DEATH OF MR .J. L. OOSTAR, M.H.R.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1435, 18 December 1886, Page 3

DEATH OF MR .J. L. OOSTAR, M.H.R.

■ ♦ CHKIbTCHUKOH, December 17 Mr J>»hn Lewis Os er, M.H.R fir Heatbcot ■, died at Opaws this afters,o n alter a long illness He w-s ab ut fi'ty years old, and a eon of a medic-.l man at Exeter. He came ne riy thirty years ago to Sydney, and shortly af.er that came to Few Z 'Awnd and «as ;«r a little time an > Hi.;' r in the Onion k Ho snort afterwards j 'toed ‘he Bank of ! New Z.-aianii ami w.utted up its udtx-ss in Ohi’Vtchu ch with groat energy and 1 ability, and became its manager a’, a c mp«r«*iroly o-r'y age He took a Frontmen' pr-rt in -founding the Few Zealand Loan std Mercantile Company, and wsa voocf .lie pri olpal promoters of the Now Z j alard b pping Company at ha formation In 1373 and wstn el-c ed first chairman of dit ec ors in 1831. Ho restgn-d the managership of the Bank of New Zealand, and was appointed managing director of the Shipping Company, a position which, with the chairmanship, ‘to held till Marc ? last, waeu failing health como«f|pd him to resign Dir i; g his term of • ffi;o ha t»c vs 1 tad Kn

land on business coanectfd with the di»eot s'oatu service, of which he was virt mby t ve founder-