MOTOR-LINER HONOURED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20641, 13 August 1930, Page 9

MOTOR-LINER HONOURED.

PRINCE GEORGE ON BOARD. VISIT TO THE RANGITIKI. • The day before the departure of tha New Zealand Shipping Company's motorliner Rangitiki from London on July 3 on her fourth voyage to New Zealand, tha ( vessel, then lying in the Royal Albert Dock ; -was honoured by a visit from Princa George. He was accompanied by Major Ulick Alexander and was received at the, gangway by Mr. C. J. Cowan, chairman . of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and Captain H. Barnett, commanding the Rangitiki. After presentations had been made in the first-class lounge Prince George made a tour of the.ship. He proceeded from tha lounge, through tfie Bmoking room and verandah cafe and along the deck to- ~ the captain's room arid the bridge, where photographs were taken. Then he visited . the drawing room and suites of rooms, the second-class and third-class, and the ? second-class, and third-class dining saloons., •• Afterward he inspected the very clean looking engine-room, where the engineers ' wete drawn up to receive him, and the stewards' quarters and store rooms, and saw tho arrangements for. dealing with cargo. . i I Afc the luncheon which followed the company included, besides Mr. C. J.: Cowan and Captain Barnett., the following : —Viscount Glenapp (a managing director of the P. and 0. Company), Lord Strathspey, Lord Islington (ex-Governor-General of New Zealand), Admiral Sir James Fergusson, Sir Thomas Bell (managing director of John Brown and Co., of Clydebank, builclers of the vessel), Sir George Iliggitis (chairman of Lloyd's Register of Shipping), Mr. Alexander Michia (director of tho Bank of Now-Zea-land), and Sir James Mills and Sir Charles IToldsworth (chairman and managing director respectively of the Union Steam Ship Company). The New Zealand Shipping Company was represented by Messrs.G. Holdsworth (manager), H. J. 1). Mills (secretary), Sir Thomas C F. Harris, A. A. Trinder (directors), and Captain H. Dawson (marine superintttndent). There were several others present, including representatives of tha various New Zealand produce control boards. Tho Rangitiki and tho sister vessels Rangitata and Rangitano represent a great advance on the type of ships hitherto employed in ( the regular service between London and New Zealand by way of tho Panama Canal. Tho new ships have spacious decks, and, besides special suites, a large number of single-berth rooms. All tho rooms in tho first and second classes are fitted with bedsteads. The vessels aro designed to carry about) 13,000 tons dead-weight of cargo. The cargo space includes large refrigerated provision for the transport of frozen meat and dairy produce from Now Zealand.. As is customary before the ships sail from London, said" tho Times, the saloons and foyers were decorated with flowers, which would welcome the passengers when they board the ship at Southampton on the following day." Special copies of the. Times of July *2, containing tha large photograph entitled "Dockland by Night,- '■ were displayed ;iu the lounge, and thf, I ship shown in it was. identified as, thf I Rangitiki^