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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20128, 23 April 1928, Page 9

LOCAL AGENTS’ ADVICE. Messrs Millward and Co. advise: The Cowden Law is due at Wanganui about the end of April from Galveston, Texas, via Auckland. Lyttelton and New Plymouth. The Gabriella loads at Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle about the middle of May for Wanganui. The Kintyre is delayed in Auckland owing to further engine trouble and is not expected to sail until the end of this week. The Calm will load to-day for Wellington, Bluff. Dunedin and Timaru. The Breeze is due Wanganui to-morrow and after completion of discharge will sail for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Oamaru and Timaru. Messrs Johnston and Co., report:— The Westmoreland from New Zealand ports is due to-day. GENERAL NEWS.

SWEDEN’S FASTEST FREIGHTER. The Transpacific Shipping Company, Gothenburg, a subsidiary of the Transatlantic Company, has taken delivery of the first of the two passenger and cargo motor ships orclared last year from Gotaverken, Gothenburg. Named Mirrabooka, she has a maximum speed of 16% knots, and a service speed of 15 knots, which makes her the fastest cargo vessel flying the Swedish flag. Her length overall is 457 ft, her beam 57ft. and her depth, moulded to shelter deck 39ft 10in., while when fully loaded she has a draught of 26ft 7in. Eight watertight bulkheads divide the hull into forepeak, three forward holds, machinery space, two after holds and after peak. On the promenade deck, accommodation is provided for 20 first-class passengers in two-berth cabins, and there is a dining saloon panelled in dark birch. The ! captain’s quarters are on the boat deck and 1 the officers’ on the shelter deck amidships. The propelling machinery consists of two sets of Gotaverken B and W. four-stroke, sixcylinder Diesel engines, developing each 3200 i.h.p., at 110 r.p.m. All the auxiliaries are electrically driven .for which there are three generators with a combined output of 266 k.w. For her maiden voyage the Mirrabooka will make a special trip round the world, via the Panama Canal and Australia, on completion of which she will be employed in her owner’s regular service between Sweden, Austrajia and the Far East. BRITAIN’S IDLE TONNAGE. The return of unemployed tonnage at the principal ports of Great Britain and Ireland on January 1, 1928, is, at first sight, somewhat disappointing, says the Nautical Gazette. The figure on January 1 was 372,000 net tons, which shows an increase of 99,000 net tons on the figure for October 1, 1927. The usual seasonal tendency is for the unemployed tonnage to contract during the fourth quarter of (he year. During the past six years the only year in which the fourth quarter witnessed an increase was 1924. Undoubtedly the increase is partly a reflection of the sharp set-back which occurred in freight rates during the last two months of 1927. On careful analysis, however, the position is better than a cursory survey suggests. The increase in the unemployed tonnage is mainly traceable to the addition of 29 vessels of over 1000 tons. Apparently these are. passenger liners. out of commission for renovation and repairs; unemployment among this class of vessel is by no means unprecedented in the winter months. In any case, it is probable that there will be an early recovery. There is. indeed, much ground for satisfaction in a reveiw of the course of unemployed shipping during recent years. Compaing the current figure of idle tonnage with the figure for the end of each of the past four years, there has been a continuous improvement year by year, apart from the exceptional year of 1926. British shipping, in fact, is showing an encouraging capacity to adapt itself to a lower scale of earnings, frir whereas the average level of freights at the end of 1927 was approximate!ly 8.5 par cent, lower than four years ago, • the tonnage out of commission has declined |by 258,000 tons, or 41 per cent.

OVERSEAS VESSELS. NORFOLK—Was to sail from Liverpool April 14 for New Zealand ports including Hawke's Bay. CUMBERLAND—SaiIs from Home ports Apni 28 for New Zealand, including J luff. NORTHUMBERLAND—To sail May 12 for New Zealand porta, including New Plymouth. NEWBY HALL—Left New York March ?; left Newport News March 10 for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton. Dunedin and Sydney; due Auckland Sunday; due Wellington April HURUNUI—Left London March 16 for Auckland, Port Chalmers and Bluff; due Auckland April 22. TURAKINA Left Liverpool March 17 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton and Dun-' edin; due Auckland April 24; due Wellington May 1. ZEALANDIC Left Newcastle-on-Tyne March 30 for Bluff; due May 3. HORORATA—From London, left Southampton March 26 for Auckland and Wellington ; due Auckland May 4. TAMAROA—From Ixmdon ; left Southampton March 30 for Wellington, Auckland ; due Wellington May 5. WIRRALL—Left New York March 24 ; left Newpcjft News March 26 for Levuka, Suva. Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin ; due Levuka April 29 ; due Auckland May 9; due Wellington May 16. PORT AUCKLAND—Left London March 16 for Welington, Lyttelton, Timaru and New Plymouth. Wanganui, Newcastle; due Wellington April 27. COWDEN LAW Left Galveston March 6 for Auckland. Wellington .Lyttelton. New Plymoiuth, Wanganui. Newcastle; due Auckland yesterday ; due Wellington to-morrow. WAIRUNA—Left San Francisco April 10 for Auckland, Wellington. Melbourne, Adeliide. Sydney; due Auckland May 5. WEST ELCAJON—Left Los Angeles April 2 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton. Timaru and Napier: due Auckland April 30. CANADIAN TRANSPORTER—Left Montreal March 24 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin ; due Auckland May 10. RIMUTAKA—Left London April 12, Southampton April 13. for Wellington and Auck’and ; due Wellington May 25; due Auckland June 1. SUSSEX—Left Calcutta April 6, via Rangoon. Penang. Singapore and Samarang for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff; due Auckland early Mav. PORT DUNEDIN—Left London April 5 for Port Chalmers, Lyttelton and Nejy Plymouth ; due Port Chalmers May 11.

PRUNUS—Left Casa Blanco, Morocco. March 21, for Auckland, due Auckland May

PUKEKO—Left Plymouth March 7 for Auckland; due Auckland April 23. LUBRICO—From San Francisco, via Welgton and Melbourne; due Auckland April 22. MATAKANA —Left Liverpool March 31 |fcr Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and ; due Auckland May 8. A dAUI POMA RE— Left Liverpool March 7 1 Southampton March 20 for Apia and c *kland; duo Auckland May 21,