SHIPPING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20027, 7 February 1935, Page 2

SHIPPING

PORT OF TIMARU Sun rises 5.9 a.m.; sets 7.13 p.m. High water 6.26 a.m.; 6.52 p.m. (Add half an hour for daylight saving.) PHASES OF THE MOON

ARRIVAL February 6 Wainui, s.s., 1633 tons (Howie) from Oamaru. (Union S.S. Co.) DEPARTURE February 6 Wainui, s.s., for Lyttelton. The following list of steamers movements is compiled in accordance with advices supplied by agents for the different lines. EXPECTED ARRIVALS

NOTES The Wainui arrived last night from Oamaru and after loading for Wellington, Napier and Gisborne sailed later for Lyttelton. The Kini was to have left Lyttelton last night for Timaru and Is due this morning to discharge a part cargo of coal from the West Coast. The Gale on the Wellington, Wanganui and New Plymoutn run, is set down to reach Timaru to-day from the south. It is expected that the Port Whangarei will arrive to-day from Dunedin to load for Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland and Whangarei. The Totara has sailed from Westport for Timaru and Oamaru with coal and is due here to-morrow. With a cargo of guano from Walpole Island via Lyttelton, the Kanna is listed to arrive at Timaru to-morrow. The Imperial Star The Blue Star Line’s new motorship Imperial Star is at present en route from Auckland to Wellington. She is due here from the northern port on Tuesday to continue Homeward loading, sailing the following day for Bluff. The vesel experienced generally fair weather during the voyage from Belfast to Auckland which was made in the fast time of 29 days, 9 hours 11 minutes ,at an average speed of 16 2 knots. The Tainui from London The Shaw Savill liner Tainui which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday afternoon brought about 100 passengers, 42 bags of mail and 233 parcel receptacles. The third shipment of Jamacain oranges to reach New Zealand this season, amounting to about 4000 cases, was included in the Tainui’s general cargo. Vessels from Liverpool The Turakina, which left Liverpool for New Zealand on January 26, is being followed by the Hurunui on February 16, Norfolk on March 30, Cambridge on April 20, and Surrey instead of Northumberland on June 1. Each vessel will discharge at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. In addition, the Hurunui will unload at Napier, the Norfolk at Bluff, and the Cambridge at New Plymouth. Many Vessels in Ballast No fewer than eleven vessels are now en route from the United Kingdom to New Zealand In ballast to load Homeward A number have already made the trip out in ballast, while many more will do so before the present export season is over, says the “Dominion.” Last season nearly sixty vessels came to New Zealand in ballast to load for the United Kingdom, and this season the total will be approximately the same.

The latest vessels to leave in ballast are the Blue Star Line motor ship Tuscan Star on January 24, the Shaw, Savill and Albion motor ship Zealandic on January 29, and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamers Port Victor and Port Pirie on January 24 and January 30 respectively. Personal Mr G. H. Edwards, formerly third officer on the Tamahine, has joined the Wahine in a similar capacity, relieving Mr H. M. Hughes. Captain F. Summers, commander of the Cunard-White Star motor liner Georgic, has retired after thirty-five years’ service with the White Star Line. His first command was the Gallic. Captain F. A. Frank, D. 5.0., commander of the Cunard-White Star liner Homeric, has retired. He joined the White Star Line as fourth officer of the old Doric in 1899, and was appointed to his first command, the Gallic, in 1925. Captain J. W. Binks, commander of the liner Olympic, retired last month. He spent thirty-five years with the White Star Line, and received his first command, the Runic, in 1924. A "White Elephant” The great new Cunard-White Star liner, Queen Mary, which has been the subject of so much enthusiastic publicity, was described recently as certain to be a “white elephant” for the companies running her, by Mr W. M’Murray, a retired marine engineer, of Dumbarton, Scotland, who is at present In New Zealand on a pleasure trip. Such immense luxury ships as the Queen Mary had, he said, in the past been dependent on the patronage of the millionaires on either side of the Atlantic for their successful running. The revenue they brought in from passengers was what counted since they carried only a negligible amount of cargo. The big new liner could not expect to get the same number of wealthy passengers as the Atlantic flyers of pre-war days had got. American millionaires now preferred to travel in American ships, and the competition from Germany, Italy, .and France was now much stronger.

First Quarter Feb. 10 8.55 p.m. Full Moon .. . ,. Feb. 18 10.47 p.m. Last Quarter .. . ,. Feb. 26 10.42 a.m.

Kini, Lyttelton Gale, Dunedin Port Whangarei, Dunedin .. .. To-day Kanna, Lyttelton 8 Totara, Westport 8 Waimarino, Dunedin 11 Holmglen, Dunedin 11 Imperial Star, Wellington .. .. Feb. 12 Orepuki, Oamaru 12 Storm, Dunedin 13 Omana, Lyttelton .. Feb. 14 Northumberland, Port Chalmers Feb. 18 Karetu, Oamaru .. Feb. 18 Paua, Dunedin .. Feb. 20 Waimana, Oamaru .. Feb. 21 PROJECTED DEPARTURES Gale, Lyttelton .. To-day Port Whangarei, Lyttelton . .. To-day Kanna, Dunedin 8 Waimarino, Lyttelton 11 Holmglen, Lyttelton 11 Orepuki, Lyttelton .. Feb. 12 Breeze, Lyttelton 12 Storm, Lyttelton .. Feb. 13 Imperial Star. Bluff .. Feb. 13 Omana, Dunedin x4 Karetu, Lyttelton .. Feb. 18 Northumberland, Lyttelton . .. Feb. 19 Paua, Lyttelton 20 Waimana, Lyttelton 22