OUR NEW RAILWAY MANAGER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1087, 22 April 1913, Page 2

OUR NEW RAILWAY MANAGER.

Mr Ernest H. Hiley, who has been appointed General Manager of the New Zealand Railways at a salary of a year, will be forty-three years of age in June next. Educated at a school in Lancashire, he commenced, at the age of eighteen, a business career on the sub-editorial staff at the Exchange Telegraph Company, and three years later he entered 1

the service of the North-Eastern Railway Company. This was in October, 1891, when he accepted a position in the accountant’s department at Newcastle. From this branch he was transferred, in May, 1894, the the superintendent of the line, as assistant-general inspector. On June Ist, 1895, Mr Hiley was appointed to inaugurate an extensive scheme of advertising on behalf of the North-Eastern Company. This he also managed, and undertook to supervise various matters relating to the East Coast Scottish train service. In July, I9 ol i Mr' Hiley was promoted to the position of chief clerk in the district superintendent’s office at York. Seven months later he was appointed assistant district superintendent at Newcastle. On April Ist, 1904, Mr Hiley took up the position of district superintendent of the York (southern) district. Mr Hiley was appointed chief passenger agent of the Great Northern Railway on , January Ist, 1905, but resigned that post to take up his present position with his old company, on its becoming vacant at the end of March, 1908.