FULL SHIP FOR SYDNEY.
AUSTR LASTS TOURING HOME
X (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The s.s. Mokoia, which sailed for Sydney last evening, is taking to Australia a very large number ,of* passengers, a berth in the vessel's steerage class being unprocurable by noon yesterday, while only a few saloon berths remained open for selection. The steerage passengers alone numbered 181. '
Thirty-seven Austrians from diffprejit parts' of the district, but- chiefly from the Northern Wairoa, were passenger? by tlie Mokoia for 'Sydney. ■: Most of the riien are gumdiggers, . who have been in. the Dominion for irom five to seven years. Some of the.", travellers are proceeding to Austria witli' i the intention of remaining there, while others are only paying' a visit to their homeland, and will after-wards-return to "New Zealand.
Forty-four thousand feet of timber was shipped by the Mokoia for Sydney.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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144FULL SHIP FOR SYDNEY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 5
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