DEATH OF CAPTAIN NEALE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 168, 13 July 1918, Page 5

DEATH OF CAPTAIN NEALE.

OLD WECK RECALLED. i . The sudden death, at Onefiuntra on j Monday of Captain John Stirling Nealfe, for many years a Government J snip-mast-Pr, reminds many Wellington j-people of t>he ' ...'wreck of the . ship t Lastingham, of which he was the chief | officer, says the Post. The Lastingham 11143 tons, Captain 'Morsison, left Liverpool for : Wellington in 1884, and (made the trip to' Cook Strait- in. 9o | days. During a southerly gale on Ist | September jshe "was.; driven on the. rocks off, Jackson Head, and" became a- total wreck', Captain. Morrison and l his wife and sixteen other persons losing their lives. Af.ter 'being ashore for threedays, Captain lituta and the other survivors- were brought to Wellington by the Port. Underwood-owned ketch Agnes, about 6.30 p.m; on sth ■ Septem-., ber, and were at once, interviewed on" board! that little vessel by a. Post reporter, who happened to be oat rowing on ths harbour when she About a. iponth after. -this... Captain Neale,. .a man of tjne (physique, and - a splendid, type of the . British sailor, was appointed chief officer, of the Hinemoa,. after wards becoming master of the vessel: when the late Captain' Fairehild-left; for ; England to bring out the Tytanekai. Subsequently, .Captain Neale was appointed harbourmaster, at . oa, superannuation - -eleven , vears . ago, wHen he jwas succeeded bv 'Caiptain R,. ,R. Gibbona. ; Th'e"late }C*aptain Neale was a trenial man;' and .very - popular. He has left a widow, and also three - da/U4?hters- by his first, Mrs. Crew (Carterton, Mrs John Souper fChristciiurehf, and Mrs Moody {Tauranga). . . • -