Shipping, Weather and Mails

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20680, 19 March 1937, Page 2

Shipping, Weather and Mails

PORT OF TIMARU

LATEST ADVICES The Westport Coal Company’s collier Canopus was a visitor to Timaru yesterday. She arrived from Lyttelton and after discharge sailed last night for Lyttelton. The Waimarino arrived from Bluff to load for Auckland and departed last night via Lyttelton. The Port Waikato was the only other arrival She called from Dunedin to lift Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland and Whangarei shipments and sailed again later in the evening for Lyttelton. ARRIVALS March 18 Canopus, 1339 tons (Rowlands) from Lyttelton. (Westport Coal Co.) Waimarino, 5.5.,. 3067 tons (Cameron) from Bluff. (Union S.S. Co.) Port Waikato, m.v., 688 tons (Holmes), from Dunedin. (H. J. R. Somerville and Co., agents.) DEPARTURES March 18 Canopus, s.s., for Westport. Waimarino, s.s., for Lyttelton. Port Waikato, m.v., for Lyttelton. The following list of steamers’ movements is compiled in accordance with advices supplied by agents for the different Lines:— EXPECTED ARRIVALS

PROJECTED DEPARTURES

NOTES The Holmglen is scheduled to arrive from Oamaru to-day to load for Wellington, New Plymouth and Waikato. She should get away for Lyttelton this evening. The Gale Is to load for Wellington, Picton and Wanganui at this port tomorrow. She is due from Oamaru and is to sail via Lyttelton the same night. ('umberland Clears Balboa Cabled advice has been received by the Federal Company that the Cumberland, cn route from Liverpool to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and Bluff, cleared Balboa last Friday. She is due at Auckland on April 1. Golden Coast Reports The O. and O. Line steamer Golden Coast, en route from Los Angeles, was due at Auckland on Wednesday. She is. due at Wellington next Monday to discharge her Pacific Coast cargo to the agency, and will later proceed to Melbourne. Opawa at Suva The New Zealand Shipping Company has reecived cabled advice that its motorship Opawa, from London, reached Suva on Tuesday morning. She is to leave there again this morning for Dunedin, Lyttelton, Timaru and Nelson to complete discharge, and is due at Dunedin on March 24. Tongariro Leaves Liverpool The Federal Comany has received cabled advice that the Tongariro left Liverpool last Sunday for Auckland. Napier, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. She is due at Auckland on April 22.

THE PORT TAURANGA

NEW WATCHLIN MOTORSHIP Captain A. F. Watchlin’s new intercolonial cargo motorship Port Tauranga, reached Lyttelton last Sunday night on her maiden voyage from London. Specially designed for the timber trade between Australia and New Zealand, the Port Tauranga was built by Henry Robb, Ltd., Leith. A twinscrew motorship of about 1200 tons gross, with a deadweight carrying capacity of 1500 tons,, she is 235 ft in length, with a moulded breadth of 45ft. A handsome little vessel, she is of the one-deck type, with long forecastle and long poop decks, the engines being aft, with the navigating superstructure at the forward end of the poop deck. The plate-type stem is well raked forward, and. in combination with the generous flare of the forward sections and long forecastle, gives the vessel good seagoing qualities. The stern arrangements incorporate a cast-steel sternframe and a cruiser stem, while the rudder is of semi-balanced streamlined design.

The single cargo hold is 150 ft long, and is specially arranged for the carriage of long logs of timber. The single hatch opening is the largest in any vessel in the world, being 96ft in length, and will thus easily accommodate the 90ft. long tree trunks that have to be handled in the New Zealand and Australian timber trade. The hatch beams are of the “T and B” roller type, stow-

