SUMMER CRUISES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 12

SUMMER CRUISES.

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Short summer cruises having been so popular during the last two or three years, the Union Steam Ship Company has arranged to run two trips by the Monowai during the coming season.

The first will be from Auckland 011 Tuesday, December 24. Calls will lie made at Whangaroa Harbour, Bay of Islands (with visits to Russell, Paihia and the Treaty House at Waitangi) and Port Fitzrov, on Great Barrier Island. The return will bo made to Auckland 011 Saturday, December 28.

Tlio other cruise will start from Wellington on Tuesday, February 4, the main objective being Milford Sound, while a call will be made on the homeward run at Tennyson Inlet in Pelorus Sound. Wellington will be reached on Saturday, February S, and the Monowai will continue through to Auckland where she is due on February 10.

Another call at Milford Sound will bo made bv the Monowai on the trip leaving Sydney 011 January 3 for Wellington and Auckland. Calls at Milford Sound will also be made each way between Bind' and Melbourne during the summer running of the Marama in the Melbourne-South Island-Wellington service. More frequent opportunities of seeing New Zealand's grandest spectaclewill thus be given than have ever been afforded before.

WANGANELLA'S PROGRAMME.

The local office of Hmldart Parker, Ltd., advise that the motor vessel Wangaiiella is again scheduled to make a number of summer cruises from December onwards on the Xew Zealand and Australian coasts. Those which should appeal most to Xew Zealanders are one of four days' duration from Auckland to Whangaroa. Russell and the rireat Barrier Island, leaving Auckland on January 2 and returning on Monday, January 0. Another cruise of four days will be from Wellington to Milford and George Sounds, leaving Wellington on February 10 and returning on February I'. Cruises of longer duration are from Wellington to Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney, returning to Auckland These are scheduled to leave Wellington on December 17 and February 1-t an to return to Auckland on January and February 28. Another cruise will lie from Sydney to Lord Howe Island, leaving Sydney on April 10, returning on April 14.