SAILING TO-MORROW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1933, Page 7

SAILING TO-MORROW.

JAPANESE TRAINING SHIP. RECEPTION THIS AFTERNOON. Bound for her home port of Kobe, the Japanese mercantile training ship Shintoku Maru is to leave Auckland at two o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Officers, cadets,. and crew say that they will carry away with them the happiest memories of Auckland. Large crowds of people visited the training ship yesterday afternoon when she was open to public inspection. Exhibitions of jiu-jitsu "and fencing were given on the King's wharf, where the vessel is berthed. A Rugby football team from the ship played a match against a Training. College fifteen at Eden Park. Although beaten, the Japanese showed that they have an excellent idea of a game which is rapidly gaining popularity in the East. Captain N. Hayashi and members of the Consular Corps were the guests of Mr. W. F. Boyle, American Consul, at dinner last evening, and a number of the officers spent an enjoyable evening at home of Mrs. Charles Rhodes, where members of the Auckland Rotary Club were also among the guests. An official reception was held on board the training ship this afternoon, several hundred Aucklanders being the guests of the captain, officers, and cadets. This evening, at the request of the captain, Mr. H. G. Cousins will give an address on 2Cew Zealand in the cadets' dining saloon. To-morrow morning the Shintoku Maru will prepare for sea.