FITZGERALD, MICHAEL, was trained as a civil engineer and surveyor and had some experience in surveys and railway construction in Great Britain. He came to Wellington in the forties and in 1853 was appointed engineer-in-chief in the Survey department at Wellington, and later chief surveyor for Wellington and Hawkes Bay. He was afterwards surveyor to the Native Land Purchase Department until its abolition. Fitzgerald represented Waimarama in the Hawkes Bay Provincial Council (1862) and Napier Town in 1863.

Hawkes Bay P.C. Proc.; Jourdain.

Reference: Volume 1, page 146

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