ISLAND WINTER CRUISE.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 3

ISLAND WINTER CRUISE.

An opportunity of enjoyin" the warmth, colour, beauty, and aspects of the fascinating native life of some of the more important South Sea Islands—those islands of-which E. L. Stevenson wrote "The first love,-the first eunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart and touch a virginit> of sense," will be afforded to New Zealand people by the forthcoming cruise of the Marama from Auckland on August 7—a fifteen-day cruise from winter into summer. At Suva the first port of call, a stay of two 'days will be made, and the next call will be made at Levuka, perhaps the most lovely place to be visited on the cruise Some twenty-four hours after leaving Levuka the Marama will call off volcanic Niuafoou, commonly known as "Tin-can Island." Next' morning she will be at Apia, the capital of Samoa, storm centre of South Seas politics and last home of Robert Louis Stevenson, to whose tomb on Mount Vaea some of the more energetic members of the party will no doubt climb. Another day at sea, and the entrancragly beautiful harbour of "Vavau in tha Tongan group will be reached, and the following day will be spent at Nukualofa, the capital of the group, on the island of Tongatabu, departure being made in the evening for Auckland, where the vessel l» expected to arrive on the morning of August 22. *