The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 10 (May 1, 1929.)
Transport and Accommodation
Transport and Accommodation.
Modern passenger lines run regularly from the United Kingdom, America, and Australia to New Zealand. The trip from England to New Zealand, across the Atlantic, America and the Pacific takes about thirty days. Fortnightly trans-Pacific services are maintained alternately between Vancouver and Auckland, via Honolulu and Suva (Fiji), and between San Francisco and Wellington, via Papeete (Tahiti) and Rarotonga. The run by either route is eighteen days.
Several of the highest hotel tariffs are a few shillings above £1 a day, but the usual charge for the best accommodation in town or country houses does not exceed £1.