CUNARDER PLANNED
80 p.c. State Loan
f NZP.A-Reuter—CoppripM) LONDON. October 23.
The Cunand Line will pay tar am express liner for the trans-Attantic service with the help erf a Government kan. The new sdtip will replace the Queen Mary. Cunard stud yesterday It had accepted a Government loan of £17.600,000 st 4| per cent repayable over 10 years. The chaiirman orf Cunard (Sir John Bhocklebamk) said the estimated cost orf the ship would be about £22X100.000 The gross tonnage would be about 58,000, and tbene would be aocommodatoon for about 2000 passengers.
Work will start before the end of 1964. and the ship will be sailing by the end of 1967. .
About the ship's name, he said; “I have thought of everything right down from Queen Victoria to Jackie Kennedy, but we have about four years to worry about that”
N.Z. Actor.—James Laurenson’s performance as King Pentheus in the Lamda Theatre Club’s production of “The Bacchae," is described in “The Times’’ as “effective" and by the “Daily Telegraph" as "satisfactory.” Mr Laurenson comes from Christchurch. —London, October 22.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30271, 25 October 1963, Page 5
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