AN ANCIENT MARINER
Captain David Connor, of Wanganui, celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday. With faculties unimpaired, active, and cheerful, he would not be thought nearly that: age, until he speaks of the swing gear on the Town Bridge, the old Portland Stockade, and the little schooners —the Mary Ogilvie, the Elibank Castle, and the Enterprise—discharging their cargoes at jetties because there was no wharf in Old Whanganui. Captain Connor ran- away to sea from his home in Dublin, when he was 14, and voyaged to many foreign countries. When he arrived in New Zealand he liked the country so much that he remained and sailed as master in many schooners or barquentines. Adventure he had in plenty, including being wrecked on the Catlin's River. Captain Connor was one of the pioneers of the lightering service between, liners in the roadstead and Castlecliff. Captain J. Connor of Gonville is his son.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 11
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150AN ANCIENT MARINER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 11
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