SHIPPING

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19241, 1 December 1930, Page 2

SHIPPING

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PORT OF LYTTELTON. TIDES. To-day .... To-morrow . 00.43 a.m. 1.00 p.m. TODAYS BERTHING LIST. Maori, No. 2 -west. Tees, No. 3 west. Echo, No. 4 east. Storm, No. 4 west. Cygnet, No. 5 west. Kuku, No. 6 east. Foxton, No. 6 west. Wingatui, No. 7 west. ARRIVALS. YESTERDAY. Maori, Wellington, 6.50 a.m. Kuku, Wellington, with Cygnet in tow, 7 a.m. Wingatui, Wellington, 8 a.m. Echo, Blenheim, 1.15 p.m. Foxton, Foxton, 5.40 p.m. TO-DAY. Storm, Pelorus Sound, 2.30 a.m. DEPARTURES. SATURDAY. Progress, Timaru, 11.15 a.m. Waimarino, Dunedin, 10.15 a.m. Opihi, Dunedin, 4 p.m. Calm, Dunedin, 6.40 p.m. Wahine. Wellington, 5.20 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Breeze, Timaru, December 2. Holmdale, Timaru, December 3. Gale, Wellington, December 3. Progress, Timaru, December 3. Opihi, Timaru, December 3. Waimarino, Timaru, December 4. Turakina, Wellington, December 4. Waipiata, Wellington, December 4. Tees, Wellington, December 4. John, Timaru, December 5. Calm, Timaru, December 6. Port Hunter, Wellington, December 6. Rotorua, Port Chalmers, December 6. Wingatui, Oamaru, December 6. Tongariro, Timaru, December 6. Golden Coast, Wellington, December 7. Calm, Timaru, December 7. Kurow, Wellington, December 7. Scottish Heather, Wellington, December 7. Port Hunter, Wellington, December 11. Wainui, Timaru, December 12. Corinthic, Wellington. December 16. Canadian Victor, Wellington, December 16. Maheno, /Dunedin, December 18. Raranga, Wellington, December 18. Waikawa, Napier, December 19. Remuera, Napier, December 22. Northumberland, Wellington, January 1. Taranaki, Port Chalmers, January 11. Canadian Cruiser, Wellington, January 14. Enton, Wellington, January 14. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Maori, Wellington, this day. Wingatui, Wellington, this day. Echo, Blenheim, this day. Tees, Wellington, this day. Foxton, Foxton, this day. Breeze, Wellington, December 2. Opihi, Wellington, December 3. Holmdale, Wellington, December 3. Gale, Dunedin, December 3. 9 Progress, Wellington. December 3. John, Wellington, December 5. Tees, Waitangi. December 5. Waimarino, Wellington, December 4. Waipiata, Dunedin, December 4. Turakina, Dunedin, December 5. Calm, Wellington, December 6. Wingatui. Wellington, December 6, Westmoreland, Gisborne, December 6. Tongariro, New Plymouth, December 8. Golden Coast, Timaru, December 9. Rotorua, Napier, December 11. Wainui, Wellington, December 12. Port Hunter, Dunedin, December 13. Corinthic, Port Chalmers, December 16. Canadian Victor, Timaru, December 17. Maheno, Wellington, December IS. Raranga, December 20. Waikawa," Dunedin, December 22. Remuera, Timaru, December 24. Karamea, London, January s 3. Northumberland, Port Chalmers, January 5. Port Wellington, Port Chalmers, January 5. Taranaki. Timaru, January 13. Surrey. Dcmedin, January 15. Enton, Dunedin, January 15. Canadian Cruiser, Timaru, January 15. City of Glasgow. Dunedin, January 27. INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE. ULIMAROA is due at Sydney to-mor-row from Wellington. She leaves on Friday for Auckland. Due Auckland December 9. MAHENO leaves Bluff to-day for Melbourne. Due Melbourne December 5. Leaves Melbourne December 11 for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. Due Lyttelton December IS. MARAMA is due at Auckland to-mor-row and Wellington on Thursday. To leave Wellington on Friday for Sydney. VANCOUVER AND SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. AORANGI arrived at Auckland yesterday from Vancouver. To leave Auckland to-day for Sydney. Due Sydney December 5. To leave Sydney December 11 for Auckland and Vancouver. NIAGARA due Vancouver December 5. To leave Vancouver December 10 for Auckland, via Honolulu and Suva. MAKURA, from San Francisco, is due at Papeete on December 6, Rarotonga December 9, and Wellington December 15. To sail from Wellington December ,16 for Sydney. Due Sydney December 20. MAUNGANUI is due at Wellington to-day from Sydney. MONOWAI is timed to sail from Wellington to-morrow for San Francisco, via Rarotonga and Papeete. COASTAL SHIPPING.

