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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 13

Kaitangata Coal always gives satisfaction —obtainable from all coal merchants. —Advt • The death was announced a few weeks ago at Gravesend, of the holder of the pfcturesqne title “ Ruler of Pilots.” The position is regarded as the most honourable to which a Trinity House pilot on the Thames can attain. It came into existence 80 years ago, when it wms the custom for a pilot to take his ship from the dock and remain with it until as far down-channel as Dungeness. The work of these “ throughout pilots ” was particularly exacting, and the Corporation of Trinity House decided to substitute in addition to the dock pilot the present classification of river pilots and channel pilots. At the same time, it was arranged that matters of professional character, when in doubt among pilots with headquarters at Gravesend, should lie subject to the decisions of a supervisor chosen from ihe pilot ranks, and he was, ns the title signifies, “Ruler of Pilots.”

The salt in " Hiiia" is ’odiscd tor health. It is the butter recommended by doctors. —17/3/34.