NAPIER HARBOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 34

NAPIER HARBOUR.

HOME STEAMER AT THE WHARF. NAPIER, March 7.

Mr Vigoi Brown, M.P., chairman of the Napier Harbour Board, presented Captain Bower, of the steamer Wakanui, with a barograph to-day to mark the occasion of bringing in the first Home steamer to load frozen meat at the breakwater. Mr Brown referred to the fact that Captain Bower was a Napier boy, who. had entered' the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice, and had worked his way up to the proud position he now occupied. He added that Mr J. T. Cato, the Napier manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, was aleo_ a Napier boy, having entered the service as a lad, and had also risen to the managership of this branch, which, was one of the most important in New Zealand. Mr J. P. Kenny, too, started with the Napier Harbour Board as a lad, and bad since worked his way, up to the secretaryship. Mr Brown added that this proved that Napier boys could hoki their own with any others in the world. He also mad© reference to Messrs Borthwick and Sons' enterprise in shipping - direct and to the shipping company on the occasion of bringing its pioneer boat to this port.