DEAN CARRINGTON

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19220, 28 January 1928, Page 4

DEAN CARRINGTON

HIS VOYAGE TO ENGLAND.

AN INTERESTING LETTER. On Christmas Eve, on board the Orient Line's steamer Oronsay, Dean Carrington wrote as follows to a friend in Christchurch: —

"Up to this hour we have had the molt surprisingly beautiful weathereven in the Bight—and since leaving Fremantle the 'sea is just a glistening mill-pond. We reach Colombo on Wednesday (as per time-table). We ploughed along at between 17 and 18 knots and we are picking up the day lost at Sydney' through the strike. The appointments of this ship are excellent, heaps of deck apace; food quite as good as anybody wants. The chief feature is in the cabin ventilation. There is a pipe blowing fresh air into each cabin (not "a fan, which merely stirs up the bad air), but a real gale of wind blown from the outside, driven by fans unseen. You can switch it on or off, and turn it in any direction,, and consequently the cabins are in a fair way to be the coolest places in the ship. The boat is only about half full, and we are satisfied that it is quite good enough for any reasonable people who don't want to waste their money in decorations and six course dinners—which most of the diners would be better without!

"Just passed the Cocos Islands—most beautiful, with long white coral beaches and palm trees. We dropped overboard a big cask (with a red flag attached) full of nice things for the islanders. We saw them eagerly pursuing this cask with a boat, far in the ship's wake. By this time probably they have got it."

The Dean adds that both Mrs Carrington and Miss Carrington were in excellent health.