OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1917, Page 4

OBITUARY.

[ MR. P. W .MARCHANT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. News has been received by cable of tbf death, in England, on February 11, ol Frederick William Marchant, well known' in New Zealand a.s a civil engineer. He had much to do with the earlier harbor works at Timaru, and laid out the. New Plymouth breakwater. He was consulting engineer at Gisbome and elsewhere. At Gisborne he laid out the watter supply and drainage system. As engineer to local bodies hero ho laid out many systems of water races. Ha built the first furro-eonciete bridge in New Zealand for Opihi, and designed and carried "but in many places a system of confining vagrant shingle rivers at bridges, by means of artificial banks, which have been the means of saving thousands to the local authorities here and elsewhere. Hi; leaves a widow, twt married daughtersymd one son, Di. Eric Merchant, of the New Zealand Arm} Medical Corps, now in France. Anothcl son, Captain in the Bth Mounted Rifles was killed in Egypt. (Mr Marchant, who was about 03 year* of age, was born in England, and was a brother of Mr G. A. Marchant, of Cardin", formerly chairman of the Stratford County Council. His widow Is a sister of Mr Newton King, and to her and the family will be extended the sympathy of many in Taranaki. The late Mr Marchant was consulting engineer to the New Plymouth Harbor Board, until his retirement from prao» tioe a short time ago. He went to England last year for health reasons).