Mr Eric Livingstone

Press, 1 June 1985, Page 28

Mr Eric Livingstone

Mr Eric Malcolm Livingstone, who gave outstanding service to the R.S.A. in the various communities in which he worked during his career as a schoolteacher, died this week. He was 62. Mr Livingstone was to have been presented with a Gold Star for executive services at a Kaiapoi R.S.A. function next week. He was a life member of the Christchurch R.S.A. and he was secretary of the Kaiapoi R.S.A. at the time of his death. He had given 27 years executive sejwice to various R.S.A.s.

During World War 11, Mr Livingstone served in the Royal New Zealand Navy

with the rank of sub-lieuten-ant.

Mr Livingstone was educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School and the then Canterbury University College. He spent most of his teaching career in small rural centres, beginning as a sole teacher at the former Tormore School, near Cheviot.

After spending 18 months at Parangahau in the North Island, he was headmaster successively at Woodend and at the former district high schools at Kaikoura and Southbridge before retiring to Kaiapoi. He was a keen sportsman. An excellent sprinter, he represented Canterbury at

athletics and used his speed to good effect as a rugby wing and midfield back He played senior rugby for University in Christchurch and later represented the Hurunui sub-union.

Mr Livingstone gave dedicated service as a rugby referee in three sub-unions: Hurunui, North Canterbury, and Ellesmere. He was the second president of the Canterbury Country Rugby Referees’ Association, which was formed in 1961.

He was a past master of the Southern Cross Masonic Lodge.

Mr Livingstone is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter.