OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27196, 27 September 1949, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR F. W. FURKERT PA WELLINGTON. Sept. 26. Mr Frederick William Furkert, a Wellington city councillor and a former chief engineer and Undersecretary of the Works Department, died in hospital to-night. Mr Furkert, who was 72 years old, had been in hosDital for many weeks. He was born at Ross, Westland, and was educated at the Hokitika High School, Wellington College and Otago University. He served in the Works Department for 39 years, rising to head of the department before his retirement in 1932. His association with the Works Department brought him into close association with large projects in New Zealand, such as the main trunk railway, the Otago irrigation scheme the Otira tunnel. 1 Mansahae.

Arapuni and Waikaremoana hydroelectric works, and the Tawa Flat deviation. A former president of the New Zealand Institute of Civil Engineers; Mr Futkert recently gave £SOO to found a scholarship in engineering. Mr Furkert held the decorations of Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Awarded in 1926, and the Order of the Brilliant Star, a Chinese award made in 1947.

A rubbish fire in Lawyer's Head road «jvas attended to by the South Dunedin Fire Brigade at 11.40 a.m. yesterday. At 5.22 p.m. a call to a hedge ftte m Shetland street was answered by the jßoslyn Brigade.