THE QUEEN MARY.
GOODWILL CARGO ON MAIDEN VOYAGE.
CORONATION INVITATIONS TO AMERICANS. GREAT SHIP MUCH ADMIRED BY GUESTS. 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 “good-will cargo,” consisting of illuminated addresses from the Mayors of Cinque Ports—now seven, namely, Hastings Dover, Sandwich, New Romney, Hythe, Bye, and Winchelsea— to 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 lon 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 the Queen Mary and the new Union Castle motor-liner Athlone 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. ’—(British Official Wireless.)
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19360519.2.45
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 5
Word Count
199THE QUEEN MARY. Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in