AMERICAN TOURISTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 12

AMERICAN TOURISTS.

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. ON SIGHT-SEEING TOUR. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 19. With approximately 400 tourists on board, the large Cunard liner Carinthia is due at Auckland to-morrow week in the course of a world tour This is the second cruise the vessel has made to this part of tho world, calling here in December of last year. The passenger list comprises mostly | Americans, including some financial mag- i nates. The local agents, Messrs Hancock and Company, have arranged as complete an itinerary as is possible in tho short time the Carinthia will remain in New Zealand waters. Tho vessel should berth about 8 o’clock, and all the passengers will disembark. A party of about 200 will leave by special train for Rotorua at 8.20, arriving at the thermal resort the same afternoon. The remainder of tho party will be taken on o sight-seeing trip round the city and suburbs and in the afternoon those who wish will attend the first day of the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting at Ellershe. So tar no arrangements have bjjen made for the evening. The party remaining in Auckland will leave for Rotorua early on Tuesday morning, December 28, and will arrive there the same afternoon. The first party will return to Auckland on Tuesday evening. Arrangements have been made for tnem to spend the Wednesday in sight-seeing, and they will also bo given an opportunity of attending tho races. Tho second party to visit Rotorua will return on Wednesday evening and will immediately join the Carinthia, which will sail for Wellington the same evening. The option is given those who visit Rotorua to break the journey on tho way back at the Waitomo Caves, travelling overland to Wellington. The Carinthia will arrive at Wellington on the morning of New Year’s. Eye. and the tourists will spend the day in sightseeing. The Carinthia will sail the -same evening for Hobart and other Australian ports. In all probability the visitors will be treated to special Maori entertainments at Rotorua. They will be conducted over the thermal areas and will have plenty of time to see all that is worth seeing. A large Christmas mail is awaiting the passengers at the office of the agents and will be distributed as soon as the Carinthia arrives. There are packages and letters of all sorts and sizes, from all parts of the world, and surely a more variegated mail was never assembled. Tho work of sorting it is no easy matter, and a man has boen employed on the work for days past.' The, Niagara and Maunganm. due to-day and to-morrow, respectively, from Sydney, are expected to augment the mail considerably. Tho Franconia, a sister ship to the yarinthia, is scheduled to sail from New York at midnight on January 12 on a five months round-the-world cruise, embracing New Zealand. Arriving at Auckland on February IB the vessel will leave on February 21 for Wellington, arriving there on February 23. Subsequently the Franconia will visit Milford Sbu.nd and will make an extensive cruise of the magnificent fioida of the West Coast. The Carinthia and Franconia are sister ships, and are lavishly fitted up in tb© best traditions of tb© Ounard Line. Among other things their appointments include swimming baths, sports arenas and beautiful state rooms and loungee.