UNPRECEDENTED RUSH TO ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16729, 12 January 1920, Page 6

UNPRECEDENTED RUSH TO ENGLAND.

• Despite tho many warnings by recent arrivals from Homo that tho present is tho worst possible timo to visit tho Old Country, the rush to bonk passages is, according to Mr H. Desborough, Wellington, mnnager 'for Messrs T. Cook and Son, unprecedented in our history. All tho steamers up till May nro fully booked, and save for bookings '-falling in" through peoplo not lining ablo to carry out their intended programme, no furthor passages by direct, liners can bo lx>okcd in any class before May. Information from Australia is to tho same effect, indeed, tho rush to London for the English spring h said to be even greater in Sydney and Melbourne than it is in New* Zealand, and all berths by the Australian

lines < are .practically taken up till March. This means that between now and May next thoso peoplo who have neglected to hook well ahead mnv expect to be disappointed. There "have been busy times before in th" New Zea-

land-England service, but the present season has established a record (says the "Dominion''). Thero mav be chances, in the meantime, of getting through by way of San Francisco from Wellington, but even thoso boats aro well booked up already.