NEW TOURIST CLASS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20650, 26 June 1935, Page 13

NEW TOURIST CLASS.

Service to be Inaugurated by! Orion. When the new mail steamer Orion sails from Australia at the end of November this year she will inaugurate a service entirely new to the Orient Line. She will carry first and tourist class passengers instead of first and third. Orontes and Orford, the two latest vessels of the fleet, are being converted this year to do the same, and from the end of the year there will be a frequent service by Orient Line available for tourist class passengers. The purpose of this change is to meet the growing demand from passengers who want to travel comfortably but prefer not to pay for the luxury of first class. Advices from London indicate the following principal features of the new tourist class: spacious games and promenade deck; special children’s room i and play-deck; built-in tiled swimming bath and dressing rooms; large public • rooms and verandah cafe; small tables ; for parties of four, six and eight through out the dining saloon; cabins roomy and fitted with chest-of-drawers, wardrobes ■ reading lamps, bells and vi-spring mattresses ; baths and lavatories conveni- ■ ent to all cabins; many outside cabins and a large number of two-berth and : single-berth cabins; punkah louvre sys- [ tem of ventilation in every cabin, under ‘ passenger’s control; and a passenger