HOLDS UP TILBURY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 122, 25 May 1935, Page 16

HOLDS UP TILBURY.

1 A SLEEPING AUSTRALIAN.

REFUSED TO WAKE.

(Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, May 4. All because one man, a passenger from Australia, would not get out of bed three great liners and more than 600 passengers were held up for an hour, and the wholo of the landing service was disorganised at Tilbury. It was "*! a.m. when the big buff-coloured boat from Australia put into the docks. In just over the hour medical and passport examinations had been concluded, and the passengers with their baggage had left the ship. All but one. He lay sleeping peacefully in his luxurious stateroom cabin. Stewards informed him that the liner had been cleared and was waiting to cast off from the landing stage. The reply was a deep breath. Later he was again awakened and told that two other liners were waiting in midstream to come in and discharge. Ono was a liner from the Far East with over 400 passengers wanting to know why they could not land. Behind this was a foreign ship with 200 passengers. Syrens blew in vain. Friends waited on tho landing stages. But the ships could not put in till the other had cast away. And the belated passenger did not leave the first vessel until two and a half hours after it had begun to discharge.