MATANGI RENOVATED

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 73, 19 December 1929, Page 13

MATANGI RENOVATED

MANY NEW CABINS FITTED When the Anchor Company’s Matangi, purchased earlier in the year from the Northern Steam Ship Company, left Wellington for Nelson last night on her first trip in place of the Ngaio, she was a very different vessel both in internal and external appearances, from what she was when she first relieved the Ngaio and Arahura some months ago. For some months past she has been lying at the Patent Slip Wharf, where carpenters have been at work demolishing a large part of her interior fittings and thoroughly renovating the' woodwork In the dining saloon and music room. The removal of the flying bridge has greatly improved the appearance of the vesesl, and her passenger accommodation has been brought up-to-date. The four-berth cabins, with only oue or two exceptions, have been torn out and replaced by well-lighted and airy state-rooms. The large smoking-room on the upper deck has been done away with and its' place taken by a number of de luxe state-rooms, while cabins • have also replaced the old second-class smoking-room on the main deck, and a large part of the space formerly taken up by the bathrooms on the starboard side has also been utilised to provide extra passenger accommodation. Great improvements have been effected in the public rooms which have been furnished with heavy carpets and rich tapestries, while an improvement which should prove popular is the introduction of a number of showerrooms supplied with hot and cold water. Captain R. J. Hay, formerly of the N iio, is in command of the Matangi.