SHIPPING NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1931, Page 13

SHIPPING NEWS

PORT OF NEW PLYMOUTH DEPARTURES SATURDAY 12 noon: Opihi, s.s., 1117 tons, Hackworth, for Wellington. 6 p.m.: Paua, m.v., I'2oo tons, Paterson, for Nelson. ARRIVALS YESTERDAY. 6.15 a.m.: Totara, e.s., 426 tons. Eden, from Lyttelton. 1.20 p.m.: Rata, s.s., 1008 tons, Vasta, from Westport. VESSELS IN PORT. Totara, Moturoa wharf. Rata, Moturoa wharf. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. COASTAL. HauturU, from Onehunga, Wednesday. Tees, from sodth, Saturday. Opihi, from south, .September 30. OVERSEAS. Mahia (7914 tons), to load 9000 freight carcases of meat, 14,000. boxes of butter and 4000 crates of cheese at New Plymouth ou Friday. '(Newton King, Ltd.). Kent (8660 tons), to lift 14,000 freight carcases of meat, 9000 boxes of butter and 5450 crates of cheese at New Plymouth on October I. (U.S.S. Co.). Port Alma (7783 tons), left New York on July 30 to load asphalt and bitumen at Tampico where she left-oh August 30 for Auckland, Gisborne, Wellington, New Plymouth, Lyttelton. Timaru and Dunedin. Due New Plymouth on October 5. (Collett and Co.). Karepo (2562 tons), to load at Adelaide on Wednesday and proceed thence to Edithburg, Melbourne and New Plymouth, where she is due early in October. (U.S.S. Co.) Port Alma (7783 tons), to lift 8000 freight carcases of meat, 10,000 boxes of butter and 5000 crates of cheese at New Plymouth'' on October 23. (Collett and Co.). Coptic (8285 tons), to load butter and cheese at New Plymouth on October 23. (U.S.S. Co.). Port Fairy (7890 tons), was to leave London on Thursday for Suva, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Timaru and New Plymouth. Due New Plymouth middle of November. (Collett and Go,). Waiotapu (6035 tons), to leave Vancouver September 27, San Francisco October 8 and Los Angeles October 12, for Auckland, New Plymouth, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Due at New Plymouth November 12. (U.S.S. Co.). , Cumberland (10,937 tons), to leave Liverpool October 17 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and New Plymouth; due at New Plymouth late in December. (U.S.S. Co.). Canadian Challenger, to leave Montreal on October 22 for Auckland, Napier. Wellington, New Plymouth, Lyttelton and Dunedin via Galveston; due New Plymouth early in December with 1000 tons of sulnhur. (Millward and Co.). Hauraki (7113 tons), to load at Pacific Coast ports during the first half of December for New Zealand ports, including New Plymouth, where she is due in January. (U.S.S. Co.) ;» .—————. BRITISH PASSENGER STEAMERS. Corinthic, left Southampton August 14; due Wellington September 23. Rangitiki, left Southampton August 28; due Auckland October 1. Tamaroa, left Southampton September 11; due Auckland October 14. Ruahine, leaves Southampton September 25; due Auckland November 1. lonic, leaves Southampton October 9; due Auckland November 17. Mataroa, leaves Southampton November 6; due Wellington December 9. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMERS.,TO VANCOUVER. Aorangi, left Sydney on Thursday for Auckland and Vancouver; to leave Auckland to-morrow, and due Vancouver on October 9; to leave Vancouver on October 14 for Sydney, via Auckland. Due Auckland on November 2 and Sydney on November 7. To leave Sydney on November 12 for Vancouver, via Auckland; to leave Auckland on November 16 and due Vancouver on December 4. Niagara, left Vancouver on Wednesday for Sydney, via Auckland; due .at Auckland October 5 and Sydney on October 10. To leave Sydney on October 15 for Vancouver, via Auckland. To leave Auckland on October 20 and due Vancouver on November 6. To leave Vancouver on November 11 for Sydney, via Auckland; due Auckland on November 30 and Sydney on December 5.

