DEATH OF FORMER CHIEF INSPECTOR
LATE MR. PETER GOYEN Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. Mr. Peter Goyen, ex-chief inspector of schools and a well-known educational author, died to-day at the ago of 81. The late Mr. Goyen was born at St. Anstell, England, and after completing his education took up teaching in Victoria from 1874 to 1878. He became inspector of schools in Southland in the latter year, and held the same position in Otago from 1882 to 1911. He was specially interested in geology* and in the study of flora and the spiders of New Zealand. He had been secretary of the Athenaeum at Dunedin since 1914.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 9
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