LONG RECORD OF SERVICE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 April 1934, Page 4

LONG RECORD OF SERVICE

RETIRING MARINE! ENGINEER UNION COY. SUPERINTENDENT. lUi lelegTHpG--Pres* Association. l WELLINGTON, April S. Mr James Smith, retiring super,in tendent engineer ’of the Union Steam Ship Company, was the guest oi non our at a complimentary social given bj the Wellington 'branch of toe ive,. /.ealand Institute of Marine and Rowe. Engineers on Saturday night . Air Samti was born on the Clyde and served hi. time at Glasgow. He went to seu n 1882, one of Ins first ships being ; paddle steamer. Erom 1890 to the pit sent ho has been with the Union Oom pany. . , , “His record iservice is second u none in the history of the mercantile marine of the British Empire,” saic the president. Mr P. McKenzie, “ant 1 am pleased to think Mr Smith is stil to be in harness and is going home t; compete with the younger intelh geneios in engineering.” Mr Smith was presented with lieh. glasses. “Not the least important event ii the history of New Zealand was tin formation in 187.5 of the Union Sttean Ship Company,” said Mr J. Commw ville, secretary of the institute, in pro posing the toast of the company “From a small company it has becomr one of the greatest shipping concern, of the Empire.” Replying Mr W. S. Falla, joint gen. oral manager of the company, said “It is important that we in this country and Australia should develop oui own nationalism to witnistand, shall ] say, the attack from other quarters. If we do not give this question studj there aire grave dangers ahead foi local concerns. We are all vitally affected.”