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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Mark Thompson

Mr. Mark Thompson, Engineer of the Riverhead Paper Mills, is a native of Berwickshire, Scotland. He served three years in the well known foundry of Messrs Brown Brothers, engineers and ironfounders, and completed his apprenticeship with Messrs Bertrams, engineers, Edinburgh. These firms possessed a great reputation for the manufacture of paper making machinery. At the expiration of his apprenticeship Mr. Thompson went to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he worked in the foundry of Hawthorne, Les[unclear: l]ie and Co., engineers. After a considerable experience in Edinburgh and Glasgow foundries, noted for the manufacture of paper machinery, Mr. Thompson came to Australia, in 1886, and landed at Melbourne, where he worked for three years at Longland's foundry, one of the largest firms of engineers in Australia. He received the appointment of engineer at Barwon's paper mills, Victoria, where he was for nine months in charge. In 1893 he came to New Zealand, under a special engagement for the Mataura paper mills, where he superintended the erection of all the extensive machinery, and where he remained for eighteen months. He left the Mataura mills to accept the position of engineer for the Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Co., with which he remained five years. In 1899 Mr. Thompson removed to Auckland, under a special engagement to superintended the erection of the splendid up-to-date machinery in the Riverhead Paper Mills. Mr. Thompson is associated with the Oddfellows, but has not been an active member since his arrival in New Zealand. He has been vice-president of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in Australia, and has been much connected with school committees since his arrival in New Zealand, and has also been secretary of various cricket clubs. Mr. Thompson is married, and has a family of four children.

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