MARITIME MOVEMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 9

MARITIME MOVEMENTS

PORT OF WANGANUI ARRIVED. FRIDAY, JUNE 8. Arapawa (1.2 a.m.), from Onehunga. Hurunui (1.10 a.m.), from Timaru. Hawera (9.15 a.m.), from Wellington. Invercargill (10 a.m.), from Wellington. Juhu (11.25 a.m-), from Wellington. VESSELS IN PORT. Arapawa, Unehunga. Hurunui, Timaru. Hawera, Wellington. Invercargill, Wellington. John, Wellington. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Calm, South, to-day. Storm, South, June 14. Breeze, Solth, June 14. Gale, South. June 15. Gabriella. Newcastle, June 20. Willaston, New York, June. Rimataka, N.Z. ports, June 11. Aymeric, Nauru, June 12. Port Sydney. Dunedin, JunePort Curtis, N.Z. ports, June. BY TELEGRAPH. [ Per Press Association j WELLINGTON, June 8. Arrived—Parera, 2.30 a.m-, from Napier; Maori, 7.5 r) a.m.. from Lyttelton; Holmdale, 10 a.m., from Wanganui; Calm, 12.5 p.m., from Lyttelton; Corinna, 12.25 p-m., for New Plymouth; Tees. 2 p.m., from Greymouth; Opihi, 4.20 p.m., from Westport. Sailed —Tasmania, 7.15 a.m., for Napier; Marama, 3.10 p-m., for Sydney; Kai war ra, 5 p.m., for Auckland: Maori, 7.50 p.m., for Lyttelton; Calm, 9.15 p.m., for Wanganui; Cygnet, for Kaikoura; Corinna. 11 p.m.. for Dunedin. LYTTELTON, June 8. Arrived —Maheno, 7.25 a.m., from Wellington; Totara. 7.55 a.m., from Wellington; Wingatui, 10.30 a.m-, from Wellington. Sailed —Maheno, 7.45 p.m., for Wellington. AUCKLAND, June 8. Arrived —Hinemoa, 6.20 a.m., from Sava; Kaimanawa. 8-40 a.m.. from Napier. Sailed —Maunganui, 3.25 p.m.. for Sydney; Waipiata, 4 p.m.. for Wellington. WIRELESS REPORT Awanui.—Tofua, Aorangi, Dunedin, Maunsranui, Veronica, Laburnum, Kanna. Kalingo, Leopold, Aymeric. Yoseric, Waikawa. Chatham Islands.—Turakina, Canadian Challenger. Wellington.—Maheno, Maori. Ngaio. Arahura. Tamahine, Niagara, Marama, Maui Pomare, Matakana, Hurunui, Port Auckland, Tutanekai, Tasmania, Raranga, Ranja, Waiotapu. Awarua.—Manuka. Mskura, Tahiti, Port Curtis, Poolta. OVERSEAS VESSELS. ARAWA—Left London May 24. Southampton May 25 for Auckland and Wellington; due Auckland July 2. CANADIAN HIGHLANDER—Left Montreal May 25 for Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton. Timaru, Dunedin; due Auckland July 8. HAURAKI—Left San Francisco May 29 for Auckland, Wellington. Melbourne, Sydney; due Auckland June 18. NORTHUMBERLAND—Left Liverpool May 12 for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Bluff, New Plymouth; due Auckland June 19. PIPIRIKI—Left Montreal May 8. via Cape Breton and New York, for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin; due Auckland July 1. TARANAKI—Left London May 18 for Lyttelton. Port Chalmers, Bluff, Napier, New Plymouth; due Lyttelton Juno 22. TEKOA—Left London May 10 for Suva, Auckland and Wellington ; due Auckland June 20. VALACIA—Left Liverpool May 27 for Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin; due Auckland July 8. WAIKAWA—Left San Francisco May 12 via Los Angeles, for Apia. Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin. Bluff, New Plymouth; due Napier WILLASTON—Left New May 9 for Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton, Dunedin; due Auckland June 13. AYMERIC—Left Nauru Island on June I for Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton; due Auckland June 12. CANADIAN CHALLENGER Left Halifax May 1 for Auckland. Wellington. Lyttelton, Timaru. Dunedin; due Auckland June 9. GOLDEN COAST —Left Los Angeles on May 30 for Auckland. Wellington and Lyttelton : due Auckland June 24. MINERIC—Left Sourabaya. Java. June 2 for Auckland; due Auckland June 29.

