OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 2

OBITUARY

IVIR. R. S. ROUNTHWAITE

Well known in the province as a civil engineer, and formerly Cify Engineer at ■Wellington, Mr. Richard Septimn* Eounthwaitt; aied at his residence, 201, Sutherland road, Lyall Bay,'yesterday morning at the age of 77. He leaves £ widow and an adult family"lof"fiv» sont and one daughter—Messrs. A, Honnth* waits <Chnstchurevh) v Lewis H. Eonnthwaite (Timaru), Brian and Erie Eodnthwaite (Wellington), , Walter Bounthwaito (Khandallah), and MiM M. Rounthwaito (Wellington)." The lato Mr. Kounthwaite -waa born, in Sunderland, England, "in 1854, and served his articles as a civil engineer with Messrs. Meek and SesYrit, of Sunderland. He acted" a« assistant t»/ Mr. Philip Brannon, civil engineer, of Westminster, and for four years wm attached to the Barrack Branch of the War Office, under Colonel Seddon, BJB. In 1878 he was appointed „ chief draughtsman for the county bptttngh of Sunderland. Six months later he wa» promoted assistant surveyor" and in the following yea* he* "was appointed engineer and surveyor,-which part h« held until 1898. In 1899 r , Mr. Eounthwaite came out to' Now Zealand to take the position of City" Engineer at Wellington. The City'Engineer'a Department m those days, was;i4 Panama street. Hr. Eounthwaite held'the, ofdc* of City Engineer until' 1904, whe^ h». cntcrad private practice as an architect- -ana civil en£ineer,.Twi.tn offices ia Willis street. t • "^_ Mr. Eounlhwaite was a nxember of the Association of Municipal. *nd County 'Engineers (England), the' Ib.stitute of, Civil and the Institute of Local .Goyernment I Engineers (New Zealand). \Oa'ir» in> ception in~1914 le was" elecfeS p'resiaent of the Kcw Zealand Bdcie"ly of I Civil Engineers. Three, mantis later he resigned the presidency to jtake up the secretaryship of that organisation, which position he occupied nntil 1»2«. Last July Mr. and 3to-BountSwait» celebrated their golden wed^iag^ "Mr. Kounthwaite was, t*ie last *ijrrtnntr ' | member of his' generation, -fa., ha I younger Says ho took an'iniewjt ia i cricket apd lioxing. , ~.k ; """ ' I The funeral takes place tomuntr*