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

Mr. Thomas Appleby

Mr. Thomas Appleby , who became Stationmaster and Postmaster at Riversdale in September, 1901, was born at Newark-on-Trent, England, in 1859. He attended school at Burton-on-Trent, and was brought up to railway work, his father, Mr Charles Appleby, having been one of the first two clerks appointed at the Burton-on-Trent station, on the opening of the Derby and Birmingham railway. Mr J. T. Appleby had considerable experience on the Midland railway, in England, as he served ten years, and rose from the position of a boy in the goods shed to a clerk in the office. Mr Appleby came to Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1884, after having a year's experience in Queensland. He joined the railway service at Addington, in July of the same year, and soon afterwards became a stationmaster. As such he was for two years at Winslow, four years and a-half at Albury, six years and a-half at Hornby Junction, and for one year and a-half at Little River, prior to his appointment at Riversdale, whence he was promoted to Rotorua, in the North Island at the end of 1904 or the beginning of 1905. Mr Appleby was married, in May,
Wrigglesworth and Binns, photoMr. T. Appleby.

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Mr. T. Appleby.

1890, to a daughter of the late Mr Skinner, of Belfast, Ireland, and has one son.