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FIRST COURT OF

THE SEASON

Ceremony At The Palace

(Special Air Mail Service).

London, March 30. The King and Queen held a

Court at Buckingham Palace 1st

evening.

The following Members of the Royal Family were' presents

By Captain Douglas Greenacre;

The Duke and Duchess of York, attended by the Lady Helen Graham and the Hon Thomas

Coke:

Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, attended by Lieuten ant-Colonel Thomas Tharpton:

The Earl of Harewood,"

QUEEN MARY'S

LIFEBOATS

PROGRESS IN RAYON

Contract Booked By Technical Improve-

Glasgow Works

It is understood that Mesars John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., have received the order at their Glasgow works for the engining of all the lifeboats on the Cunard- White Star liner Queen Mary.

ment

Mr. Samuel Courtauld's annual address to the shareholders is Courtaulds Limited is usually, good reading, both because he has good news to give and because he states

the industry's problems broadly and lucidly, m `n way which thể

rayon or

This important order has been layman can understand. The The Prince of Wales, attended placed after lengthy research by achievement of the

the engine-builders in co-opera-artificial silk industry since the

the ! tion with the owners and

way is remarkable. Ten years ago, builders of the lifeboat hulls.

as." Mr. Courtauld pointed out Convention for Safety of Life at was sold at 78. a pound, duty free:

According to the International

viscose yarn recently, standard Sea Regulations there must be one to-day it is sold for 23. 7 d., in- cluding 6d. Excise duty. Ten years motor Heboat equipped with wire- less when 15 boats are fitted, and abave 15 there must be two moter as the total production of rayon yarn in the country was 23,000,000 lifeboats, both of which have to

pounds; last year it was 93,000,000. be fitted with wireless: but the Cunard-White Star Company have

pounds

Technical improvements and been so determined to have every expanding production have gone His Majesty's Body Guard of the conceivable safeguard for safety hand in hand "Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-of life at sea that every feboat happy result, nor should one over- to produce this at-Arms was on duty in the State on the Queen Mary will have a look the alert consciousness of the Saloons under the command of Diesel engine. In each case the importance of design in fabrics, Brigadier-General the Earl of Lucan, the Captain. Colonel Sir engine will be designed and built which has done so much to stir

by Mesara, Thornycroft.

demand. But it is reasonable to St. John Gore, the Lieutenant; in all there will be 24 motor-I hope that the industry is still far Brigadier-General Archibald Home,engined lifeboats, "two of these from reaching the end either of the Standard Bearer; Brigadier-being statutory lifeboats fitted increasing output or of diminishing General Harvey Kearsley, the with wireless equipment and two price.

The Marchioness of Cambridge: The Duke and Duchess of Beau

fort.

Clerk of the Cheque and Ad-being emergency reboats to be, Mr. Courtauld mentioned that Jutant; and Brigadier-General Sir used for launching in a hurry the new factory at Preston is ex- Frederick Gascoigne, the Harbin- ger, were present on duty with say in the event of some one fall-pected to achieve a lower cost

the Corps.

The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty In the Palace, under the command of Colonel the Lord Templemore the Captain. Major Colin MacRae, the Lieutenant: Brigadier-General Cecil Wray, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant; Lieutenant-Colonel George Lascelles, the Easign; and Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Fre derick and

Lieutenant-Colonel William Gibbs, Exens in Waiting. were also present on duty.

PRESENTATION FROCKS Victorian frocks for débutantes and long classical gowns for older

women were worn at their Majes- ties' First Court of the season. Frilled tulle and net and taffeta or ciré made most of the dresses for the young girls, the bodices sloping off the shoulders" and

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ing overboard.

Rigorous Testa The installation of these engines so arranged that by has been means of electrical heaters the engines will be kept at a constant warm temperature, no matter how cold the North Atlantic conditions may be in the severest winter. This arrangement, combined with the fact that the engines are fitted with a closed-water circula- tion (which is, also kept at a con- stant temperature), means that the engines will at all times start instantly before the boats even leave the ship's deck.

