CHAPTER NINE

The Partners

INTRODUCTION poultry- ­breeding/showing,1031 flowers,1032 golf,1033 school administration,1034 motor vehicle enthusiast,1035 athenæum,1036 The Foundation Partners of the firm have already been chroni- charity work1037 and general philanthropy.1038 cled in this book. They were enormously peripatetic and travelled regularly back Messrs George Sainsbury, Francis Logan and Heathcote Williams to their English roots and also widely throughout New Zealand, deserve rich praise for their efforts during the pioneering days particularly when travel overland was difficult and methods of of the Hawke’s Bay legal profession. They were involved in the transportation by train, carriage and motor vehicle was in its law and they were involved in their community both regionally infancy. and nationally. Not only did they dedicate their time to the business at hand but also they took an active role in professional All of that work and activity was repeated to a greater or lesser administration and politics by forming and being part of the extent by the succeeding Partners and still today the existing Hawke’s Bay District Law Society – each of the three Foundation Partners distinguish themselves on a regular basis; for example, Partners was at one time President of the Society. That was a by taking out prizes in the Ebbett Golf Tournament between tradition that was to be followed by others.1022 lawyers and bankers.1039 But as already recorded, these gentlemen were also either The Foundation Partners established important business con- active participants or leaders in their particular sports or nections – for instance, with the Napier Borough Council and other pastimes: tennis,1023 cricket,1024 sailing,1025 rugby,1026 trout the Napier Harbour Board and significant farming clients and fishing,1027 hunting,1028 ecumenical interests,1029 horticulture,1030 interests throughout the Province – providing a rich and sustain- ing legacy for those who followed. Obvious hard work and devotion was able to cement, at a very early stage, a practice based on the personal attributes of each of them and the staff they employed, from Law Clerks through 1022 See later in this chapter under the heading Law Society Involvement. 1023 Francis Logan – see Chapter 2. 1024 George Sainsbury, Francis Logan and in particular Heathcote Williams, the founder and benefactor of the Heathcote Williams Shield – see 1031 George Sainsbury, who regularly won trophies for his prize Cochins, Chapter 3. Hamburgs and pigeons – see Chapter 1. 1025 George Sainsbury, who was an inaugural member of the Napier Sailing 1032 George Sainsbury, who won prizes for his chrysanthemums and petu- Club – see Chapter 1. nias – see Chapter 1. 1026 Francis Logan, who was at one time, in 1894, President of the New 1033 Francis Logan – see Chapter 2. Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU), President of the Hawke’s Bay 1034 George Sainsbury, who was on the Board of High School Governors in Rugby Union (HBRFU), a referee of two international rugby matches, 1891 – see Chapter 1. an Appeal Committee Member for the NZRFU and sole selector for the 1035 Francis Logan – see Chapter 2. HBRFU – see Chapter 2. 1036 George Sainsbury, who was a member of the committee of the Napier 1027 Francis Logan – see Chapter 2. Athenæum in 1889. 1028 Francis Logan – see Chapter 2, including the image of Blackhead 1037 George Sainsbury, who was involved with the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Station Homestead with the day’s efforts on display alongside Francis Home in 1893. Logan holding his Leesing Side-­By-­Side. 1038 Francis Logan, who raised debentures to fund the All Blacks Tour of 1029 George Sainsbury, who was at one time Vicar’s Warden for the Parish of Britain in 1905 (see Chapter 2), and Heathcote Williams, who funded St John (see Chapter 1), and Francis Logan, who was Chancellor of the the chimes installed in the Hastings clock tower erected in 1919 and Waiapu Diocese for 20 years (see Chapter 2). underwrote many cricket tours both nationally and internationally 1030 Heathcote Williams, who was one of the early pioneers of the orchard (see Chapter 3). industry and the owner of Grasmere Orchard on the outskirts of 1039 Partner, Adrian Barclay took out first place in 2010 and a senior associ- Hastings – see Chapter 3. ate, Lauren Hibberd, took out the top women’s prize that same year.

