SHIPPING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 460, 29 December 1930, Page 9

SHIPPING

TIDE TABLE. MEAN TIME OF HIGH TIDE AT WANGANUI. DECEMBER Note,—Add half an hour for Summer Tim’*.

PORT OF WANGANUI ARRIVED. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28. •Storm (12.5 a.m.), from Piston. Calm (3.30 a.m.), from Wellington. John (6 p.m.), from Westport. SAILED. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. Holmdale (2.43 p.m.), for Wellington.

IN PORT. Storm, Calm, John, Himitangi. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. I Kapiti, Wellington, to-day. I Breeze, southern ports. Jan. 1. Kalingo, Sydney, early. AROUND N.Z. PORTS. L Per Press Association. ] LYTTELTON, Dee. 28. Arrived .Saturday: Wahine, 6.35 а. in., from Wellington. Sunday: Maori, б. a.m., from Wellington. Sailed—Saturday: Kalingo, 4.10 p.in., for Wanganui. AUCKLAND, Dee. 28. Arrived Saturday: Kartigi, 6.30 a.m., from Westport; Kaituna, 6.45 a.m. fiom Greymouth. Sailed—Tofua, 12.10 p.m., for Suva; New Zealand, 7.30 p.m., for Fremantle. WELLINGTON, Dec. 28. Arrived —Saturday: Maori, 7 a.m., from Lyttelton. Sunday: Holmdale, | 1.30 a.m., from Wanganui; Foxton, 4.50 from Palea; Makura, 6 a.m., from i i’’.v; Wahine, 7 a.m., from Lyttelton. • ;.:led—Saturday: Ulimaroa, noon, for Sydney; Calm, 3.30 p.m., for Wanganui; Kaitoa, 6.30 p.m., for Nelson; Maori, 7.50 p.m., for Lyttelton; Waimarino, 10.20 p.m., for Napier. LOCAL AGENTS’ ADVICE. Messrs A. S. Burgess and Co. advtec. The Kapiti is due at Wanganui to-day from Wellington. The Northumberland loads at Wanganui on January 14. Messrs Holm and Co. report: The John is due to-day from Westport. INTERCOLONIAL STEAMERS Ulimaroa, from Wellington, December 27 : duo Sydney. December 31. Maunganui, from Auckland, December 24 : arrives. Sydney, December 28. Maheno. from Wellington for Melbourne, via Bluff; due Melbourne. December 26. TRANS-PACIFIC MAIL SERVICES Aorangi.—From Sydney. December 11; from Auckland, December 16; due Vancouver January 2. Niagara.—From Vancouver, December 10; due Auckland, December 29 ; due Sydney, January 3. Monowai.—Srom San Francisco, Dec. 24 ; due Wellington, Jan. 12 ; due Sydney, Jan. UNITED KINGDOM LINES OUTWARD Rotorua, at Lyttelton. Napier, Tokomaru Ray, Wellington, Bluff, Dunedin. Leaves Dunedin for London, January 3. Remuera, at Auckland : thence Napier, Lyttelton, Timaru, Wellington ; leaves Wellington for London, January 3. lonic, was to leave Southampton December 5; due Auckland. January 13. Ruahine. from Southampton, December 19: due Wellington, January 26. Ruapehu. from Southampton. December 19; due Auckland, January 28; thence Dunedin and New Plymouth. HOMEWARD Rangitane. left Auckland December 6 ; due Southampton, January 8. Tamaroa, loft Wellington. December 17: due Southampton, January 19. Rotorua, leaves Dunedin for London, JanuRcmuera. leaves Wellington for London. • January 3. CARGO SHIPS DOMINION BOUND RANGITIKI (N.Z.S. Co.), left London Nov. | i'.> for Auckland (due Dec. 23) and Welling- | ton (duo Dec. 29). CITY OF DELHI (A. and A. Line), left New York Nov. 19 for Auckland (due Dec. 21), Wellington (due Dec. 27), Lyttelton and Dunedin. BRUNSWICK (A.U. Oil Co.), left San Pedro Nov. 30 for Auckland (due Dec. 22), Wellington (due Dec. 26) and Australia. i OTOKIA (Union Co.), left San Pedro Dec. 1 for Wellington (due Dec. 25). GOLDEN CROSS I Burns. Philp), left Los Angeles Dec. 1 for Auckland (due Dec. 27). Wellington (due Jan. 4), Lyttelton and Dunedin. NIAGARA (Union Co.), left Vancouver Dec. 10 for Honolulu. Suva, Auckland (due Dec. 29) and Sydney. SURREY (Federal Co.), left Liverpool Nov. 22 for Auckland (due Dec. 30), Napier, Wellington (due Jan. 10), Lyttelton and Dunedin. VACUOLINE (V.O. Co.), left San Francisco Dec. 6 for Auckland (due Dec. 30), Wellington (due Jan. 4), Lyttelton and Dunedin. • HUNTINGON (N.Z.S. Co.), left Falmouth Nov. 17, in ballast, for New Zealand (due Dec. 27). NARBADA (Union Co.), left Calcutta Dec. 2 for Penang, Singapore, Samarang, Auckland (due Jan. 2), Wellington (due Jan. 8), Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and Bluff. ENTON (A. and A. Line), left New York Dec. 1 for Auckland (due Jan. 10). Wellington (due Jan. 15), Lyttelton and DunSYDNEY MARU (W. Wallis), left Moji Dec. 1 and Manila Dec. 8 for Australia, Wellington (due Jan. 5) and Auckland). TARANAKI (Sljaw, Savill), left London Nov. 28 for Suva (due Dec. 31). Port Chalmers (due Jan. 8), Lyttelton and Timaru. PORT DUNEDIN (C. and D. Dine), left Liverpool Dec. 6 for Auckland (due Jan. 10), Wellington (due Jan. 16), Lyttelton and Dunedin. CANADIAN CRUISER (Can. Nat.)( left Montreal Nov. 25 for Auckland (due Jan. 8), Napier, Wellington (due Jan. 14), Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. NORFOLK (Federal Co.), left Falmouth Jan. 9). Steamer, left Seychclle Island Dec. 7 for Port Chalmers (Jan. 10) and Auckland. lONIC (Shaw, Savill), from London, left Southampton Dec. 8 for Auckland (due Jan. 16) and Wellington (due Jan. 22). LOADING FOR OVERSEAS BENMOHN (G. H. Scales) ,due Napier December 20 from Australia; thence to Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin ; thence January 6 to Dunkirk, London and Hull. KARAMEA (Shaw, Savill), at Napier. Wellington ; due Wellington December 24 ; thence December 29 to Lyttelton ; thence January 3 to London, via Panama Canal. 1 PORT WELLINGTON (C. and D. Line), at Auckland Dec. 18 from Launceston ; thence to Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers ; thence Jan. 7 to London, via Panama Canal. REMUERA (N.Z.S. Co.), at Lyttelton, Timaru, Wellington ; due Wellington, January 1 ; thence January 3 to Southampton and London via Panama C'anala.

