AVOIDING WAR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 6

AVOIDING WAR

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Tourist Traffic Diverted to Dominion CRUISE SHIPS FOR N.Z.

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AUG.K-LiA.ND, This Day. JEvidence of the effect of tbe SinoJapanese Wax in diverting tourists who noxmally would "be .travelling to the East, was noted on tbe arriyal at Auckland last nigbt of tbe Canadian-Austra-lasian Tane motor ship Aorangi, from Vancouver. Tbe Aorangi brougbt 529 passengers, 276 of whom disembarked liere. Among both tbroixgb and landing passengers are a large number of tourists. The Aorangi is the first trans-Pacific liTiflr to "be affected. but booMngs indieate that the diverted traffic will be Bu'stained in both the Aorangi and Niagara for several months. Similarly the Matson Xiine vessel Monterey, svMch left the Pacific coast on November 9 for New Zealand, is bringing a beavy list, ahd it is estimated that her passengers "will number 600 when she reaches Auckland on November 26. In iddition to tourists, however, she is bringing the last large quota of Coronafcion visitors, who have been spending Bn extended holiday in the TJnited States and Enrope. The Matson Line anticipates heavy traffic until April at teast, largely ,owing to the Ear Eastern position, Strathmore's .Visit. Becond of ihe* short summer cruise ships to call at Auckland will be tbe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company/s fine 23,428-ton StrathEuore^ wMeh is due heTe on November 19 Erom'Brisbane. Subsequent short cruises fsill be made by other ships of the P. and O. and Orient Lines, tbe last, tbe Strathmore, on a second visit, leaving Auckland on March 12, 1938. Between two and three weeks after she short summer cruises have conjluded, the first of the world cruise ships will enter New Zealand waters. At present cruises aTe plauned by the dunard White Star liner Pranconia, the lahadian Pacific Railway's Empress of Britain, the Hamburg-Amerika Line's Etelianee and possibly the Ue de Erance, If ihe " Compagnie Generale Transitlantique. Details pf the movements »f the Ile de Erance have notyet been received in Auckland, aithough . it was itated by a xepresentative of the line that the ship defmitelv will visit Auckland either at the end of the prbsent ;onrist season or at tbe beginning of the iex£. Subsequent to a cable massage "infercing that the giant Norddeutscb er-Lloyd Bremen might not" pursue her world sruise, the Auckland agents for the lire, Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane, aave received eabled advice from New Eork that the Bremen 's cruise hau been panfcellecL largest and rastesE. The anncwincement will be received with. general disappointment in Auckland, as the Bremen, apart froin her ihterest as an Atlantic racer, would have been the largest and fastest merehant Bhip ever to be in these waters. rhat record will now go to the Empress »f Britain, also a former NortlTStlantie record bxeaker, although her 42^348 tons grosa is well below the 51,656 tons gross of the -Bremen. The He de Erance registexs 43,450 tons, and in tuni she ipiIT take the merchant tonnage record Erom the Empress of Britain. Among ofEer records made by the Bremen' would have been that of the greatest length of any vessel coming into the Waitemata. The lengths of the Bremen, Ide de Erance and Empress of Britain are 898.7ft., 763.7ft, and 733.3ft. respectively.