OLD COLONIST KILLED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

OLD COLONIST KILLED.

* (From "The Colonist," Feb. 18.) \ There was unfortunately a fatal I termination to a railway accident on the Main Trunk line on Monday morning* '. when Mr David Scott, of No. 343, Wellington terrace, who was returning from a visit to Auckland, was killed be- . tween Te Horo and Waikanae. Wellington .papers state that, the deceased gentleman was travelling from Auckland v on the Main Trunk express, and when the train had passed' Otaki he went on ; to the platform, and was thrown on to ' the line. A railway official in a slow train travelling in the opposite direction saw the injured man lying on the line, ' and immediately procured assistance. 1 Mr Scott was taken to Otaki with all speed, but his injuries to limbs and head were so severe that he died almost ! immediately. Mr Scott was 72 years of age and resided with his family at ! Wellington terrace. For some time past he had been in indifferent health. Ho was born at Launcesfon, Tasmania, in 1842, and came to New Zealand when ten years old with his father, Captain Richard Scott, owner and master of the brig Spray, an old-time trader, with painted ports. When Nelson College was opened, young David Scott was one of the first twelve pupils. He left Nelson when 18 years of age, and went to Sydney, where he served an apprenticeship to the shipbuilding trade. At the time of the Gabriel's Gully gold rush he 1 returned to New Zealand, and about this period fitted out Mr J. Dransfield's ship City of Newcastle. For a time he was with the Panama Shipping Com- ' pany. He was in the service of the Marine Department for a while, and then took sewice with the Public Works Department as inspector of _ railway bridges on the Manawatu-Wanganui line, then under construction. He joined the Marine Department permanently in 1380, and for 31 years held the position of lighthouse' expert and ' inspector of lighthouses. He superin- ■ tended the erection of a number of im- > portant lights, including those at Cape i Campbell, Stephens Island, Jackson's Point, Portland Island, Cuvier Island, Pejicarrow, - Nugget Head, Akaroa Head, and Cape Maria van Diemen. His last work was the erection of the lighthouse at Cape Brett. He retired on superannuation at the end of IDIO.