MARLBOROUGH IDENTITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 16 September 1933, Page 2

MARLBOROUGH IDENTITY

MR R. F. GOULTER PASSES. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Sept. 15. The death occurred this afternoon of Mr Redward Felix Goulter, of Lake Timara, one of Marlborough’s leading citizens, son of Mr Cyrus Goulter, one of the earliest pioneers and explorers of Marlborough. The late Mr Goulter was born in 1857, and had the distinction of being the first child registered in the Marlborough district. He was educated at private schools, and entered the Survey Department in 1875, and subsequently engaged in the triangulation of Marlborough Sounds and the standard survey of roads in the Wairau Plain. He became District Surveyor for Marlborough in 1891, but was compelled to retire shortly' afterwards through illness. He then took up the Lake Timara paid of liis father’s original Hawkesbury station, and achieved much success in fattening lambs. In 1899 ho founded a stud English Leicester flock. In recent years he took up a larger station near IVairoa, Hawke’s Bay. Mr Goulter was very prominent in public affairs. For many years he was chairman of the Wairau Road Board, and in later years was second chaiman of the Marlborough County Council. He was also the first chairman of the old Land and Railway League, and the first president of the Marlborough Progress League, for which the original body made way. Ho was in the forefront for 40 years of the agitation for the completion of the South Island Main Trunk, and was also keenly interested in afforestation. He married in 1880 Miss Theresa Catherine Bolton, a daughter of Mr Edward Bolton, of Nelson, and leaves a widow and daughters.