UNDER OWNERS’ CONTROL
RANGITATA SAILS FOR N.Z. 500 PASSENGERS FOR DOMINION (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (fftec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12. The Rangitata, sailing from Tilbury to-day by way of Suez and Sydney, will carry approximately 520 passengers for New Zealand in a total passenger list of nearly 800. The New Zealand passengers include 94 services personnel, including several members of the Victory contingent who remained in Britain for various reasons, and 90 service wives and dependents. Thirty-five Italian wives of New Zealand servicemen will join the ship at Port Said. The majority of passengers for the Dominion are New Zealanders, but the ship also carries the first draft of British recruits for the New Zealand mental hospitals service and two parties of British women school teachers, who will take up appointments at Nga Tawa and lona Colleges.' Messrs R. H. Billens, R. V. White, and G. Webster, members of the New Zealand delegation to the Empire Press Conference, and Messrs C. R. Gribble and E. (B. Foster, of the Auckland Transport Board, who have been on a' business mission to Britain, are also among the passengers. The ship travels under the control of her owners, not under trooping conditions.
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Evening Star, Issue 25895, 12 September 1946, Page 3
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199UNDER OWNERS’ CONTROL Evening Star, Issue 25895, 12 September 1946, Page 3
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