OBITUARY
MR. J. P. BURNS
Mr. John Peter Burns, chief engineer of the Union Company's tug Terawhiti, whose funeral took place at Karori Cemetery today, was born at Hokitika in 1884, and educated in that district. Following an apprenticeship to the mechanical engineering with A. Cederman and Co., of his native town, he joined the service of the Union Company in 1907 as seventh engineer of the turbine steamer Maheno, then in the passenger service between Auckland and Sydney. Following service in a number of the company s vessels, he was appointed to the Terawhiti as chief engineer in March, 1925, and he was serving in her at the time of his death. Mr. Burns is survived by a wife and young family, also two brothers, one of'them, Vincent, being chief engineer of the Wellington Woollen Mills at Petone Mr. Burns was for many years an executive member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, which he joined in 1908.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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167OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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