Hinemoa Purchased for Sounds Service
TO BE REFITTED
EXTENSION OF TRIP
(THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today.
The Prime Minister announced today that the Government steamer Hinemoa has been sold to Mr. D. W. McKay, of Invercargill, for the purpose, it is understood, of entering the Milford Sound tourist service. The vessel will be recommissioned in Auckland at once, and will be available for the coming tourist sea-
Considerable alteration is to be made to provide passenger accommodation. For this purpose, additional cabins will take the place of space which of late years was converted for cargo carriage during the period the vessel has been in the Islands trade. In this connection, it is intended to make the vessel as nearly as possible as originally designed, with commodious dining saloon and additional cabins, and that at least 50 passengers will be carried in first-class accommodation. It is also believed that there is a probability of the Sounds trip being extended between Bluff, via Milford Sound, and West Coast ports, to enable tourists to make the coast connection, and that the vessel will make excursions between Bluff and Stewart Island.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 703, 1 July 1929, Page 1
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