Cargo on Return Trip
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fresh green palm fronds. A dance the same evening concluded the festivities.
Cargo On Return Trip
Owing to the shipping strike along the western American coast the Makura, which called here on December 1 on her final voyage across the Pacific under the British flag, had a bumper passenger list in all three classes. So over-crowded was the vessel that several of those who embarked at Rarotonga were obliged to accept accommodation hurriedly erected in various parts of the ship.
But, just to balance any profits which the Union Co. might have made from this state of affairs, the original outwardbound cargo was making a return trip, it