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LOCAL NEWS.

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THERAPION NO. THERAPION NO. 2 THERAPION NO. 3 Ku, Z. Sot Madder Garth Wo for Mood & Phones, Ca. 3 for Chronia Wakanan, -BOLA IT BRAICES CORONAL, FADE 23 SAMANN, DE, DA. LA Ciase Mes„Co., Elvestock Side 3.WA, Lendon, an

[VERSE STUDIE' KAR PRADINIS,

P. AND O. S.S. “RAWALPINDI." shade with grey mouldings, pilasters

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The walls of the second music room and lounge are panelled and finished în a delicate pink shade, relieved with mouldings of ivory colour. The fur niture is of mahogany and the floor is laid with parquetry pattern rpboleum tiles. A skylight over the centre of this apartment completes a very attractive scheme.

and frieze, relieved: with, ornaments in 2. NEW INDIA "MAIL STEAMER, white. The ceiling is finished, in broken white. The furniture is of mahogany "The Rawalpindi, "the third to be com.and the flooring of parquetry ruboleum

tiles pleted of the P. and O. Company's new India mail steamers, ran a series of trials in Belfast Lough on Beptember Sri and afterwards left for Tilbury, whence she was due to depart up her maiden voyage, to India on September 18th. The Rawalpindi and her sister ships the Ranchi and Ranpura (already in commission) and Rajputana (recently launched at Greenock), mark an advance in several nptable respects in the com- "struction of high-class passenger vessels

for the Eastern trade...

Jacobean style and in panelled and The second saloon smokeroot is in the framed in tamed oak. The faraiture is of oak, and the floor, is of brick pattern, rubber tiling. There is a skylight over the centre, and the furniture is uphols tered in brown hide.

The promenade decks by their broad expauses invite one to games and other forms of axercise, while the recessed bays of the midship structures provide spaces for deck chairs and rest, Besides the facilities afforded by the main pro menade decks the after part of the boat deck abar is especially set apart for games, and here passengers will And opportunities for the uninterrupted ex. creia of their skill.

The cabins are airy and spacious, and show in the details of their furniture and fittings a solicitude for individual comfort which passengers will be quick to remark. Each cabin is fitted with mechanical ventilation and an electric radiator, both of which are under the occupant's control. There are numerous bathrooms, placed mid-way in the ship's length, and the provision of tiled

The Rawalpindi and her sister ships have each a gross measurement of 16,500 lavatories with procelain and silvered

Song Propulsion is by two mts of fittings, is on a generous: scale. In balanced reciprocating engines, develop- addition to exhinende-fran with bathing 15,000 horsepower, steam being pro- vided by sixdouble-ended. boilers bar room en site, there are series of single ning oil fuel ander forced draught. and double-berth bedroom cabins, also with private bathroom.

The vessel can maintain a men speed o 17 knots. She is supplied with the appliances, including a powerful astor Intest types of boats and bont-lowering launch fitted for wireless telegraphy. A complete installation of loudspeaking telephones connects all departments with the bridge and with each other: The controls in the chart room are an epitome of the latest navigational and stallation of wireless direction-finding. shin-working devices, and include an ind

apparatus.

The vessel has seven

cargo hatches that full provision is made for the which are worked by 14 hydraulic cranes,

rapid and efficient handling of freight.

A special word may be added as to the system of ventilation. A continuous and all-pervading trunkway, wandering through the ship, with many junctions, "directs and admits to cabins, pablic rooms, bathrooms, engine and bailer rooms, fresh air, induced and sent for ward by a series of small motors on the boat deck, whose initial presstre can be graduated or extinguished at will at any of the five hundred ducts with which the ventilating trunkways are punctuatAspecial derrick is provided at No. 2 ed. These ducta consist of a movable batch for dealing with loads up to 30 sphere working almost universally, in- tons in weight. There is also extensivel sido a fixed one; each having a circular provision of insulated chambers and dry orifice. With these orifices in exact op store rooms for the special carriage of position the stream of air is fall. fruit, vegetables, etc. eclipse of varying degrees diminishes its force, total eclipse shats it off, and moreover by an ingenious contrivance the direction of the incoming air can be adjusted at will.

