OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume X, Issue 2315, 25 February 1891, Page 2

OBITUARY.

MR PETER FAWCETT.

It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Mr Peter Fawcett, contractor, Hampstead. Mr Fawcett, who was a native cf County Wicklow, Ireland, came to this colony m 1851, and m-the course of his early New Zealand career did valuable work m the construction of the Sumner road and the bridle track to Lyttelton over the Port Hills. He was then working under Mr Dodson, the well known engineer to the Canterbury Provincial Council, and among other of the many works upon which he was engaged may be mentioned the main drain through the Halswell district. In 1860 he took a farm on the banks of the Ashley, which he occupied for over twenty years, filling several public positions the while. In 1882 he removed to Ashburton, and has been m this district ever since. He was a member of the Hampstead Town Board and School Committee, and for the last two terms was chairman of the former body. About five'months a«o he suffered a bad attack of pleurisy which defied .medical skill, and? his long and tedious illness terminated last night m his death at the age of sixty-one. Mr Fawcott leaves a wife and ten of a family, all grown up. His funeral will leave his residence at Hampstead to-morrow at 'diree o'clock.