TOURIST CRUISES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21363, 4 January 1935, Page 10

TOURIST CRUISES

DEPARTMENT'S WORK ON SHIPS So tnat passengers on tourist cruises may make full advance arrangements for filling their time while in New Zealand, the New Zealand Government Tourist Department has been sending its officers to Sydney and other places, there to join the ships and travel on them to the Dominion. Mr R. W. Coupland, district manager for the department in Christchurch, who was one of the tourist officers detailed to join the liner Oronsay in Australia, returned yesterday, and remarked that the procedure adopted had considerably helped the work of directing the tourists. Similar measures have now been followed with three overseas tourist cruises this season. Two more ships have still to arrive one at the end of January and another in March. The Oronsay brought many round trip passengers from England, but in addition it was joined at Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane by many Australians, said Mr Coupland yesterday. With two other officers of the department he joined the ship at Sydney, and went with it to Brisbane and then to Auckland, where it arrived on December 26. The passengers had three days to spend in New Zealand before the ship left Wellington on Sunday morning last. The Oronsay, which was making her first voyage to New Zealand, carried about 500 passengers in the first-class I and 350 in the third-class. Of these all but 30, .who joined the ship in London, were from Australia. About 280 of them went by train for a oneday trip to Rotorua, 100 more travelling there by car. Others went to Waitomo, and overland by New Plymouth to Wellington, while, another party went overland through Napier to Wellington.

when all sections of the citizens of Wellington assembled to honour the Archbishop. Amongst the announcements was a message from his Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe. Archbishop Redwood made a long and eloquent reply and spoke entirely without notes, departing from his original version in scarcely a word. The services which the Archbishop had rendered his church in New Zealand were recognised by Pope Pius XL at the time of the sixtieth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop, when the following cablegram was received by Archbishop Redwood from Rome: "The Holy Father sincerely congratulates his Grace Archbishop Redwood on the sixtieth anniversary of his episcopal consecration. He highly appreciates the work he has done, and most lavishly bestows upon him the Apostolic Benediction, praying for a continuation of Divine assistance."

The Apostolic Delegate in Sydney, Archbishop Bernardini, also sent a message of congratulation and a blessing at. the time of the diamond jubilee. Many other messages of congratulation were received, including one from Mr M. M. Heinemann, the president, and Rabßi Katz on behalf of the Jewish congregation in Wellington. Literature and his violin, a rare Strad, remained his delights to the end of his days. He was noted for his eloquence and for his splendid command of language. A foreigner remarked of him: "The English is at first unmelodious to our ears. The first time I ever realised it had beauty was when I heard a sermon by your own Archbishop, Dr. Redwood."