INFLUX TO THE CITY.
TRAINS AND STEAMERS FULL. Thk influx of visitors to Auckland for the holiday season, has now properly set in, and many of the hotels and boardinghouses are already full. The five o'clock: express train from Rotorua. which also included the Main Trunk passengers, brought a total of about 600 on Saturday evening, whilst the late express from Thames and Waihi brought about 200. The Northern Company's boats, which arrived from Whangarei, Tauranga, Opotiki, and Thames on Saturday, brought a large number of passengers, and the list of country visitors was further swelled by the boat from Mercury Bay and Tairua, which arrived yesterday morning. Yesterday's steamers also brought full complements of passengers. The Manuka, from Sydney, had on board 463, of whom 257 were saloon, and 196 steerage passengers. Tlie Mokoia, from the South, added 340 to the list, 214 being carried in the saloon, and 126 in the steerage. The Rotoiti, which arrived from New Plymouth at Onehunga, had the large number of 129 passengers on board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 7
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