LESSONS LEARNED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 14

LESSONS LEARNED

MALOLO’S PASSENGERS GATHER LASTING IMPRESSIONS WANT TO COME BACK

What have you learned from this trip? This was the question put to several representative people on the Malolo yesterday morning before the rush to get ashore began. There was a general chorus of “How the other man lives.” Most of the passengers seemed to be making their first tour abroad, and naturally they were immensely interested in their calls at Chinese and Japanese ports. * * * Said Mr. J. C. Taylor, of Philadelphia: “I've learned that the Australians are a delightful people and very progressive. Japan seems to be making great progress. China is standing still because of international Everything seemed to be at sixes and sevens there. . . . “I have learned that we ought to get together more and more, and that the English speaking peoples should have a common money system and calendar. “I have learned that the world is a lot smaller thaD it used to be." • * # Mr. H. C. Strong comes from Ketchikan in far-away Alaska. To him the trip has been an eye-opener. “I have learned how happy such a trip as this can make us all,” he said. “It was like getting back home to visit Australia. I heard one of the women passengers say, ‘Why, they’re receiving us as if we were all Qaeens.’ “I have learned too that some of the wealthiest men on board are the most simple in the way they live.” Mr. C. C. Jantseu, of Oregan. has learned that, there are an awful lot of nice people to be met on the trip which the Malolo is making. “It was awfully nice to reach Australia, and now New Zealand, where tho iieople speak English.” He and his wife and their party had heard so much about the Waitomo Caves that they were determined to see them. “We’re going to learn as much as possible on this trip,” they said. A specially chartered motor-car , waited on the wharf, and they were soon on their way to the Caves, after which they proposed going overland to Rotorua and back to Auckland—all in two days.

Mrs. Albert J. Lyman, of New York, is determined to learn all she can about schools and colleges while she is on the tour. She has visited several institutions in other countries, and yesterday set out with some friends to learn all she could about Auckland.

“This trip lias taught us all that we want to come back again,” said Mr. C. C. Moore, the “father” of the tour. ‘‘l have many friends in New Zealand, but' I have yet to see them. There are 6,000 New Zealanders in and around San Francisco.”

“It just makes me want to come back to every place I’ve seen” said Mrs. Crystal Clapp, who spends her time between Toronto and New York. “I just want to learn all I can and I want to get an airplane to fly me to Rotorua. When I get home I’m going to get my licence. I think. I’ll stay off at Honolulu for three mouths and get it there.”