OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1922, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MR. WALTER BEWLEY. The death occurred at New Plymouth on .Saturday afternoon of an old Taranaki resident, Mr. Walter Bewley. The late Mr. Bewley, who was 66 years of age, had been in indifferent health since his return from a trip to England in 1915, but his illness was more pronounced in recent months, and the end came peacefully on Saturday after-

The late Mr. Bewley was born in Cheshire, England, in 1855, and was educated at Greenwood College, Hampshire, and the Victoria University, Manchester, and afterwards gained commercial knowledge on the Liverpool exchange. He came to NeW Zealand in the ship Himalaya, and after a tour round the North Island on horseback he decided to settle in Taranaki, buying five hundred acres of laifd between Stratford and Inglewood. Mr. Bewley resided there for 16 years and improved his property- in a very complete manner. He then retired -from farming, and after a tfme commenced a land agency business in New Plymouth, which eventually developed into the large auctioneering and agency business later carried on by the firm of Bewley and Griffiths. Mr. Bewley for many years took an active part in local affairs, and was chairman of the Taranaki County Council, president of the Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the New Plymouth Harbor Board and the High Schools Board of Governors.

During the Parihaka disturbances Mr. Bewley commanded a company of volunteers. In conjunction with the late Mr. Thomas Bayly, he imported the first separators into Taranaki for their private use. Mr. Bewley was at once tme a prominent local cricketer, ' and later devoted his spare time to shooting. fishing and golf. His indoor hobby was wood-carving, of which he did a great deal. < In LBB2 Mr. Bewley married a granddaughter of Sir James Brind, G.C.B. He I is survived by his widow, one son (Mr. 'Austin Bewley, of New Plymouth), and. | one daughter (Mrs. R. H. Quilliam,, of |JNew ‘