BACK FROM SYDNEY
VIA WHAKATAKE. Mr. James Hislop, Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, has returned to Wellington after three months' untoward experiences. .Mr. Hislop went to Australia •for the benefit of his health, and he returns feeling very nuich better. Mr. and Mrs. Hislop left Adelaide for 'Wellington hoping to get home about a month ago, but- steamers were held up, and for three .weeks they were (with hundreds of other New Zealnnders) in Sydney. After a tiring, wait they managed to secure passages in the cargo steamer Port Sydney, which left Sydney laffc Saturdav week for Whakatane, on the Bay of Plenty.
Mr. Hislop stated to a Dominion" reporter yesterday that the Port Sydney had shortly before arrived in Sydney with some 1400 Anzaes. They were about to dismantle all her extra passenger, accommodation, but, on representations being made to the company, the officers' accommodation was preserved, which allowed the steamer to bring 30 instead of only eight, passengers. , The vessel'sdeparture was not. advertised, and she got-away quietly with nil tho passengers she could take. In any case the fact that Whntaitane was to be her first port of call would havs precluded many people booking in this vessel.' The passenger were a very happy family indeed on board, and a pleesant voyage of five days terminated at Whakatane on Thursday morning. The arrival of a big steamer like the Port Sydney, with a load of passengers direct from Sydney, was . hailed ns a great event by the townsneonle. There were shopkeepers who exhibited big cards in their windows drawing attention to the significance of the event, and how easily Whakntnne might become Auckland's second great port. On arrival at Whakatnve, t''o vessel wn= if'tlicallv "clean." but the local .Wealth officer did his duty, and they all "nt ashore in due e.nur.w. Such a Midden accession of overland traffic to Potorna ffrnm Ihc Whnkalare end) was nnio"<\ but eventually they all got through without. mishap.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 77, 26 December 1918, Page 6
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