EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND. GREETED BY LARGE CROWD. AUCKLAND, April 12. Preceded by the greyhound liner, Awatea, the giant Empress of Britainsailed with queenly grace up the Waitemata harbour shortly after 7 o'clock this morning, watched by many thousands of people from vantage points around the harbour. The 42,000-ton liner was the largest ship ever to enter the Waitemata Harbour. There was an ebb tide but the Empress of Britain berthed without a hitch and the commander complimented the pilot, Captain Beswick, whose record in New Zealand waters dates back to 1899, and the days of the three-masted barques. As the big white ship was escorted up the harbour by two tugs and a score of small craft, speed boats cut across the bows of the great white swan like a group of ducklings.
A crowd also awaited the arrival at the wharf of most of thhe 450 passengers who are on sight-seeing tours about the city.
The Empress of Britain will leave on Friday evening for Suva and America.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 10
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