QUIET AND WELL BEHAVED

Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 16

QUIET AND WELL BEHAVED

JEWISH REFUGEES REPORT OF AORANGI’S MASTER (Peb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 27. With reference to reports which have appeared in some newspapers regarding the conduct of the Jewish refugees on the Aorangi on her recent voyage from Vancouver to Auckland and Sydney, the Union Steam Ship Company, as agent for the Canadian-Austrafasian Line, states that there has apparently been a good deal of exaggeration. “ The commander’s report for the voyage, referring briefly to the subject, makes it evident that what trouble did occur was largely the work of one individual, who subsided after being remonstrated with by Captain Hill,” states the company. “The idea of some of the cabin-class passengers that they should be allowed the run of the first class was probably due to some misunderstanding at the time of booking, no doubt on account of the language difficulty. It is, of course, out of the question that passengers should bo allowed the use of accommodation of a higher class than that for which they have paid. A considerable number of these passengers have been carried on previous trips without anything against them having been reported, and so far as the company is aware they were quiet and wellbehaved.”