WIDESPREAD REGRET
CAPTAIN'S MISFORTUNE
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day
"Widespread regret is felt in the mercantile world that Captain Clark had the misfortune to 1030 his ship. Captain Clark has proved himself a capable officer, and it was generally admitted th^t he was destined to reach very high rank in the service of the Union Company. He was "marked" as one of the coming men. He was both experienced and capable as an officer, and he was extremely popular with the passengers who had travelled on vessels under his command. He was an officer on the old steamer Talune sixteen years ago, when she; was engaged in the fruit-carrying trade between the Cook Islands and Auckland. He won promotion on merit, and served as master of several cargo vessels before being appointed to the command of the Manuka when she was recommissioned at Port Chalmers. He served during the war in Mesopotamia.
Mr. Griffiths, chief engineer of the Manuka, had previously had his ship sunk through striking a rock. He was engineer of the collier Karori when she ripped her plates by striking Quarantine Island, in Otago Harbour, and sank at the Dunedin wharf.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19291219.2.86.2
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10
Word Count
199WIDESPREAD REGRET Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in