LARGE TOURIST LINER
OTRANTO DUE TO-MORROW . VISITORS FROM AUSTRALIA The fourth large tourist liner to visit New Zealand from Australia this summer, the Orient Line's .20,000-ton vessel Otranto, will arrive at Auckland at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Her predecessors have been the P. and 0. liners Strathaird and Strathnaver and the Orient vessel Oronsay. The Otranto's cruise commenced at Melbourne on January 28. The vessel afterward called at Sydney and Brisbane before leaving for Zealand. She will berth at Prince's Wharf on arrival «t Auckland and will sail at midnight on Thursday for Wellington where she will arrive about nine o'clock on Saturday morning. A number of the tourists on board will visit Rotorua and other sightseeing places and then will journey overland to Wellington, where thev will rejoin the Otranto before she leaves for Sydney and Melbourne on Sunday morning. The Otranto will be open for public inspection on Thursday from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. A small charge will be made for admission and the whole of the proceeds will be devoted to the Blind Institute and the Missions to Seamen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22026, 5 February 1935, Page 8
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182LARGE TOURIST LINER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22026, 5 February 1935, Page 8
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