HAY, PETER SETON (1852-1907) was born in Glasgow and, arriving in Otago by the Storm Cloud (1860), completed his education at Otago University. There he graduated B.A. in 1877, being the first Otago student to receive that degree. In the following year he graduated M.A., with first-class honours in mathematics. Having entered the Public Works department as a cadet in 1875, he was appointed in 1879 an assistant engineer in Dunedin. In 1884 he was transferred to Wellington; in 1886 he became resident engineer; in 1896 superintending engineer for the Colony, and in 1906 Engineer-in-chief. He did much valuable technical work, his reports on hydro-electrical power in New Zealand rivers being very sound. Hay died on 19 Mar 1907.

Otago Daily Times, 7 May 1877; N.Z. Times, 20 Mar 1907.

Reference: Volume 1, page 202

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