OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 18 September 1933, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR R. F. GOULTER (By Telegraph—Press Association) BLENHEIM, 15th September. The death occurred this afternoon of Mr Redwood Felix Coulter, of Lake Tiinara, one of Marlborough's leading citizens. The son of Mr Cyrus Coulter, one of the earliest pioneers and explorers of Marlborough, Mr Goulter was born in 1857, and had the distinction of hc-ing the first child registered in the Marlborough district. He was educated at private schools, and entered the Survey Department in 1875. Subsequently he was engaged on the triangulation of Marlborough Sounds and the Wairau Plain. He became district surveyor for Marlborough in 1891, but was compelled to retire shortly afterwards through illness. Then he took up the Lake Timara part of his father’s original ITawkesbury Station, and achieved much success fattening lambs. In 1899 he founded a stud English Leicester flock. In recent years he took up a larger station near Wairoa, Hawkes Bay. The late Air Goulter was very prominent in public affairs. He was for many years chairman of the Wairau Road Board, and latter was the second chairman 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. He was in the forefront for forty years of the agitation for the completion of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, 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.