279 280 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS to bookkeepers and Confidential Clerks who were tasked with neighbour’s property or forming a trust; or the pressure of hav- drawing up lengthy and tedious documents in copperplate ing to entertain judges and other dignatories at home; putting writing, often under immense pressure from clients or from up with stress at peak times of the year like Christmas, or in the the Court.1040 period just before going on sabbatical or extended leave; hosting A solid base of farming and commercial clients (who were the staff Christmas parties in their own homes, or waiting around at early settlers and pioneers) paved the way to establishing a very the Hawke’s Bay Club on Friday night with the children while broadly based practice where clients have by and large come the Partners finish off their post-Partners’ meeting debrief in to the firm because of the personalities of one or other of the the members bar. Partners or staff. Theirs has been a very personal connection. Material for some of the Partners mentioned in this chapter has The benefits of that have been felt even today, where succession been hard to come by, either because they have died and few planning (both within the clients’ own businesses and within family members remain to interview or they have moved away the Partnership) has provided a plan which has withstood some from Hawke’s Bay and lost their connection with the practice. of the more extreme economic volatility where the Partners It is hoped that this work may jog memories and stimulate have rolled with the clients and vice versa. some active searching in personal archives and among family This chapter and the ones that follow are intended to chronicle members so that their stories also can be fully told. the personal and professional backgrounds of those Partners and staff who were to follow the pioneering Foundation Partners. ALEXANDER BULWER CAMPBELL (1855–1938) Among the historical notes are stories about bravery, tragedy, dedication, sporting and community achievements, wartime contributions, connections with notable judges within and with- out Hawke’s Bay, personal tragedy for wider family members such as A B Campbell’s widow; rebuilding and reconstruc - tion work following the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake in 1931, Law Society involvement, directorships and battles won and lost for major clients.1041 As at the date of writing, 2011, there have been 21 Partners follow the original three. For a firm spanning (now) 136 years, it seems that there ought to have been more. Part of the success, borne of longevity, is that the size of the Partnership has never got to the point where sheer numbers have created tensions sufficient to lead to a wholesale disintegration, as has been the case elsewhere. The maximum number of Partners at any one time is at present.1042 There have been no retirements or changes except for two Partner appointments in the past 15 Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams collection. years. Careful succession planning and candidate selection has been another factor in the longevity record. Alexander Bulwer Campbell was born in 1855, admitted to the Importantly, dedicated staff have also contributed hugely. There Bar in the Wellington Supreme Court as a solicitor on 5 June have been three staff members who have celebrated more than 1879 and as a barrister on 5 June 1880,1044 became a Partner 40 years of service with the firm.1043 Many more have completed of Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1906 and died in office in 20 years and upwards of loyal service. The firm has prided 1938. itself on longevity and low staff turnover where institutional Between being admitted and moving to Napier he was a solicitor knowledge is recognised, valued and rewarded. practising in Wellington and was employed by Messrs Bell And something must be said for the wives and Partners who Gully & Co1045 (later to become Bell Gully Bell & Myers). 1046 have sacrificed much of their otherwise normal home life for R S V (“Dick”) Simpson was able to provide the following the Partnership: early wake-­up calls from farmers who cannot background:1047 find a better time to talk to their lawyers about buying the One of your former distinguished partners was a gentleman called A B Campbell. He worked in Bell Gully’s in the 1870 and 1040 For example, William Colenso’s Probate Application. William Colenso 1880 decades and in 1898 we think he may have been practising died on a Friday, was buried on a Sunday and his Probate Application, in Auckland … I must say that he was a very close friend of Sir which required 12 foolscap pages of copperplate writing, was granted by the Supreme Court Registrar on the Wednesday following – see Chapter 7. 1044 Roll of Barristers and Solicitors, Supreme Court, Wellington. 1041 Aside from J H G Murdoch’s ultimate sacrifice, notably Ivan Logan for 1045 Robin Cooke QC, Portrait of a Profession, at page 397. Bell Gully & Co. wartime service in both world wars, Bill McLeod, Ian Logan and Gib resulted from an amalgamation in 1886 of Bell & Izard and Buller & Stewart. Gully. 1042 Seven Partners comprising Magnus Macfarlane, Gerry Sullivan, Steve 1046 See an image of the original letterhead in Chapter 7 under the heading Greer, Stuart Webster, Andrew Wares, Adrian Barclay and Nathan Estate of William Colenso. Gray. 1047 Excerpt from a letter from Bell Gully Buddle Weir (R S V Simpson 1043 Rae Wilson, Ann Eaton and Trevor Cardo. There may be others but no CBE – Consultant Partner) to Sainsbury Logan & Williams (Andrew records exist to prove or disprove that. Morrison) dated 3.9.1987. T he ParTNERS 281

Copy original opinion by Bell Gully, dated 10 March 1900. HBMAG. Opinion (page 2).

Francis Bell and Mr Ernest Bell. We find correspondence passing between them from time to time and it is obvious that they had a very close relationship. I remember when I was a Law Clerk here many years ago I saw letters from Campbell to Bell addressed in this manner: “Dear A.B.C. ……… Yours truly, E.D.B.” (that is Ernest Tancred Dillon Bell) This always used to amuse me. The Bell Gully “connection” came to prominence on a number of occasions when independent opinions were called for on mat- ters of great moment for clients of the firm. For example, when Ridley Latimer Colenso got into bother with Napier Borough Council over the road width of Colenso Avenue, it is likely that A B Campbell recommended to him that he obtain a second opinion from Francis Dillon Bell before embarking on some expensive litigation against the Council. The matter resolved itself by young Colenso coming to a deal with the Council, but not after he had checked out his rights at law and having instructed Heathcote Williams to prepare a Statement of Claim for filing in the Supreme Court.1048 In June 1905 Mr A B Campbell was unanimously elected a member of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society.1049 A B Campbell became a Partner in Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1906 at the same time as Heathcote Williams, who was prac- tising in Hastings under the name Logan Williams and White. According to Peter Cornford, who clerked for Sainsbury Logan

1048 See Chapter 7 under the heading William Estate of William Colenso. 1049 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 19.6.1905. Opinion (page 3). 282 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