TO SAN FRANCISCO. Makura, left San Francisco on August 26 for Sydney, via Wellington; due Wellington to-day and Sydney on Saturday. To leave Sydney October 1 for San Francisco, via Wellington; to leave Wellington on October 6 and due San Francisco on October 23. To leave San Francisco on October 28 for Sydney, via Wellington; due Wellington on November 16 and Sydney on November 21. Monowai, to leave San Francisco on September 30 for Sydney, via Wellington; due Wellington on October 19 and Sydney on October 24. To leave Sydney on October 24. To leave Sydney on October 29 for San Francisco, via Wellington; to leave Wellington on November 3 and San Francisco on November - 20. To leave San Francisco on November 25 for Sydney, via Wellington; due Wellington on December 14 and San Francisco on December 18. Sonoma, left San Francisco on September 3 for Svdney, via Auckland; due Auckland on Friday and Sydney September 29. To leave Sydney on October 6 for San Francisco via Auckland; to leave Auckland October 10 and due at San Francisco on October 28. To leave San Francisco on November 5 for Sydney, via Auckland; due Auckland November 27, and Sydney December 1. Ventura, to leave San Francisco on Thursday for Sydney, via Auckland. Due Auckland on October 16 and Sydney on October 20. To leave Sydney on October 27 for San Francisco via Auckland; to leave Auckland on October 31 and due San Francisco on November 18. Sierra, left Sydney on Tuesday for San Francisco, via Auckland; left

Auckland on Saturday and due San Francisco on October 7. To leave San Francisco on October- 15 for Sydney, 1 via Auckland; due Auckland on November 6 and Sydney on November 10. To 'leave Sydney on November 17 for San Francisco, via Auckland; to leave Auckland on Novembei' 21 and due San Francisco on December 9. TRANS-TASMAN SERIVCE. Uliniaroa, left Auckland on Friday for Sydney; due Sydney to-morrow To leave Sydney on Friday for Wellington; due Wellington on September 29. To leave Wellington on October 2 for Sydney; due Sydney on October 6. Maunganui, left Sydney on Friday for Wellington; due Wellington tomorrow and Auckland on Thursday. To leave Auckland on Friday for Sydney; due Sydney on September 29. To leave Sydney on October 2 for Auckland and Wellington; due Auckland on October 6 and Wellington on October 8. COASTAL MOVEMENTS. The Paua finished discharge of oil at New Plymouth and sailed on Saturday for Wellington, via Nelson. (Shell Co.). The Opihi completed discharge at New Plymouth of 650 tons of cargo and sailed at noon on Saturday for Wellington. She will reload at Dunedin on Wednesday for New Plymouth, via usual ports. (U.S.S. Co.). The Rata arrived at New Plymouth yesterday with 300 tons of coal from Westport.. The vessel is scheduled to proceed to Wanganui thia afternoon. (Cock and Co.). The Totara arrived at New Plymouth from' southern ports early yesterday morning and is scheduled to sail for Dunedin direct at about noon to-day. (U.S.S. Co.). The Hauturu is scheduled to arrive at New Plymouth from Onehunga on Wednesday. From New Plymouth the vessel will proceed to Wanganui. (Northern Co.). The Tees is scheduled to load at Dunedin to-day for New Plymouth, where she is due on Saturday, via Timaru, Lyttelton and Wellington. From New Plymouth the vessel will proceed to Darg'aville. (Hooker Bros.) MAHIA TO LOAD. The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Mahia was due at Bluff from Cairns on Saturday morning to commence loading in New Zealand for England. Her loading ports are Bluff, New Plymouth, Wellington and Auckland. The vessel is due at Auckland on October 3, and she is scheduled to sail for London, via Montevideo, on October 8. She is due at New Plymouth next Friday to lift 9000 freight carcases of meat; 14,000 boxes of butter and 4000 crates of cheese. KENT DELAYED. The New Zealand Shipping Company received a further wireless message iroin , the Kent, on route from London, via Suva, reporting that she had been delayed by heavy weather and expected to reach Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon. After unloading the remainder of her cargo at Port Chalmers, Lyttelton and Napier, the vessel will load for London and West Coast ports at Napier, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, Gisborne and Auckland. The vessel is dueat Auckland on October 15, and she is scheduled to sail for London on October 20. The Kent is due at New Plymouth on October 1 to lift 14,000 freight carcases of meat, 9000 boxes of butter and 5450 crates of cheese to the agency of the Union Company. NEWCASTLE COAL SHIPMENTS. The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week ended August 27, for places beyond the State was 46,271 tons, of which 1500 tons represented overseas bunkers. The total for the corresponding period last year was 53,762. The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped, at Newcastle during August for places beyond the State, was 147,677 tons, of which 5503 tons represented overseas bunkers. The decrease during August, compared with July, was 28,205 tons. Compared with August, 1930, the export showed a decrease of 5323 tons. PASSAGE RATES REDUCED. After an exhaustive survey of the extremely difficult conditions ruling in the North Atlantic trade, the Conference Lines, whose representatives have been meeting in Paris, have decided to institute substantial reduction in passage rates. It is announced that in regard to the first class, the cuts will range from 10 to 30 per cent., and in the tmrd class they will vary round a basic figure of 13 per cent., the reductions to be put into force on August 17. Other concessions are to be introduced, among these being a considerable scaling down of supplementary charges in the second cabin and tourist classes, while tourist passengers will no longer be issued with third-class labels. It was emphasised ■by Dr. Kiep, of the Hamburg-American Line, who presided over the deliberations of the conference, that there was complete unanimity in reaching the decisions, and that the considerable sacrifices involved, affording great advantages to the travelling public, represent finality in the matter of reductions. The action taken by the shipping companies will, it . is hoped, check the serious decline which has marked the passenger returns, states the Syren and Shipping. The harmonious spirit which has evidently prevailed throughout the deliberations is a good augury and an indication that all the companies represented in the conference recognise the necessity for friendly co-op-eration in handling a situation which threatened to produce very serious consequences to all. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Wellington, September 19.' Arrived: Fairburn, 3 a.m., from Foxton; Matangi, 6.20 a.m., from Nelson; Maori, 6.55° a.m., from Lyttelton; Kohi, 7.30 a.m., Waiotapu, and Kotiti, 7-40 a.m., from Karamea; Tongariro, 9 a.m., from Napier. Wellington, September 20: Arrived: Opihi, 7 a.m., from New Plymouth. Wellington, September 19: Arrived: Kini, 10.30 a.m., from Gisborne. Sailed: Port Gisborne, 7.15 a. hi., for London. London, September 18: Arrived: At Colon, Tairoa and 'Matamanae. Sailed: Port Fairy, from London. Auckland, September 19: Arrived: Sierra, 7.20 a.m., from Sydney. Sailed: Wingatui, 11.25 a.m., for Wellington; Sierra, 5 p.m., for San Francisco. Auckland. September 20: Sailed 1 ! City of Kimberley, noon, for Port Pirie. Lyttelton, September Iff: Arrived:

