LOST LINERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 6

LOST LINERS

FATE OF PASSENGERS & CREWS REPORTED IN PRISON CAMP. ADVICE TO PORT LINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Manager for the Port Line has received a cablegram from his London office, to the effect that messages have been received by relatives in the United Kingdom from the assistant cook of the liner Port Hobart, stating that all the passengers and the crew were safe in a prison camp in France. The Port Hobart was outward bound to New Zealand and the passengers, who were to have landed at New Zealand ports as their destination or to proceed to Australia, were: —L. P. D. Lockie, of Auckland, Misses E. and J. Neie, of Wellington, Miss E. A. M. Harcourt, of Wellington, Miss P. M. Acland, of Lyttelton, Mrs A. Sinclair, of Auckland or Wellington, Mrs A. L. Beales, of Auckland or Wellington, and Mrs J. C. Wiltshire, of Sydney.

The liners Port Brisbane and Port Wellington, which were homeward bound from Australia, had passengers for the United Kingdom and word has been received by relatives and conveyed to Wellington, by cablegram from the London office of the Port Line. The information is to the effect that the passengers and crews of both vessels are safe and now in a prison camp near Bordeaux.