TOURISTS FROM AMERICA.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 11

TOURISTS FROM AMERICA.

LARGE PARTY VISITS SYDNEY. MAIDEN VOYAGE OF PALATIAL LINER. •' S:;ED ltT%* l««M»Ti!S-«T ILICT»I0 rt'.Z'.,j-.. -a coPiaiosT.) llcce.ved November £"> th. 0.13 p.m.) SYDNEY. November 2-3. Gai'v der'ted with bunting on her mai'U-n voyage from San Fran- • i-.«.0. the p.u.i*aal Matson liner Ma!i»;i>. with 353 American tourists on boarrl, reached Sydney t.j-<i.iv alter having called at Perth, Port Adebtid.', and Melbourne. Everyone on h<.ard the Insurious liner had dciired to fee Sydney,. Hartwur at Us best, but it wn.s a murky morning, with >un>hine only at mtmaU. while there were rain showers durmg the afterneon. The tourists were greeted in the Itoartiot manner. lorry sirens and -tenner whittles blowing. There was a Imjro crowd at the wharf. Scores of limonsinv- took ttio visitors round the i itv Mchts of interest and then to Government Hou-e. where the Governor. Sir Dudley de (hair, shook hands with rtc.irlv thn>e hundred guests itndt-r the Mo re ton Bay rig tree, wlnc-h the visitors greatly ad mired. I/caders of Auuralian commerce and iii'tustrv had bnicheon on board the Milolo with th* captains of great Amrrnan industries. They were quietvoiced men who had built up their fortunes in commeveial activities including *t«-el, new-papers, railways, lemons, laundries, fi-li. oil. milk, electric signs. eai«»s, nnd department stores. All these people said that they had brought a message of goodwill to the Australian and New Zealand civic authorities and other public bodies. A big round of entertainments and sight■•eeiin ha* been arranged for the Mali.lo's happy and affluent complement..