“GOODWILL CARGO”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 9

“GOODWILL CARGO”

Queen Mary’s Maiden Voyage MESSAGES TO AMERICAN TOWNS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 16. When the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary sails on her maiden voyage to New York on May 27 she will carry what is described as a “goodwill cargo," consisting of illuminated addresses from the Mayors of Cinque Ports (now seven—iw - Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, New :cy, TTytlie, Rye, and Wlnclielsea) i.> 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 the coronation year. Distinguished guests, including members of Cabinet, who were passengers on a 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 t.hc Queen Mary and the new Union Castle motor-liner Afhlone Castle, which passed on her way from Messrs. 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.”