NEW LUXURY LINER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW LUXURY LINER.

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tida to a special soite with isrtiiag tooie she hzs ca D deck 15 cabins, eiuS ■orrih its ersrn and six otfcers-oa C it'd- E decks. In the tfeini-eJass—no secosd-class passengers are carried—a nensdevekspirsesi is tie provision of a armber of ecfclxle caßlas designed and fairassifeed to meet tLe seeds oi tonristi ' -

Nafaraliy their Sitings are liinpler than those ot the superior dais/ fcttfc" thiev" lack none of the essentials of ocmfoii, iadoiimg ventilation .on the_ pupJcah-loavre system, which. Whether urith powerful (tihanst isas, is relied on throagisoat 4h& ship. EiternaEy a ravel feature i» the stem, which is of the roanded plate typo and instead of feeing slop! 5 backwards to the water line.

Ample deck space is aft lie disposal of both classes or passengers. Those in the first-class have the use out oolv of: two long covered promenade decks irot also of the boat deck, which, icitli its area of 16,500 sq. ft, offers a qpes _expaose for games and spcrrts, kepi, as free as possible from Temtilaring coals and other obit ructions. The naposojic series of public rooms on B deck bejjins forward with the kfonge, which has; a beamed plaster ceiling carried on foiled columns of dark mahogany. ■■■■'. . The dining saloon, which across the whole width of the ship on fleck F. is finished in soft tones of iuory relieved by a restrained use of gilding, and its raised centre part, or " we 11,," has modelled and perforated bromo piitnels of figure sabjects representing the world's famoas navigators. It is entered through a foyer, decorated similarly, off which opens a reading and writing room on one

side, with a small dining room for private parties on the other. . Elsewhere there is a special dining saloon for children. The third-class dining room iaf separated from the first-class by the galley, with its oil-fired cooking ranges, and the thirdclass , accommodation farther includes a smoking room with lounge mnd library. The number of first-class passengers that can bo carried is 500, and of thiird-class 1100. ~ The propelling machinery consists' of two sets of Parsous turbines, each driving a propeller-shaft- through single-reduction gearing -which is arranged to- turn the screws at .96 revolutions a minute when the turbines, are making 1388 revolutions. At that speed the total shaft horse-power developed is about 20,000. Steam is supplied at a pressure of 2151b. per square inch by cylindrical boilers fired with oil. Electricity for lighting, for heating the radiators in-the cabins,, and for working the deck and other machinery and' the engine-room auxiliaries, is generated .by threo dynamos, each of 400kw,, 2210 volts, drivep by steam turbine^