THE CARINTHIA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 21 December 1925, Page 5

THE CARINTHIA.

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. Auckland, Dec. 20. The Carinthia, tne 20,uuu-ton Cunard liner with 3iB American tourists on board, arrived at 3 o’clock tins afternoon ironi acw Guinea in tne course ol a world tour. Parties ol the tourists will pay a flying visit to Kotorua, and those remaining here will be entertained tomorrow at luncheon and a motor drive. The Carinthia will sail lor Wellington on luesaay night. AMONG THE PASSENGERS. Auckland, Dec. 21. The tourists on the Carinthia are people of all ages and occupations, prosperous hut giving lew evidences ol wealth, althougu it is estimated that about thirty 01 them are entitled to rank as dollar millionaires. With the exception of about a dozen all are American citizens. The British subjects include the cruise director. Air. T. C. Joynes, and sonic of his staff, which numbers 22. One, Air. Charles Fitzherbert, is a New Zealander, hailing from Wellingoln, and is revisitingj the land of his birth for the first tunc in 20 years. Another passenger, Air. K. Davies, a Florida newspaper owner, although now an American citizen, is an Australian by origin, hailing from Grafton. Air. Percy Ry bus, C.8.E., one of the British passengers, was one of Air. Lloyd George’s war time secretaries. The lady passengers are in general smartly but not conspicuously dressed, and but for such incidentals as shellrimmed sjm'C taeles many of them would not be detected as visitors if placed in New Zealand city crowds. The new Cunarder Carinthia is on a world cruise, which will occupy 150 days, about 30,000 miles being covered in that period. The vessel has been built by Messrs. Vickers, at Barrow-in-Furness. She is 62 li t. in length and 74ft. in width, with a gross register tonnage of 20,000 tons. She has accommodation 111 three classes for 1614 passengers, of whom about half are third class. With the exception of the dining saloon, or restaurant, the firstclass public rooms arc grouped together on the A deck. Perhaps the most striking of them is the smoking room, which, with its white rough plaster walls and lofty wooden ceiling of framed beams in geometrical panels, is modelled on the house of tho Spanish painter El Greco, who lived in Toledo during the 15th eentury. On the walls are reproductions of pictures of the Spanish school, and other Spanish works of art, and the windows are of a Spanish light design with pieces of stained glass worked into them. Further forward is the lounge, which in contrast with the smoking room is typical of the English style of tho seventh century. Further forward still there arc two garden lounges, one on each side of the ship. Tho card room and drawing room have a colour scheme in blue and gold. A special feature of tho ship is the sports arena which extends through two of the lower decks and includes in its area of some 5000 sq. feet a swimming pool flanked on each side by a gymnasium and a square rackets court. The secondclass accommodation, though naturally less elaborate than tho first-class, will bear comparison with that provided for first-class passengers in many ships of quite recent date, and tho third-class cabins, which have running water and carpeted floors, stand in remarkable contrast with tho rough accommodation of tho steerage of only a few years ago.

The Carinthia is a twin-screw vessel propelled by two sets of Parsons turbines, with double reduction helical gearing. Their total power is about 12.500 horse-power. Steam is supplied at 2201 b. per square inch by six multitubular boilers fired with oil. and the same fuel, together with electricity and charcoal for tho grills, is employed for cooking in the kitchens. Electricity generated by two steam turbodriven steam dynamos, each of 375 kilowatts eapaeity. is also largely used for auxiliary purposes, driving not only the galley and pantry machinery, but also the passenger elevators, the hoists for boats, baggaae. and stores, tho refrigerating and ice-niakino plant, ventilatino- fans the capstan'-, windlass, and cargo winches, and the steering gear.