DOMINION MONARCH

Wanganui Chronicle, 31 January 1947, Page 6

DOMINION MONARCH

SAILING TO-DAY. People who have been waiting for two and a half years for a passage by sea to South/Africa will be among the 75 passengers who will embark at Wellington for Cape Town on the Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch to-day. The Dominion Monarch will be the first ship to call at South Africa with passengers direct from New Zealand for several years, and many people have had their names on the waiting lists at the Shaw, Savill office for long periods. When she returns Home she is to be refitted after her war service before re-entering the peacetime trade. The ship will take 555 passengers from Wellington for Sydney, a large number of whom were to have left a week ago on the Wanganella. Some of the Wanganella’s crew are returning to Australia by her. She will also embark here five passengers for Melbourne, 28 for Fremantle, and about 40 for the United Kingdom. The Dominion Monarch will sail tonight for London, via Sydney, Melbourne. Fremantle, and Cape Town, and will carry about 3000 tons of meat, 2000 tons of butter, 3000 tons* of cheese, and about 500 tons of sundry foodstuffs.