CHRISTMAS AT SEA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 10

CHRISTMAS AT SEA

THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS

YULETIDE FESTIVITIES

Many thousands of passengers either inward bound to New Zealand or outward bound for overseas ports will celebrate Christmas, 1934, in ntidocean. This Christmas, more than any in recent years, the numbers pf travellers at sea—literally, not metaphorically—will be particularly large,, for two cruising liners, the P. and 0. Company’s Strathnaver and the Orient Line’s Oronsay> wUI : be in New Zealand waters. These two ships alone will probably be ealTyjhg about l£oO passengers. The Oronsay will celebrate the Yuletide festivities the day before she -reaches- Auckland from Brisbane, while the Strathnaver's voyagers will celebrate theirs tho day after the ship leaves Wellington for Sydney. The Strathnaver arrived at Wellington to-day from Auckland, and will sail late .todpeht for Sydney on her return to Australia after the conclusion of over a month’s ciuising. The Qfoiisay is due at .Wellington on December 29 from Auckland.

Nine passenger liners in the intercolonial and trans-Pacific services will be at sea on Christmas Day. The R.M.S. Makura, which is due at Wellington to-day' from Sydney, will leave the same evening for Rarotonga, and the customary celebrations will take place on the first day out from , Wellington. A similar position will occur yvith the Niagara, which is expected, to reach Auckland *o-ylay froiq Vancouver; .she will leave Auckland later the sajn'e day for Sydney, and oh Christmas Day! will be on her way across the Tasman. •;

Altogether probably over 3000 people w]io are bound for the Dominion Or who have left New Zealand ports for overseas tyill enjoy the . fine Christmas '.celebrations which are a tradition of ships trading to these waters. In addition in the passenger ljners there will be many' oversea' freighters bound‘for New Zealand with cargo, or'carrying Ponpinion, produce - fo? 'dietaht ports’-fo-imjWo'w;