SHIPPING

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 4

SHIPPING

HIGH WATER. Tliis evening, 3.12. To-morrow morning, 3.47. Sun set —Tliis evening, 5.56. Sun rise—To-morrow morning, 6.3. PHASES OF THE MOON. .MARCH. New Moon 1 0 8 13 p.m. First Quarter 8 10 38 17a.m. Full Moon 15 11 35 17 p.m. 1-aot Quarter 23 0 3 16 p.m. New Moon 31 0 14 20 a.m. Perigee 7d. 3h. 42 a.m. Apogee 22d. Oil. 35 a.m. NEWCASTLE, Thursday. Sailed—Kuron, for Lyttelton. WIRELESS IN NEW ZEALAND. Mr Moens, engineer of the Australian Wireless Company, whose tender has been accepted for the Nerv Zealand stations, interviewed at Auckland, said that in about a year’s time everything would lie in working order. Operations on the smaller stations would be commenced in the course of the next month or six weeks, ami he hoped to see them working in three or four months. The station to be erected at Auckland or Doubtless Bay will bo able to communicate with Sydney and Fiji, and the one at the Bluff will communicate with boats in the direction of Hobart. The smaller stations would communicate with steamers approaching New Zealand principally, and shipping companies would no doubt erect plants in all their principal steamers. Already arrangements have been made with the Union Company to install plants on several of their steamers. The work of construction will be done by New Zealand labour, but a superintendent and staff will come from Sydney. The new wharf at Picton is now to be GOOft in length, and will Ire a chain or two closer to the town than previously intend, ed. An additional 90ft of sea front is living reclaimed with huge masses of rock, the depth of water necessitating a very solid foundation. Thrown open to shipping no more than five years ago, the port of Karamea has since then made rapid strides. Evidence of its progress was afforded on Monday, When there wore five vessels loading timber at the port for various shipping centres—the Defender and Kairaki, for Lyttelton; the Echo, for Wellington; the Mangapapa, for Westport; and ingara, for Sydney.