SHIPPING.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18819, 6 March 1931, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF TIMARtJ. lun rises 5.50 a.m.; sets 6.44 p.m. ligh water 4.11 a.m.; 4.35 p.m. (Add half-hour summer-time.) PHASES OF THE MOON. t Quarter . March 11 at 4.45 pm. ; Moon . . March 19 at 6.21 pm. !t Quarter . March 27 at 4.34 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. hi. Oamaru To-day lnui. Oamaru To-day miro, Dunedin To-day tress, Dunedin To-day roa, Oamaru Mar - I loa. Lyttelton Mar. 7 m. Dunedin Mar. 7 t Alma, m.v., Bluff Mar. 8 cze. Dunedin Mar - “ rm, Dunedin Mar - ® in. Dunedin Mar. 11 ilpiata, Oamaru Marladian Highlander, Ly'lton Mar. 13 Imoa. Lyttelton Mar. 17 ■t Waikato, Pt. Stephens .. Mar. 17 nerset, Port Chalmers Mar. 19 rnwall, Pt. Chalmers Mar. 26 PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Lyttelton ~°*j ay linui, Lyttelton ••• To-day Imho, Lyttelton To-day ogress, Lyttelton To-day toa, Akaroa Mar. 7 lm. Lyttelton Mar. 7 ilroa, Lyttelton Mar. 9 eeze, Lyttelton Mar. 9 orm. Lyttelton J*ar. 9 >rt Alma, Lyttelton Mar. 10 Bn, Lyttelton 11 alpiata, Lyttelton Mar inadlan Highlander, D'edin . Mar. 13 NOTES. Shipping itineraries were altered imewhat yesterday, owing to the tact lat more than one vessel was held Uf

i the south. The Wainui is expected this morning •om Oamaru, to load general cargo >r Wellington and Auckland The Kaimiro was expected to leave lamara last night for Timaru. She hould berth this morning, to load for gestport, via Lyttelton. The Opihi is expected to reach 'imaru to-night from Oamaru. The easel is on the Wellington, Nelson and lew Plymouth run. The Progress, which was due yeserday, was delayed at Dunedin. It is xpected that she will arrive to-night, o pick up general cargo for Wellmgon. New Plymouth and Waikato The Calm should take Wellington md Wanganui cargo from Timaru on Saturday. , The Katoa, which has general Aus.ralian cargo, including timber, for lischarge at Timaru, is expected to irrlve to-morrow from Lyttelton. From rere the vessel Is to proceed to Akaroa. The John is scheduled to reach rimaru on Wednesday, from Dunedin. Wellington. New Plymouth and Waifcato are to be her trading ports. Overseas. The Shaw Savill steamer Tairoa is due to arrive on Saturday afternoon from Oamaru. She is to load for the United Kingdom, and is expected to proceed to Lyttelton on Monday. The motor vessel Port Alma is expected to berth on Sunday from Port Chalmers. The Port Alma is to load frozen meat and general cargo for London and Home ports, after which she is to sail on Tuesday for Lyttelton. The Canadian Highlander, which has Canadian and American general cargo for discharge at Timaru, is listed to arrive on the 13th. She is expected to proceed to Dunedin the same day, after loading return general cargo for New York, Boston and Montreal. „ The Somerset, which sailed from London on January 30th, for Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Timaru, New Plymouth and Nelson, is scheduled to reach Timaru on March 19th.

12,000 MILES AIR AND OCEAN FREIGHT SERVICE. (Imperial Airways Bulletin.) Arrangements have just been completed between Imperial Airways, the Cunard Steamship Company, and the White Star Line, for the institution of a new combined high-speed air and ocean freight service, which is at first to extend from New York, via London, to India. It is also hoped, in the near future, to arrange connections with the trans-American air-mail ser ice, giving a 12,000 miles air-ocean-air service from San Francisco to India. A parcel from the western seaboard of America will, on the institution of this through service, be flown 3000 miles across the United States to New York. Here, twice a week, connections will be established with White Star and Cunard eastbound Royal Mail liners, such as the Olympic or Aquitania. After Its 3000 miles ocean passage in one of these vessels, the parcel will be transferred to an ArmstrongSiddeley air-liner of Imperial Airways for its journey above Europe to Athens. Then, after an aerial voyage above the Mediterranean in a large 3-engined Short-Jupiter flying boat, the parcel will be - transferred again to a big De Havilland-Jupiter landplane for its final stages across the Iraq desert to Baghdad, the Persian Gulf and India. By this new superspeed aid and ocean route a parcel will be conveyed from San Francisco to India in not more than 14 days, while the time of transit from New York to India will be only 11 days. A valuable extension of this airocean freight service will be inaugurated early next year when the Imperial Airways England-South Africa route is instituted. This will open up not only an accelerated service to South Africa, but will show a very great saving in the time of transit of urgent parcels from the entire American continent, north and south to the rapidly developing British possessions along the east coast of Africa The following table shows clearly the time that will be saved by this new combined service, as comparec with existing surface transport bj

It is expected that an extensive use of this new service will be made by those consigning samples, specie, jewellery, spare parts, and urgent documents of all kinds. It is estimated that in the case of specie, or bonds, the saving of interest alone, owing to the rapidity of this mode of transit, will be more than sufficient to pay the special express charges Involved.

