PLEASURES OF TRAVELLING.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 August 1919, Page 2

PLEASURES OF TRAVELLING.

The lot of the traveller in these times is .a sad one. Those people who left Gisborne by the Al-ahura on Wednesday evening last (the passengers including Sif James Carroll) had an experience that will last every one -of them for eflong time. A full ship, with sixteen ladies in the social hall, and even mattrasses out on the deck for passengers who could not be “bunked,” the little steamer mu into a gale, and arrived oif Napier to find the Tarawere and Mokoia bobbing about in the distant offing, visible only “on the rise.” With great energy‘ and

a,ssul‘ance, ‘the __.’Arallura was gtridecl alongside the breakwater wharf, lines were made fast, and the passengers were about to land, when a treble crack split the air. All three lines had pal'tcd._ and the steamer was once more loose. She had to put to sea with the others, and remain there‘ all day. In the afternoon the harbourmaster was signalled to land the passengers per lighter, but that" official was taking no risks. He would have none of it. So the Arahura had to plunge about in 9, heavy sea the long night t.hl‘oug‘h, nearly all the passengers being ill and wretehodly ‘llllCOlllfOl‘t{\blQ_ They were a washed-out, bedraggled lot that got ashore at: 7 'a.m. on Friday. Then commenced the torment of the soul. All who wished to travel by rail and to obtain a permit ‘had to answer an eternity of questions. Having got: through that ordeal the train crept through Hawke’s Bay, made Palmerston ‘North in twelve hours and the next day Wellington in six.