Liner Ruahine Arrives In Wellington With 142 Passengers

Wanganui Chronicle, 12 April 1948, Page 5

Liner Ruahine Arrives In Wellington With 142 Passengers

(P.A.) Wellington, April 11. With 142 passengers, including 39 assisted women Immigrants from Britain, the Ruahine berthed today. Delayed by a heavy southerly storm, she arrived in the steam shortly after 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, about 12 hours behind the original schedule. She was 42 days on the voyage. Of 39 assisted immigrants, 32 are hospital staff, booked to go to hospitals in all parts of the Dominion. Prominent passengers included Lord Beveridge, author of Britain’s social security structure, and Lady Beveridge; Dr. F. Bielschowsky, an eminent figure in cancer research, who is to be director of the new cancer research laboratories at the Otago Univesity, and his wife; Captain D. Hammersley Johnstone, who is to take over the command of H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona; Colonel R. C. Queree, who, it is understood, is to become Quartermaster General at Army Headquarters in Wellington. Captain Johnstone is accompanied by his wife. Colonel Queree has with him his wife, two sons and two daughters.

On the voyage calls were made at Curacoa, Panama Canal and Pitcairn Island. From Pitcairn the Ruahine brought Mrs. Hilda Young, and her six-year-old son, Alarie, to New Zealand. Mrs. Young’s husband is a carpenter on the Public Works staff in Auckland and Alarie is to go to a deaf and dumb school at Titirangi.