WOMEN PREDOMINATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 1

WOMEN PREDOMINATE

PASSENGERS ON LUXURY LINER MALOLO

DUE HERE ON SUNDAY Women predominate on the luxury liner Malolo, which is due in Auckland early on Sunday morning. There are 350 passengers, about 200 of whom are women, on board the liner. Among them are 63 married couples, three representatives of the church and several doctors. The rest are single men and men travelling without their wives. Twenty States of the United States are represented. There are 15 travellers from Hawaii, one from Canada and one from China. The States represented are Alabama, Alaska, California (which has sent one-third of the tourists), Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Lousiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Virginia. The Matson liner is completing a tour of the countries of the Pacific and is at present in Sydney. She is expected to leave there for Auckland tomorrow morning.

Everywhere the tourists have been greeted with the most wonderful enthusiasm. In Melbourne, when the liner arrived, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Luxton) sent masses of roses and hundreds of bouquets of wattle and bottle brush to decorate the ship. There was a bouquet of Australian flowers for every cabin. The Malolo is the most luxurious liner ever to have visited these parts. The trip was arranged by the Californian Chamber of Commerce in order to establish a better understanding and friendship between the United States and the countries of the Pacific. A full programme of entertainment and sight-seeing has been arranged for the three days the party will I.e in Auckland.