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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. William Frederick McLeod

Mr. William Frederick McLeod, Engine Driver on the Wellington-Manawatu Company's Line, was born in Canada in 1854. At the age of sixteen he enterel the service of the Waverley Coal Mines Railway, and from 1871 to 1874 he was employed by the Waterous Engineering Works Company, Ontario, as engineer, and received a valuable testimonial on leaving. For three and a half years ending 1878 Mr. McLeod was on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, where he rose to the position of driver. He was on the Tangier Goldfields, and tried to cross over the plains to the Black Hills, a new digging, when the Indians attacked the party, twelve being killed out of thirty-two, the rest escaping on a raft down the Little Horn River. After ten months in Nevada Mr. McLeod came to New Zealand by the San Francisco mail boat in 1879. He had a goldfield experience on the West Coast of the South Island, and joined the Wellington-Manawatu Company in October 1884. For some time he was engaged in erecting engines in the Company's yard, and after a short time as fireman he became driver, which responsible office he has filled for about eleven years. Mr. McLeod was married in 1890 to Jessie, eldest daughter of Mr. John Watson Liddell of Foxton, architect,

Muggleton, Mrs. Sarah, General Storekeeper, Post-office Store, Kereru, Bankers, Bank of New Zealand.

Lee, Wright and Carter (John William Lee, Arthur Wright and France's John Carter). Sawmillers, Kereru Sawmills, Kereru, Established early in 1895.