About 1911, he embarked on a two year "Educational Tour" worked for a while in London, but didn't like it, so on his way home, he stopped off at New York and was offered a job in the Chilean mines as an electrical engineer where he made a lot of money. Travelling from Chile to San Francisco, he met up with some compatriots and later a group of them bought a ship and were transporting goods that other people wouldn't touch (petrol and dynamite in the same hold). They went broke on their shipping adventure and he came back to NZ, but he couldn't settle and went back to San Francisco which was an area he favoured and where he could get good job. For 40 years he worked in power generation which is where he designed the start-up and testing procedure for the Mammoth Linear Accelerator south of San Francisco at Palo Alta. I have a hand beaten copper ashtray, that he made while working in Chile. Don't know exactly when he settled in the US, but probably 1926.
He married twice. His first wife was Florence Horton, who was born in Washington. She died I think and he remarried the one we knew as Lulu. She was also American.
