OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20840, 27 April 1933, Page 15

OBITUARY.

MR W. HEWITT. Mr William Hewitt, well known on Banks Peninsula, died at Akaroa on Monday at the age of 81. He was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand in 1883 in the Crusader. For many years he was engaged in contracting, and one of his largest works was the reclamation of the site of the Akaroa Recreation Ground. He also formed some of the roads in the district. Later Mr Hewitt was engaged in farming on a property on the Long Bay road. He retired about 15 years ago, said has lived in Akaroa since. In 1887, he married Miss J. Morgan, who died 18 years ago. There 'gras no family. MR A. FOSTER. (press association telegram.) GISBORNE, April 26. Advice has been received of the death in San Francisco of Mr Arnold Foster, a member of a wellknown Gisborne family, who as a young man- went to America and rose to the treasurership and later the vice-presidency of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, a position which he held for many ye&re. During the war Mr Foster was given charge of the works established at Montreal for the construction of submarines for the Allies. At the time of his death, which was the result of a motor accident, he was president of the All American Steel Products Company. MR J. S. D. HYSLOP. | (MOU ont OWN eOaaBSPOWMBOT.) j LONDON, March 21. At London Hospital the death oc- [ curred on March 15 of Mr James Sidney Donaldson Hyslop, a well- | known New Zealander, who was, | until lately, advertising manager of the New Zealand Associated Press. He had been under treatment at the London Hospital .for a few weeks, but even the most skilled attention cQuld not restore him to health. The end came very peacefully. Mr Hyslop was weft known and very popular in Fleet street, as well as in North London, where he resided and where he was known as a lecturer—"Pepys" being a favourite subject. At Golders Green yesterday, Mr Hyslop's body was cremated. The family was represented in the chapel by Mr Ninian Hyslop (son) and the Messrs van X>ennep (brothers-in-law). Mr D. J. Thomas (London manager of the New Zealand Press Association) and Mr Douglas Wilson (of the advertising staff of the New Zealand Press Association), accompanied the relations from the house in Highgate. Others present in the chapel were Mr W. J. Richardson (worshipful master), Mr T. Shepheard (past master), members of the Masonic Lodge, Cranbourne, Hatfield, of which Mr Hyslop had been abrother, Mr F. W. Sullivan (representing the Thirty Club, of which Mr Hyslop had been a member), Mr H. A. Lawrence, Mr W. L. Russell, and Mr T. J. Pemberton (all of the staff of the London office of the New Zealand Associated Press), Mr Walter Loveridge, Mr John R. Duncan, Mr James A. Rennie, Mr C. E. Brass, Mr Airs, and others with whom Mr Hyslop had been for more than 20 years associated in Fleet street. There was no religious service, but as the coffin rested in the chapel and afterwards passed Into the inner chamber, the official organist, Mr F. W. Belchamber, played by request Handel's "Largo" and Grieg's "Ases Tod." Mrs Hyslop and two son® .survive. For them much sympathy is expressed.