Career
He served as a co-operative officer in the colonial public service in New Ireland when Papua New Guinea was under Australian colonial administration. In 1958, he set up the "now famous" Finschhafen Marketing and Development Company-operative (FMDC). He was also a founding director of Mainland Holdings.
He was subsequently appointed business representative to the Morobe Constituent Assembly, and served as chairman of Morobe"s Constituent Assembly.
In the 1977 general election, the first after the country"s independence, he was elected to the National Parliament as Member of Parliament for Finschhafen. He later served as Deputy Speaker and was also a government minister.
He was Minister for Community and Family Services to Prime Minister Julius Chan in the early 1980s. He was "long-time general secretary" of the People"s Progress Party.
In 1994, Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea, on the advice of the Papua New Guinean government, appointed him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, "for community services".
The Zurenuoc family has had a number of distinguished members. He died in Portuguese Moresby on 5 February 2008 "after undergoing medical treatment".
