TO AMERICA.
GOOD WILL CARGO. Liner Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage. CINQUE PORTS' GREETINGS. British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 17. When the liner Queen Mary sails on her maiden voyage to New York on May 27 she will carry what is described as a good will cargo, consisting of illuminated addresses from the Mayors of the Cinque Ports, now seven, namely, Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, New Eomney, Hythe, Rye and . Winchelsea, to their namesake towns, numbering 52, in the United States. The addresses are accompanied by invitations to the Mayors and citizens of those towns to visit England during the cornation year.
Distinguished guests, including members of 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 and comiort.
During the cruise the owners and captains of the Queen Mary and the new Union Castle motor liner Atlilone Castle, which passed on her way from Harland and Wolff's, Belfast, yard to her home port to join the South African service, exchanged congratulations and good wishes "as partners in the great enterprise of maintaining the prestige of the British mercantile shipping."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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196TO AMERICA. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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