ISLAND WINTER CRUISE

Evening Star, Issue 21720, 15 May 1934, Page 17

ISLAND WINTER CRUISE

An opportunity of enjoying the warmth, colour, beauty, and aspects of the fascinating native life of some of the more important South Sea Islands —those islands of which B. L. Stevenson. wrote, “The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea Island, arc memories apart and touch a virginity 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.

The first place of call will be Suva, the interesting and beautiful capital of jfiji, and largest town in the South Sea Islands, where a stay of two days will be made. The next call will be at Levuka, the former capital, perhaps the most lovely place 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 entrancingly beautiful harbour of Vavau in the Tongue Group will be reached, and the following day will be spent at Nukualofa, the capital of the group, on the island of Tongatabn, departure being made in the evening for Auckland, whore the vessel is expccieil to arrive on the mu: rung of August