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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. John Gordon Forbes

Mr. John Gordon Forbes, Leading Boilermaker at the Eastown Railway Workshops, is a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he was born in 1862. After serving a seven years' apprenticeship at Cardiff, South Wales, Mr. Forbes went out to Cape Colony in 1881 as boiler-maker to the Cape Government Railways, and for five years he was located at East London. Arriving in Lyttelton per s.s. “Aorangi” in 1886, he found employment at his trade in the service of Messrs. Lucas and Sons, in Christchurch. Rejoining the service at Addington, Mr. Forbes continued there till transferred to Eastown in May, 1896, as leading boiler-maker. In 1887 he was married to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Smith, of Glasgow, boiler-maker, and has one son and three daughters.