DEATH AT 58 YEARS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 14

DEATH AT 58 YEARS

TIMARU PERSONALITY MR. W. T. RITCHIE PASSES (IVr Press Association.) TIMARU, this day. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. W. T. Ritchie chairman of the Timaru Harbour Board, aged 53 years. Mr. Ritchie was horn in Dunedin. He received his school education ai the Otago Boys’ High School and Wanganui College, where lie gained caps in cricket and Rugby. He also rowed for the college. He left Wanganui in 1901 for St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took an engineering degree, lie was a ’Varsity Rugby blue in 1904 and a Scottish international in 1905, playing against England, Wales and Ineland-as wing three-quarter. Mr. Ritchie served for a time in the National Mortgage Office, London. He came back to New Zealand and look up farming, which he had followed since. He served in the latter part cf the Great War in the artillery. He was a member of , . umb t •: local bodies and p.n ardvit :■! i-r i man. He leaves a. widow and ■throe ~o: nnd one daughter. Cue sm. Mr. Eilrn TTMchie. h'r>relf r.s member of the Cambridge Rugby team wn cn toured America last year.