THE QUEEN MARY
LINER’S GOODWILL CARGO. ADDREBSEB TO AMERICA* VESSEL’S SMOOTHNESS A OOMFORT (Official Wireless.) (Received May 18, 3 p.m.T RUGBY. May 17. When the liner Queen Mary sails on her maiden voyage to New York on May 27 she will earn' what is described as a “goodwill cargo,” consisting of illuminated addresses from the Mayor of Cinque Ports, which now are seven—namely, Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, New Romney, Hythe, Rye and Winchelsea —to their namesake towns, numbering 52, in the United States.
The addresses will be accompanied by invitations to the Mayors and citizens of those towns to visit England during Coronation year.
Distinguished guests, including members of the Cabinet, who were passengers on the cruise down the Channel by the Queen Mary on Thursday and Friday, have declared themselves as impressed with her smoothness and comfort during the cruise.
The owners and captains of the Queen Mary and the new Union Castle motor liner Athlone Castle, Which passed on her way frbfti Harland— Wolffs Belfast yard to her home port, to join the South African service, exchanged congratulations and “good wishes” as partners in a great enterprise. maintaining the prestige of British mercantile shipping
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 8
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195THE QUEEN MARY Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 8
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