OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 8

OBITUARY.

_ CAPTAIN J. MAXWELL. Captain Joseph Maxwell, well known :. -;, ; .Apekland shipping.-' 'circles, ' died .-at; his ';. ; : ■'■> residence, 42. Wood Street, Ponsonby, ■yesterday; morning. Ho had been ailing , £01 : iame time, and, -his death was-not ■■ : - i .'•■*.; unexpected, ;-■; CapUiii Maxell, .--. who. was ■ ,"- 68 years: ,of age, was. for' .- 50 years in '..-' the. (jerviceiof the, Shaw, SaV'ill and Albion. Company, for the last 1.2 years as the .... company's marine superintendent at Auckland. .He joined the service on . . • September 10, 1872, as an apprentice on the* ship City of Durtedin, at the age . of 18. In 1884 I'd was appointed matter of the ship Oamaruj and his subsequent --, commands were the stec.mera ilamari, the, ;'. Tokomaru, the-second Ataman, the"Mat*-; "■■■■■.. i '"; :'tiiai':--.and: rthei-'.-Pak'ehtt. ; '.' In 1911; he waa appointed marine superintendent at Auck- •■'' .:: land, -where hi . has' resided since.' ' 'In ,y; his e.i% -careerj ; Captain fax well traded ".:' ; almost ' continuously to Pert Chalmers, / . and brought cut hundreds of passengers . ■■:. y ,in/the seventies' and : eighties. His gemai ■ ' manner .gained i him'': many friends ashore - -;,.-.: ■-; and afloat. ' 'On the date of his jubilee ;.., ■in .the; company. last, September, Captain _ :_•= Maxwell, was the recipient of many co -;. ; - gratulatory • .messages'" and letters-/rem his ;. trie, and rdmirers, and an address was ■/&.', presented to him by tin.- combined-ship-ping companies*, r thy Harbour Beard, and : ._■■. the customs officers. leaves a widow r .-.■.., and- onedaughter, Miss'lsa Maxwell. /The : funeral will take place to-morrow diter- [ noon at Purewa-- Cemetery. - , "' ,'> J :