GAVE FORTUNES AWAY.
SIR HALLEY STEWART DEAD.
(Received 11 a.m.)
LONDON, January 27
The death is reported of Sir Halley Stewart, wealthy Hertfordshire brickmaker and philanthropist. He was 99 last week.
Sir Halley was one of 14 children of a Congregational minister of Barnst whose stipend was £2 a week. He threw over a bank clerkship in his 'teens and entered business. He gave away several fortunes to charity and established a trust to give poor youths a university education.
MISSING YACHT ASHORE.
INDIAN YOUTHS ARRESTED
SUVA, January 27.
The cutter Resolution arrived at Suva this evening and reported that the yacht Seafarer (five tons), which disappeared from Suva on December 28, went ashore on the island of Fulangi, in the Southern Lau Group, 200 miles frbni Suva. The yacht was undamaged.
Four Indian youths who were on board were arrested by the District Commissioner's boat. The Seafarer, which visited Auckland in 1933 and 1934, was being returned to Suva by the Fijian youths, who showed little knowledge of seamanship and lost the dinghy and all the anchors.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 7
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