RUSH FOR ACCOMMODATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 5

RUSH FOR ACCOMMODATION.

STEAMERS BOOKED UP. The Home-trip habit is gaming in popularity every year, both in Australia and New Zealand, but particularly in . tho Commonwealth, where there are quite a large contingent of well-to-do people who have forgotten what winter is, owing to the number of times they have missed it by imitating the swallow. This year the booking by tho Home passenger steamers is very h«avy, and those who have the remotest intention of proceeding to Europe at.the end of tho present summer should bo! advised of tho position. The Sydney office: of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Sons have advised tho local branch that never in the history of the firm in Australia have the applications for accommodation on the Home steamers teen so numerous as this year, and'alrendy nearly' every Orient and P. and 0. steamer is booked up from February to the fiul-of April. On two or three occasions the local manager tot Coohs (.Mt, K, Cramctull has cabled I fo Sydney asking for accommodation in , certain steamers, and the reply .has come, "Can offer no Accommodation." The Osterley, which is to leave Sydney as far ahead as 'JAotc.V %, is, vitttttkaUy tutty I hooked now. I On inquiry, we find that there is iw-\ ttiiiig unusual in (fte number of npplicu- ( tions for accommodation by. tho tVireci steamers in Wellington. The -whole oi th&' saloon accommodation in the Remutra, I leaving in March next,. has already been, i booked, but that is said to bo nothing unusual as she is a popular ship. ■-■" '— ' I