ed at the forward end of the hatch, when loading or discharging cargo, while the covering or uncovering of the hatch takes only three minutes. The deck machinery, of the steamdriven pattern, includes a combined anchor-handling and warping windlass on the forecastle, and a warping capstan aft. For handling timber cargoes there are two steel derrick booms, mounted one on each of the fore and main masts. The derricks, working in conjunction with steam-driven winches are each arranged for five-ton lifts on single wire, or 12 tons in purchase. The main engines are Atlas Polar two-stroke cycle, four-cylinder, trunkpiston, airless-injection Diesel units, developing 600 b.h.p. at 260 r.p.m. A very complete set of auxiliary machinery is also provided. The Port Tauranga, which was brought out by her owner, loaded a full cargo in London for discharge at Lyttelton, Wellingtin and Auckland, and came out via the Suez Canal. NEW ZEALAND PORTS By Telegraph - Pres* Association AUCKLAND, March 18. Arrived: Surrey (7.10 a.m.) from New Plymouth; H.M.S. Achilles (10.50 a.m.) from Russell; Raranga (11.50 a.m.) from Antwerp. Sailed: Sydney Star (5 p.m.) for Wellington; Golden Coast (6 p.m.) for Wellington. O WELLINGTON, March 18. Arrived: Paua (1 a.m.) from Nelson; Kartigi (2.30 p.m.) from Westport; Port Tauranga (6.35 a.m.) and Wahine (7 a.m.) from Lyttelton; Kaimai (7 a.m.) from Westport; Breeze (11 a.m.) from Wanganui; Port Whangarei (12.10 p.m.) and Storm (12.40 p.m.) from Lyttelton. Sailed: Armadale (12.10 p.m.) for Napier; Matai (1 p.m.), Haurakl (5.30 p.m.) and Wahine (7.50 p.m.) for Lyttelton; Storm (11 p.m.) for Wanganui; Wanganella (11.30 p.m.) for Sydney; Port Whangarei (midnight) for Picton. LYTTELTON, March 18. Arrived: Rangatira (6.40 a.m.) from Wellington; Marama (7.25 a.m.) from Bluff; Wainui (9.10 a.m.) from Timaru. Sailed: Maui Pomare (12.35 p.m.), Rangatira (8.40 p.m.) and Marama <8.20 p.m.) for Wellington. DUNEDIN, March 18. Arrived: Cambridge (7.45 a.m.) and Waipiata (9.40 a.m.) from Lyttelton. Sailed: City of Glasgow (7 a.m.) for Melbourne; South Africa (7.30 a.m.) for Sydney; Waipiata (6.30 p.m.) for Bluff; Holmglen (10 p.m.) for Timaru. OVERSEAS United Press Association —By Electric Tel egrenh —Convriph * LONDON March 17. Arrived at Avonmouth, Tekoa; at Colon, Ruahine; at Boston, Cornwall. Sailed from Table Bay, Coptic; from Panama, City o, Brisbane.

OVERSEAS SHIPS

VESSELS DISCHARGING CAMBRIDGE (Federal Co.), left Liverpool Jan. 11 for Auckland (arr. Feb. 22), Wellington (due Mar. 6), Lyttelton and Dunedin. ANHALT, left New Orleans Jan. 15 for Auckland (arr. Feb. 26), Wellington (due Mar. 8), Lyttelton and Dunedin. KEIFUKU MARU (Wright, Stephenson), left Miike Feb. 4 for Auckland (arr. Feb. 27), Wellington (due Mar. 5), Dunedin and Lyttelton. ARAWA (Shaw, Savill), from London, left Southampton Jan. 22 for Wellington, passengers only (arr. Mar 1), Lyttelton (arr. Mar 2), Dunedin (due Mar. 7) and Bluff. PORT GISBORNE (Port Line), left London Jan. 23 for Wellington (arr. Mar. 1), Auckland (due Mar. 7) and Napier.

DOMINION BOUND

CITY OF GLASGOW (Federal Co ), left Halifax Jan. 31 for Auckland (due Mar. 3), Wellingtc (due Mar. 8), Lyttelton and Dunedin. SIMNIA .Shell Oil Co.), left Singapore Feb. 13 for Lyttelton (due Mar, 4). PORT DENISON (Port Line), left New York Jan. 31, via Philadelphia and Newport News, left Feb. 5 for Auckland (due Mar. 5), Wellington (due Mar. 10), Lyttelton and Dunedin. HAURAKI (Union Co.), left New Westminster Feb. 9 for Papeete, Auckland (due Mar. 7). Wellington (due Mar. 11), Lyttelton, Dunedin and Australia. NIAGARA (Union Co.), left Vancouver Feb. 17 for Honolulu, Suva, Auckland (due Mar. 8) and Sydney. THORHILD (Union Co.), left Oeban Feb. 14 for Wellington (due Mar. 6). PORT HOBART (Port Line), left Liverpool Jan. 31 for Auckland (due Mar. 8), Wellington (due Mar. 15), Lyttelton! Dunedin and New Plymouth. RANGITATA (N3.S. Co.), left London Feb. 4 for Wellington (due Mar. 12) and Auckland. BOSWORTH (N.Z.S. Co.), left Immingham Jan. 2 for Auckland (due Mar. 6) and New Plymouth (due Mar. 12). HERTFORD (Federal Co.), left Glasgow in ballast for New Zealand (due about Mar. 6). RARANGA (Shaw, Savill), left Antwerp Jan. 23 for Auckland (due Mar. 10) and New Plymouth, via Cape of Good Hope. PORT TAURANGA (Holm and Co.), left London Jan. 10 for Lyttelton (due about Mar. 14). MELBOURNE MARU (Federal Co.) left Moji Feb. 27 for Auckland (due Mar. 16), Wellington (due Mar. 18). Lyttelton and Dunedin. GOLDEN COAST (Bums, Philp), tell Los Angeles Feb. 17 for Auckland (due Mar. 16), Wellington (due Mar. 22) and Australia. RIDLEY (N.z.s. Co), left Antwerp Feb. 1 for Auckland (due Mar. 16), Wellington (due Mar. 22) and New Plymouth. FERNMOOR (N.Z.S. Co.), left Antwerp Jan. 27 tor Auckland (due Mar. 17) and Wellington. OPAWA (N.Z.S Co.), left Lond'in

