MALOLO SAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 11

MALOLO SAILS

| START OF PACIFIC CRUiSE FEWER PEOPLE TRAVELLING Today the Matson liner Malolo sailed from San Francisco on her tour of th 4 East, Australia and New Zealand. This is really the beginning of the tourist year and inquiries from intending visitors overseas are already being made for itineraries of New Zealand. Although not so heavy as in former years, the volume of tourist traffic looks as though it will be maintained in New Zealand. Australian inquiries have fallen off. but there are still num - bers who intend visiting New Zealand this 3-ear instead of going to more distant countries. The Malolo’s passengers this year are just tourists. Last year the trip was made under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. This splendidly-equipped liner due to reach Wellington on November 2S. She will sail via the West Coas; and North Cape for Auckland, arrivinghero on December 1 and leaving on December 3. Most of the passengers will travel overland, calling at Rotorua and other scenic resorts of interest. It is hoped to make the summer tor - of the Malolo an annual event, as i enables wealthy Americans to vis:: Japan, China. Java. Australia, New Zealand and some of the islands of tne Pacific. Arrangements for the tour of the North Island are in the hands of the Tourist Department. Thomas Cook and Sons, Ltd., sta.e that they have several personally-cor ducted parties coming from the United j States, including the Magic Isles part . which includes calls at the principal j Pacific Islands, in its itinerary. A New Zealand farmers’ tour of Great Britain and Europe for 1931 is also being arranged at present. It will be on similar lines to that which is at present travelling through the Cor - tinent under the management of Thos. Cook and Sons. The part}- is expected to leave New Zealand next April. Several individual tourists are aho planning to visit the Dominion an 1 their itineraries are at present being arranged. Indications show that fewer New Zealanders intend to go overseas this year. Steamer bookings are few-er. but this, of course, may be altered later on, • when conditions become more favourable.