OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. WILLIAM H. HASWELL. ADVENTUROUS LIFE AT SEA. An adventurous career on the sea was terminated by the death at St. Luke's Road, Mount Albert, at the age of 84 years of Mr. William Henry Haswell. An interesting interview with Mr. Haswell appeared in the "Star" a few months ago. He was born in Nova Scotia and came to Auckland with his parents in 1856 in the ship Gertrude. Mr. Haswell served during the war in the Waikato and was at the battle of Rangiriri. After hostilities ended he went to sea as one of the crew of the brigatine Kenilworth to New Caledonia. He next joined the "blackbirding" cutter Woodstock, recruiting native labour in the New Hebrides and other island groups. Upon his return to New Zealand, Mr. Haswell worked as a shipwright at Aratapu, and later on the wooden framework of the first railway station at Auckland, near Fort Britomart. On the discovery of gold at Thames, Mr. Haswell sailed there in a yacht and got work installing mining machinery. With a brother-in-law Mr. Haswell built a schooner at Mangawai, and ran in the coastal trade as far south as Lyttelton. Upon abandoning a sea life later on Mr. Haswell was foreman for contractors building bridges. He worked on the first wooden bridge on the Manukau, connecting Mangero with Onehunga. Twenty years ago Mr. Haswell retired. Mr. Haswell is survived by his wife and seven children. All the sons served in the Great War. Following are the children: Messrs. Drummond, Harry and Herbert Haswell, and Mesdames W. J Hammill, C. Vahry and H. Preston, of Auckland, and Mrs. C. Maguire, of Sydney. MRS. E. M. HUNT. A link with early Taranaki was severed on Monday by the death of Mrs. Ellen Ann Hunt (nee Shore), who was born in New Plymouth in 1859. She married early in life, and her husband was fanning successively in the Leppcrton, Inglewood and Kangitikei districts and on the Waimate North Plains until he retired in 1927. He died four years ago. Mrs. Hunt is survived by seven sons and eight daughters, all of whom are residing in the North Island, the majority of the family being in Taranaki districts. MR. J. S. TEMPLE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. Joseph Stephenson Temple has died at the age of 53 years. Ho was well known in sporting and musical circles, having been vice-president of the Avonside Tennis Club and a former member of tho Clirietcliurcli Football Club. A