SHIPPING.
HIGH WATER. This evening: 9.48. To-morrow morning: 10.5. SUNSET AND SUNU.ISH This evening: 5.16. To-morrow morning: 10.43. PHASES OF THE MOON. AUGUST. D. H. M. New Moon .... 4 7 54 a.m. First Quarter . . 11 1 50 a.m. Full Moon .... 19 3 5 a.m. Last Quarter ... 27 0 28 a.m. Perigee .... 4 8 45 a.m. Apogee .... 17 11 16 a.m. ARRIVALS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. Alexander 7.15 a.m. from Greymouth Breeze, 7.30 a.m. from Pieton. DEPARTURES. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. Alexander, 9.5 p.m. for Westport. Calm, 10 p.m. for Wellington. BY TELEGRAPH. SYDNEY, August 17. Arrived.—Maiieno (11 a.m.) from Auckland. WELLINGTON, August 17. Arrived.—Maori (7.55 a.m.) from Lyttelton; Paparoa (12.15 p.m. from Timaru. Sailed.—Rona, barque, (2.15 p.m.) for Newcastle; Marama (2.25 p.m.) for Sydney; City of Lincoln (3 p.m.) for Lyttelton; Waihora (3.50 p.m.) lor Newcastle; Baden Powell (4.45 p.m.) for Lyttelton. otsbbiaj SBxrfrora. VESSELS DUE IN NEW ZEALAND. DORSET (Federal L.ne), left Liverpool for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin and New Plymouth July 5. Due Auckland Aug. 23. Due Wellington Aug. 30. RIMUTAKA (N.Z.S. Co.) left Southampton for Wellington and Lyttelton July 7, Due Wellington Aug. 24. EASTERN PLANET (Dalgety and Co.), left New York for Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Australia, July 2. Due Lyttelton Aug. 18 ATHENIC (S.S. and A.), left Southampton for Wellington July 14. Due Wellington Aug. 26. KUMARA (S.S. and A.), left Liverpool for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin, July 23. Due Auckland September 12. Due Wellington September 19. Mr. W. T. Young, secretary of the Seamon’s Federation, is reported to have stated that, according to information he had received, there were eight intercolonial and 21 coastal vessels laid up in New Zealand ports at the present time. The tying up of these 29 vessels, which normally provided, work for 552 members of the Seamen’s Federation, had probably thrown out of employment ab..ut a thousand men who followed the sea. This estimate did net take into account the numbers of watersiders, drivers, and others indirectly affected. The barque France, the largest sailer in the world, arrived in Wellington on Monday night from Lyttelton. She is a vessel of 56 33 tons gross. The France left Lyttelton shortly after three o’clock on Monday afternoon, and arrived at about, eleven o’clock last night. The Karaka towed her in, and she dropped anchor in the stream. Captain A. Leport is in command, and he has a crew of 56 with him. The New Zealand Shipping Company advise that the Ruapehu left Newport News on Saturday, and the Otaki let Durban on Thursday. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Paparoa is du? from Timaru to-day, and is to sail for London at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The S.S. and A. liner Arawa arrived at Monte Video on Sunday. She left Wellington on July 23.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18259, 18 August 1921, Page 3
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