LATE SHIPPING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12710, 4 August 1919, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING.

THE PORT NICHOLSON. 4s reported yesterday the C. and IX liner Port Nicnolson arrived at Auckland yesterday morning iroin New York, via Panama, after & trip of thirty days. The Port Koholson ?» due at Wellington on Tuesday next to discharge some 1500 tons, and the company expects to dispatch her for Melbourne on Friday next. The Port Nicholson, -which ia making her maiden trip to New Zealand, is a hew twin-screw vessel built by R. and W. Hawthorn-, Leslie and Co., Limited, for the C. and D.Lina, Limited, early in this year. She was designed and, constructed for the Australian meat trade, is 500 feet in length, 62 feet 3-inch beam, and 35 feet S-inoh moulded depth, and , has a deadweight capacity of 12,700 tons. The vessel has° a straight stem and cruiser stern, and is of the three-deck shelter deck type. There are five holds, No. 1, 2, and 4 and main ’tween decks being insulated. She has eight watottight bulkheads, seventeen derricks of from seven to ton tons, and one of thirty-five tons lifting capacity, and fifteen steam winches. Accommodation is provided for first-class passengers on the shelter deck amidships. AUSTRALIA’S WOODEN SHIPS. It was stated recently that altogether fonr-> teen wooden ships had been, or were being, built ,in America for the Commonwealth, four by the Sloan Shipyards Corporation, and tea by the Patterson M’Donald Shipbuilding Company. The Sloan ships had been delivered, and had cost in all £424,534, or £106,133 10s per ship. Only two of the Patterson M’Donald ships had been delivered, and the exact cost of each ship could not be stated, but payments on account to the extent of £1,437,056 had been made up to May 81. The total expenditure in America to that date -was £1,561.500. Six wooden vestals built in America had been docked on arrival in Australia for repairs. The cost of five of the ships for docking, caulking, deck, engine and general repairs were:—(l) £3774, (2) £3474, (3) £6053, (4) £6236, (5) £9765. It was general after a long voyage for certain necessary work to be done on arrival in port, and the same had, no doubt, been done In other countries. The steamer Bethanga was built under a contract io the Commonwealth Government by the Patterson M’Donald Shipbuilding Company of the United .States. The original contract price for ten vessels included fn the oon+vact was £5.300,000. It was not a fact that the maximum speed of the steamer was nine knots, nor was it true that the average speed for a recent voyage made bv the steamer from Seattle was about five knots.

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, August 4. Tho Tofua arrived at 'Eri =~o on, July 30 from Wellington, via Rarotonga ‘and Papeete. The Union Company’s-new cargo frcirhler Wairuna, left ’Prisoo on July 2B for Auckland. Melbourne and Sydney, and is due at Auck l ar.-d about Aitrurt 29. Tlie Ta-lune left Suva on Saturday afternoon for Auckland with a full shipment of kruit and other island products. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNIJY, August 4. Arrived—Kanna, from New Zealand. MELBOURNE. August 4. Arrived—Waiwera, from New Zealand; Kaitangata, from Greymouth.