Wahine, 7.45 a.m., from Wellington; Taupata, 9.39 a.m., from Wellington. Sailed: Waikouaiti, 11.25 aim., for Timaru; Taupata, 3.15 p.m., for Nelson; Wahine, 8.25 p.m., for Wellington. Lyttelton September 20: Arrived: Maori, 7 a.m., from Wellington; Canopus, 6.40 a.m., from Timaru; Gale, 8,25 a.m., from Oamaru; Kuku, 1.5 p.m., from Wellington. Dunedin, September 19: Sailed: New Zealand, 1.5 a.m., for Adelaide; John, 3.15 pan., for Timaru. Dunedin, September 20: Arrived: Storm, 9.30 a.m., from Bluff; Narbada, 9130 a.m., from Timaru; Kent, 9.45 a.m., from Suva Sailed: Northern Light, 10.15 a.m., for Sydney. TIDES, SUN, PHASES OF MOON.

For the approximate time of high water at Opunake add five minutes, for Ohawe beach add 10 minutes, and for Patea 18 minutes. September 27: Full moon, 7.15 a.m. October 5: Last quarter, 7.45 a.m. October 12: New moon, 1.06 a.m. October 18: First quarter, 8.50 p.m. INFORMATION FOR TRAVELLERS. DAILY TRAIN SERVICES. Trains arrive at New Plymouth: From Hawera, 10.36 a.m.; from Wanganui, Auckland and Marton, 1 p.m.; • from Auckland and Palmerston North, 6.46 p.m.; from Wellington, 7.48 p.m. Trains leave New Plymouth: For south, 6.40 a.m.; for Wellington and Auckland (express), .8.25 a.m.; for Wanganui (and road connection with main trunk limited express), 1.50 p.m.; for Hawera, 4.35 p.m. Departure times from Hawera; Northwards, 7.30 a.m., 11.9 a.m. (Wanganui express), 3.20 p.m. Southwards, 7.25 a.m., 10.14 a.m. (Wellington express), 10.30 a.m., 3.45 p.m. (Wanganui express).

High a.m. water p.m. Sunrise. Sunset. Sept. 21 . . 5.08 5.46 5.46 5.48 Sept. 22 . . 6.27 6.53 5.45 5.49 Sept. 23 . . 7.21 7.40 5.43 5.50 Sept. 24 . . 8.0-1 8.15 5.42 5.51 Sept. 25 .. , 8.35 8.45 5.40 5.52 Sept. 26 . . 9.05 9.14 5,38 5.52 Sept. 27 . . 9.30 9.40 5.37 5.53