NEW RAILWAY WORKS MANAGER

Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 6

NEW RAILWAY WORKS MANAGER

FORMER SOUTHLAND MAN An important railway appointment, of interest to Southlanders is that of Mr F. W. Horrobin, assistant to the works manager at Hutt, and now attached to the Munitions Department, as works manager of the Otahuhu Railway Workshops. Mr Horrobin is an old pupil of the Bluff school and is the only son of Mr W. F. Horrobin of Bluff. He served his apprenticeship in the Invercargill workshops and he went to the Great War early in 1915. He returned to New Zealand after the armistice and resumed with the Railways Department at Invercargill. He was later transferred to Hutt, where he held a number of responsible positions in the workshops. He also carried out executive relieving duties in other workshops and in the car and wagon depots. When the Railways Department undertook the construction of the Kaneiri, Arahura and Ngahare dredges, Mr Horrobin was constructional engineer on the bridge. On their completion he returned to the workshops, where he took up the position of assistant to the works manager. He was afterwards lent to the Munitions Department. As a youth Mr Horrobin was an enthusiastic and successful oarsman in the old Invercargill Railway Rowing Club. He has left Wellington to take up his new appointment.