LOCAL AGENTS’ ADVICE. Messrs Millward and Co. advia«: The Calm ig due here to-day and will take cargo on Monday morning for Wellington, Lyttelton, Bluff. Dunedin and Timaru. The Storm loads at Oamaru and Timaru today, Lyttelton on Monday, Wellington Tuesday. Picton on Wednesday, and is due Wanganui on Thursday, 14th Inst. The Breeze loads at Dundein to-day, thence Oamaru. Timaru. Lyttelton, Wellington and is due Wanganui on Thursday, 14th inst. The Gale is scheduled to load at Dunedin on Monday and is expected at Wanganui on Friday, 15th inst. from usual ports. The Gabriella will load general cargo at Sydney on Monday, 11th inst. for Wanganui direct and is expected to arrive at this port about 20th inst. After discharge she will load for Melbourne and Sydney, via Greymouth. Messrs Johnston and Co. advise;— The Rimutaka is due from New Zealand ports on June 11. GENERAL NEWS. GLENAE REFOATED. The small scow Glenae, which capsized in the Hauraki Gulf on March 26, and was' afterwards driven ashore at the mouth of the Puhoi River, was refloated last Monday and towed into the river. The vessel is still bottom upwards. After the hull has been righted it will be towed to Auckland. Owing to the damage done to the vessel it is not known whether she will be repaired and recommissioned as a sailing vessel or be converted into a lighter. ARRIVALS AT LONDON. A cable message received by the New Zealand Shipping Company reports that the Devon arrived at London on May 28 from Wellington. The vessel left the northern port on April 15 for London and Hull. A cable message to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, reports that the Herminius arrived at Londcgi on the evening of May 27 from Wellington. The vessel left Wellington on April 17 for London and West Coast ports of Great Britain. Cabled news received by the Shaw,, Savill and Albion Company states that the Pakeha arrived at London on the morning of May 26 from Wellington. The vessel left the northern port on April 14. WORLD’S TANKER FLEETAccording to a report published by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the world’® tanker fleet on December 1, 1927. was 1173 vessels, of 9,270,000 tons deadweight capacity; 402 of these vessels, totalling 3,760,000 tons. of all the tank ships afloat are now motor-driven against 3 per cent, in 1913. On the date in question there were 143 tankers of 1,390,000 tons being built. VAL ARI A LEAVES LIVERPOOL. Running under the auspices of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, the Cunard steamer Valacia is reported to have sailed from Livrepool on May 26 for New Zealand. She is bringing general merchandise from West Coast ports of Great Britain for discharge at Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin. Her arrival at Auckland is erpected about July 10. She is a vessel of 6560 tons, and was built at Port Glasgow bv Messrs Russell and Co. in 1919. Her former name was the Luceric. HEAVY CARGO. The transportation of some unusually heavy and bulky cargo has recently been undertaken by a Commonwealth and Dominion liner. The Port Nicholson left New York on March 15 for Adelaide, carrying on deck one sleeping car and one dining car, of which the dimensions, without the bogies were:—• Length, Sift 9in; width, 10ft; height lift lOin: weight. 49 tons. The cars were bored in. after having been placed on the ship’s deck by the 90-ton floating crane. The bogies, weighing 11 tons for each car, were taken in the ship’s cargo holds. The cars, of which there is one more to be shipped later, were built in Chicago. TRANSPACIFIC MAIL SERVICES. Niagara, left Vancouver Wednesday for Auckland and Sydney: due Auckland June 18 and Sydney June 23. Leaves Sydney for Vancouver, via Auckland, June 28 ; leaving Auckland July 3, due Vancouver July 20. Aorangi left Sydney May 31 and Auckland Monday for Vancouver; due June 22; leaves Vancouver June 27 for Auckland and Sydney; due Auckland July 16 and Sydney July 21. The Tahiti left San Francisco May 16 for Wellington and Sydney; due Wellington Wednesday and Sydney June 9. Makura left Sydney May 17 for Wellington and San Francisco yesterday. Leaves San Francisco for Wellington and Sydney on June 13; due Wellington July 2 and Sydney July 2 and Sydney July 7. Maunganui, leaves Sydney on June 14 foj San Francisco, via Wellington, leaving Wellington on June 19 ; due July 6. INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE. Marama sailed from Sydney June 1 for Wellington ; at Wellington Monday ; leaves Wellington ; at Wellington Monday ; left Wellington yesterday for Sydney; due Sydney June 12. Maungartui left Sydney June 1 for Auckland; at Auckland Monday: left from Auckland yesterday for Sydney; due Sydney June Ulimaroa. from Auckland, arrived Sydney February 28. Laid up at Sydney March 3, and sailing indefinitely postponed. Manuka, sailed from Melbourne May 23 for Wellington; arrived Wellington May 28; left May 29 for Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff and Melbourne; left Bluff June 6.