RUSH TO ENGLAND
UNPRECEDENTED IN OUR HISTORY. Despite the many warnings by recent arrivals from Home that the present is the worst possible time to visit the Old Country, the rush to book passages is, according to Mr H. Desborough, Wellington manager for Messrs T. Cook and Son, unprecedented in our history. All the steamers up Mil May are fulh r booked, and save for bookings "falling in" through people not being able to carry out their intended programme, no further passages by direct liners can be booked in any class before May. Information from Australia is to the same effect, iritlced, the rush to London for the English spring is said to be even greater in Sydney and Melbourne than it is in New Zealand, and all the berths by the Australian lines are practically taken up till March. This means that between now and May next those people who have neglected to book well ahead may expect to be disappointed. There have been busy times before in the New Zealand-England service, but the present season has established a record. There may be chances, in the meantime of getting through by way of San Francisco from Wellington, but even those are well hooked up already.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14264, 15 January 1920, Page 7
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