MR G. I. TAIT

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 16

MR G. I. TAIT

"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND. November 13. A former manager of the Auckland office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Mr Gilbert I. Tait, died at his home in Auckland recently. He was 69. Born in Greymouth, Mr Tait was the son of a former harbourmaster of Timaru. Captain James Tait. He left school as a boy to start work in 1904 in the shipping department of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Timaru, agents for the Union Steam Ship Company and the Shaw Savill and Albion Company In 1907, Mr Tait joined the New Zealand Shipping Company in Timaru. Three years later he moved to the Wellington branch, then to Tokomaru Bay, where the company had just opened an office. During World War I, Mr Tait served with the Otago Infantry and was wounded at Passchendaele in 1917. Invalided home, he rejoined the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Timaru office in 1919. Two years later he was made chief clerk at the head office, then in Christchurch, and he later became assistant-mana-ger. He was made manager in Auckland in 1946. holding the position until his retirement in October, 1953.