OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 25, 10 November 1930, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MR ROBERT DUNCAN.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day

Mr Robert Duncan, one of the bestknown competition fire brigadesmen in the Dominion, is £ead, aged 51. He gained first honours in every event on demonstration programmes, and twice won the Gilbert Memorial Shield.

PROFESSOR R. J. SCOTT.

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

Professor Robert Juiian Scott, an eminent engineer, formerly Director of the School of Engineering, Canterbury College, and Piofessor Emeritus, died at Christchurch on Saturday, aged 69. On his retirement, in 1923, he went to live at Horomonga Island, Port Levy. For some time past his health had been indifferent, and a month ago he was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital. Professor Scott, who was the son of ltear-Admirai R. A. G. Scott, was born at Plymouth in 1861. He was educated at Abbey School, Beckenham, at King’s College, ’London., and the Royal College of Mines. He received railway engineering experience in England, and then came to New Zealand, joining the railway service in 1881. H.e occupied the position of locomotive draughtsman, manager of Addington workshops, designer for the locomotive department, and acting-locomotive superintendent. He was appointed part-time lecturer in engineering at Canterbury College in 1888, and lecturer-in-charge in 1890.

Four years later, when the position of Director of the School of Engineering was created, Professor Scott was appointed, and he made it his life’s work. Beginning with practically no equipment and appliances, he left behind, on his retirement, a school which is recognised as one of the best equipped in'the Southern Hemisphere. He received the honour of the Emeriti

Professorship in 1922. As an engineer before his appointment to the college, Professor Scott designed and operated, in Dunedin the first motor-car in New Zealand or Australia, a 35' h.p. steam buggy. In 1881 he designed' for the New Zealand Railways the first insulated waggon for the carriage of frozen meat. He also designed the first locomotive built m the Dominion, and was the originator of the “Prairie” type of locomotive, originally termed in America the “Scott” type. ...... lf As a sportsman he identified Inmselr with the early days of cycle racing, but outside his profession he was best known to the people of New Zealand through his yachting. In 1889 he married Gertrude, daughter of Mr Charles Baven, Mrs Scott died in 1909.

DR. JOHN D. LANGLEY. MELBOURNE, Nov. 9. The Right Rev. John D. Langley, formerly Bishop of Bendigo, is dead; aged 94. MR R. L. OUTHWAITE. LONDON, November 8. The death has occurred of Mr R. L. Outlnvaite, a former member of the House of Commons, at the age of bl years. He won the Distinguished Service Cross at the attack on Zeebrugge.

Mr Outhwaite, who was born in Tasmania- in 1869, spent his early life m country pursuits. He contested the West Birmingham seat in 1906, in the Liberal interests, and the Hornsey seat in 1910 He was elected to the Hou6e in 1912 for Hanley, and sat until 1918.

GENERAL T. H. BLISS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. The death has occurred of General Tasker H. Bliss at the age of seventysix Years. Durinp" the war lie was Chief of Staff of the' American armies in France.