FITZGERALD, Gerald b.1857

Born Christchurch: cadet in Public Works Department Wellington 1874, later in New Plymouth. After periods in both Wellington-Masterton and Waitara-Patea construction, as Assistant Engineer on Otago Central Railway survey and, in 1878 at Forty Mile Bush on Nelson-Belgrave Railway, in 1879 in Blenheim and Marlborough, he was in 1889 transferred to the Survey Department; in 1891 in Public Works Department at Westport. Later that year in Auckland, and in 1893 in Hunterville in charge of the construction of the Main Trunk Railway. On 11 September 1894 entered into private practice in Wellington in partnership with architect F. deJ. Clere. Like his partner he painted and exhibited in Wellington. Exhibited: NZ Academy of Fine Arts Wtn, 1902–04.