PASSPORTS BY AIR
N.Z. TOURISTS’ DILEMMA QUEEN MARY CAUGHT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Arriving at Southampton to join the steamer Queen Mary for America, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bradley, Feilding, discovered that their passports harts been left in the bureau of a London hotel bedroom. Officials said: “No passport, no trip.” t Mrs. Bradley then hit on the idea of having the passports sent by air to Cherbourg, France, the ship's last European port of call. The ship's officers allowed them to travel to Cherbourg after urgent telephone calls to London At the scheduled time of departure from Cherbourg, the passports had not arrived. The New Zea landers’ luggage was placed close to the gangway which was raised. After the ship had been delayed some minutes, the passports arrived, having been raced from the aerodrome landing to the jetty. The gangway was lowered and Mr. and Mrs. Bradley hurried aboard. The Queen Mary east off.
“It wes touch and go,” Bradley. “It was also expensive."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 16
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