OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22060, 16 September 1933, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR F. O. BRIDGEMAN Mr Frederick Orlando Bridgeman, who died at New Plymouth on Thursday, was born at Tavistock,* England, 84 years ago. He went to India as a young man, and was employed at Calcutta in the Oriental Bank. Later he came to New Zealand, and joined the Colonial Bank. When that bank was taken over by the Bank of New Zealand Mr Bridgeman entered its service, and was for some years manager at Timaru and Tauranga. Later he acted, as assistant manager in Dunedin under the late Mr Alexander Michie, After retiring from the service of the Bank of New Zealand Mr Bridgeman joined the firm of Messrs Neill and Co„ Ltd., and was appointed a director. Increasing years caused him to retire finally from business pursuits. A few months ago Mr Bridgeman left Dunedin on a health trip through New Zealand, but he became seriously ill at New Plymouth and he died there on Thursday. Mr Bridgeman did not take any great part in public life. He was, however, keenly interested in the activities of the St. Clair Improvement Society, of which he was president for some years, and he was also a very popular member of the St. Clair Bowling Club. Mr Bridgeman was married to a daughter of Mr P. 0. Neill, and his wife died eight years ago. He is survived by a family of four sons and one daughter —Messrs Percy (who resides in London), Frederick O. (Wanganui), Charles B. (who is employed in the State Forestry Department), Terence (Wellington), and Mrs C. T. Irvine (St. Clair). A son, Guy, who. had been invalided from the war, died in camp during the influenza epidemic.

MR R. F. COULTER (Per United Press Association.) BLENHEIM, September 15. The death occurred this afternoon of Mr Redwood Felix Coulter, of Lake Timara, one of Marlborough’s leading citizens. He was a son of Mr Cyrns Coulter, one of the earliest pioneers and explorers of the Marlborough district. Mr Coulter was born in 1857 and had tho 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 was engaged in triangulation in the Marlborough Sounds and standard survey of roads in the Wairau Plain, and he became district surveyor for Marlborough in 1891, but was compelled to retire shortly afterwards through illness. He then took up part of his father’s original Hawkcsbury Station, and achieved much success in fattening lambs. In 1899 he founded a stud English Lancaster flock. In recent years he purchased a larger station near Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay. Mr Coulter was very prominent in public affairs and for many years was chairman of the Wairau Road Board and in later years was second chairman of the Marlborough County Council. He was also first chairman of the old Land and Railway League and first president of the Marlborough Progress League for which the original body made way. He 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 was married in 1880 to Theresa Catherine Bolton, daughter of Mr Edward Bolton, of Nelson, by whoy he is survived.