OUTWARD BOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 8

OUTWARD BOUND

SHIf'S WELL FILLED

WANGANELLA SAILS

Despite the depression, income tax, increased exchange, and sales tax, there still appears to. be a fair amount, of money about. Some of it has been paid over to the, overseas shipping companies during the past two weeks, for the principal passenger season for overseas is now -in, full swing. Passengers come to New Zealand' in spring to enjoy the warm weather, and return to England in the New Zealand autumn so as to arrive Home in time for the" English summer. New Zealand tourists leave New Zealand in the autumn as a rule, and return in the spring. . . A fair number of passengers left New Zealand last month', but March and April are the principal months of the season. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's' cabin class liner Akaroa and the.New Zealand Shipping Company's tourist class liner Rotorua took a total of 248 passengers for England last week. The Union Company liners Maunganui- and Monowai left Wellington for Sydney last week, the Monowai taking a particularly large number. < . ■

There have been two important sailings this, week—the Wanganella for Sydney and Melbourne^ and the Bangitiki for London, via, Panama. The Wanganella took 31(f passengers—she was almost a full ship—and it is doubtful if any other vessel will carry away a larger number than this this season. There was a dense crowd on the Queen's "Wharf when the vessel sailed yesterday. Streamers formed a coloured mass between the ship and the shore. Amid farewell greetings, and to the,strains of wireless music, the vessel pulled out from the wharf' at 3.10 p.m. The crowd was the largest that has seen a ship off for some' time. The Bangitiki sailed early this morning. She took 233 passengers from Wellington, and nine more will join the-vessel at Panama. The Bangitiki's passengers had to be on board overnight, and about' two. hundred people went on board to say farewell to their friends. The ship's band played, and groups strolled round' the decks,' or sat in the public rooms. Many passengers were in bed when the vessel sailed, and there were not many people on the wharf to see the ship pull out. • " , .