LINER YACHT’S VISIT TO DOMINION SHORE

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

LINER YACHT’S VISIT TO DOMINION SHORE

Details of the Cruise

No definite [advice has so- far be received in Auckland as to whether t Matson Line Sicamei Maloio will i dertake the around the Pacific eru organism] by the Sim Frune.sco Oha ber of Commerce, although it is p posed to commence the tour on Septc Ocr 21. It is calculated that i cruise, which will’embraee a four da; visit to Auckland, will afford a unit opportunity to the business cotnmun of SanFraneisco of establishing c er Commercial interchange with Pi lie ports. The compieienoss and variety of proposed cruise excel any of those < ried out by other “floating palace that have visited New Zealand wal in recent years. The itinerary has b specially.planned after careful consh ation of the importance, from a tr 'and travel standpoint, of the, ports be visited, include calls at Yi haina, Tokyo, ' Niltko, Kyoto, K Pciping, Shanghai, Hongkong, Mai Saigon, Bangkok, Singapore, Bata Fro. :nanlt,c Perth, Melbourne, Syd Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, Hilo Honolulu. 1

The Maloio is admirably adapted the cruise, which will bo the first include visits to both ths Orient Australasia. She has a length 582 ft., a beam of 83ft., and a displ ment of 22,750 tons. The.linei; is cellcntly ventilated with automatic paratus, and fitted with a wide eh of rooms on each of seven decks, 1 private or connecting baths. Sh luxuriously furnished throughout, has facilities for all forms of S] including a Pompeiian swimming ] a gymnasium and electro-thermal, bi tennis courts, and even a golf co' The cost, of the passages on the “1 yacht ’ ’ differ greatly, ranging £I2OO fpr a suite de luxe, consif of salon, one room with twin I and two bathrooms, on B deck, to for a rather humble cabin, in* parison, on the lowest or E deel

The Maloio is one of the swi passenger ships ever built in Amd a fact that is strikingly illustrate the itinerary and the time it is culated she will take for runs point to point. For instance, on ] ember 28, she is scheduled to sail Sydney at daybreak and arm! Auckland precisely three days 1 Most mcrchantships take nearly I days to do the trip from Sydney,! is quite on the cards that the M will shatter the existing record of I days two hours held by the Nia It is proposed, in Audi that the passengers should be mol to points, of interest round the I and taken to Rotorua by special I to roam the thermal regions. |

vessel is to sail from Aucklan December 4 for the Fiji Is Samoan Islands and Hawaii, if oroposod that she should complet 25,000 miles cruise on Decembd three months after the date of effi ation.