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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. David Ronaldson Eunson

Mr. David Ronaldson Eunson , Manager of the Dunedin and Roslyn Tramway Company, has also for many years been manager for the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Company and the Mornington Tramway Company. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1860, and entered the establishment of Messrs. James Bertram and Sons, engineers, as an apprentice to the mechanical branches of the trade. On coming to New Zealand for his health, he was employed for a term as accountant by an engineering firm in Dunedin. He was associated with the formation of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association in 1883, and became honorary secretary to that society; and was local secretary to the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition in 1885, and for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of the following year. In 1887, he went as a delegate to the conference on intercolonial free trade held in Adelaide during the Exhibition, and was appointed manager of the Mornington Cable Tramway Company in the same year. It is well known that the Mornington company, under Mr. Eunson's management, became a dividend paying concern. Mr. Eunson takes more than a passing interest in educational work, is a member of the committee of the technical classes association, and finds recreation in giving object lessons, illustrated by working models or optical views. Mr. Eunson married a daughter of Mr. Archibald Barr, J.P., and has one daughter.