NAVAL APPOINTMENT
WANGANUI HARBOURMASTER
( ATTAIN STEWART’S CAREER. Captain R. D. Stewart, harbourmaster at Wanganui for nearly two years, has been instructed lo report to the Navy Department. Wellington, toward lhe end of this week. He will enter the Royal Naval Reserve with the rank of lieutenant. Regret that Captain Stewart was leaving Wanganui for the duration of lhe war was expressed at lhe monthly meeting of lhe Wanganui Harbour Board yesterday. He will be succeeded by Hie deputy-harbourmaster, Captain F. G. Taylor. Captain P. King, Wellington, will join the board’s staff as acting-pilot. Captain Taylor served his apprenticeship with lhe Queen Line of Glasgow in deep-water ships, and remained with the company for ten years before coming to New Zealand. After a period on the coast he was appointed master of the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company ’s motor-ship Breeze, a position he held for two and a-half years before joining the Wanganui Harbour Board's staff, about six years ago, as assistant-pilot. Captain Stewart has also been in command of the board’s suction-hop-per dredge Kaione, and was in charge of the vessel when she worked under charter to the Nelson Harbour Board about two years ago.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 296, 16 December 1941, Page 4
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195NAVAL APPOINTMENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 296, 16 December 1941, Page 4
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