PLEASURE CRUISE OF THE PACIFIC.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 4

PLEASURE CRUISE OF THE PACIFIC.

MALOLO AT WELLINGTON. FEWER PASSENGERS ABOARD. (I'BBSa ASSOCIATION! TXLEOBAM.) WELLINGTON, November 28. "A cross section of the great American public" is how Mr Louis D. Stone, cruise director of the American Express Company, describes tho tourists on board the Malolo, which arrived at Wellington to-day from Sydney on a Pacific pleasure cruise. Mr Stone made it clear that those aboard were not millionaires. They did not like to be labelled as such when their incomes in many cases were what one might call modest. "Retired business men and widows enjoying their life's savings are among our travellers,'' said Mr Stone, "and the fact that women predominate to such an extent may be ascribed to the fact that women have more leisure than men. It is bo on any cruise, and now in these times of business depression the husbands find it more necessary than ever to be close to their business. The cruise is limited to 90 days, covering 24.000 miles. In every port there is the same trouble, the limited stay. The cruise has to be worked on a plan that is best tor everybody, and next year .the itinerary may be different. It is hoped that a cruise of the Pacific will become an annual event," Mr Stone said that because of the depression, other tourist cruises were being cancelled, but his company and the Matson Company, although there were only 174 passengers on board, decided to carry on, feeling that it was better to operate even at a loss than to cancel til© cruise, and then at_ a later date try to regain their position in the world tours.

MALOLO BREAKS RECORD. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 28. The Matson liner Malolo on her trip From Sydney to Wellington broke the record for the run by about three hours. The Malolo makes adherence to schedule her first consideration, and although it is quite possible she could have put up an even faster time if ' she had been pushed, in accordance with her arrangements it was only necessary for her to reach Wellington at 4 o'clock this afternoon to be on time, thereby breaking the record by two hours. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, and allowing for the two hours' difference between Eastern Australian and New Zealand time, it was necessary for her to arrive inside the heads before 6 o'clock this evening to lower the record for the trip, which has Stood to the Maheno's credit since I 1005. However, she was in the stream at 3 o'clock.