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OBITUARY

MR. JAMES MILNE. The death occurred at Wanganui on Thursday of Mr. James Milne, who for the past fifteen years had been employed on the technical staff of the office of the superintending engineer of the Union Steam Ship Company. The late Mr. Milne served his apprenticeship to mechanical engineering with the New Zealand Government Railways, S. Luke and Co., and their successors, J. J. Niven and Co., following which he joined the floating staff of the Union Company, subsequently serving in a. number of the company's vessels, chief of which was the well-known inter-island express steamer Wahine. In this vessel he served with the rank of engineerlieutenant during her commission with the Admiralty in the late war. It was in 1923, after completion of his examination for the first-class Board of Trade Certificate, that Mr. Milne was appointed to the superintendent engineer’s staff at the head office, where he was employed at the time of his death.

Mr. Milne was highly qualified in hi..; profession and gained considerable distinction in the making of engineering models, his exhibit of a complete working model of the torpedo-boat* destroyer H.M.S. Nestor gaining for him the Watt Bi-ccntenary Com-

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 6

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OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 6

OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 6

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