Passengers By Rangitoto On Maiden Voyage

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1949, Page 4

Passengers By Rangitoto On Maiden Voyage

WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.).— The New Zealand Shipping Company s liner Rangitoto arrived at Wellington last night on her maiden voyage from London and berthed this morning. The passtengers included 2 ( 4 children, ranging from seven to 17, who are being adopted in New Zealand homes. An investigation of Auckland’s transport needs will be carried out by Sir William Halcrew a British consulting engineer, who, with Mr J. P. Thomas, former general manager of the London Transport Board, has come to New Zealand at the invitation of the Government. - Another Rangitoto passenger was the Rev Walter M. Hendrie, the new youth director of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. He succeeds the Rev. Dr J. D. Salmond, who was' recently appointed director of religious education for the Presbyterian Church A three years’ contract with the Hastings and District Scots Society awaits Mr J. MacGee professional piper of Glasgow. A companion on the voyage was Bandmaster W. Saunders, of the Royal Marines, who will take up an appointment in H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona. . The first appointee to the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Auckland University College Professor G. C. J. Dalton, a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar in 1937, also, arrived with his wife and family in the Rangitoto. The liner’s commander, Captain A. W. Lettington, said the ship had behaved excellently in every way.