OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 51, 23 December 1893, Page 546

OBITUARY.

News of a sad fatality has arrived from Picton. Mr Howard Dodson, eldest son of the late Henry Dodson, M H.R., was drowned at Mudford Flat on the road from Picton to Blenheim. With his family he had driven down to spend Sunday in Picton, and as it was raining heavily on Monday morning, he left the ladies to return by train and started to drive home alone. The swamp was in high flood, and it can only be surmised, that the side wheels went of! tbe road and Mr Dodson was thrown into deep water, whence, encumbered with his wraps and opossum rug, he was unable to extricate himself. The news of his untimely death at the age of thirty-three was received with heartfelt sorrow all over Marlborough. His place will be difficult to fill, as he was ever first and foremost in every effort to advance tbe town in which be was born, and to help and encourage all good things that were for the benefit of Marlborough. Great sympathy is felt for his family, who are of the oldest and most respected residents of Blenheim.