xvi Obituary. 
CHARLES ALFRED EWEN, 1852-1921. 
THE late Mr. C. A. Ewen was born at Birmingham, England, in 1852—a 
son of Walter Ewen, who came to New Zealand in 1854, and settled in 
Auckland. He was educated in the Auckland High School, where he won 
the medal for special ability. 
ship of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, which position he held 
up to the date of his death. 
and Government representative on the Board of Science and Art. He was 
He was keenly interested in science and art, and his collection of books 
dealing particularly with New Zealand and Australia, made during his 
, very extensive, as, too, was 
usy business man and assiduous 
ly one paper in the Transactions of the 
Institute, he materially assisted the Institute in his position of Honorary 
Treasurer. 
He married, in 1883, Jane Dou 
Sutton, of Hawke's Bay, M.P. for 
died at his home on 9th April, 1 
glas, daughter of the late Frederick 
that district for a number of years, and 
921, leaving a widow and two daughters. 
JOHANNES C. ANDERSEN. 
