NEW CUNARD LINER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 7

NEW CUNARD LINER.

WORK MAY BE RESUMED

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 14.

It is understood that conversations regarding possible resumption of work on the new 73,000-ton Cunard liner at Clydebank took place yesterday and to-day between Mr Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr W. liunciman, President of the Board of Trade, and Sir Thomas Hoyden, a director of the Cunard Company, at the home of the last-named, Tillypronie House. Aberdeenshire. In tho meanwhile a regular meeting was held at Liverpool of the other directors of tho Cunard Company. The Ministers left for London to-day.

ATLANTIC LINERS

FRANCE’S BID FOR SUPREMACY

Declaring that the impending launching of the French liner President Doumer constituted a potent argument in favour of resuming work on the giant Cunarder, the London Daily Telegraph’s shipping correspondent says that unless Britain takes prompt action she will find herself a bad fourth in the Atlantic trade to France, Italy and Germany, with regard to fast liners. Although the President Doumer was laid down only in January, 1931, State aid to the General Transatlantic Company to the extent of £3,200,000 enables the launching in October of this year. The vessel has previously been unnamed, and is easily the largest and fastest commercial ship in the world. She is 1026 feet long, has a gross tonnage of 73,000, and a speed of 28 knits, and should enable France to wrest the Atlantic riband from the German liner Bremen.