FROM SAIL TO STEAM.

NZ Truth, Issue 1286, 31 July 1930, Page 4

FROM SAIL TO STEAM.

TIME was wh'en the good ship "Peri" and her master, Captain J. IT. Bruton, were frequent visitors to southern ports. But that was thirty years ago, when the wool trade boomed. And when the "Peri" turned her nose toward London that day thirty years ago,, she had completed her last New Zealand voyage under her old master. But, despite the passage of time, there are still many among those who go down to the sea ih ships who remembered the captain of the old wool-clipper when he returned to these shores the other day m command of the steamer "Dalfram," on her maiden voyage. The interval of thirty years, has seen many changes. Master J. H. Bruton has gone from sail to steam, and from wool to sugar, but he is just the same old Cap'n Bruton, master mariner.