Feb. 11 for Suva. Dunedin (due Mai 24). Lyttelton. Timaru and Nelson. MATAROA (Shaw, Savill) from l«n--don, left Southampton Feb. 19 tor Wellington (due Mar. 27) and Auckland. KUMARA (Shaw Savill), left Glasgow Feb. 6 in ballast for New Zealand due Mar. 27), via Cape of Good Hnpe CUMBERLAND (Federal Co.), left Liverpool Feb. 22 for Auckland <oue Apr. 1), Wellington (due Apr. 9). Lyt telton Feb. 25 for Bluff (due Aor 7'. BRANDON (N.Z.S. Co.), left Antwerp Feb. 18 for Auckland (due end Apr.) and New Plymouth. LOADING FOR OVERSEAS CANADIAN HIGHLANDER (Port Line), at Auckland; thence Mar. 8 to New York, Boston and Halifax. DURHAM (Federal Co.), at Wellington; thence Mar 5 to Opua, Auckland and Wanganui; thence Mar. 20 tn . London Avonmouth, Liverpool ana Glasgow, via Panama Canal. HURUNI (Federal Co.), at Wel’ington. thence Mar. 11 to London, Avonmouth, Liverpool. Manchester and Glasgow, via Panama Canal. KEIFUKU MARU (Wright. Stephenson), loads at Dunedin Mar 8; thence Mar. 8 to Lyttelton. Wellington; due Mar. 10; thence Mar. 11 to Auckland, thence Mar. 15 to Japan. MAMARI (Shaw Savill) at Lyttelton. thence to Well.ngton; due Mar. 7. thence Mar. 9 to Wanganui; thence Mar. 17 to London, via Cape Horn and Montevideo. NORTHUMBERLAND (Federal 'Jo > at Gisborne, thence to Opua, Auckland and Wellington; due Mar. 20; thence Mar. 25 to London, Avonmouth. Livr.ipool. Manchester end Glasgow. PORT DARWIN (Port Line) at Gisborne, thence to Wanganui, Nelson Wellington; due Mar. 15; thence M-it. 17 to Auckland; thence Mar. 22 to Southampton and London, via Cape Horn and Montevideo. PORT FREMANTLE (Port Line-, at Wellington; thence Mar 6 to Napi?v thence Mar 12 to London, via Gape Horn and Las Palmas. RANGITIKJ (NZ.S Co.), at Auckland; thence Mar 6 to Wellington; due Mar. 8; thence Mar. 11 to London via Panama Canal. ROTORUA (N.Z.S. Co.), at Well rig ton; thence Mar. 6 to London, via Panama Canal. SURREY (Federal Co.), at Port Chalmers; thence Mar. 7 to Timaru. New Plymouth, Auckland, Gisborne and Wellington; due Mar. 25; thence Apr. 2 to Halifax. London, Avonmeutb. Liverpool, Mnchestera and Glasgow. V'e Panama Canal SYDNEY MARU (Federal Co.!, at Auckland; thence Mar. 8 to Japan, via Hong-Kong and Shanghai. SYDNEY STAR (Blue Star Line) al Napier; thence Mar 6 to Gisborne Auckland and Wellington; due Mar. 20 thence Mar. 23 to Lyttelton; thence Mar. 31 to London, via Panama Canal WAIPAWA (Shaw. Savill), at Bluff, thence Mar. 6 to Napier and Auckland, thence Mar 18 to London via Panama Canal. WAIRANGI (Shaw, Savill), at Auckland; thence Mar 9 to Walkokopu Wellington; due Mar. Io; thence Mai 20 to Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, thence Mar. 31 to London, via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. MAIL NOTICES Subject to any necessary alteration mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Timaru, as under:— Registered letter mails close one hour earlier than ordinary letter mails. Late fee box at the railway station cleared at due time arrival of express trams. For North Island Offices of New Zealand: Mondays 1 p.m., Tuesdays to Saturdays 3.30 p.m. For Christchurch, North Canterbury and Westland: Mondays 3.30 a.m. Daily 6 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). (Air mail 6.30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive.) For Ashburton: Daily 6 a.m. ana 3.30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 a.m. For Temuka: Daily 5 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 a.m. For Geraldine: Dally 5 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. {Mondays 3.30 excepted). Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 a.m For Fairlie, Pleasant Point, Cave and Albury: Daily 6 a.m. (letters only) 3.30 p.m. Fairlie and Hermitage: Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays, 10.45 a.m. (letters only). Waimate: Dally 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 10.45 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 3.30 p.m. Oamaru: Mondays 1 a.m. Dally 6 a.m. and 10.45 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 3.30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). Dunedin: Mondays 1 a.m. Dally 10.45 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3.30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). nvercargill: Mondays 1 a.m. Daily 10.45 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3.30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). SATURDAY, MARCH 20 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee 4 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Canada United States of America, Mexico and West Indies, via Vancouver; also Fiji, Hawaii, Japan and Fanning Island, per Niagara, at Auckland. (Due London, April 19). Also per inland air mail at 3.30 a.m., Monday, March 22. Chatham Islands per Tees at Wellington.