GIANT CUNARDER.

BUILDING ON THE CLYDE. MUCH PRELIMINARY WORK. The work of constructing the world's largest and fastest liner has actually begun, states the Shipping World. Many rumours have been current of a beginning having been made with the new Cunarder, and the builders. Messrs John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clydebank, have denied these rumours. Preparation has been confused with operation. The task of tackling the greatest job ever undertaken in any shipyard has necessitated more preliminary detail than can be understood by anyone unfamiliar with shipbuilding. The thought and work and energy exendeu on preparation would have been more than sufficient of themselves to build a faireize.l ship. In the first place, there were negotiations between the, at the time, prospective builders and the Clyde Navigation Trustee'.- to ensure that if the order were placed as Clydebank, those responsible for the management of the river would do all in their power to ensure the safe launching of the vessel and her passage to the sea. Something like £70.000 will be spent by the Clyde Trustees in fitting the river to receive the Cunarde’-. Widening the River. I Th" t.ru-teos have estimated an expenditure | cf £34,000 for widening and deepening the river for the launch, and a similar sum will

find a place in next year’s estimates. To meet the situation the trustees have purchased a strip of land, on the river bank opposite the shipyard, and adjoining- the mouth of the River Cart. An additional piece of land has been acquired at Dalmuir for the purpose of straightening the river at thia point. In addition to these upper reach schemes, steps are being taken at Greenock to facilitate the passage to the sea. The Clyde Lighthouse Trust have received the builder’s approval of a plan to widen the channel at Carvel, Greenock, and negotiations aie being conducted with the Greenock Harbour This* and the Board of Trade for this widening. It will be necessary also to dredge not only the Clyde but the Cart, because the new liner will be launched into’ the tributary. Extensive alterations of Messrs Brown’s largest building berth, prior to a start, had to be made. Cranes have been elevated and the berth extended. At particularly interesting feat was the removal, without dismantling, of an 80ft steel tower containing a double passenger lift. This was situated on the east side of the berth and has been transferred in its entirety to a more suitable position to enable the yard workers to get to and from their work on the vessel. Some time ago the work of laying the keel blocks in position was completed. Then three sections of the keel plates were laid in the platers’ shed and drillers were put to the task of boring them. Piles have been driven into the mud at the water’s edge to accommodate the huge vessel- on the stocks, and steps are being taken to safeguard shipping in the river after her launch when, it is expected, her stern will project nearly 100 feet into the river from the builders’ basin. Employment for 3000. It is interesting, in view of the elaborate preparations which have been made and the work on the actual construction which has been begun, to recall that the contract has not been signed. Many details remain to be settled. Once the keel is laid, additional labour will be required, and 3000 workmen on the Clyde will be assured of steady employment for a period of at least three years. The giant liner is expected to cost £5,000,000 to £6,000,000, and as something like 60 per cent, of the amount will be disbursed in wages the value of the order to men engaged in shipbuilding, steel-mak’ng, furnishing, and all the other trades, including coal mining, who will have an interest in the construction and equipment of the vessel will be readily understood.

Day a.in. p.n.. 29 | 3.57 | 4.20 30 | 5.5 j 5.30 31 1 6.17 j 6.40 PHASES OF THE MOON DECEMBER Dav. Full moon .. 6 12.40 p.m. Last quarter .. 13 8. 7 a.m. New moon .. .. 20 1.24 p.m. First quarter .. 28 3.59 p.m.