OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR.' JOHN DUNLOP

_™rrU_T? hn unl °P' local superintending engineer for. the Union Steam Ship S^ pa + ny u-at Wellington: untiT^ 193? SIS, at ™ls esi, dence in Hataitai last week-^Mr. Dunlop was aged 73. _ Mr. Dunlop was born at Dumbarton. Scotland, in 1871, and gained his first engineering experience with the wellknown firm of Denny Brothers in that town. He joined the service of the Union Company in 1893, coming to New Zealand as third engineer of the ?fie^ a- At -the age of 25 he obtained his first class Board of Trade certiflcate m^Sydney and in 1901 he re- ?™ n£ d !tO. ih£ Uni ted Kingdom, coming back to New Zealand as chief engineer of the Waipori. After service in charge of the engine-rooms of the Apanma, Pukaki; Matai, Tarawera and Waikare he went again to the United Kingdom in 1912 lo stand by the Niagara, then building, and returned with her to New Zealand tt Mr. Dunlop,was' again in-the United .Kingdom in connection with the,building of; the Avenger, which was taken over, by the Admiralty for service with; the Navy. With the rank of Commander (E), R.N.R., Mr Dunlop remained with.the Avenger'until she was torpedoed .in the North Sea on June 16, 1917. He then returned to New Zealand and. joined the troopship Maunganui.. Mr.. Dunlop was responsible for the conversion .of the Tahiti, Makura, Maori, and Wahine to £r-f¥ c.: After further service with the Union Company as superintending engineer at Port Chalmers and Wellington he retired in December, 1936 having completed forty three and a half years of service with the company.