FESTIVITIES AT SEA

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 9

FESTIVITIES AT SEA

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. MANY SHIPS AFFECTED. Owing to tiie approaching Christmas and New Year holidays falling at weekends, many sea travellers proceeding to and from New Zealand will participate in the seasonal festivities aboard ship. As the traditional spirit with regard to these periods survives strongly among the seafaring fraternity'those'to whose lot it falls to be at sea on December 25 and January 1 may rely upon not missing any of, the -delights usually associated with those dates, and will also, in many cases, be the richer by a new experience. ' All the intercolonial steamers will be on the Tasman Sea during both weekends. The Monowai will be en route from Sydney to Auckland at Christmas, and the Zealandia and Marama will be bound for Sydney from Wellington and Auckland respectively. At the New Year they willeach be steaming in the opposite direction. Most of. the trans-Pacific mail vessels will celebrate Christmas and New Year on the.. broad stretches of the Pacific Ocean. The Aorangi,-which is ; to leave Sydney on December- ■ -8,- will spend Christmas between Honolulu and -Vancouver, arriving at the Canadian port on December 30, and . remaining; there until after the New-Year. The Niagara, unless she is speeded up in order to reach Auckland a day earlier, will arrive there from Vancouver, via Honolulu and Suva, on Monday, December'26, the day on which the Christmas'Day holiday will be observed this year. She is due to arrive at Sydney on New Year’s Eve. ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN. The Makura is similarly placed to the Niagara in that she is due to arrive at Wellington on December 26 from Sydney. She is to leave on the following day and will spend New Year’s Day the day after leaving Rarotonga. The Maunganui is to leave San Francisco on December 21 and will spend Christmas about half-way between there and Papeete, where she is due on New Year’s Eve. According to her schedule she will sail again the same day, so that the New Year will also be observed at sea.

With regard to the American ships Mariposa and Monterey, the latter steamer is to leave Pago Pago (Samoa) on Christmas Eve and will spend the New Year between Honolulu and Los Angeles, where she is due on January 3. The Mariposa will be between Honolulu and Pago Pago on Christmas Day, arriving at the latter port on December 27. New Year’s Day will occur the day before the ship reaches Auckland from Suva. Several Home liners carrying passengers will also be at sea at Christmas. The Rangitiki, which left Napier recently for London, via the Panama Canal, is expected to reach her destination about December 28. The Rangitata is to leave London on December 21, so that both Christmas and New Year will probably be spent on the Atlantic Ocean. The Rangitane is scheduled to leave Wellington on December 23 for London, so that her passengers will observe the festivities on the Pacific Ocean. The Mataroa, which is to leave Auckland on December 14 for London, is another ship which will be at sea at Christmas, as also will the Tamaroa, which is to leave Southampton on December 2 for New. Zealand. She is due at Wellington on January 2 to land her passengers. The Akaroa is to leave London on December 28 and Southampton on December 30 for Auckland and Wellington. She is due at Auckland on February 2.