Death Of Mr. Leslie V.

Waterhouse

A MAN high in the goldmining indus try of Australia and New Guinea, Mr. Leslie V. Waterhouse, BE, died

in Sydney on November 26, after a long illness, caused by an accident. He was 59 years old.

Mr. Waterhouse, Early in 1945, visited the United States. The ship in which he was returning to Sydney ran into very rough weather, and Mr. Waterhouse, one day, fell heavily, and fractured one or

more of the verterbrae of his spine. He was treated in a Sydney hospital for some months, and apparently was making a good recovery. But the injury set up a more dangerous and complicated condi tion, which led eventually to a relapse, and death.

The very large gathering of Sydney’s professional and commercial leaders at North Shore Crematorium on November 27 bore testimony to the respect and esteem with which “Les” Waterhouse was regarded by all who met him, in his long and successful career.

As a director of Placer, he was one of the founders of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., and Guinea Airways, Ltd., and his clever professional brain had much to do with the phenomenal success of those two New Guinea enterprises. It was sheer tragedy that war should have interrupted the progress of BGD, just after the big company had installed its eighth dredge and was reaching its maximum output.

Much of the strain and worry of the in vasion of the goldfield,and of the prob lem of rehabilitation, fell directly upon Mr. Waterhouse.

He is survived by his wife and rwo daughters.

The Rev. Campbell Williamson, of the Presbyterian Overseas Mission, has re cently been in New South Wales on leave from the New Hebrides. During Novem ber, while in the Richmond district, he gave a series of lectures on mission work in the Hebrides.

Mr. L. V. Waterhouse (on left) with the late Eric Chater and Pilot Bert Heath.

This photo was taken in NG in 1941.