CLEAN SHIP NOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 1

CLEAN SHIP NOW

CLOSE INSPECTION ON AORANGI SYDNEY TROUBLE DENIED “I have examined the ship and she is; absolutely clean in every respect.” This statement was made this morning by Dr. J. A. Watson, relieving port health officer, on the Aorangi after she arrived in the stream from Sydney. The medical inspection was very thorough, and no risks were taken. Despite the smallpox scare when the Union Steam Ship Company’3 liner was last in Auckland there were more

than 450 passengers on the Aorangi this morning. Those landing at Auckland numbered 127; 341 passengers were booked for Suva, Honolulu and Vancouver. It was stated that a few berths had been cancelled in Sydney. Members of the Aorangi’s crew who were in quarantine in Sydney contradicted the cabled reports that there had been trouble with the passengers who were put into isolation. “The only man who created any trouble was Kirkwood, the golfer,” said one. "The other passengers wrote, letters to the Sydney papers stating that they were perfectly happy.

“As far as opr fellows were concerned they werO quite satisfied. Some of the married men would like to have gone home. They were picked up at the quarantine station when the Aorangi passed down the harbour on her way back to Auckland.” It was also on the Aorangi that the woman passenger who was allowed to leave the quarantine station in Sydney to go to the bedside of a dying relative would have gone out that day in any case. She had been released from isolation by the medical authorities. A considerable quantity of Auckland cargo which been over-car-ried to Sydney when the Aorangi was quarantined a fortnight ago was brought back this morning. The remainder will come by the Mamma tomorrow morning. Captain W. Martin, of the Tahiti, has command of the Aorangi for this trip. Commander Crawford was indisposed when the vessel left Sydney, but he will take command again when she returns from Vancouver.