A POPULAR OFFICER.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 19

A POPULAR OFFICER.

PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN i ; [7HB FBBSB Special Service.] WELLINGTON, March 6. ,Every shipping company many other offices, including |ho Marine. Department and Harbour Boards were, represented loat night at a social' gather* , mg to bid firewall to Captain,J, Ifl. Dawson, retiring harbourmaster, at , Wellington. . The large company !n----i, eluded .many seafarers, ana ,>rts .fjpror * sided over by ,Captain P. S. 'Peterson.' would A9t. be possible, . said *thp J chairman, in proposing the health of Captain Dawson, tp say too rauch |»tt r« 'appreciatidn of " what he,- w harbour-1 « master at .Wellington; for' sixteen, f ars, Imd ,4one Jn the, i inter«t > and J the sbippinjL fratwraity, byj whom k. iw iM ff "BSWmi ,f*l, ii Gjuptain 1 Wi *R, Kerßhaw t opmniandor sj 4of .the SbaW, add' , mbioa »* MatAroa, fttaidf ai,t tWm; iW; r itfe v i-'f inte|idenk Company, said he counted'^ »- oar to #, i the-gtaftt help heihM t Captain Dawson. vThey had served . .under, th? same Honsp,,Bag :tpiMl3jer. . Captain Dawsott -f ? r » ship Waimate when he was nn apptenI , served ondejf Captain Bawson ,awlßt b4 » Cnptitm C. MoiVrthur presented Cap-1 * tainf Dawsori' with a case r 6f-. pipes..Kvery proud to be « friend of Captain DawI MhSff , port had been aided bvv the o «i'e Shatf • SnjfUl, and .fc WWy.;