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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15346, 9 April 1920, Page 7

Advice has been received by the MaviWouph Chamber of Commerce from the'manager of the Union bteani Ship Company to the effect >at an improvement is to be made in the leny service across the Strait next summer. It is intended to, run a steamer exclusively' between Wellington and Picton which will prooably mean a daylight trip both ways.

Sir William Horrics states sit Auck-1 bud that the reports received by him indicated that the Maori demonstration on-the occasion of the Prince's visit wiH g be a most successful one. It. is antiei-" 'rited that fully five thousand visiting Maoris from all parts of the Dominion v'Al bo'located in"the camp. The mini?>«r from the north of Auckland probably will b'fi about-1200, and large numbers will rather from Rotorua. Taupo, and Toko ami districts. Those from the two f last-named districts will "be accbmm.o- t dated' at Ohihemutu and Whakareware- (- \v«t It is esfcimafeti 'that the total number of Maoris who will participate in the demonstration will be not less than 6000. The camp is. under.the charge of Major P. H. Buck, chief sanffcarv oflieer for the natives under

the Health Department.