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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. George Bartlett

Mr. George Bartlett, Leading Fitter at the Eastown Running Shed, New Zealand Railways, has occupied the position he now fills for seventeen years. Born in 1847 in London, and apprenticed to Thornewell and Warham, Burton-on-Trent Iron-works, after nine years' service he became a fitter at Allaopp's Brewery, where he remained three years. During his apprenticeship he assisted in erecting winding-engines for the Cannvek Chase Company, the Rawnsley Company, and the Hednesford Company, at a brewery at Great Braddon, near Chelmsford, Essex, and was also engaged in Derby, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and at Abersoon, in Wales. In 1875 he arrived at Greymouth, and was employed in erecting and working sawmilling plants at Hokitika till 1878, when he came to Wanganui. The local gasworks were erected by Mr. Bartlett, as leading hand for Mr. Ross, and for three months after completion he had charge of the plant. He was then appointed fitter at Eastown, and in the following year he was promoted to the office he now holds. He belongs to the Masonic order, his lodge being Tongariro, No. 705, E.C., and he is also a member of the Railway Sick and Benefit Society. Mr. Bartlett was married in 1878 to a daughter of Mr. E. Burgoyne, of Liskeard, West of England, and has three sons and three daughters.