MORE AMERICAN TOURISTS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 79, 28 December 1926, Page 5

MORE AMERICAN TOURISTS

LINER CARINTHIA’S RETURN SIGHTSEERS REACH AUCKLAND f Dominion Special. Auckland, December 27. Carrying over 300 tourists from England, Canada, and the United States, the 20,000-ton Cunard liner Carinthia arrived at Auckland from Port Moresby, New Guinea, yesterday afternoon, on her second visit to New Zealand. The Carinthia has served as a temporary home for many sightseers since she was in Auckland last December. She is now making her second complete tour of the world in <■» many years. - On leaving New Zealand last year the vessel complete! her world tour via Java and the East, ine cruise to the Mediterranean Sea was undertaken in March of this vear, an this was followed bv a special tour of Norway Sweden, and Denmark in June. ' The Carinthia then returned to Liverpool to refit for her present voyvessel left New York on October 14, and touched at Cuba, Panama, Canal zone,. California, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, Korea, Peking, HongKong, and Manila. A short stop was made at Port Moresby, from which the steamer left for Auckland last Monday* Apart from the round of sightseeing, very little of an unusual nature nas occurred, although the passengers are still talking of the unenviable experience in the Caribbean Sea on October 18. The day after leaving Havana tne ship ran into the severe hurricane which swept the Florida coast with such disastrous results. It was useless trying to make for shelter, and the vessel was iiove to for twentv-four hours. Most of the passengers are Americans, but there are about twelve in tne partv from England, and also a small band from Canada. So popular have the cruises bean found that five among last year’s passengers are again witn the Carinthia on her present These include Mrs. F. Sullivan-Smith, of New York, who is making her third consecutive world tour, and intends to occupy next vear with another tonr. With the exception of the purser and the surgeon, the ship’s company is unchanged. The tourists left for Rotorua by special train this morning, and will return to repoin the ’(Carinthia before she sails for Wellington on Wednesday evening. A party of 39 will motor from Rotorua, joining the 1 Limited express for Wellington at Waimarino, while a further party will visit the Waitomo Caves. Tlie Carinthia will leave Wellington early on New Year’s Eve, and a visit will be paid to Milford Sound before proceeding to Australia.