THE LATE MR W. W. LANGLANDS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 4

THE LATE MR W. W. LANGLANDS.

At tho inquest on the late Mr WiJljam Wallace Langlands, who was killed at the Nihotiipu dam, Auckland, on March 31st last. ,tho Coroner, found that there was no blame attachable to anyone. The funeral, which took place in the W-aikumebe cemetery, was largely attended. About fifty of his workmen formed a guard <sf honour and deposited on his grave a beautiful wreath as their final tnTbute.

The late Mr Langlands had been engaged as a contractor in a large way for many years He cam<> to Nelson sr.me years agci, and erected the Motupiko Bridge and the mole outsido the Boulder Bank, and aftenvard-s the big dam at the reservoir. Leaving, Nelson, ho went to Gisb-nrnc, y.iiere ho was niv; of the co:itr:u'iors, who erected _ the breakwater there, and he was erecting a morst'T reservoir dam at Nihotupii when his dT-ath ocourrod. Mr Langlands was a genial and hormurable man, and a most fair-dealing employer of labour, and his untimely death wiH bo mourned by a large number of friends.