MONDAY, MARCH 22 At 1 a.m. Victoria, West and South Australia and Tasmania, per Marc — a at Bluff. MONDAY. MARCH 22 At 1 p.m. Late Fee 1.30 p.m. Apia, Pago Pago. Niue Islands, per Maui Pomare, at Wellington. Australian States, South Africa, Italy, China, straits Settlements, Cey-

lon, Egypt, India and Fiji, Norfolk Island, per Awatea at Auckland. Also air-mail correspondence for Great Britain, Egypt, South Africa and intermediate countries served by Australia, Singapore, England air-mail. (Due London April 12) Also per Inland air mail (additional Id per oz) on Monday, March 22, at 6.30 p.m. Great Britain. Ireland, Contine: 1 of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), via Cape Hom, per Durham, at Wanganui. (Due London April 27.) TUESDAY, MARCH 23 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee 4 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also all States of South America, via Cape Hom, per Northumberland at Wellington. (Due London, May 5.) THURSDAY, MARCH 25. At 8 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Central and South American Western States, via Panama, also Pitcairn Island, per Arawa, at Wellington. (Due London May 1..) INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS March 22—S.S. Mariposa, from San Pedro. English and American mail. March 23—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney. Australian mail. March 30—S.S. Mataroa, from London. English mail. H. MILLER, Chief Postmaster. Timaru. March 19, 1937.

Holmglen, Oamaru .. To-day Gale, Oamaru . Mar. 20 Waipiata. Dunedin . Mar. 21 Breeze, Dunedin . Mar. 22 Waipahi, Oamaru . Mar. 23 Awahou, Dunedin . Mar. 25 Wingatui, Oamaru Mar. 30 Cambridge, BlufI . Mar. 30 City of Glasgow Lyttelton . . Mar. 30 Karetu, Oamaru . Mar. 31 Walnui, Oamaru . Mar. 31 Opawa, Lyttelton .. Apr. 1 Armadale, Lyttelton .. Apr. 2

Holmglen, Lyttelton Dale, Lyttelton .... To-day ... Mar. 29 Breeze, Lyttelton .... Mar. 22 Walpiata, Lyttelton ... Mar. 22 Waipahl, Lyttelton . ... Mar. 23 Awahou, Lyttelton ... Mar. 25 Wingatui, Lyttelton ... Mar. 30 Karetu, Lyttelton ... Mar. 31 Wainui, Lyttelton ... Mar. 31 City ot Glasgow, Bluff .. .. Mar 31 Cambridge. Lyttelton ., .. .. Apr. 1 Opawa, Nelson ... Apr. 2 Armadale, Bluff ... Apr. 3