N.Z. RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26212, 8 September 1950, Page 2

N.Z. RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

NEW SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED RETIREMENT OF MR L, H. BROUGH Mr L. H. Brough, who to? the last three years has been responsible for the administration of railway workshops throughout New Zealand, has retired after 40 years’ service, and the Minister of Railways (Mr W. S. Goosman) has appointed Mr W. G. M. Colquhoun to succeed him. Beginning his. railway career in 1910 as an apprentice fitter at the Hillside workshops, Dufiedin, Mr Brough later served overseas for four years with the New Zealand Engineers in the Ist N.Z.E.F. He returned to civilian life in 1919. In 1929 he was appointed sub-foreman at the Hillside shops, and six years later became apprentice instructor. After promotion to various technical and supervisory positions at the Hutt and Otahuhu workshops betweeh 1936 and 1943, Mr Brough returned

to Hillside as machine shop foreman. Five months later he was appointed assistant works manager. He subsequently became works manager, first at Addington and later at Hutt, before being appointed workshops superintendent early in 1947. Mr Colquhoun joined the Railways Department in 1915 as an apprentice fitter at the old Petone workshops. He transferred to the chief mechanical engineer’s office in 1926 as a draughtsman, and three years later gained further experience as a technical clerk in the same office. In 1932 he became foreman’ of the steel waggon shop at Otahuhu, and was appointed assistant works manager in 1935. In 1936, Mr Colquhoun transferred to Addington, where he was responsible for the construction of huge gold dredges designed for use on the West Coast. From 1939 to 1940, Mr Colquhoun was foreman of the machine shop at the Hutt workshops. He visited Australia as a member of a mission concerned with the manufacture of munitions. While in Australia he was appointed technical adviser to the Eastern Group Supply Council in India. Returning to New Zealand in 1942, he acted as assistant td the Director of Production, and in 1943 was anpointed Munitions Controller. In 1947, Mr Colquhoun returned to the Railways Department, and was promoted to works manager at Hillside, a position which he held for four months before being appointed workshops inspector, attached to the chief mechanical engineer’s office. In his new position of workshops superintendent, Mr Colquhoun is the administrative head of nine railway workshops, employing about 6000 men.