& Williams for a time in the 1930s,1050 A B Campbell was aged deservedly earned the esteem and affection of their brother- about 81 at the time Peter started work in June 1932.1051 He was ­practitioners and to many their deaths came as a severe personal a renowned conveyancer throughout the country, especially as loss. The late Mr Campbell had been a member since 1905; he a Will Draftsman. He would walk home to lunch at his home held the office of President of the Society with distinction in 1909 in France Road on Bluff Hill and be driven back early in the and 1917, and served for many years as a member of the Council, afternoon by his wife in their Willys-­Knight car.1052 being ever ready to employ his time and his notable talents for A B Campbell was a classical scholar who knew most of Horace’s the benefit of the Society. Odes by heart. He was a fine conveyancing lawyer who is sup- Tragically, A B Campbell’s widow, Maude Campbell, and her posed to have drafted the Wills of half the New Zealand Judiciary daughter-­in-­law Mavis Esther Campbell were killed in October (probably on the recommendation of his friend Sir Francis 1942 by a member of their own family. The Evening Post recorded Bell).1053 He served as President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law the events as follows:1057 Society in 1909 and 1917 and later had a stint as Vice-President Two women, Mrs AB Campbell widow and Mrs Colin Campbell, in 1927 and 1928. her daughter in law are in a precarious position in the Napier A B Campbell died in office in 1938 at age 83. His death was Hospital as the result of an alleged assault on them last night. At described by Frank Logan in this way: the Police Court today, David John Campbell aged 20 a timber Still another death A.B. Campbell, who had been a Partner in worker was charged with attempted murder. The Police asked for Sainsbury Logan & Williams for 40 [sic] years died. He must have and were granted a remand for a week during which the mentality been nearly eighty. He was quite a brilliant lawyer and had a very of the accused would be inquired into. charming personality.1054 On Thursday 22 October 1942 the Daily Telegraph reported:1058 By 1939 Francis Logan and Heathcote Williams had died and the The women are believed to have been attacked about six o’clock interests in the Hastings Partnership which would have been last evening, shortly after which hour a telephone call was held by Ivan Logan and the Estate of A B Campbell were bought received by the Napier police. It is believed that the weapon was a out by the Hastings Partners Holderness and Parkinson.1055 roller from a wringer. Medical assistance was summoned and the victims were removed to the hospital. It is alleged that at the time the attack took place there were four persons in the house – the two victims, a young girl and a young man. The girl is believed to have sustained minor injuries, including bruises following the attack on the elder women, but succeeded in escaping and summoning the assistance of neighbours. Mrs Campbell snr., who is the widow of the late Mr AB Campbell, of Napier, is a well-known and highly respected resident of the town. On Saturday 24 October 1942 the Daily Telegraph reported:1059 The second victim of the tragic assault in a residence in Kowhai Road Napier, on Wednesday evening last, Mrs Maude Campbell, aged 67 years, died at Napier Public Hospital at 12.52 this morn- The headstone of Alexander Bulwer Campbell and Maude Campbell at Park ing. Mrs Campbell’s daughter-­in-­law Mrs Mavis Esther Campbell, Island Cemetery, Napier (Section 25 and Plots 28 and 29. These plots were aged 42, the other victim, died at the hospital yesterday. Since purchased when they lived in France Road, Napier). Mavis Esther Campbell, they were discovered badly injured and bleeding in an upstairs who was involved in the same fatal accident as her mother-in-­ la­ w Maude room in their residence on Wednesday evening, the two women Campbell, is buried in the same cemetery in an unmarked grave (Section 23a, had been in a critical condition in the hospital and little hope was Plot 2). Image source: Katrina Hellyer. held for their recovery. The grandson of Maude Campbell was accused of killing her The Hawke’s Bay District Law Society marked the death of and her daughter-­in-­law and was brought before a Grand Jury A B Campbell in the Annual Report for the year ended in the Supreme Court in February 1943.1060 A prima facie case 1056 28 February 1939 in this way: was found but after inquiry into his mental state he was found It is sad to record the death of two Members, Messrs A B Campbell to be unfit to plead. and W Selwyn Averill, during the year under review. Both had The Hawke’s Bay Herald reported on 15 February 1943 that David John Campbell had been an inmate of Porirua Mental Hospital until his discharge in July 1942.1061 He went onto commit the 1050 See Chapter 10 under the heading Peter Cornford. 1051 In fact he was only 77 years of age, but appearances can be deceiving, particularly for a young Law Clerk just starting out. 1052 Peter Cornford, personal recollection. 1057 Evening Post, 22.10.1942, 1053 Speech Notes, Centennial Dinner, Sir Owen Woodhouse (see 1058 Daily Telegraph, 22.10.1942, page 2. Chapter 12 under the heading Centenary Celebrations). 1059 Daily Telegraph, 24.10.1942, page 2. 1054 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 110, paragraph 5. 1060 Daily Telegraph, 15.2.1943, page 2. 1055 S W Grant, page 76. 1061 There had been a serious earthquake that year and a substantial part of 1056 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Annual Report, 14.3.1939. the Porirua Hospital had been destroyed. 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Police plan of the crime scene. The original copy was found in the strongroom by Allan McLeod in this current form, without any indication of to what or whom it related except for the address. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. 284 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS atrocities in October of that same year but was said never to He was born on 18 August 1880 in Wellington to Hunter Henry have appreciated the consequences of his own actions. The Jury Murdoch (a record agent of London and later a Patent Agent and (presided over by Chief Justice Sir Michael Myers) returned a Hawke’s Bay Herald correspondent at the time of James’s birth) verdict that young Campbell was not sufficiently sane to proceed and Fanny Murdoch (daughter of the Reverend George Andrew to trial and was therefore to be kept “at Porirua until the pleasure Jacob of Devon). Hunter and Fanny emigrated to New Zealand of the Minister of Justice was known.”1062 in 1880, settling first in Lower Hutt then Hawke’s Bay. David John Campbell died on 18 April 1947 at Porirua Mental James Murdoch grew up in the family home at Riverslea (situ- Hospital,1063 4 years after he was committed by Sir Michael ated at Riverslea and Murdoch Roads near Hastings). His mother Myers CJ. The cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis but he was a published author and was responsible for the first cook was diagnosed as having suffered from schizophrenic dementia book published in New Zealand. Its title was Dainties: or, How for some years. He was cremated at Karori, Wellington, and was to Please our Lords and Masters.1065 aged 23 years at the date of his death. His father was described as being “a well-­educated Scot … ­poking After an exhaustive search at Police National Headquarters it has fun at local foibles and pretentions” … as well as seeking “… been confirmed that the Police file on this double murder was to rid the town of intemperance and Salvationists and regarded destroyed some time ago.1064 The only remaining documentary himself as the protector of the poor working settlers.” trace appears to be the newspaper records and the diagram Hunter Murdoch was elected as an independent candidate to depicting the crime scene which survived in the strongroom the local Hastings Council and held the seat from 1888 to 1890. until Allan McLeod came across it and preserved it. He often attacked Council proceedings through his column in the Hawke’s Bay Herald. The Council eventually resolved JAMES HUNTER GEORGE MURDOCH (1880–1916) to exclude him from his seat unless he apologised for “unfair and improper comment”. He chose to ignore the threat and he resigned rather than face defeat. He authored several articles such as “Domestic Brewing” in the Hawke’s Bay Almanac and “How To Make Money from Patents”. His occupation in the Electoral Roll at the time was listed as “Dramatist”. He died in November 1903. James Murdoch was still listed in 1908 (aged 28) as living in the family home in Murdoch Road. His mother Fanny and his sister Mary Edith lived in Cobden Road, Napier Hill, in 1911, later relocating to Feilding in 1919, where Fanny died in 1935. James Murdoch was admitted to the Bar on 26 June 1911.1066 He became a Partner in 1908 and went away to the war in 1915. It appears that Mr J H G Murdoch became a member of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1909 and attended the Annual General Meeting on 15 March 1909.1067 In that year Mr Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. A B Campbell was appointed President and Messrs Murdoch and Logan from Sainsbury Logan & Williams were appointed James Hunter George Murdoch was born in 1880, admitted as a to be members of the Council. solicitor in 1903 and as a barrister in 1911. He became a Partner It appears that the very next meeting (28 April 1915) was the last in 1908 and was killed in action in 1916 during the First World attended by J H G Murdoch, as he went to war and was killed War while still a Partner. in action in France on 4 July 1916.1068 His partner, Heathcote Williams, chaired the meeting of the Law Society Council on 31 August 1916 where it was recorded:1069 that David’s release from this institution was either premature or ill- ­advised. It was proposed and carried that the Council express its deep 1062 Hawke’s Bay Herald, 15.2.1943. John Logan recalls attending pre-­school regret of the loss the profession has sustained on the death of the with David Campbell in Napier and from his personal recollection Late Lieut Murdoch and that a copy of this resolution be sent to (October 2010) says that right from the beginning “something was not quite right about him.” Audrey Ricketts (formerly Langley – see his relatives. Chapter 8 under the heading First Female Practitioner in Hawke’s Bay) recalls attending school with David’s sister Glen Campbell. “The Campbell murder, I remember being quite a cause célèbre, especially in little Napier and involving people we knew. I think I first knew Glen Campbell two or three years previously but was never a close friend 1065 Excerpt from text by Alison McKee: www.myjacobfamily.com/ and didn’t keep in touch. I have looked in the Napier Girls High School favershamjacobs/hunterhenrymurdoch. rolls and see a G Campbell listed a year ahead of me in 1941–1942, and 1066 Roll of Barristers of the Supreme Court of New Zealand (Napier presume that was Glen. I don’t know what happened to her later.” Registry) Archives New Zealand; Agency No. AAOW, Accession 1063 Death Certificate dated 21 April 1947. Births Deaths & Marriages, W3244. See Appendix 5. Wellington, Registration No. 1947/21733. 1067 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 15.3.1909. 1064 Vanessa Kennedy, Honours & Awards Officer, New Zealand Police, 1068 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 28.4.1915. 16.11.10. 1069 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 31.8.1916. T he ParTNERS 285

