AORANGI IN PORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 3

AORANGI IN PORT.

PACIFIC UNUSUALLY CALM. FOG DELAY THIS MORNING. The Royal Mail steamer Aorangi was twice delayed before she finally berthed at Auckland at nine this morning. The first delay occurred at Vancouver, where she waited a day for the English mails to come overland, and the second when she encountered a heavy fog on entering the Waitema.ta, which made her two hours late on the last radio advice received from her. The delay at Vancouver was due to the Aquitania, which left Southampton on May 12, being held up by a storm over the Atlantic. She arrived a day late at New York, and consequently the English and European mails she brought for New Zealand did not reach Vancouver until Thursday, May 24. The Aorangi's usual sailing day from Vancouver is. Wednesday. However, the Aorangi made up much of the lost time on a fast trip over via Honolulu and Suva. Passengers described the crossing as being the calmest for many years—the Pacific was like a millpond tiie whole way. Arriving off the Rangitoto beacon at about G. 30 this morning the liner ran into a heavy fog, and Aucklandcrs wakened to the heavy booming of her steam fog horn. With engines dead slow she "felt" her way up the harbour, assisted by the moaning of the syren 011 the eastern tide deflector and the clanging of the position bell on the Queen's wharf.

At 8.30 she was off the Prince's wharf, which, although only about 100 yards away, could scarcely be discerned. Very carefully the tug nosed her nearer, and she was finally tied up just before nine o'clock. Among the Passengers. Mr. M. Moloney, son of a Californian newspaper publisher, is making the round trip. Mr. Moloney is 011 the advertising staff of his father's three papers. He said that the newspaper business was improving in the United States, which showed that business generally was improving. All interesting feature of American newspapers was that many of them maintained radio stations. Famous stars were engaged to provide items, and "hook-ups," or the right to rebroadcast programmes from the national stations, were purchased, in much the same way as newspapers subscribed to a central news agency. Mr. Hikosaburo Yogo, of Japan, a poultry expert, is making a Pacific cruise, embracing Canada, the United States and Australia. Lieut.-Colonel G. Cruickshank, director of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail, British Columbia, is on a holiday visit to New Zealand. He is accompanied by liis wife.