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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,

The total tonnage of the P. and 'O. feet, including the four Rawalpindia, the new Razmak (Bombay-Aden service) M/S and the three new 15,000-ton Australia mail steamers of the Cathay class. is now 620,000 tons; that of the British India S. N. Company is 770,000 tons, and the äggregate toanage of these companies and their associated lines is not far short of two and a half million gross tons

Lord Inchcape, the Company's chair.

The Rawalpindia lour passenger decks are connected by an electric lift. Seven anacious and luxuriously furnished pub lic rooms are features of the arrange ments for the entertainment of her passengers, and include a lounge, smok ing and music rooms and large, airman, has chiefly determined the interior well-lighted, dining saloons. A pleasant plan and the ample dimensions of the feature of the first saloon smoking room cabins in the new India mail steamers.

is that it opens aft on to a sheltered.

open-air verandah café

COPENHAGEN.

The M/S.. ASIA

will be loading for ROTTERDAM AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG.

COPENHAGEN, and other SCANDINAVIAN PORTS,

On or about 26th October, 1935.-

Further Sailings

"Java"

* Afrika"

Malaya

Expected or or shout

15th October

16th November.

10th December

Will leave homawazd-bound

on or about

subject to change without notice.

For further particulars, please apply to P.

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

The styles which distingish the the pub- HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.

lic rooms reflect the taste of Viscountess

Inchcape, who has taken keen interest in the varied, schemes of decoration, and in the practical details of cabin fittings and

furaiture In this sho has been aided

by her daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, whose selective faculty

the decoration

of the saloons, and in the choice of fur- niture, carpets, upholstery and fittings has been exercised with the happiest results.

The Rawalpindi has been built from the designs of Mr. C. G. Deane, the P. and O. Company's naval architect,

Ta her interior decoration, as in her furniture, the Rawalpindi's public rooms express an enlightened conception of the modern standards of comfort at sen,

The entrances to the first saloon are panelled in a simple manner reminiscent of the work work of Inigo Jones and finished in two shades of grey, being relieved with light cream moulding", and the wrought iron elevator casing which runs from the promendade deck to the dining saloon, is Enished in blue with enrichments of old gold. The balustrading is of wrought iron of by Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Ltd., who simple guilloche design, harmonising with the general treatment of the en- trances The doors, arches, handrails and staircase are in wainscot oak, wrought iron and ground glass dome gives effective lighting to the staircase The flooring is of ruboleum bileżn

The Brat dining saloon has seating Accommodation for 312 passengers, 15 panelled in a simple carly Georgian fashion and Anished in an olive green shade with antique gilt enrichment, a note of richness in the central position being given by the shell and acanthus leaf motif suggested by the work it Gilling Castle. The colonnades carrying the girders are executed in scagliola; marble, and have a very handsome effect. The furniture is of English Walnut and the floor is covered with a parquet de sign of ruboleum tiling.

The lounge is decorated in Adams style, banelling being finished in blue, relieved with ivory coloured 'mouldings and wedgwood plaques. A handsome dome light occupies the centre of the ceiling, finished in ivory colour. The ciling is finished in a crenti colour. At the forward end of the lounge & ́maṛble | Greplace with electric stove is fittted, .completed with a mirror above.

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The first saloon music room is de TI. corated in the style of the La period and the panelling is, f cream colour, with antique ŝ ments. The dome light overha... finished in cream colour and reved with gilt enrichments. A marble fire- place with electric stove, and with mirr over is fitted at the forward end. The floor is laid with wood parquetry so that: the room can be made available for dancing..

The style of the frat saloon' rinoke room is of the early 18th Century carried out in cedar wood, with walngt for? hiture and the floor is laid with rubber, tiling. This room also has a large ornamental dome light overhead, and marble eléctric fireplace at the after end. The second clásá 'accommodation Lis designed on lines of the first clasi; the dining room, lounge and smoking rooma being of artistic design, well lighted and of ample proportions, with fur

niture, carpets" and fittings of pleasing character...

The second dining saloon has sentine séepmmodation för 2687 passengers, and in decorated in Adams style, the panelling being finished in a grey-blue

are now engaged on the completion of asister, ship, to be named Rajputana.

Externally these vessels exhibit un- usually graceful, lines and nobility of appearance. Bombay Harbour has seen no finer ships, and travellers to India will not be slow to recognise their ex- cellence in all that makes for the enjoy ment of a voyage.

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