CAPTAIN'S CABIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 10

CAPTAIN'S CABIN.

■ ■— —— SERVES AS HOWIE ASHORE, SALVAGE FIR.OM A WRECK. THE STAR OF CANADA Standing in a comer of a Gisborne garden, across the road from a church, and within sight and sound of the sea, stands the captain's cabin of the illfated Star of Canada. It has been transformed into a home.. Some say, "Hitch your wagon to a star.'' This is a catof hitch your home to a Star of tie sea. The cabin was bought when tw> Star of Canada was piled up on the rocks at Kaiti and now one of the buyers daughters has it for her interesting ana novel home in Childers Road. One enters the grounds through a gate made from the half-wheel of the ship. As one approaces the cabin one sees the lower clecK outlined in concrete. Inside, the snip idea is preserved, but everything model n is there too. The gangway acts as stairs to the bedroom, the port holes are lead-lighted windows. Little curtains are draped back from them, ana even hammocks are swung in a sleeping room. . . On the upper deck a fine view is obtained, and the compass is still there i« position. One ran still feel the spirit of the sea, although the cabin is in » garden. Last Christmas the effect was heightened, for all present were in sailor dress, as much as possible, and at the Christmas dinner there came the sounding of the ship's bell of the lost Star of Canada.