ROYALTY AT GLASGOW
NEW CLYDE DOCK OPENER
KING'S TRIBUTE TO ENTER* PRISE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, lOlk July. The King and Queen visited Glasgow} to-day, and had & great welcome fronv the tens of thousands who lined thai streets along which ilioy drovo froiui Central Station to the bridge wharf. They proceeded by steamer down thai Clyde to Shieldhall, where they declared open the new dock completed at a cost of £2,000,000, and on the way; I passed the yards where the giant now; ■ Cunarder is under construction.
In a speech the Eing paid tribute! to tho courage and enterprise of Glas* gow development schemes, and said thati since his first visit tho toiinage using; tho port ha,d' doubled. •
For iv century Glasgow ships had sailed every ocean,(and there- ■were few1, corners in the Avprld where they could not Jind a. Glasgow engineer. It was( a great record not yet ended. Ho be* lioved'that those who had faith iiti the future of tho nation would reap tho full ioward of their foresight.
-.'Referring to the Princo o£ Wales'^ visit to South America, His Majesty! said that the southern half of the, American Continent would ono day bo bound to Britain with even closer conw nicrcial ties. • . ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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