First Overseas Cruise Ship of the Season

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 258, 30 October 1937, Page 5

First Overseas Cruise Ship of the Season

ORIENT LINER ORION AT AUCKLAND Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The first overseas cruise ship of the season, the Orient liner Orion, arrived at Auckland from Brisbane this afternoon with 861 passengers, the majority being tourists from tho five Australian ports at which she had called on her way out from England. Beautiful weather gave the huudreds of passengers an excellent impression of the city, and they crowded tlie rails to enjoy the view. The Tourist Department and other travel agencies had a large fleet of service cars, buses and motor-cars in readiness. Not quite half the passengers had booked trips to Rotorua and further afield, the others being content with sightseeing in and near Auckland and Wellington. Fifty-five left in tho afternoon on a four-day overland tour of tho Waitomo caves, tho thermal regions. National Park and Wanganui. A further 20 departed by road for Rotorua, intending to return to Auckland to-morrow night. To-morrow morning 250 will make a one-day trip to Rotorua, 150 by rail and the remainder by car. A further 100 are to leave on three-day trips to the thermal region and Wellington, 80 travelling by way of National Park and 20 via Napier.