Big Advance

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and a better quality than any we have yet reached," and.. Lancashire will be delighted to have been chosen as the site of this prospec- tive achievement,

Excise Duty Lancashire manufactures will

Excise

20.

also welcome, Mr. Courtauld's call for the abolition of the duty on staple fibre, which is the form in which rayon can best be applied to cotton-manufacturing technique. The great strides which have been made in other countries in the use of rayon as a supplement to cotton fabrics have been checked here by the notion that rayon is essentially a "luxury The propelling machinery for article" and therefore a, suitable the Queen Mary's lifeboats re-object for taxation. Its alterna presents B big advance on the tive name of "artificial silk". has power units of previous motor helped in the misconception. Aa could not be started up until the as a popular fabric are realised in feboats, the engines of which soon as the possibilities of rayon boats were in the water on this country the absurdity account of there being no water subiecting it to what is really a available for circulating through "luxury tax" will become patent the water jackets": In the Queen Mary installation each engine and

JUBILEE PROCESSION all the gear is contained inside an insulated watertight compartment,

OF BOATS which ensures the engines working

(Special Air Mail Service) even if the boats were flooded with water.

London, March 30. Before this type of Thomycroft

The plan for & Jubilee procession engine was adopted trials extend-of boats from Greenwich to Chelsen ing over many months were carried on May 10 was discussed and -ap- proved to-day by the leading yacht qut with highly satisfactory and motor boat clubs at a meeting results. The engine, was not only organised by the Motor Boating tried out on the Clyde and on the Association With the exception North Atlantic in one of the of an Admiralty picket boat, it is, existing Cunard-White Star ships intended that the procession shall In the coldest possible weather of consist of civilian boats. The pro- last winter, but a further fest, que cession will be headed by the to the courtesy of Mr. William King's barge with the picket boat Mine was carried out last year guard, a lifeboat, a Red Cross with the engine sealed up in one ches, and speed-bouts, all dressed boat, and scores of yachts, laun- of Mr. Milne's Glasgow cold stores with flags. At night the procession for 24 hours with the temperature will be moored off Chelsea Bridge, at 15 degrees Fahrenheit. At the with the craft decorated by colour- end of that period the engineed fairy lamps. It was intended started up with the first pull of to get a Thames tug into the the handle, to the entire satisfac-pageant, but that was thought to tion of the Board of Trade and the be rather bulky craft to work with shipowners.

design the rest of this been done about With all the research that has the boats of the liners that use the been made, it goes without saying Thames appearing in the proces that the life-saving appliances on sion, but the experience of the the Queen Mary will be second to peace pageant on the river is nons in the world, and the build-against their use. On that occa ers of the lifeboat hulls, Messrsaton all the big lines sent boats Hugh M'Lean'and Son, Goven, and with their housslaga, and for the the builders of the Diesel engines, first time the West Londoner got a " Messrs. John L. Thornycroft and glimpse of that unknown side of Co. are to be congratulated on London life But the row was too what they have produced, as well long on a fatiguing day and the as the Cunard White Star Line seamen too far from the banks to Bee how thein pulling Was and Messra. John Brown and Co. appreciated. It is doubtful if the in having been so searching in seamen would undertake anything their tests to obtain the best in like it again. The idea of an the Interests of safety of life at illuminated night procession was abandoned owing to the danger of so many small craft operating at high tide.

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Enished with tiny puff sleeves or

ARMS AND ART Epaulettes In striking contrast were the older ladies slim-fitting,

̈(Specia) Air Mall Service) severe owns of lame and tissue

London, March 30. in rich colours, cut with short

Sir William Birdwood, who trains to the skirts Embroidery commanded the ABIDES in Gal was an important feature of all lipoli, bas it is understood, accept- the dresses; heavy incrustations of mittee of three which is to adju

ed an invitation to join the com- sequins, pearls, or diamanté dieste upon the designs submitted weighted the hems of many skirta in the prize competition for and trains, and the dea of most memorial to Gen Bir John

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