“GHOST” WAS THE PILOT
Old Friends Re-united t N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Mar. 7. The chairman of P. and 0.Orient Lines of Australia (Mr N. D. Pixley) thought he saw a ghost today. He was on the bridge of the liner Oriana as it approached Auckland when the pilot Captain J. Thode, came on board. The two men stared at each other. “Good grief,’’ said Mr Pixley. “I thought you were dead.” Captain Thode assured him he was very much alive, and proved it by bringing the 42.500-ton liner into Princes Wharf as gently as if it had been a 40ft launch. The two men did a course together at the Hinders Naval Base in Melbourne early in the Second World War and shortly afterwards Captain Thode was posted to a ship which was sunk. He was taken prisoner by the Japanese, and in his own words "spent some years eating rice.” Mr Pixley said: ’Tor a dead man, he’s an extra good pilot”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 17
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