OBITUARY
CAPTAIN T. 5. WESTON
The death occurred in London on Saturday of Captain Thomas Shailer Westqn, formerly Commodore of the New Zealand Shipping Company (states the "Press"). He had been in ill health for about a year.
Captain Weston was born in Dunedin and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School. He was apprenticed to the New Shipping Company about 1878, and served for some time' in sailing ships. Early in this century he' was in command o£ the Waikato when that vessel was adrift for about six weeks .with a broken tail shaft, while on her way from Cape Town to Fremantle.
Captain Western was given his first command at an early age, and remained with the New Zealand Shipping Company all his life. He had command of several troopships during the war,, and was in charge of the Hurunui when that vessel was sunk when it was nearly Home. He retired about seven years ago from the position of commodore with the company. Captain Weston was married in Christchurch to Miss Edith Clark, of Temuka, and is survived by his wife, a daughter, and one son.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 11
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190OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 11
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