30 YEARS AT SEA
CAPTAIN G. A. GREY MASTER MARINER TO RETIRE [by telegraph—owx correspondent] WELLINGTON, Sunday Thirty years' service with the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited, is the record of Captain G. A. Grey, who is retiring because of ill-health. Captain Grey's last command was the intercolonial steamer Kurow, from which ho retired in June on extended sick leave.
Captain Grey was born in Auckland, and is 54 years of ago. Ho served in \arions Now Zealand coastal steamers as well as in intercolonial sailing vessels for a number of years, including a period with the Northern Steamship Company, before he joined the Union Company in 39.10. He was promoted master of the Flora, in the Islands trade, in 1923, but later transferred to the coastal and then the intercolonial trade, with various commands. Captain Grev will live at his farm at Manurewa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23840, 16 December 1940, Page 9
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