Extract from HBDLS Minutes, 31.8.1916, Volume 2, page 10. This is an excerpt from the Partnership Records which deals with the £80 paid per annum to the widow, mother and daughter of J H G Murdoch (who was a Partner of the firm killed in action in France). The full text of the note reads: The firm has undertaken to make good to Messrs Campbell & Mackay the The firm recognised his war efforts by supporting his mother promised payment by them as Trustees of the Murdoch Estate (J H G Murdoch and family by paying an annual sum of money through until was at the time of his death in action in France a Partner of the firm) of the the 1920s. sum of £80 per annum (a payment on has already been made) for a period of Frank Logan recalls J H G Murdoch as the person who tried 7 years to Mrs Murdoch Snr., Mrs J H G Murdoch and Miss Murdoch. At the valiantly to get him to pass his law papers while convalescing end of 7 years the position to be reviewed but there is no commitment. See letters 19/1/27 to Mrs Murdoch File 66/16. W N J Mackay. This note made from tuberculosis away from Oxford. In 1909 Frank wrote:1070 (as a record) at request of Mr Logan. Other partners agreed. Also see Deed of My health seemed pretty good so I decided to carry on with law. I Covenant 16/2/27 Fanny Murdoch and others & F Logan and others. The sum joined the firm of Sainsbury Logan & Williams as a clerk but the of £80 per annum may be reduced under the circumstances therein stated. idea was that I was to have several breaks in the year. This legal firm was established by G R Sainsbury in 1875 and my father joined in 1882. Twice a week J H G Murdoch used to give me as Hunter Henry Murdoch. She died on 11 July 1956. There is no tuition in torts property etc. After three years of idleness I found record of any children. His sister Edith Louise did not marry. it quite enjoyable to be at work again and earning 10/-­ a week. I made many friends and there was much joy in life. Every morning The Hawke’s Bay District Law Society recorded his death in its 1072 and even through the winter I bathed off the beach with a team Annual Report of 13 March 1917 in the following way: of about a dozen – all of whom are now dead except Godfrey The Council regrets the death of Mr James Hunter George Jardine and Tosh Gilray. Murdoch, the second member of the Society killed in the At the time of his death James Hunter George Murdoch carried present war [the first was Mr John Geoffrey Persse, a Hastings 1073 the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery and ­practitioner]. He left New Zealand for England and obtained Royal Field Artillery Special Reserves.1071 His wife was named Edith Louise Murdoch and she is buried in the same churchyard 1072 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Annual Report, 17.3.1917. 1073 John Geoffrey Persse volunteered for active service. He left with the 1070 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 36, paragraph 3. Expeditionary Force (Main Body) and was killed in action in the 1071 www.military-­genealogy.com. Dardanelles on 7 August 1915, having been promoted to the rank of 286 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. He was that I went to boarding school at the age of seven, I did not get killed in action in France on the 4th July 1916. the chance to know my grandfather Francis well, but even at that early age I could see what a giant of a man he was and had been in work and sport and in his presence within the community. This IVAN BIGGAR LOGAN (1886–1970) was a daunting challenge to my father (Ivan) who had probably been under his father’s thumb in the office. My father had a distinguished career mainly as a family lawyer and trustee. He was trustee in many large farming and family estates, including many overseas people who had invested in farmland in New Zealand. He was always a ready listener as well as giving expert advice. Of a retiring nature, he was widely respected by all his clients and members of his profession as a man of great integrity and capacity. He was most meticulous of detail and never forgot anything. He was a very popular figure in the office and could be approached at any time. He was interested in all forms of sport and played rugby and cricket for his school (Wanganui Collegiate) and Oriel College at Oxford. He was a keen golf and tennis player and spent much time fishing. For many years he was President of the Acclimatisation Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. Society and a Church advocate at the Waiapu Diocese until his retirement from the legal firm. Ivan Biggar Logan was born in 1886, admitted to the Bar shortly He served in the army in France and Germany in the 1st World after completing his law studies and became a Partner in 1910, War and was Captain in the National Reserve in Napier in the retired in 1946 and died in 1970. Ivan was the second son of 2nd World War. Francis Logan and was the second generation of the Logan fam- He retired to Taupo in 1946 but through ill health returned to ily to practise law in the firm. His sons Ian and John1074 became Westshore in 1965 and died there in 1970. part of the third generation to do so. We had a very happy father/son relationship and it was a sad day Ivan Biggar Logan was unanimously elected a member of the when he went. 1075 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1913. Frank Logan records in February 1942 that Ivan was in camp at When his father died in 1933, Ivan Logan was regarded as the McLean Park with the National Guard.1079 Senior Partner of the firm, even though A B Campbell was more Hamilton Logan (son of Frank Logan and a nephew of Ivan’s) advanced in years and had been a Partner for a longer period. recalls:1080 He occupied the front office – the first sizeable room on the left I was the youngest of the [Frank Logan and Ivan Logan] families. after one entered the front doors.1076 During the war, when the Ivan Logan boys – Ian, John and David – According to Sir Owen Woodhouse he was a “quiet, rather were overseas, I used to spend weekends with my aunt and uncle reserved but friendly man touched slightly by what the English in Napier. Uncle Ivan used to come to McLean Park when I was would call a public school background, upright in both the playing rugby. It was an opportunity to get to know this quiet, physical and moral sense and generally liked by the profession reserved man who had so much knowledge and so much to offer, and by his clients, many of whom were family friends. He was but seldom expressed his opinion unless asked. an efficient lawyer (a member of the Inner Temple) and like We talked a great deal about his days at Wanganui Collegiate all other Logans was a complete gentleman, courteous and where he had an outstanding career – Head Prefect, in the rugby understanding with his staff, a generous friend and a first class and cricket teams and captain of the latter for two years. fisherman”.1077 He was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. Had he been selected John Logan recalls:1078 he would have been one of the first recipients. Rhodes Scholars There were four children in the Ivan Logan family – Nancy, Ian, were introduced in October 1903, the first term of the Oxford myself and David. Ian and I decided to follow our father’s profes- year. My grandfather [Francis Logan] declined the offer, saying sion. I was born on 4 July 1920 and because of my age and the fact that as Ivan was going off to Oxford he would rather it be awarded to someone else. I have always felt that was a hard call on Ivan. Corporal shortly before his death: Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Annual Report, 15.3.1916. It was an honour that he may have been denied. 1074 See later in this chapter and in Chapter 10. Ian became a Partner and He used to speak about Oxford days and how he was denied John was a Clerk for some time before the war interrupted his career his rugby blue when he broke his arm playing on a frozen field plans. 1075 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 18.3.1913. in Scotland two weeks out from the annual fixture against 1076 See Chapter 6 and the Finch & Westerholm plan of the premises fol- Cambridge. lowing the earthquake. 1077 Speech Notes, Centennial Dinner, Sir Owen Woodhouse (see Chapter 12 under the heading Centenary Celebrations). 1079 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 122, paragraph 18. 1078 John Logan, personal recollection. 1080 Hamilton Logan, personal recollection. T he ParTNERS 287

