MATAROA FROM ENGLAND
NEARLY 500 PASSENGERS Nearly 500 passengers arrived in the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Mataroa, which berthed yesterday afternoon, after completing ou Wednesday night a record passage from Southampton, via the Panama Canal. When the ship left England she had on board a total of 482 passengers—ll 7 in the first saloon and 365 in the third-class. Five of the former landed at Colon and three first saloon and two third-class passengers joined the ship at Balboa, so that she had the same number onboard after clearing the Panama Canal as she embarked at Southampton.
The third-class passengers included 66 nominated for assisted passages by relatives in the Dominion, and also a party of 27 domestic servants, and 52 lads who have come out to be trained as farmers under the Church of England scheme. The Mataroa, which has no cargo for discharge at Wellington, will sail at 4 p.m. to-day for South Island ports. She brought a large English mail, principally parcels.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 10
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166MATAROA FROM ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 10
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