Death Of Captain James

Wallis

Well-known Master-mariner

A WELL-KNOWN Pacific master mar iner, Captain James Alan Wallis, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Com pany’s vessel, “Rona,” died in Sydney on April 23, at the age of 70.

Captain Wallis gained his master’s cer tificate in Halifax in 1898 and joined the Union Steam Ship Company in 1901. He was master of the company’s steamer “Tofua” in the Islands trade when he transferred to the employ of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company as master of the earlier “Fiona.”

He joined the “Rona” when it was a new ship and had had command of that vessel continuously, except when he was sent to Scotland to superintend the build ing and bringing out of the new “Fiona” and the “Tambua.”

He was a grandson of the late Captain Thomas Wing, who, under the Colonial Government, continued the survey of the New Zealand coast from where Captain Cook had left off.

For the last 25 years Captain Wallis had his home at Clifton Gardens, Sydney.

He leaves a widow and two sons.