PROJECTED DEPARTURES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20058, 15 March 1935, Page 2

PROJECTED DEPARTURES

NOTES The Karetu arrived last night from Oamaru. After loading for Picton. Wellington and Auckland, she is to sail to-day for Lyttelton. The Parera is set down to arive today from the south to load for Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Waikato. It is expected that the Holmdale will arrive to-night from Oamaru to load for Wellington, Picton and Wanganui. The Kartigi, which has general cargo for discharge at Timaru is timed to arrive to-morrow from Lyttelton. Maheno to Pay Off The Union Company advises that the Maheno commenced her last voyage from Melbourne yesterday. She is due at Bluff on March 18, and at Dunedin the following day. After pasengers have been landed and cargo discharged the crew will be paid off. Waipawa from London The Shaw Savill vessel Waipawa is to leave London on April 10 for Port Chalmers direct, arriving at Dunedin about May 18. From that port the vessel will proceed to Lyttelton and Timaru to complete discharge of inward cargo. The Waipawa is to leave the Dominion on June 25 for London. Busy Times at Belfast The shipbuilding activity of the Blue Star Line during the present month has been almost unprecedented (says the “Syren and Shipping” of January 16). For one company within the space of a week to have two new vessels commenced, a third launched, and a fourth delivered, all by the same yard—Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited, Belfast—is, wc think, unique even in prosperous times for shipping. The vesel launched was the Australia Star, the third of the first group of vessels ordered a year ago. The one delivered was the Imperial Star, the first of this group, and the two laid down are the sister ships of the Australia Star ordered last November. They will follow the lines of the Australia Star rather than of the Imperial Star and New Zealand Star, in that they will have somewhat different deck arrangements from the earlier vessels and entirely different machinery, the type chosen for them being-double-acting two-stroke Diesels instead of the single-acting four-stroke units installed in the New Zealand Star and the Imperial Star. The Australia Star was named by the Honourable Mrs Samuel Vestey, who was accompanied by her husband, and an interested spectator was the Right Hon. H. M. Pollock, Minister of Finance for Northern Ireland, who is closely in touch with the shipbuilding industry. Harland and Wolff are now in the fortunate position of having over 100,000 tons of shipping on the stocks and almost 50,000 tons in the water, including the Royal Mail liner Alcantara, which is being repowered.

— Karetu, Lyttelton Parera, Lyttelton Holmdale, Lyttelton To-day Kartlgi, Dunedin Storm, Lyttelton ... Mar. 18 Wingatui, Lyttelton ... Mar. 18 Gale, Lyttelton ... Mar. 19 Wainui, Lyttelton Holmglen, Lyttelton ... Mar. 21 Port Whangarei, Lyttelton .. Mar. 21 Orepuki. Lyttelton ... Mar. 22 Waimarino, Lyttelton Waikouaiti, Lyttelton ... Mar. 26 Port Victor, Wellington ... ... Mar. 28 Ardenvohr, Dunkirk ... Mar. 29 Somerset, Wellington ... Mar. 29 Canadian Challenger, New Y’k Apr. 5