RAILWAY TIME-TABLE
(Sunday excepted, unless otherwise stated.) Express Trains Leave Christchurch For Invercargill, 8.35 a.m. daily (except Monday); 11.2 p.m. Sunday (connects with Invercargill train at Dunedin). For Dunedin, 8.35 a.m. daily; 12.25 p.m. Wednesday, Friday: 11.2 p.m. Sunday. For Greymouth and Hokitika, 2.20 a.m. daily; 10 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday. For Parnassus, 8.20 a.m. daily. Express Trains Arrive Christchurch From Invercargill. 7.18 a.m. Monday: 7.26 p.m. daily (except Monday). From Dunedin. 7.18 a.m. Monday; 5.10 p.m, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 7.26 p.m. daily (except Monday). From Greymouth and Hokitika, 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday: 10.23 p.m. daily. From Parnassus, 5.51 p.m. daily. Passenger trfiin connecting with steamer express leaves Christchurch for Lyttelton at 7.10 p.m. AIRWAYS TIME-TABLE f Air-liners leave Wigram aerodrome as follows Daily at 10.10 a.m. for Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier. Gisborne, Auckland. Monday to Saturday, inclusive, at 1.5 p.m. for Blenheim, Wellington, Nelson, Palmerston North. Daily at 1 p.m. for Dunedin. ORIENT LINE FIFTY YEARS’ ANNIVERSARY OF SAILING The sailing of the Orontes on a pleasure trip to Rabaul on June 30 will mark the completion of 50 years of sailing for the Orient Line. This type of holiday has only recently found favour with the public, and it will surprise many people that it is 50 years since the company sponsored its first pleasure cruise. The Garonne, 3847 tons, sailed from England in 1889 on the first Orient cruise. The women of the party were heavily veiled against wind and weather. They were neatly bound round the waist with petersham belts, while the men wore Norfolk jackets and yachting caps. The ship also could have been termed strange as photographs would suggest. Her funnel poked up into the air from various masts and rigging. Down below the tiny cabins were lit with swing oil lamps. The first Pacific cruise was by the Oronsay from Australia to Noumea in December, 1932. v
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22747, 27 June 1939, Page 15
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