CAPTAIN RETIRES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 5

CAPTAIN RETIRES

POE T APPOINT AI ENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The retirement is announced of Captain Evan Evans, master of (lie Hass Strait steamer Taroonn, and formerly in command of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Rotoili, Manapouri, Knritane, Knrnri, Rotomnhana, Tavinni, the first Wainui, Wakatipn, Ngntoro, Kannn, and Kaoiri.

Captain Evans has been appointed harbourmaster at Buruie, Tasmania.

The best-known seaman in the Bass Strait trade, Captain Evan Evans, of the passenger steamer Taroonn, who has relinquished his command to take up an appointment as harbourmaster at Buruie, Tasmania, was horn in Port Madoc, Wales, in 1888, and went to sen at tho age of 14 years. lie, served j.n sail for 10 years, and in 1896. while at Melbourne, he was appointed male of the famous wool clipper Loch Lomond. He was later a junior otlieer in the Atlantic liners, and joined the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, in 1898. With the exception of a period of live years, in which ho was a pilot on the River Tamar, lie has been with tho Union Company since; then. His first command was of the steamer Flora, and he is known to thousands of travellers in Tasmania and Victoria as master of the Bass Strait liners Taroonn, Oonah, Nnivana and Loongnna,