PERSONAL RECORD. WINSTONE, VIOLET. PART ONE. AUCKLAND TO VANCOUVER

Titles: ‘Part I, Auckland to Vancouver’, ‘On 15th March friends and relations give us a hearty send off’. Views of passenger ship RMS Niagara at Auckland wharf. Passengers on deck flying streamers down to onlookers on wharf. Funnel emits steam, ship travels in harbour. Intertitle ‘Peace unto that ship, and all who entered in within those walls’. ‘Suva, first port of call, native troops form an escort for the Governor, who embarks for England’. Street scenes in Suva, locals pose for camera. Local Fijian army marches. Women swimming in pool on deck of ship. Intertitle ‘Father Neptune holds his Court’. Passengers act out play on board ship, tipping people into pool. People relaxing on deck, playing tennis.

Intertitle ‘We leave the Niagara at Honolulu and spend four delightful days under tropical sunshine’. Buildings and scenes in Honolulu. Intertitle ‘We visit a coral reef’. People working in fields, close up of pineapple plants. Intertitle ‘Entering Wilmington, the port for Los Angeles’. Ships in harbour. Intertitle ‘The “Golden Gate”. Entrance to San Francisco harbour, marked by the pillars for the new bridge.’ San Francisco bridge under construction, buildings, harbour. Intertitle ‘Yosemite Valley’. Waterfall.

Intertitle ‘The famous big trees of the “Mariposa Grove”. Couple walk through grove through tracks in snow. Snow covered landscape. Intertitle ‘Thrills and Spills in the Snow’. Couple skiing in snow, group having snow fights around snowman, group on sleigh. Waterfall, landscape. Two elderly women wearing scarves. Buildings. Group walking along path. Street scene. Group outside house. Chalet in snow. Intertitle ‘The Vancouver Hotel’. Buildings including Vancouver Hotel.