RETURN FROM MELBOURNE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 13 November 1934, Page 9

RETURN FROM MELBOURNE.

ENTHUSIASM OF VISITORS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 12. One of the gayest of scenes possible in the intercolonial tourist tiaffic was presented by the Monowai when her decks vividly sunlit, she tied up at hei Wellington berth this afternoon with 331 passengers on board, moie than hundred of whom represented pait ot the New Zealand contingent returning from the Melbourne Centenary festivities. Passengers were enthusiastic ovei the way Melbourne had turned it on for tlieir entertainment. “The celebrations were a great success. They were wonderfully well arranged and revealed a great deal organising capacity on tlie part or the Melbourne people,” commented Mr F G. Sullivan, M.P., Mayor of Christchurch, when interviewed. Mr bulll- - was one of the official guests of the Centenary Council “The illuminations and decorations were very successful, in fact ; I would not be surprised if they constituted the greatest electrical display in the world s history,” he continued. “Both by the council and by the National and Empire Centenary Association, which also made myself and the other visiting members _ of Parliament its guests, we were given every possible courtesy. I think also that every visitor will agree with me that nothing was left undone by the city in its consideration for all visitors from Lew Zealand.”