The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. John Harold Atkinson
Mr. John Harold Atkinson
, Engine Driver on the Kingston -Gore express, is stationed at Kingston. He
was born in Dunedin, in 1873, educated at the South School, Invercargill, and started to learn flourmilling, but entered the railway service in 1890 as a cleaner. In 1899 he obtained his second-class driver's certificate, and was appointed in 1902. Mr Atkinson is a member of the Invercargill Railway Library and Debating Society Committee, and is also a member of the committee of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Invercargill. He was at one time a member of the Pirates Football Club, Invercargill. In 1901, he was married to a daughter of Mr D. Warnock, farmer, Bay Road, Invercargill, and has one daughter. Mr Atkinson's father came to New Zealand in 1863, and saw some service in the Maori war. He had previously
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been a captain in the 4th West Indian Infantry, Jamaica, and had resided in India and on the Gold Coast, West Africa.
Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. And Mrs J. H. Atkinson,