SIR T. COGHLAN DIED OF ANGINA PECTORIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 10

SIR T. COGHLAN DIED OF ANGINA PECTORIS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 1. Though he previously suffered from angina pectoris, Sir Timothy Coghlan had lately seemed in the best of health and was at his office to-day dealing with the completion of the year’s accounts. The newspapers pay tribute to Sir T. Coghlan as a world-wide celebrity, as a statistician, economist and writer. He is said to have achieved a record among Australian in the amount of loan money floated for his State.

Although the late Sir Timothy Coghlan superseded Sir Arthur Cocks as Agent-General for New South Wales when the Lang Government disagreed with certain actions of Sir Arthur’s he was not a member of the Labour Party. IJe had been connected with the public life of Australia for a great number of vears, and was Agent-Gen-eral from 1905 to 1915, in 1916-17, and again in 1920. He was also the representative of the Commonwealth on the Pacific Cable Board. His chief study has been economics and statistics, especially as applied to New South Wales, and from 1886 to 1905 he was Government Statistician of that- State, as well as being Registrar . of Friendly Societies from 1892 to 1905. Sir Timothy was also a Royal Commissioner to divide New South Wales into electoral districts, and has been a member of numberless other Commissions. He supervised the censuses of 1891 and 1901, and arranged for the uniformity of the census form as between Australia: and New Zealand. In 1902 he • was president of the Australian Association for

the Advancement of Science (Section G, Economics and Statistics), and was a member of the Actuarial Society. He contributed much by way of his pen to subjects relative to the Commonwealth and New Zealand, including “Discharge of Streams in Relation to Rainfall,” “Childbirth/ a Study in Statistics,” “ Deaths of Women in Childbirth,” “ Child Measurement,” “Decline in the Birth Rate of Australia and_ New Zealand,” as well as a Statistical Account of Australia and New Zealand.” He was 68 years old and was born in Sydney, where he was educated at the Grammar School.