PLEASURE SHIP.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18158, 24 October 1930, Page 9

PLEASURE SHIP.

VISIT TO NEiW ZEALAND. MALOLO’S CRUISE. The Matson liner Malolo, at present on her second Pacific pleasure cruise, is due at Wellington on November 28 from Sydney, her first visit to this port. The Malolo’s present Pacific cruise commenced on September 20, when she left Fan Francisco for ITilo, where she arrived four days later. Since then the Malolo has visited Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Miiajima, and Chin-, wanadao, the last of which she is scheduled to leave to-day for Shanghai.- Two days will be spent there, and the liner will go to Hong-Kong. Manila, Bankok. Singapore, Batavia and Macassar. From the last-named place the Malolo-will proceed to Sydney, where she is duo on November 22. Sydney will be the only Australian port visited by the liner, which will come from there to Wellington. The Malolo, which did not visit Wellington on her cruise last year, is due there at 4 p.m. on November 28. The afternoon find evening of the day of arrival will be free, but a motor drive to Mount Victoria', Point Halswell, round the Queen’s Drive, to the Botanical Gardens, and Island Bay, with a visit to Parliament Buildings, has been arranged for the following morning. Visit To Auokland.'

The Malolo is to leave Wellington again at 5 p.m. on November 29 for Auckland, where she is due to arrive at daybreak on December 1. On the morning of their arrival at Auckland the tourists will leave by special train for Rotorua. A special train will take them back the following day. Motor sightseeing trips have been arranged for December 3, at 6 p.m., on which date the Malolo is to sail for Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu, and San Francisco, where the cruise will terminate. The Malolo is 17,231 '■ tons gross, and her 25,000 h.p. turbine engines give her a speed of 23•• knots. She carries 600 1 first-class passengers and a crew of 350. ,