ALL BERTHS FULL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 229, 27 September 1937, Page 8

ALL BERTHS FULL.

MATSON LINER'S LIST.

PASSENGERS BY MONTEREY.

Bringing a. large number of visitors returning from the Coronation celebrations, as well as many other passengers, the Matson Line's Monterey, when she arrives at Auckland on Friday morning from United States, Pacific Coast ports and intermediate Wands, will be practically a full ship. She has some 700 passengers, of whom about 15Q are landing at Auckland and 124 are booked to join the vessel here.

In addition she is bringing a very largo cargo for Auckland, exceeded to the extent of only about 300 tons by the record shipment for a regular Matson pastengor liner. Her total cargo of 1232 tons for Auckland includes a heavy consignment of 280 tons of grapes from California. She is also bringing 2000 Ijaga of mail. The Monterey's cargo carrying capacity is C 125 tons measurement of gonoral cargo and 800 tons measurement of refrigerated cargo. Normally the Matson Line schedule provides for the dispatch of vessels from Auckland at 5 p.m. for Australian ports, but on account of her heavy cargo the Monterey has been «et up for 10 p.m. That should, under good circumstance*, allow her to discharge Auckland shipments and reach Sydney on time. She will leave Suva to-morrow.