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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. John Murrell

Mr. John Murrell, General Manager for Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co., Limited, in New Zealand, has been with his present employers since the amalgamation of the firms of James Huddart and Thomas J. Parker. Born in Williamstown, Victoria, in 1856, and educated at the Scotch College in Melbourne, Mr. Murrell spent the first three years of his commercial career in the employ of two shipping firms in that city. On entering the service of the present Company he took the position of shipping clerk, which he retained for about eighteen months, when he was promoted to the position of manager at Newcastle, New South Wales. Mr. Murrell remained in this large coal-mining centre for about twelve years, and upon his departure for Hobart in 1891, was banquetted and presented with two services of silver plate, accompanied by a remarkably handsome illuminated framed address, setting forth in choice terms the general regret at his removal, and the loss that would be sustained in commercial, musical and social page 776 circles in consequence; similar encomiums were heaped upon Mr. Murrell by the fruitgrowers of Southern Tasmania. Two years later, Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co., decided to run steamers to New Zealand ports, and entrusted Mr. Murrell with the general management of its business in this Colony. Mr. Murrell has won his spurs in almost every branch of athletics and still continues to take a lively interest in manly sports. In 1888 he married Miss Ford, only sister of Mr. A. B. Ford, manager of the Union Bank at Parkes, New South Wales, and has four children—three girls and a boy