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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Thomas Major Lane

Mr. Thomas Major Lane, Senior Partner, hails from the Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire, where he was born in 1847, and received his education at the Northleach page 585 Grammar School. He came with his parents to Auckland per ship “Persia” in 1860, and eventually went to Waiapu, Bay of Islands, where he was apprenticed to the shipbuilding trade in the yards of the late Mr. W. P. Brown. After completing his apprenticeship Mr. Lane engaged in house-building, bridge contracts, etc., till 1870 when in conjunction with Mr. W. Brown he established the flourishing concern reviewed above. In public affairs Mr. Lane has rendered yeoman service to Whangaroa. He was long chairman of the Whangaroa County Council after its creation in 1886, and was previously chairman of the Mongonui County Council; he is a member of the Rechabites and has been associated with the local school committee for many years.

Mr. T. M. Lane.

Mr. T. M. Lane.