OVERSEAS. United Press Association— By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY. March 5. < Sailed: Niagara (5 p.m.) for Auck- > land. | NEW ZEALAND PORTS. By Telegraph—Press Association 1 AUCKLAND, March 5. ' Arrived: Kanna (6.20 a.m.) from ' New Plymouth; Waimarino (7 a.m.) from Wellington; Canadian Highlander (1.15 p.m.) from Halifax. Sailed: Veronica (8 a.m.) for Hauraki Gulf; Poolta (6 p.m.) for Gisborne. WELLINGTON, March 5. Arrived: Gale (11.45 a.m.) from Lyttelton; Kapiti (12.35 p.m.) from Wanganui; Canopus (8.5 p.m.) from Westport. Sailed: Herminius (4.50 p.m.) for London; Kuku (5.10 p.m.) for Lyttelton; Maori (7.50 p.m.) for Lyttelton. DUNEDIN, March 5. Arrived: Opihi (6.30 a.m.) from Wellington; progress (1.15 p.m.) from Wellington. Sailed: Opihi (6 p.m.) for Oamaru. MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to any necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Timaru, as under: — ' Only parcels prepaid at express I transit rate are forwarded by express trains. Registered letter mails close one hour, and newspaper and parcel mails close 45 minutes earlier than ordinary letter mails. Late fee at railway station cleared at due time arrival of express trains. For North Island Offices Of New Zealand: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12.30 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 3.15 p.m. For Christchurch, North Canterbury, and Westland: Daily, at 6 a.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12.30 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 3.15 pm. For Temuka and Geraldine; Daily, at 5 a.m. t „ For Ashburton: Daily, at 6 am. For Waimate: Daily, at 5 am. and

6 a.m. For Oamaru and Intermediate Offices: Daily, at 6 a.m. For Temuka, Geraldine, and Ashburton; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10.45 am. and 3.15 p.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. For Waimate, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and all Southern Offices: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10.45 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.; Wednesday’, Friday, 2.45 p.m. For Fairlie, Pleasant Point, etc.: Daily, at 6 a.m. (letters only) and 3.30 p.m. _ For Fairlie and Hermitage: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per car, 10.45 a.m. For Dunedin and Christchurch (night trains): Daily, at 7 p.m., excepting Sunday (letters only). For Oamaru and Invercargill: Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday, 7 p.m (letters only). ■ . ._ For Ashburton: Wednesday, Friday. Saturday, 7 p.m. (letters only).

SATURDAY, MARCH 7. At 3.15 pm. (Late Fee 3.30 p.m.) Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Falkland Islands, via Vancouver; also Fiji and Hawaii, per Niagara, at Auckland. Correspondence will also be accepted for despatch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America. Air-mail fee in addition to postage 4d per ioz. (Due London 9th April).

MONDAY, MARCH 9. At 12.30 p.m. Australian States, South Africa, Japan, China and Straits Settlements and Egypt, per Monowai, at Wellington. Correspondence will also be accepted for despatch by air-mail services in Australia. Air-mail fee in addition to postage, 3d per ioz. MONDAY, MARCH 9. At 12.30 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), Central America and South American Western States via Panama, to connect with Mataroa, at Wellington. (Due London 13tli April.) MONDAY, MARCH 9. At 12.30 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Europe (specially addressed correspondence inly), Central America and South American Western States via Panama, to connect with Ruapehu, at Wellington. (Due London April 14th.) INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. 10th Mar. —S.S. Tainui, from London via Auckland. English mail. 10th Mar. —R.M.S. Monowai, from San ] , Francisco. English and American

11th Mar. —S.S. Marama, from Sydney. Australian mail, O. R. INGRAM, Chief Postmaster. Timaru, March 6, 1931.

parcel post:— Air and By Surface Route Ocean. Transport. Days. Days. New York-Cairo . 10 21/3 New York-Baghdad . 11 36/42 New York-Karachi . 14 28 New York-Nairobi . . 10 32/40 New York-Capetown . 18 28/32