OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR, L. R. WILSON. It was briefly announced in our Stoppress column last evening that Mr Leslie It. Wilson, of the firm of R. Wilson and Co., had collapsed and died suddenly on the express train between limaru and Oamaru yesterday afternoon. Ho was returning with Mrs Wilson from an annual trip to Napier: had stayed .at Timaru for some days, and Ztl, el i x? ute for Dunedin with her hen death overtook him so suddenly, llie body was brought on last evening to Dunedin, where the news was received With profound and shocked regret. Mr Wilson was about 50 years ot age and for many years had borne with fortitude and good spirits the advances of a fatal malady. He was as everybody knows, the senior partner m tho Dunedin firm of Robert Wilson and Co., m winch capacity he followed his father. He did not permit his malady to affect his prosecution of the business, and was one of the bestknown and most respected and admired citizens in Dunedin business circles. In sport, ho was locally perhaps the most prominent man on tho administrative side of rowing for very many years, and the Otago Rowing Club owe much of their success to his work Ho was deputy-captain in 1894, when iMr U . J l . Edmond was captain, and upon the latter’s retirement he became captain in 1895-96. W hen he retired from active service in the pastime he became president of the club, and held that office to his death. Latterly bis health prevented him from attending many or tho regattas at which onco ho was a prominent figure, and frequently the judge; but ho always made a point to the last of attending on the clay upon which the club competed for the several trophies given by him and known as the Wilson Cups. The deceased gentleman was also president of tho Otago Rowing Association some years ago, and altogether has exercised an invaluable influence upon the sport. His death will, indeed, be a personal sorrow to many oarsmen.

He was married soma 20 years ago to Miss Jessie Moody, and is survived by her and their sou Erlton, a youth of 16 years, being educated at Christ’s College. The flags were flying at halfmast over many of the commercial houses to-day.