thanks should go to Sir William, who in 1962 financed the two automatic electronic beacons. One was placed on Martello Rock, the other on Kawati Point and named, on Sir William's instruction, Dyson and Thornton lights respectively after two former Senior Auckland Engineers. Supporting Medicine It was however, the medical research and surgical fields that captured the true interest and respect of Sir William. Having enjoyed good health himself, he did everything in his power to ensure that others less fortunate led a comfortable life. In 1962 Sir William provided funds for the building and setting up of the University of Auckland Anatomy School at Greenlane hospital, enabling courses in physiology and pathology to be undertaken in Auckland. In 1965 he financed a lecture course in Auckland in cardiac surgery and heart-lung physiology attended by the worlds leading surgeons, amongst them, Dr Christian Barnard. In 1975 Sir William endowed two teaching chairs at the Auckland University School of Medicine. Through the establishment of a Trust, the chair in Orthopedic Surgery enabled teaching and research and provided funds for research and development in Orthopedic Surgery. The second chair was that of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery which funded teaching and research in that area. He also provided Middlemore Hospital with micro-surgery equipment necessary for plastic surgery. In 1977 Sir William endowed a further Chair at the Auckland School of Medicine known as the Sir William and Lady Stevenson Chair of Ophthalmology. It was the first established professorship in NZ dealing with and made Sir William the only person to have established three chairs at the University. He also provided Christchurch Hospital with equipment for diagnosing certain diseases of the eyes. eye diseases Sir William gained enormous please from meeting people who had benefited from his benevolence. They included a man who, unable to see for seven years because of an eye disease was able to drive his car following surgery; a man, who after a factory accident had his hand sewn on again using the micro-surgery equipment and Middlemore and numerous people underwent cardiac surgery with equipment provided by himself. In 1983 he set up the Sir William and Lady Stevenson Deafness Research Fellowship, funding research and development in deafness and related ear problems. Death and legacy On 29 November 1983, Stevenson died at the age of 82. In 1995, he was posthumously inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.