EXHIBITION SHIP
TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA LONDON, Dec. 20. When the announcement was made that the Prince of Wales was going to to’outh America, 17 different firms, persons, corporations and companies conceived tlie idea that it would bo an excellent moment to organise a trade exhibition ship to tour .South American ports, simultaneously with the Prince’s visit.
'The fate of 16 remains in abeyance, including one proposal to use a sailing ship, as the Belgians used L’Avenir in Melbourne, but the seventeenth is definitely arranged. The British National Exhibition Ship Co. has bought the former Bibby liner Leicestershire (which carried British troops to Russia, and repatriated tlious amis of Australian soldiers at the end of the war), and renamed her the British Exhibitor. They are sending her on a lengthy cruise. The promoters of the scheme state that at present they are not planning to go to Australia, but they hope that a second cruise will include Australia and New Zealand
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7
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161EXHIBITION SHIP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7
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