THE MONTEREY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 6

THE MONTEREY

4 TAKING MANY AMERICANS HOME. CALL AT AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. November 24. With atmospheric touches of the Far’ East the Matson liner Monterey presented an unusual spectacle on her arrival this morning with 794 passengers. The majority are American nationals, being evacuated to the United States. In the throngs thickly lining the ship's railings as the liner entered the port on a perfect summer morning, were a large number of happy children, with a pronounced American accent, American business men from Shanghai, and sad-eyed women, who had left their husbands behind, also negroes and people of various religious denominations. The visitors, who were the guests of Auckland during the day on motor tours and at the Ellerslie races, were welcomed by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, and entertained in the Town Hall at luncheon.

Leaving San Francisco on October 15, (he proceeded to Los Angeles. Honolulu. Yokohama, Shanghai and Manila. The Torres Strait pilot was picked up at Thursday Island and the run down the Australian coast to Sydney was made inside the Great Barrier Reef. The round trip was without incident, with calm weather throughout. The passengers stated that the tension existing between foreign nationals and the Japanese was so serious that American business firms were evacuating all the families of their employees before December I. All berths on regular liners to America had been booked months ahead. The Monterey sails for San Francisco this evening.