OBITUARY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 359, 16 September 1933, Page 3

OBITUARY

MR R. F. GOULTER Press Association— Copyright. Blenheim, Sept. 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. Cyrus Goulter, one of the pioneers and explorers of Marlborough. Mr. Goulter was born in 1857 and had the distinction of being the first child registered in the Marlborough district. He was educated at ,§cl]ools and entered the Survey Department in 1870. He was subsequently engaged m the triangulation of the Marlborough Sounds and the standard survey of roads in the Wairau Plains. He became district surveyor for Marlborough in 1891 but was compelled to retire shortly afterwards through illness. He then took up Lake Timara, part of his father's original Hawkesbury station, and achieved much success in fattening lambs. In 1899 Mr. Goulter founded a stud of English Lancaster sheep. In recent years he took up a larger station near Wairoa, 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 chairman of the Marlborough County Council. He j was also first chairman of the old Lane 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 railway and was keenly interested in afforestation. He married in 1880 Miss Theresa Catherine' Bolton, a daughter of Mr. Ldward Bolton, Nelson.