Mr. T. Ronayne.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 25, 1 September 1894, Page 20

Mr. T. Ronayne.

Mr. T. Ronayne, one of our Railway Commissioners, is a man in the prime of life. He was born in Ireland in 1848. He left Erin’s shores for Nc-w Zealand in 1875, and soon after his arrival entered the New Zealand Railway Service as General Manager of the Helensville-Riverhead Railway. In March, 1876, he was transferred to Greymouth, where he was stationed for'some ten years. In 1886 he was moved to Wellington, where, for a time, he acted as Resident and Locomotive Engineer. . The former position.was soon afterwards taken by Mr. W. R. Carruthers, when Mr. Ronayne acted as Locomotive Engineer. In April, 1886, he was sent to Addington as Locomotive Engineer of the Huiunui Railway, succeeding Mr. T. F. Rotheram, who had been promoted to the position of Locomotive Superintendent of the N.. Z. Railways. Another move back to Greymouth was made in 1890, where he continued to act as District Manager up to the date of his present appointment as Railway Commissioner in 1894.