OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. ERNEST EUGSTER

\ WORTHY CITIZEN

Many friends in Auckland will loam with regret that. Mr. Erae«t Eugster % - as found lying unconscious in his house, Summer . Street, Ponsonby, on Wednesday, having evidently suffered from a stroke. Hβ had been living alone, and as there were four days' collection of newspapers outside the houee, it ie feared that he had been by himself all that time. Mr. Eugster was removed to Auckland Hospital, where he died on Saturday. Born 83 years ago, Mr. Eugster was Swiss Commissioner at the Exhibitions of Philadelphia, Sydney and Melbourne. In the early eighties he commenced farming in New Zealand at Mauku. on the Helvetia estate. Subsequently he started in business in Queen Street, Auckland, and eventually retired to live quietly at his home in Ponsonby. Keenly interested in every'hing connected with the welfare of young people, Mr. Eugster was well known to boys of a generation ago. Ho was official visitor of tho Auckland Sunday School Union. Thoroughly naturalised as a British subject, Mr. Eugster wns keenly interested in local politic*. In 1H96 he stood for election for Auckland City as an independent candidate, but was not successful, as he had no organisation. He stated afterwnrds that in his country, Switzerland, the prfictice was for a candidate to merely intimate tMat he was willing to stand, and it was for those who wanted hie services, to see that he was returnrd. Mr. Eugster had good ideas about the beautiflcation of the waterfront long before town planning was in vogue He placed drawings in shop windows, showing how Auckland harbour could be kept beautiful. There were basins with locks to imprison the tide on each side of tho wharves, and the various points wero depicted converted into handrfome plantations, whereas they have since been cut down to provide filling in for reclamation work. Mr. Eugster. in his younger days, was a great worker for the church.