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MR. S. E. FAT ARRIVES. MAX OF WIDE EXPERIENCE. 5 : ? r : (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Mr. S. E. Fay arrived in Wellington by the Maheno to-day to take up his as operating and equipment hi the New Zealand Railways Department. Mr. Fay, who is the son of Sir Sam Fay. one of the commissioners : .who recently inquired into the New I /Zealand railways system, was educated at Splalvery -College, England, and McGill Montreal.' He served six with a.. German professor at jHDusseldorf, and.was for a similar.period ggin - the railway • office "at Paris. As of the British Board of W-Trade, .he ; accompanied- Mr. C. H. To Pearson on. an investigation of German ill and Austrian railway ; methods, ■ and has ■—twice vkited and Canada, with railway'officers. Trained under '*the Great Central Railway. Company's higher-grade scheme, Mr. Fay is efficient in operating, traffic working, running, shed, driving and firing, district engineerBEing, dock anaTrfifarine work, and'passeiiger' and goods accountancy. During the Great War he served ■ with the Eoyal Engineers in France for two years from 1914, and was subsequently with the railway operating division. He left the army with the rank of major, after having acted as deputy-assistant director-

general of movements and railways in Paris. Later he was appointed assistant district superintendent of the London division of the Great Central Railway, and was afterwards for 3 years with the Traffic Department of the Sao Paulo

Railway in Brazil, subsequently being appointed chief operating officer. He

left this latter post to accept a position with the Canadian National Railways, .and then, as joined a Royal Commission, -which, investigated the .New South Wales and New Zealand {Government Railways. f, It is hoped, as the result of Mr. Fay's appointment, that there will be brought about a greater degree of efficiency and . improvement of the New Zealand railway •services.