OBITUARY.
Mr. Orlando Wells, formerly one of the most prominent footballers; and athletes, in > : the* Dominion,died at',' the' Wellington Hospital on Tuesday. .The : deceased, who was 53 years of age,! camp from Auckland three months ago to assist his brothers-in-law, • Messrs. M'Lean Bros., to build tho Wellington dock. He contracted influenza followed by typhoid ' fever, to which he; succumbed. 1 Mr. Wells assisted in carrying out tho extensive additions made to tho Queen's Wharf by the Messrs. M'Lean some years ago. and . during that time ho .played for the Athletic Football Club. The; interment will be in > Ancldand. Deceased was a prominent representative footballer in the eighties; in 1888 ho played , against. tho ; English: team ■: which toured New Zealand. Ho . was tho youngest son, of an old North Shore family in Auckland. One of his; nephews, Mr. •A 1 • bert Wellsj is captain of tho Diamond Football Club.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 7
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148OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 7
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