Mr. Thor Gunderson Retires
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Mr. Thor Gundersen, busy and popular Purser and Radio Officer of NZGS Maui Pomare for the past five years, packed his bags and came ashore to a partnership in an Auckland estate agency business at the conclusion of the Maui’s Jan uary voyage.
Mr. Gundersen is well known in Fiji ports, Apia, Niue, and the islands of the Cook Lower Group.
Prior to joining the Maui he was with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. vessels on the Fiji-Australia- New Zealand run for 13 years. He obtained his radio operator’s certi ficate in 1914 and served through both world wars at sea.
Radio is a hobby as well as a profession with Mr. Gundersen and his amateur transmitting station, operated from the Maui, was well known in amateur radio circles all over the world.