He and Mary went to Taupo for a week or two and for a few days we went to their home in Napier as there were meetings of Williams and Kettle, Harbour Board and McLean Trust to attend … [February 1946] Ivan’s health was not good and he decided to go to his cottage at Taupo for a year and take life easily [sic]1084 … [December 1946] Ivan and Mary were mostly in Taupo as the former was taking a year more or less off work on account of his state of health.1085 Ivan had been a Major during the Second World War. He went away for extra service, to the Featherston Military Camp for training. Ivan and Mary went to live in Featherston. They lived there for a while:1086 I think Granny wondered what on earth she’d come to – cold and freezing. Grandpa was past service himself. He was there training the troops. My father [Ian Logan] wanted to be in the air force The Napier Gas Company Board of Directors (date unknown). Ivan Logan but he was colour blind and wasn’t accepted. features front row (first left). Image source: HBMAG No. 12455. I think grandpa might have overshadowed my father in a way. I think that grandpa’s children weren’t as gifted as grandpa, and my grandmother too was very gifted in her way. He spoke of wonderful opportunities he had, to shoot all man- She was an absolute crackerjack pianist and they lived at Wanaka ner of game birds and fish for trout. Although he did all these Station. Her parents were Robert and Annie Turnbull. Mary was, things with his father in New Zealand, doing them in the United as a young thing, brought up in Wanaka and she had a tutor who Kingdom was quite different. I believe it was these experiences came out from England and tutored her. He came and lived with that motivated him to give the Acclimatisation Society so much the family and taught her a technique and I think it was called the of his time. singing touch and she was a wonderful pianist – he told her that Uncle Ivan, in my opinion, was very like his father, but lacked she could have been a concert pianist if she wanted to be … the charisma and drive that Francis had. In spite of his scholastic But she didn’t want to be. She loved horses, she was a sports - achievements and prowess on the sporting field, he didn’t achieve woman, she loved golf and gardening and painting – she was his potential. It is a typical example of a son growing up under a a wonderful painter – she was a lovely water colourist – they successful father who expects too much of them. actually went and lived in England when she was a teenager in After the earthquake Ivan Logan and his family came out to Bath and she and her sister and brother were tutored privately. Pukekino to stay with the Frank Logans. The brother actually went to a public school – that’s Monty Turnbull – he went to Radley and the other two were tutored at Ivan had a long association with the military. In 1903, while home. Mary did painting and she did all those fine things that attending Wanganui Collegiate, he was appointed as Acting young ladies of that age did. Grandpa was 84 when he died and Honorary Captain to the No. 3 Company, Wanganui Collegiate granny was 89. School Rifle Cadet Volunteers.1081 His official appointment was certified by I M Babington, Major General and Commandant of Frank was called laddie by his mother. I don’t think Granny Logan the New Zealand Forces and countersigned by none other than was that happy when Grandpa and Uncle Frank married the two R E Seddon, the then Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Turnbull sisters. It was a role he was obliged to relinquish in 1905 because he Grandpa desperately wanted to go to Taupo and spend time fish- was absent abroad attending Oxford. ing. Granny probably aided and abetted him as well because she Ivan later trained in the Wairarapa in preparation for service in was a wonderful fisherwomen in her own right and because she the First World War. He had arrived in Europe 2 weeks before was brought up at Lake Wanaka. Wanaka Station was right on the Armistice Day but then stayed on by request of the military until lake. She absolutely adored Lake Taupo because it reminded her his return in October 1919 because he was engaged by the New of her years growing up at Lake Wanaka. Zealand Military Forces to defend the deserters.1082 I think Granny had a special connection with me because I was In October 1945, Frank Logan records in his Memoirs:1083 still a little person when I lived there at the time that my mother first contracted tuberculosis and I think I learnt to crawl with Ivan’s health was not good these days and we wanted him to take her. I think she may have thought of me as a slight extension of a trip to England feeling six months’ holiday and a complete her own children in a way and she would read to me Winnie the change of scenery would be the answer. However, he seemed to Pooh and I have absolutely marvellous memories of her. I cannot think that the only thing to do was to retire from the business. say one word against my grandmother. But I think there was a story told that [my Uncle] David was on the Leander, a warship 1081 Archives New Zealand, AD61/5/387. 1082 Hamilton Logan, personal recollection. Apparently he was able to get a good number of them off their charges. Many were severely shell- 1084 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 143, paragraph 16. ­shocked and did not deserve to be court-­marshalled. 1085 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 146, paragraph 5. 1083 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 141, paragraph 13. 1086 Jan Chalmers, personal recollection. 288 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

