MR. W. T. RITCHIE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TIMARU, This Day,
The death occurred yesterday of Mr. W. T. Ritchie, chairman of the Timaru Harbour Board, aged 58. Mr. Ritchie was born in Dunedin and educated at Otago Boys' High' School and Wanganui College, where he gained his cap for cricket, Rugby, and rowing. He left Wanganui in 1901 for St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took an engineering degree. He coined his university blue for Rugby in 1904 and his Scottish international cap in 1905, playing against England, Wales, and Ireland as wing-three-quarter.
Mr. Ritchie served for a time in the National Mortgage office, London. Then he came back to New Zealand and took up farming, which" he followed since. He served in- the latter part" of the Great War in the • artillery. He was a member of a number of local bodies and an ardent churchman. He leaves a wife, three sons, and one daughter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 12
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