LONG SEA SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 14

LONG SEA SERVICE

ENGINEERS HONOUR MR. A. BROWN WORK OF INSTITUTE The importance of the work carried out by engineers in the present mechanical age, was stressed at a function given by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers on Saturday evening in honour of Mr. Alexander Brown, who recently retired after 45 years in the service of the Northern Steamship Company. “I consider that engineers are the salt of the earth,” said Mr. F. C. Jacobs. “In these days of things mechanical, the world would stop if the engineers were to stop.” According to Mr. D. H. Kirk-Jones, who proposed the toast of the New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, modesty was the besetting sin of members of the craft. When they did a difficult job nobody heard anything about it. In presenting Mr. Brown with a gold watch and chain on behalf of tho members, Mr. A. C. Dickie, president of the institute, referred to Mr. Brown’s long service at sea and his willingness to place his knowledge and skill at tho disposal of younger men. “It is hard to realise that my days at sea are over, but I can look back to a long and enjoyable career,” said Mr. Brown, who added that no engineer had had a happier life at sea than he had. During the evening a musical programme was given.