IF YOU GO TO ENGLAND YOU CAN'T GET BACK

Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1947, Page 3

IF YOU GO TO ENGLAND YOU CAN'T GET BACK

INADEQUATE SHIPPING (Speeial Correspondent.) Received Mondav ,7 p.ni. LONDON, Jan. 13. The High Coiimiisgipiier ..fof .New j Zealand (jlr. W. J. Jordau) says he has been infornied by the New Zealand j Govemmciit that " an enonnous number of people are wauting to coiue to j iiritain. " Comnienting ou this he said: | "People who do come should know they : are taking a risk of having to stay j liere for a year or two, not-witlistanding all the introduetions they may bring ] and the influenee they may think they i will be able to use to get them a re- | turn passage. I am infonned by the ; shipping companies in London that the I number of people wanting to leave 1 Britain for New Zealand is already , 3000 in excess of the prospeetive shipping a.ceommodation for the whole of this year. In these circumstances tliere will be little that I or anybody els^ will be able to do to get early return ; passages for visitors from New Zeaj land. " Four Big Ships Building. The damage caused b}- the iire wliich broke out in the Sliaw Savill 's 15,000ton relTigerated eargo and passenger ' ship Corinthic on January 4 has been carefully examined by the builders, i Cammel Laird, who reported that i't ! sliould be possible to liave her ready j for her trials by the end of April. The I trials were to have been early next month. i The Atlienic, a sister ship of the 1 Corinthic, wliich is being built at Belfast, is also expected to be ready for l her trials in April. Two other 15,000tou sister ships of the Corinthic and Athenic, wliich are being bullt by I Camniell Laird and Swan Hunter respectivelv, should bolli be completed next year. Shaw Savill have uow taken over the Arawa which is the first of its flect to be reconditioned slnce the war. She is sailing l'roiu London for New Zealand on Alarch 15 with -50 passeugers. The passenger accommodatioil has been redecorated and additional private bathrooms instaiied. The Arawa was built in 1922 and served during the war as an arined merchant eruiser and as a trooper.