PROFESSOR R. J. SCOTT

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 11

PROFESSOR R. J. SCOTT

i X GREAT ENGINEER

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The death occurred in ii private hospital on Saturday of Kobert Julian Scott, emeritus pro'fqssor of. engineering at Canterbury College." . . . Professor Scott was director of. the Canterbury Colleges: School of..Engineering from its foundation in 1889 until has'retirement in. 1923, and he was absolutely outstanding . among New Zealand engineers^ He was the son of Rear-Admiral R. A. G. Scott,'and was a cousin of Captain Robert JTalcon\Scott, the1 South Polar explorer. He ' was born.at Plymouth in 1861, and was educated at the Abbey School, Beckenham, at the Rural School of Mines, and at King's College,. London. . The deceased took a position with the New. Zealand Government Railways- in 1881, and .was. draughtsman, pfficp engineer, ..works engineer-at Addington rand Hillside, .and locomotive superintendent. 111,1889 he took up his position at Canterbury College, and he was a follow, of the University of New Zealand from 1903 until 1923. He served on many advisory bodies and commissions, and. was chairman of the Addington Workshops- Commission of the Royal Commission on transport, and also on railway rolling stock, and chairman of the Munitions. Commission. He wag a member of the council of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and.tho New" Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, and a fellow of tho American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Professor Scott was well known in yachting circles, as he was. one of the founders of the Eoyal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. He had. a wide reputation as a designer and critic of yachts, and took, a considerable part in racing and cruising himself. He lived during, the summer on his island of Horomaungu, at Port Levy, which he made the base for many, cruises, continuing his yachting right up to the time of his death.