only, accommodation being provided lor 500 first class and 1,100 third class. All the first-class rooms have either a window or a porthole, and a large proportion of them are of single berth. In addition there is a number of special cabins, each with a private bathroom. The deck spaces are unusually extensive, the boatdeck alone having an area of over 16,500 square feet. On one deck there is an open-air swimming bath, and on another a space measuring over 2,000 square feet is convertible into an enclosed ballroom. The lounge, the smoking room, the dining saloon, the reading and writing room and the cafe are all distinctive in their decoration, particular attention having been paid to their colour schemes. The games deck has for many years been one of the distinctive features of Orient Line steamers, and in this respect a distinct improvement has been made c-n the Orontes.

RIVALRY OF COAL AND OIL

LLOYD’S REGISTER FIGURES

For the year ended June 30, plans for 589 vessels totalling 1,766,130 tons gross were passed by Lloyd’s Register, says the annual report. Of this projected tonnage, 1,191,415 tons, or 67.5 per cent., were intended to be built in Great Britain and Ireland, and 574,715 tons, or 32.5 per cent., abroad. This is the largest figure for any year since 1920 with the exception of 1927, when plans for 490 vessels or 1,831,920 tons were passed. The total of new tonnage to which classes have been assigned by the committee during the I 9 months in question was 547 vessels of 1,748,007 tons gross, these figures comparing with 578 vessels of 1,885,533 tons in the previous year. Of the new vessels classed, 353 of 1,102.726 tons, that is 63 per cent, of the tonnage, were constructed in Great Britain and Ireland. The total tonnage of merchant vessels afloat at the end of June, 1929, holding the classification of Lloyd’s Register amounting to 31,427,109 tons, and is the highest figure ever recorded in the history of the society. If to these figures be added the 417 vessels of 1,777,011 tons under construction to the society's classification at the end of June, it will be seen that the aggregate of shipping coming tinder the classification of Llovd’s mpriSGS 10 ’ 157 vessels of nearly 03,2p0,000 tons gross. AS regards types of engines and motive power, the report contains the following interesting .lata relating" to the total tonnage of all existing vessels of 100 tons and upward recoS L o y d s Register book. A number of ?? ?. , a , ss i! tle ' 3 as oil burners inown' f i sllo . uld n oted, steamers capable of burning either oil or coal. Types of engines. Tons gross. p er cent Steam reciprocating . 50,573 689 ■ Steam turbines .. .. 9,205’,602 13 9 Motors .. • 6,628,102 99 Total 66.407,393 100.0 Fuel— ’ * Coai only 40,358,396 60.8 ° ll 26,048,997 39.2 T °tal 66,407,393 JOO.O

WITHIN WIRELESS RANGE— The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations tonight:— Auckland.—Tofua, Sierra, Tut.anekai, Walruna, Parracomme, Waitemata, Canadian Conqueror, Brunswick, Maui Poinare, Areka, Gretaston, Falsterbo. Kaikorai, Kapongn. Cornwall. Chatham Islands.—Nil. Well ngton.—Maori, Wahlne, Tamahine. Arahura. Ngnio. Mataroa, Min, Plume, Cambridge. Rangltiki, Port Hardy. Karetu, Mahia, British Glory, Bencri a chan, Taranaki, Lady Lewis, Millur a. Awava.—C. A. Larsen. Kosmos, Sir J. C. Ross, Southern Princess, Hlneraoa, Makura, Tahiti, Ruahine. PORT OF ONEHUNGA—ARRIVALS YESTERDAY TUTANEKAI (5.35 p.m.), SOI ions, Burgess, from Kaipara. DEPARTURES YESTERDAY NGAPUHI <5.15 p.m.), 703 tons, Bark, for New Plymouth. HAUTURU (5.40 p.m.), 270 tons, Jackson-Fowler, for Raglan and Kawhia. ARAPAWA sails for Wanganui at 1 o'clock this afternoon. HAUTURU sailed last evening for Raglan, Kawhia and Waikato Heads, whence she returns to port at 6 a.m. on Thursday. HOKIANGA was expected to clear the Hokianga Bar at noon today. Sht should reach Onehunga tomorrow morning. and is scheduled to sail on the return trip at 4 p.m. on Thursday. KAITOA is now due on Friday to load for Picton and Motueka. NGAPUHI, arriving from New Plymouth at 7.30 a.m. tomorrow, is to leave for the same port at 3.30 p.m. on Thursday. SAILINGS FOR HOKIANGA.-The Northern Steamship Company advise? that two of the company’s vessels will be dispatched for Hokianga next week. The Hauturu is announced to sail on the lstb and the Arapawa on the 21st.