OPIHI is expected to return here on Wednesday from southern ports to load for Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth. WAINUI is at Napier to-day, and is due at Gisborne to-morrow. The vessel is due back at Lyttelton on December 12, via southern ports, to load for Wellington, Napier and Gisborne. WAIMARINO, from Dunedin, via Timaru, is_ due here on Thursday to load for Wellington and Wanganui. ECHO is engaged In loading at Lyttelton to-day for Blenheim. She leaves for the north this evening. HOLMDALE left Wellington on Saturday afternoon for Dunedin. She is expected here on Wednesday, via Oamaru and Timaru, to complete her loading for Wellington and Wanganui. FOXTON arrived here last evening from Foxton with cattle. On loading she returns to Foxton. PROGRESS, from Timaru, is due on Wednesday to complete her loading for Wellington, New Plymouth and Waikato. JOHN loads at Lyttelton on Friday for Wellington, New Plymouth and Waikato. BREEZE is an expected arrival tomorrow from the south to load for Wellington and Wanganui. GALE, from Timaru, is expected here on Wednesday to load for southern ports. CALM, which made her departure for southern poi’ts, is expected to return here on Saturday to load cargo for Wellington and Wanganui. TASMAN AND PACIFIC. MELBOURNE MARU is due at Wellington to-morrow from Japan, via Australian ports. She is expected to leave Wellington to-moirow for Auckland and thence back to Australia. KUROW is due at Auckland to-mor-row from Devonport, via Adelaide and Melbourne. The vessel will also discharge at New Plymouth, Tarakohe, Wellington, and Lyttelton. Due at Lyttelton about December 7. GOLDEN COAST was dispatched from Auckland on Saturday for Wellington and Lyttelton. The vessel is expected to arrive at Lyttelton about Sunday next. CANADIAN VICTOR, which left Montreal on October IS, is due at Auckland on December 11. She will later discharge at Napier, Wellington, Lj'ttelton, Timaru, Bluff. SCOTTISH 5 HEATHER, a tanker to the agency of the Shell Oil Co. of N.Z., arrived at Auckland on Saturday. The vessel is expected at Lyttelton about tlic end of the week. OVERSEA VESSELS. TURAKINA, at present at Wellington, is expected here on Thursday to continue her unloading of Liverpool cargo. She will complete her unloading at Dunedin and Oamaru. WESTMORELAND was dispatched from Wellington on Saturday for Wanganui. where the vessel will load for. United Kingdom. TONGARIRO, at present at Bluff loading, is expected here via Dunedin on Saturday next to take in further cargo. RARANGA, from Liverpool, is due at Auckland on December 7. Her unloading ports are Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. RAN CUT ANE arrived at Auckland on Saturday afternoon from Gisborne. ROTORUA arrived at Wellington on Saturday night from London, and the Remuera yesterday morning, also from

London. Both the Rotorua and Remuera South Island passengers will arrive at Lyttelton by to-morrow’s ferry steamer. KUKU TOWS CYGNET. KUKU, wiich left Wellington at 5.30 cn Friday night with the Cygnet in tow arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning. Captain Larsen, of the Kuku, stated that he had encountered no difficulty with the tow. Fine weather prevailed during the passage, Lyttelton being reached at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. The Cygnet was in command of Captain J. Hawick and iwo A.B.’s. HIM AT AN GX SOLD. A Wellington message says that the Himatangi has been sold to the Anchor Company for the general coastal trade of this company. She leaves for Nelson to-day. Captain Wahls trom has command. IDLE CARGO FLEETS. Shipowners and managers of shipping companies have a very discouraging story to tell of the past year’s trading, writes “The Post’s” London correspond- “ Shipping companies are having a very bad time,” Said one manager. “Many ships are proceeding to the Dominion practically in ballast. Homeward cargo cannot possibly give the necessary earnings to pay for depreciation, let alone meet the interest on the capital employed. Shipowners realise that the produers are having an equally bad time. The interests of producers and shipowners are identical, and we have got to pull together. If the producers are doing well I have outward cargoes. If they are making no profit on their produce their purchasing power vanishes, and I have practically to send my ships out in ballast to meet my Homeward obligations in my contracts.” The list of ships of New Zealand companies laid up at Falmouth is a long one. The New Zealand Shipping Company, for instance, has nine. Another company—not a New Zealand company—has twenty-one ships in the river. Falmouth River presents an interesting sight to-day. There are tiers of ships, five abreast, all touching, anchored fore and aft, and the line of these tiers is a very long one, indeed. Apart from wages and running repairs, it costs £IOOO a year for dues and boat attendance to lay up a vessel at Falmouth. When the above statement was referred to a prominent local shipping manager who returned recently from a trip Home, he said that the facts it contained were perfectly true. “As a matter of fact,” he said, “so much tonnage is laid up around the coast of Great Britain that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a laying-up berth.” SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 1. Arrived—Maunganui (6.10 a.m.), from Sydney. Sailed—Talisman (7.40 a.m.), for NelWIRELESS NOTICE. The following vessels are expected to be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night: Auckland —Aorangi, Golden West, Kurow, Marama, Matai, Polzella, Tofua, Ventura, Scottish Heather. Wellington—Maori, Wahine, Tamahine, Rangitiki, Rangitata, Niagara, Melbourne Man), Bardale, Westmoreland, Maliana, Ulimaroa, Golden Coast, Mahia, Canadian Constructor, Rotorua. Awarua —Makura. Maheno, Discovery, Sir J. C. Ross. Kosmos. Chatham Islands—Raranga, Canadian Victor. “ UNFAIR COMPETITION.” (Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, December 1. Mr Walsh, president of the Federated Seamen’s Union, has drawn attention to “the unfair competition of the Matson liner Malolo in entering into the inter-colonial trade by carrying mails and passengers from . Sydney to Wellington.” He asks if it is reasonable that New Zealand and Australian sailors should, be penalised because of the competition of a subsidised shipping company with cheap foreign labour. Mr Walsh says that no New Zealand or Australian trans-Pacific passenger or cargo boat would be permitted to pick up passengers or cargo at Western Samoa or Honolulu and discharge them at any port in U.S.A. He adds that the Matson Coy proposes that two further passenger boats of the Malolo type should enter into the trans-Pacific trade. They will probably make Auckland a port of call on the voyage to and from Sydney and, if they do as the Malolo did, pick up passengers and carry mails, then unfair competition will increase unemployment both in New Zealand and Australia. Mr Walsh says that a large section of the unemployed are seamen.. He particularly stresses the heavy subsidies which American ships receive from the American Government.