ROUND THE WORLD IN CARGO SHIPS
American Party’s Tour
Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, March 16. Cargo ships of many nations are the principal methods of travel chosen for a strange world tour by Mr. Frank L. Coflltt, Minneapolis, United States of America, who arrived from Singapore by Hie Maetsuycker. Trips of this kind are becoming popular with Americans and being exploited as "Viking” tours. Accompanied by’ ids wife and his sister, Mr. Cotlitt set out from New York several months ago, and they have travelled by many cargo steamers through the Panama Canal to California, across the Pacific to Japan and China, and then south to the Phillippines and Singapore. Apart from a short voyage In the East, the trip from Singapore to Auckland was the first made in a regular passenger vessel. The party will complete the round trip to Singapore by the Maetsuycker and will then travel to Holland by way of Suez in a Dutch freighter. They hope to spend some time in Scandinavian countries’’before returning to (he United Stales by a Eiunish cargo vessel.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 10
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178ROUND THE WORLD IN CARGO SHIPS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 10
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