Former administrator dead

Press, 14 August 1978, Page 4

Former administrator dead

Mr Leslie George Amos, who died in Christchurch this week, was well known as a central city businessman and sports administrator, but was probably most noted for his long local body service. He was 72. His local body service included sitting on the City Council, the Lyttelton Harbour Board, the Road Tunnel Authority and the Selwyn Plantation Board. After leaving the Marist Brothers School in 1919. Mr Amos tried a variety of occupations before joining his father in furniture manufacturing. In the early 1930 s he branched out on his own in furniture and furnishing, .and owned several shops before moving to the High and Lichfield Street premises which bore his name until it was taken over by Butterfields, Ltd. His involvement in local 1 bodies began in 1944 when he was elected to the city ! council as a Citizens’ Association candidate. He re-

mained on the council untill 1959, serving on many committees and, chairman of the electricity committee. After a voluntary break

from the council, Mr Amos remained in public life as a member of the Harbour Board — representing the Waimairir county and the Riccarton borough, and of the Road Tunnel Authority) to which he was appointed by the council when the authority was first established in 1956, eight years before the tunnel epfened. As chairman of the authority’s traffic and public i relations committee. Mr Amos continued an association with traffic control that had begun with his council service, and he regularly attended conferences of' die New Zealand Traffic Institute. Mr Amos retired from business while comparatively young, although he had finance company interests and acted as a val- | uer. This left him more time for local body work, and he returned to the council at the 1965 election and re-! mained there until 1974,1

when he did not seek reelection. His harbour board service dated from 1956 until the election last year, when he stood down, it included six (years as chairman. Mr Amos was a good rugby player, and was a member of the Marist Rugby Club when it switched codes to league in 1924. He continued his football with the i Addington Rugby League Club, and when his playing days ended served both his club arid province as an official. He was president of the Canterbury Rugby League for more than 20 years and its patron between 1965 and 1973. Other sporting interests included tennis. boxing, wrestling and golf He owned several racehorses, but without any notable success. Mr Amos was married and had one daughter, hut both his wife and child predeceased him.