schoolmaster and was Vice-President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1944 and President in 1945. Len Lister recalls that Mr Grant taught his father and uncle when they were in Standard 6 at Clive School.1090 Budge Grant lived at the foot of Balquhidder Road in a home which Sir Owen Woodhouse often visited as a small boy.1091 He recalls that his wife had something of the temperament which has given rise to the loose but apposite description of appearing “highly strung”. Their only child, Margaret, was a quiet, unpre- tentious girl, older than Sir Owen and must have been educated at one of the small private schools which could then be found on the Napier Hill. Budge Grant had largely an in-house­ role as a Partner in Sainsbury Logan & Williams, but occasionally he would appear in Court to argue some legal issue, in particular Ivan Logan fishing at Lake Rotongaio with Mt Tauhara in the background. for the Napier Harbour Board. Image source: Jan Chalmers.

which came into port in Auckland at one stage during the war. Granny went to meet it and there she was – Mrs Logan – who was quite a grand lady and always dressed beautifully, always had big hats and everything and here she was standing away from the crowd – standing by herself so that he could see her, which was quite a good idea in lots of ways, but of course he nearly died a million deaths because here he was with all the young sailors going “… aw David there’s your ma …” and I think that he was highly embarrassed by this – aren’t we all? When Ivan and Mary went to live in Mere Road, Taup ö, Allan McLeod recalls travelling there on occasion and taking documents for him to sign such as Deeds of Retirement and Appointment of Trustees,1087 which was a hangover of his legacy of having been a Partner for so long – 36 years.1088 Milton Reid Grant. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

