CAPTAIN’S CABIN

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1930, Page 7

CAPTAIN’S CABIN

NOVEL HOME ASHORE. Standing in a corner of a Gisborne garden, across the road from. a. church, and within sight and sound of the sea, stands the captain's cabin of the illfated Star of Canada. It has been transformed into a home. Some say, “Hitch your wagon to a star,” This is a ease of hitch your home to a Star of the sea. The cabin was bought when the Star of Canada was piled up on the rocks at Haiti, and now one of the buyer's daughters has it for her interesting and novel home in Childers Road. One enters the grounds through a gate made from the half-wheel of the ship. As one approaches the cabin one sees the lower deck outlined in concrete. Inside, the ship idea is preserved, but everything modern is there too.. The gangway acts as stairs to the bedroom, the port holes are lead-lighted windows. Little curtains are draped back from them, and even hammocks are swung in a sleeping room. On the upper deck a fine view is obtained, and the compass is still there in position. One can still feel the spirit of the sea, although the cabin is in a garden. Last Christmas the effect was heightened, for all present were in sailor dress, as much as possible, and at tho Christmas dinner there camo the sounding of the ship’s bell of the lost Star of Canada.