Balfour & Doyne, Engineers
Biography
" the Taranaki Provincial Government in 1866 engaged two engineers, J.M. Balfour (a talented young Scot and uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson) and W.T. Doyne (an Irishman who had come to new Zealand to construct the Dun mountain railway and who planned the railway from Chirstchurch to the Rakaia) to advise on the construction of the harbour." Souce Port Taranaki, Brian Scanlan p.10