Mr. Frederick Mair, Engine Driver for the Wellington-Manawatu Company, between Wellington and Kereru, is a Devonshire man. Born in 1867 in Winkleigh, and brought up to a country life, he went to the Cape of Good Hope at the age of thirteen. Starting as an office boy in the Table Bay Harbour Works, he was afterwards employed as cleaner on the Cape Government Railways, and on the Harbour Works. In 1885 he came to Wellington per s.s. “Ruapehu,” and was engaged in platelaying on the Manawatu line between Johnsonville and Pukerua, and subsequently in the construction of the permanent way. After a time as cleaner in the engine sheds, Mr. Mair was fortnightly employed as driver, being promoted to the position of permanent driver in April 1896. In 1892 Mr. Mair was married to a daughter of Mr. Issac Gillbanks of Barrow-in-Furness, and has three sons.

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,

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