FANS FITTED.

The Daily News (Perth) Monday 15 July, 1907. 

THE STEAMER YONGALA.

As strange as it may seem in this bleak

season, the steamer YONGALA, of the

Adelaide S.S. Company's line, has just

been equipped with a complete installation 

of electric cooling fans. These fans, one of 

which is fitted In every state-room, are sure 

to be a boon for passengers in the tropical 

climate of Northern Queensland, through which

the Yongala passes. On her last journey northwards 

to Brisbane, the Yongala had 450 passengers,

of whom 150 landed at Cairns, where the number

of winter visitors from the South is exceptionally 

large this year.

Temperatures in Cairns, summer, can reach 30 degrees centigrade with more than 60% humidity. It is interesting that the electric fans were fitted as late as July, 1907. Yongala started her Sydney to Cairns run early 1906. If the report was accurate and Yongala carried 450 passengers, this was 210 in excess of her registered passenger carrying capacity. Demand = adaptation, but at the expense of safety ?