FOUND IN THE BOAT HARBOUR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 4

FOUND IN THE BOAT HARBOUR

MR. WALTER WOODS. A very painful sensation was caused in the city yesterday morning when it became known that the dead, body of Mr, Walter Woods, a very -well-blown Wellington resident, had been found in the Boat Harbour. Mr. Woods, who resided in Talaveru. Terrace, was th® proprietor o£ the Wamgawi Butchery in Manners S.treet (near Everybody's Theatre). He was one of the oldest master butchers in the trade, and at one time was possessed of considerable means. For over id years he had been a resident of Wellington, during which time he visited the Old Country on mow 'than one occasion. Away back m the 'eighties he was the senior partner in the butchering firm of Woods, Crosbie, and Co., Lambtou Quay, and later he was shops manager for the Gear Meat Company in Wellington. Iti coiineotion with his death iag, Mr. Woods left his residence, at 6 am yesterday, presumably to proceed ns usual to his shop to take in the day's supply of meat, but; he evidently altered his intontion, and at 11 a.m. the caretaker of the Boat Harbour at Clyde Qoay saw the body floating in the water ciobb to the skids. . > The late Mr. Woods wm a ?jieertul, volatile, active man, with a rare f.md of humour' and energy, but of late he has been subjected to worry, which apparently ho could not disperse. He leaves a widow and two soflß—Cyril (a dentist at the front) and Percy, who is still m Wellington. Much sympathy will be extended to the bereaved. The usual inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death vill bo held bv the Coroner.