William Reid Douglas, engineer
William Reid Douglas , Chief Engineer of the New Zealand Shipping
Company's S.S. “Pareora,” took up his (present) position on the 30th
of May, 1898.
The son of
William Reid Douglas and his wife Elizabeth (Betsy), he was born in Melbourne,
, but came to Dunedin
with his parents in the early sixties. After leaving the Dunedin
High School, he went to the Old Country, and served his
apprenticeship with the well known firm of Messrs James Howden and
Co.
In December, 1879, he returned to the Colony as fourth
engineer of the Union Steamship Company's S.S. “Te Anau,” on which
he afterwards acted successively as third and second engineer. Mr.
Douglas left the “Te Anau” in October, 1884, to join the “Mahinapua”
as chief engineer. He was afterwards chief of the “Penguin” and “Ringarooma,”
and after being about twelve years in the Union Steamship Company's
service, he left to join his brothers in the Northern Union
Steamboat Company, trading on the Northern Wairoa, and was manager
of the Company from 1894 to 1897.
A new boat-lowering apparatus was invented by Mr W. R. Douglas,
local Government inspector of steamers at Dunedin, and master of the
Government steam-dredger at that port. Mr Douglas has been awarded
three medals for his inventions by the Royal Scottish Society of
Arts.
His father, the late
Mr.
W. R. Douglas, of Dunedin, one of the old pioneer settlers of Otago,
is credited with having built the first steam vessel launched in
Dunedin, namely, a little steamer called the “Betsy Douglas.”
He married (2 Sept 1886, St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis St,
Wellington) Isabella Nahr, b abt 1866, Castlemain), daughter of
William Nahr (a brewer) and Rachel, nee Bammer(?).
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