MILTON REID GRANT (“BUDGE”) (1880–1961) According to Sir Owen he decided (perhaps unwisely) that he Milton Reid Grant was born in 1880, admitted as a solicitor should conduct a claim in the Compensation Court brought by 1089 on 9 June 1916 and as a barrister on 11 June 1921, became a the Board in 1947 against the Napier City Council. It was the Partner in 1919 and died in office in 1961. He was a very busy only case in which Sir Owen ever found himself pitted against Partner. He acted for two building societies, the Hawke’s Bay the pleasant but remote father of his childhood friend. At issue Harbour Board and attended to any major court work, apart was the amount to be paid by the Council for land it had taken from criminal. In fact the firm has never specialised in criminal under the Public Works Act for use as the local airport. Prior to work, although it is understood that Jim Zohrab did some the 1931 earthquake it had been the seabed of the inner harbour, criminal work shortly after joining the firm. He was formerly a but when all land in the district had been abruptly raised by the earthquake, the relevant area had become dry, salt-­infested land. The Harbour Board pinned its valuation on potential use of the area for agriculture or sheep farming and claimed an amount 1087 Allan McLeod, personal recollection, 26.7.2010. in current dollar terms of what would have been $2 million. 1088 See Appendix 1. 1089 Roll of Barristers & Solicitors, Archives New Zealand, (AAOW W3244 The Board employed a rural valuer and some farming clients of 289). Initially, to be admitted as a barrister, a candidate was required Sainsbury Logan & Williams to justify the figure. In reply, Napier to graduate from university with a law degree. To be admitted as a City Council had offered a quarter of that sum, an amount solicitor merely required the candidate to be certificated and this com- monly occurred during study for an LLB particularly where candidates which was paid into Court when litigation became inevitable. were clerking at the same time as attending university. Often lawyers Sir Owen had heard of an elderly, unorthodox Palmerston were admitted as solicitors long before they got around to applying North valuer named Monteith, who had some background in for admission as a barrister. Curiously Budge Grant was admitted as industrial chemistry. On his advice much digging began across a barrister on the same day that his partner Buck Amyes was admit- ted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court (Budge being the older of the the whole area involved, samples were despatched to determine two and having previously been admitted as a solicitor). Typically a Practitioner’s career path would see him (or her) shifting from solicitor type work to court work and in these days a separate qualification was 1090 Len Lister, personal recollection, 23.8.2010. required before admission to each Roll. 1091 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal recollection. T he ParTNERS 289 their level of noxious salts and the results given with graphic emphasis on beautifully coloured charts. Mr Justice O’Leary, recently appointed Chief Justice, heard the case. He listened politely to the rural evidence of the carrying capacity of land in various areas of Hawke’s Bay, examined with glistening eyes the bright charts and helpful tables put up by Napier City, and then delivered a decision which gave the Harbour Board rather less than two-thirds of the amount that had actually been paid into Court. Sir Owen Woodhouse’s father engaged Budge Grant in 1932 to write a letter to a Mr Briasco in response to a demand to account for a tent that had been used by one of the many homeless families in the immediate aftermath of the 1931 earthquake. As the story goes, Briasco permitted the Woodhouses to utilise a tent, which was erected on their lawn at Balquihidder Road and was able to accommodate a family of eleven who were rendered homeless by the quake. The letter of 16 November 1932 goes on:1092 Before the end of the week Mr Woodhouse removed his own family to Auckland leaving a number of strangers camped on his lawn and to whom he gave the run of his house. On his return from Auckland a few days later he found that three tents which had been erected on his lawn had been removed without his knowledge or permission. Original carbon copy letter on pink duplicate paper sent on behalf of Sir After much inquiry he ascertained and advised your client that Owen Woodhouse’s father to Mr Briasco’s solicitors. Image source: Sir Owen the tents had been removed by Mr Lemmon of Poraite on the Woodhouse, private collection. Sunday following the earthquake and that in removing the tents Mr Lemmon was acting under the direct instructions of the Officer- ­in-­charge at the Nelson Park Camp, Napier, during the months immediately following the earthquake, was more or less under Military control, and during this period property was commandeered right and left for the public good. Mr Briasco is the first man that we have heard of who has tried to make his neighbour responsible for anything done during that period. This particular tent was “commandeered” for the use of a man with a family of ten to house. Your client is by no means the only owner who was so treated but in return he and his family in common with hundreds of others were housed and fed at the public expense for quite a considerable time following the earthquake. We venture to suggest that today all right-­minded citizens of Napier have balanced their earthquake accounts setting benefits received against losses suffered. Most of us find the balance on the credit side. We have answered your letter at considerable length because we think the circumstances warrant such a reply. In conclusion we suggest that if your client considers he has a good moral and legal claim he should proceed to action. We shall be pleased to accept service. Budge Grant was a member of the Reconstruction Committee after the earthquake. He was appointed by the Government Commissioners and representing the Law Society.1093 Briasco letter (page 2).

1092 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal archives. The letter is an original carbon copy letter on pink duplicate paper bearing Budge Grant’s sig- nature in fountain-pen ink. 1093 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 31.7.1931. 290 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

The Reconstruction Committee. Budge Grant is seated in the front row on the extreme right. Image source: Geoff Conly, Hawke’s Bay “Before” and “After”: The Great Earthquake of 1931; An Historical Record, Daily Telegraph, Napier, 1981.

He was very active in the submissions on the Land Transfer of the leases were saved because of their storage in the strong- (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 19311094 and other reconstruc- room, many documents that were out and in use would have tion legislation and on a regular basis was delegated to attend been lost in the fire. This led to the practice of all of the Partners, Wellington and lobby the Registrar-­General on a variety of Solicitors and Clerks daily clearing their offices of important matters arising out of the earthquake and its aftermath. As Deeds of Title and other documents, placing them on trolleys a Partner at Sainsbury Logan & Williams he was in charge or trays for storage overnight in the strongroom. Budge Grant of the Hawke’s Bay Harbour Board lease portfolio and the was, for example, responsible (with others) for obtaining the reconstruction of those leases. The land transfer dealings with District Land Registrar’s approval to the practice of “accepting third parties required considerable effort and practical thought two copies of the outstanding Triplicate copy and of returning where Declarations of Loss of titles and instruments was a com- one to the solicitor duly certified without fee”.1095 monplace drafting exercise, the deponents (often Clerks within What this meant in practice is that the triplicate copy of the the office) having to swear that they had looked in all places particular lease which was held by Sainsbury Logan & Williams “likely and unlikely” for the missing titles and instruments when on behalf of the Harbour Board was likely to have been the only everyone knows that they were destroyed by fire. copy in existence. The original copy would have been stored at Under normal rules, whenever a perpetually renewable lease the Land Transfer Office, which was completely destroyed in was created, the Registrar would issue three copies of the lease – the earthquake and subsequent fire. The duplicate copy will Original, Duplicate and Triplicate. The original was held by the have been held by the Lessee’s solicitor and may or may not Land Transfer Office. The duplicate was held by the occupier as have survived the earthquake and fire. If it was held by the Lessee, or his or her solicitor or banker as security on mortgage. Lessee’s mortgagee then it was likely to have been kept safe in a The triplicate copy was held by the Harbour Board through its strongroom, either within Hawke’s Bay or elsewhere depending solicitors pursuant to its interest as lessor. on which bank or financial institution was involved. The effort Although many of the duplicate (where the firm acted for the in piecing together the jigsaw would have been enormous. The occupier) and triplicate (in respect of the Harbour Board) copies effect of the District Land Registrar’s approval was to avoid

