ROUND THE WORLD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4923, 8 January 1926, Page 1

ROUND THE WORLD.

AN OVER-BATED PLEASURE.

REMARKS OF A STEWARD.

The American millionaires on the Carinthia, which was recently in New Zealand, are really seeinganuch more o£ one another and the deep blue sea than, they are of the habitable globe, says “T.D.H.” in .the Dominion. (One of the stewards unburdened himself of some philosophic remarks on the tour de luxe. He hailed from Liverpool, as do most of the ship’s company. “Trip’s aljl right,” he said, “but it’s too long. I know; Before the end they’ll be sick of it. They’ll ’ate the sight of us, just as much as we will ’ate the sight o’ them—but lumme, how they’ll ’ate the sight of each other ! The best trip o’ the lot is the Mediterranean. That only takes six weeks, which is, just about enoughThey 'aren't got time to get tired o’ one another, and are all sorry .to say good-bye. That’s ’ow it should be I This round-the-world stunt ain’t what it’s, cracked up to be, you can take it from me. The strain of rushin’ round strange places gets on their nerves, and when they gets to a ’ot place, like India or Java, and the liver ain’t none too good, they get irritable and ’a rd to please. I knowI’ve been through it before !”• —Joy, it seems, is an elusive quantity even on a millionaire luxury ship.