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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17477, 23 January 1919, Page 4

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PICTON. Jan. 22. Arrived': Breeze. 10.30 a.m., ■-from Wanganui. WELLINGTON, Jan. 22. .'■■ Arrived: Kapiti, noon, from Wanganui. - ~, , SYDNEY. January 21. Sailed (4 p.m.), Niagara. Madame Melba was a passenger. NEWCASTLE, January 21. Sailed.—Cathkit for Auckland. ADELAIDE, January 21. Sailed. —Huia for New Zealand.

OVERSEAS STEA3LERS INWARD BOUND. Burma, from Glasgow, via Australia, due Auckland early February. Georgina Rolph, from San Francisso; due Auckland January. Mamari, from Liverpool, due Auckland feb. 12. _ _ . Middleham Castle, leaves St. John January foi? New Zealand and Austra. Oxfordshire, from Liverpool via Suez, due New Zealand February. Port Hacking, from. London, via Suez and Melbourne; due Wellington lsi February; thenc© Auckland. Loads for England. ' Port Lincoln, leaves New York cany January for Auckland and Wellington. PorCLyttelton, from London, via Australia, due Wellington Jan. 20th.. Sails in February for Egypt. Ruahine, from London, due Auckland .lan. IS. -"* Suevic, from London via Australia; due Auckland Jan. 17. SAILERS. San Francisco to Wellington: Henriette, Nov. 25, due Jan.; Hesperian, Dec. 24, du d Feb. 20; Rona, Dec. lfe, due early February; Wanganui, Nov. 27, due January. . New YorE to. Wellington:— Amiral Ceciile, Oct. 18, due Auckland Jan. 10; "Titania, Nov.- 7, due Feb. 17; Tonawanda, Oct. 21, due- Auckland )anuary. Vancouver to Wellington.—Darttord, \o sail in January, due May. St. John's (Canada) to Wellington: Dec. 23, due April 13. San Francisco to Auckland : —Edward U.tiy and Ether Buhne (early), lima, MTov. 21, due January; Lyq?an D. Foster, Dec. 12, due Feb.; Manurewa, Nov. 21, due Jan.; Planter (early); William Oisen, Dec. 23, due Feb. San Francisco to Lytt e iton: — Amy Turner, Nov. 25, due January) Carahnjs, to sail February, due April. San Francisco to New Plymouth:— Thrasher (early). , San Francisco to Bluff: C. S. Holmes, Dec. '2U, du c February. (*Via Cape of Good Hope). In viewl of the necessity for a new tug in the local port activities, the fojlowins paragraph is of intei'esl: "As It . will be some tim© before the Otago Harbour Board's tug Dunediu can beyiiaced in commission again, owing to ' the del,av in securing a boiler, it is thought'advisable by some tha_t a new tug should be purchased from England. It is pointed out. states an exchange, that there must be a larga number of powerful tugs in Britain which will be on the market 110"' war has ended, and ib might be possible to purchase one at a cheap price and bring it. ro I>un«din. Ifc is necessary that the port should not be without the services of » powerful tug any longer."