LINER QUEEN MARY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 7

LINER QUEEN MARY

“GOODWILL CARGO.” MESSAGES TO AMERICA. I IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE. (Unted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received May 18, 11.30 a.in. RUGBY, May 16. When the 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 the Cinque Ports, now seven, namely, Hastings, Dover, Sandwich, New Koinney, My the, Rye, and Wiuclieisca, to tiicir 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. Distinguisted 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 smootness and comfort. During the cruise the owners and captains of the Queen Mary and the new Union Castle motor-liner Athlone Castle, which was passed on lief 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 British mercantile sliipping.