NEW TYPE OF SEA TRAVEL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 12

NEW TYPE OF SEA TRAVEL

OPPOBTUNITY FOR NEW; ZEALANDERS.

In tho past year every effort has been made by oversea shipping companies to cater for the increasingly large numbers of travellers who wish, to enjoy saloon comforts at the lowest possible cost. The latest and most far-reaching move is the extension of the P. and O. Company of their new and immediately popular "tourist" accommodation. The- well-known Royal Mail steamers Mongolia and Moldavia (16,500 tons) have now been completely converted to "tourist." The spacious Brst and second saloon dining, smoking, and music-rooms, cabins and deck space, will be available exclusively for "tourist" passengers at a rate not hitherto associated with such refinements of sea travel. In addition a special concession has been made to New Zealanders, enabling them to make the voyage from the Dominion to Australia and thence to London at the remarkably low "tourist" rate o£ £10, plus exchange. The Mongolia will leave Sydney on 12th June, and the Moldavia on 30th October. At the same time the P. and O. Company is making exceptional provision for those who wish to travel second saloon on other of its Eoyal Mail steamers. It is claimed that the popular Cathay, Chitral, and Comorin represent unexcelled accommodation of this type, and every advantage has also been taken of the size of the Mooltan and Maloja, 21,000 tons—the largest entering Australian ports—to furnish ample space and facilities in the second saloon. The one class travel—at a slightly cheaper rate than "tourist"—is represented by the P. and O. Branch Line vessels, which have beeu extensively refitted to ' give a maximum of comfort at a minimum of cos!.. I^______- _ — _„_