The Spike or Victoria College Review, October 1903
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Douglas Hector was educated at Wellington College. On leaving school he spent two years in New South Wales at scientific work, afterwards spending a year as chemist in a factory at Petone. In 1901 he became an Undergraduate at Victoria College, gaining the Sir George Grey Scholarship at the end of his first year. He had entered for the Senior Scholarship in Physics at the coming November examinations. Leaving for a holiday trip with Sir James Hector, he arrived at Honolulu in the best of health. The nest news which reached New Zealand told that, he had died of peritonitis at Revelstoke.