SHIP'S PASSENGERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 17

SHIP'S PASSENGERS

OVERLAND JOURNEY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, January 20.

Swift emergency measures taken to assist passengers from Los Angeles to reach the Matson liner Mariposa before she sailed for the South Pacific from San Francisco on January 5 were referred to with enthusiasm when the liner reached Auckland. As a result of a strike of short duration by waterfront cargo-checkers at Los Angeles, it was decided to cancel the Mariposa's call there in case she was involved and delayed. The liner's departure time from San Francisco was postponed two days, and her sailing day from port was actually a day later than that on which she was scheduled to clear Los Angeles. About 300 passengers intending to board the Mariposa at Los Angeles were collected by messenger, telephone, and telegraph, and were given a special train with sleeper accommodation to San Francisco. Though many of the travellers were from distant parts of the United States and strangers to Los Angeles, and though others were staying with friends and not booked through agencies, all were located. The train left Los Angeles at the normal sailing time of the Mariposa. To ensure that no one catching the ship was left behind, the Mariposa cleared San Francisco 14 hours behind her schedule for the port and arrived at Honolulu at 6 p.m. instead of the morning of January 9.