EXCURSIONS WELL PATRONISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 6

EXCURSIONS WELL PATRONISED.

QUAY STREET EARLY ASTIR RENOWNS ENTRY BROADCASTED. Something more than threatening skies and a chilly Mind would have been necessary to alfeet the enthusiasm of Auckland's welcome to our Roval visitors, and as early as seven o'clock Quay Street was busy with crowds of people, eager to l»c out on the harbour before the Renown came round Xortb Head. In addition to the scores of small boa:s —stately yachts and fast-moving launches—several of the larger ferrv steamers made special excursion trips down the harbour, all well (Kitronised. At half-past seven the Rangitoto. with both her decks well |>acked. swung out from the Northern wharf and proceeded far round North Head, bcinp one of the first of the hij~rer boats to welcome the battleship. Otii?r excursions were run by the Takapuna and Dcvonport Ferry Companies, the steamers going down harbour and coming up astern of the Renown. An account of the Renown's cntrv im<t the Waitemata was broadcasted " from one of the ferry steamers, and listened to by hundreds of wireless ciithu«iaM» throughout the Dominion.