COASTAL MOVEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1930, Page 2

COASTAL MOVEMENTS.

The Progress from Lyttelton and Wellington for New Plymouth and Waikato is due at New Plymouth to-morrow and proceeds to Waikato, where she is: due on Saturday. (Hooker Bros.).

The Kaimiro loaded at Dunedin on Monday for New Plymouth, via Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington and Nelson. She will proceed later to Westport. She is due at New Plymouth on Sunday. (U.S.S. Co.). The Totara left New Plymouth on Monday for Nelson, Motueka and Lyttelton. She loads at Lyttelton to-morrow for Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth, being due here about Monday. (U.S.S. Co.). The Kamona loads 450 tons of railway coal at Greymouth about Saturday, proceeding to New Plymouth, where she is due next Monday. She sails later for Auckland. (U.S.S. Co.). The John is due at Dunedin to-day to load . for Timaru, . Lyttelton, Wellington and New Plymouth, where she is due on May 7. She proceeds to Waikato later and is scheduled to arrive on May 8. (Hooke Bros.). The Paua, the Shell Cohipany’s’tanker, which has been discharging an oil cargo at New Plymouth, left for Wellington yesterday afternoon. The Opihi loads at Dunedin on May 8, and via Oamani, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington and Nelson is due at New Plymoutk about May 14. (U.S.S. Co.). ONEHUNGA FERRY SERVICE. The Ngapuhi, with passengers and cargo is due at New Plymouth from Onehunga to-morrow morning on her final trip. She returns north in the evening and on Saturday will be withdrawn from the service. She will then go to Auckland and relieve the Clansman in the Russell service on May 5, while the Clansman undergoes overhaul. The Ngapuhi will be replaced on the Onehunga run by the motor vessel Hauturu, which will run a bi-weekly cargo service between Onebunga and New Plymouth. KIWITF/A FROM AUSTRALIA. The . Kiwi tea left Adelaide and will complete loading at Melbourne and Hobart for Bluff, Dunedin, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth. ? ANTONIO LEAVES OCEAN ISLAND. Advice has been received that the steamer Antonio was dispatched from Ocean Island last Sunday with a full cargo of phosphates for discharge at New Plymouth and W 7 anganui, She is due at New Plymouth about May 9 with 4000 tons. MAIMOA DELAYED. The Maimoa, which is scheduled to load 10,000 boxes of butter and 3660 crates of eheese at New Plymouth,’was delayed by rain at Wanganui and is not now due until to-morrow. PORT HARDY LOADING. The C. and D. Line vessel Port Hardy, now loading at New Plymouth, is expect .1 to leave for Wanganui and Wellington on Saturday. She leaves Wellington on .May 13 for; London, Avohmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow, ' via Montevideo. . . NEW PACIFIC CARGO SERVICE. • The North Pacific-Australian Line has arranged to run a monthly cargo service from Pacific ports to New Zealand, according to advice received in Auckland. The company is already running a service from Pacific Coast ports to Australia and the vessels in future are to* call at Auckland, en route to Australia. The Norwegian motor-ship Dagfrcd, 4400 tons, has been loading at Pacific Coast ports and was scheduled to clear Los Angeles yesterday for Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne. She is the first vessel in the new service and is expected to reach Auckland about May 25. WAIRUNA TO BE LAID UP. The Union Steamship Company’s cargo steamer Wairuna, which is regularly engaged in the trans-Pacifie general cargo trade between American West Coast ports and New Zealand Australia, will be temporarily laid up at Auckland on her a -'val there next week from Newcastle. Several factors have contributed to this decision, not the least being the effect of the new Australian tariff or the imports from America. In addition to petroleum products, newsprint and other commodities which are hardly affected by the tariff changes,, the Ameri -an exports comprise much that is seasonal in character and ,a general falling-off in cargo is regularly shown in the trans-Pacifie trade at this time of the year.' The new Australian tariff, however, has had a direct effect in that .’s tas cut down the amount of luxuries imported from America, with the result that vessels leaving the Pacific Coast have found it much harder than usual to secure cargoes. WAIMARINO LEAVES HOME. • The Union Company advise that the Waimarino, the last of its five new cargo steamers, left England on April 21 for Dunedin, Lyttelton and Auckland, via Durban, and is due at Dunedin early in July. The Waimarino has a gross tonnage c: 3030 tons, and was launched early last month by the Ardrossan Dockyard, Ltd., Ardrossan. She is a single screw steamer of 320 ft. in length,: by 46.7 ft. in breadth moulded, by 25.5 ft. in deapth mo.ikied to upper deck, and is of the two-dec? typo, 1 with poop, bridge and forecastle. The machinery was supplied by John G. Kincaid and Co., Ltd., Greenock. The Waimarino is built on the same lines as the Waipiata and destined for the Dunedin-Welling-ton-Auckland service. Captain A. S. Dalgleish is bringing the new vessel out. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton, April 30. —Arrived: Maori (7.10 a.m.), from Wellington. Sailed: Shenandoah (8.35 a.m.), for Los Angeles. Lyttelton, April 30. —Arrived: Kaimiro (11.30 a.m.) and Kurow (noon), from Timaru.

Wellington, April 30. —Arrived: Gale (10.45 a.in.), from Wanganui.

TIDES, SUN, PHASES OF MOON.

May 7.. 4.12 4.55 6.41 4.59 May 6.—First quarter, 4.23 a.m. May 13. —Full moon, 4.59 a.m. " May 21.—Last quarter 1 , 3".52 a.m. May 28.—New hlooit, .5,07, p.m.

High a.in. water. p.n.i. Sunrise. Sunset. May I .. 10.45 11.12 6.30 5.06 May 2 .. 11.30 11.566.37 5.05 May 3 — 0.17 6.38 5.06 May 4 .45 1.10 6.39 5.04 May 5 .. 1.43 2.10 6.39 5.02 May 6 .. 2.49 3.29 5.40 5.00