OBITUARY
MR ROBERT HAY Word was received to-day that Mr Robert Hav, civil engineer, of Dunedin, died last night at the Wailorao Caves. Mr Hay had been making a motoring trip of the two islands. Mr Hay was a very well known and in his time very prominent citizen of Dunedin. Ho was born in London in 1847, and arrived in New Zealand in 1860. After serving in Provincial Government employ, be was engineer lor Mr David Prondfoot for two years, being assistant engineer in the construction of the Port Chalmers Railway. From 1876 till 1920 he was in private practice, and during this period was engineer for the Taieri and Tnapeka Counties and the boroughs of Northeast Valiev, West Harbour, Mornington, and St. Kilda, besides being consulting engineer to the city of Dunedin, engineer for the Otago dock and for various water, drainage, and sewerage works, railways, dredges, bridges, hvdro-elcctric and hydraulic installations in all parts of New Zealand. He was formerly a director of the Trustees. Executors, and Agency Company, ‘ Otago Daily Times,’ Milburn Cement Company, and other concerns. He married, in 1869, a daughter of Colonel Coventry, by whom ho had three sons and three daughters.
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Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 4
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199OBITUARY Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 4
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