OBITUARY.
-» N.S. WALES RAILWAY COMMISSIONER. SYDNEY, September 5. The death of Mr David Kirkcaldie, Railway Commissioner, is announced. He died after an operation for appendicitis. I Mr Kirkcaldie wae born in Fifeshire. i j Scotland, in 1848. He began hia railway l j career in the North Brirish railway service at »the ace of 13. and spent nearly 15 I years with that company before coming to ( | New South Walo* in 1876. He was ap- j , pointed clerk in the office of tho traffic J ; manaeer for the Southern and Western } | line*! in 1879, reca-me chief clent in the j | traffic manager's office, was appointed office superintendent in 1881. assistant traffic manager for cho Southern and (Western lines in 1882. chief traffic manager for the whole of the New South Wales j railways in 1889. and a Railway Commisj sioner in October. 1397. He visited j Europe and America, in 1904, and saw j I much of the management of railways in i I those countries. " i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 25
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167OBITUARY. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 25
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