NEARLY 1100 PEOPLE LEAVE AUCKLAND By SEA AND AIR

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 April 1949, Page 4

NEARLY 1100 PEOPLE LEAVE AUCKLAND By SEA AND AIR

AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).— Nearly 1100 passengers travelling in live ships and two airliners left Auckland for overseas on Thursday. During the alternoon the waterfront milled with traffic to the departing vessels and Blue Peter sailing flags were dotted along the port's congested berths. Chief interest in the shipping movements centred round the sailing on Thursday night of the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tamaroa. About 1500 visitors, braving the intermittent rain, waited at the ship's berth for more than two hours to farewell the All Blacks and other passengers. The liner carried 302 travellers for England and 38 for South Africa. The Ma; c of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allun d Mrs Allum and the All BIS-' - ..ere farewelled by the deputychai.—an of the Auckland Harbour Board, the deputy-Mayor and the chairman of the Council of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Fifty members of the New Zealand Returned Services /association sailed by the Huddart Parker motor-liner Wanganella for Sydney to take part in tlie Anzac Day services throughout Australia. The party, which is led by Mr C. V. Chamberlain, of Wairoa, will split into six sections in Australia and the groups will go to Perth. Hobart, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Seventeen members of tlie party are Second World War men. Before the Wanganella sailed with her 399 passengers for Sydney, tlie liner Aorangi sailed for Sydney to complete her voyage from Vancouver. The Aorangi carried 300 through passengers and 108 joined her here. Two smaller passenger ships sailed on Thursday evening for the Islands. The Matua left for Suva and other Island ports with 97 passengers. They included Queen Salote of Tonga, who had been in the Dominion on holiday for two months. The Government motor-vessel Maui Pomare left for the Cook Islands with 25 passengers. Bound for the Prime Ministers’ conference in London, Mr Fraser was one of the 24 passengers who left for Sydney on Thursday morning by Tasman flying-boat. Twenty-two passengers were carried by the Pan-American Airways clipper which left later in the morning for Seattle.