1094 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 16.8.1935. 1095 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 24.11.1932. T he ParTNERS 291 having to produce a Declaration of Loss and reconstruct each lease whenever a transaction was required to be registered on the title. One of the other practical steps taken by Practitioners following the earthquake was to agree “that in every Contract for the sale and purchase of land in Hawke’s Bay there should be implied a covenant on the part of the Vendor that he [sic] will within, say, three months of the date of the Contract, make an effective application to have his [sic] Title copied or reconstructed and that legislative authority should be obtained for this.”1096 At the Annual General Meeting of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1940 the meeting recorded, in the spirit of pastoral care that a professional body could display, the following:1097 On the Motion of Mr Lawry, seconded by Mr Harker, it was resolved that the Secretary send a letter to Mr Grant in the name of the Meeting congratulating him on his recovery of health and looking forward to his return to business. Original goatskin document appointing Buck Amyes a Notary Public in 1949. Budge Grant died in office in 1961. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

GODFREY BASIL AMYES (“BUCK”) (1897–1965)

Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Godfrey Basil Amyes was born in 1897, admitted as a solicitor 1098 in 1921 and as a barrister in 1939, became a Partner in 1934 Buck Amyes’s Notarial Seal. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams and died in office in 1965. Archive. Using his original seal, the impression of Buck Amyes’ Notarial Seal He was a Junior Partner when Peter Cornford commenced work- (below) has been added to this book following publication. ing in June 1932. Buck Amyes spent much of his time working on mortgagors’ relief applications. The Government of the day had passed legislation under which all mortgagors could apply to Buck Amyes became the Senior Partner of Sainsbury Logan & special tribunals for relief from their mortgage liabilities. Quite Williams after the retirement of Ivan Logan. He was described large sums were written off and interest varied or readjusted. as being a cheerful, gregarious man, unaffected, friendly with Appeals lay to a Judge of the Supreme Court.1099 Buck Aymes everybody, always smartly dressed, known to one and all as was made a Notary Public in 1949. “Buck” and was probably successful in gaining many clients for the firm. His wife was a pleasant, smiling, party-loving­ person who also 1096 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 24.11.1932. had been given a nickname which seemed to suit her attitude 1097 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 3.4.1940. – “girlie”, she was called.1100 1098 Roll of Barristers and Solicitors, Archives New Zealand, (AAOW W3244 289). See Appendix 5 and the footnote reference under the previous heading for Milton Reid Grant. Curiously, Buck Aymes was admitted as a solicitor on the same day that his partner Budge Grant was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court. 1099 Peter Cornford, personal recollection. 1100 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal recollection. 292 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Note the fold-­down embossed seal. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Original Bishop’s Seal is red, embossed and conical in the shape. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. T he ParTNERS 293

Buck Amyes was President of the Hawke’s Bay Club from 1959 to 1960.1101 Despite having been admitted as a barrister in 1939, Buck Amyes may never have appeared in any Court. His interests lay in efficient attention to the conveyancing and family affairs of many personal clients.

WILLIAM AENEAS MCLEOD (1907–1981)

Bill McLeod at his graduation from law school. Image source: Allan McLeod.

children, Marion and Allan. Allan later became a Partner of Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1965.1106 Over the period of the next 30 years, during which time he rose to the position of Senior Partner with the firm, Bill McLeod distinguished himself in many areas of the law. In the late Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. 1940s it was court work which engaged his attention, and later he became well known in the fields of commercial and William (Bill) Aeneas McLeod was born on 14 August 1907, was farming practice. He acted for a number of local authorities admitted to the Bar in 1933, became a Partner in 1946, retired and substantial organisations. He was a Council Member of in 1975 and died in 1981. the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society and was President in He was a close friend of Sir Owen Woodhouse, who gave a eulogy 1959 and 1960. He represented the District at New Zealand at his funeral service at Taupö on 25 August 1981.1102 Law Society level and is remembered for his involvement in the establishment of the New Zealand Law Society’s own building He came to Hawke’s Bay as Managing Clerk for Humphreys & in Wellington and also the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund. Humphreys.1103 “He took the place of a chap named Bailey who He attended the Commonwealth Law Conference in Edinburgh was Managing Clerk at the time but who had wrongly accessed in 1961 and delivered a paper there, the subject of which was Trust funds”.1104 After his admission to the Bar in Dunedin, Bill the establishment of that Fund in New Zealand. Bill McLeod McLeod came to Napier in the 1930s to the position in the firm was a man whose interests ranged far and wide. He enjoyed his known as Humphreys & Humphreys. Then in 1940 he bought golf and fishing and was a very competent cricketer. For many the practice of Mayne & Runciman. 1105 Sainsbury Logan & years he was a member of the Hawke’s Bay Club and the Napier Williams became caretakers for that practice during the time Rotary Club, being its President in the mid-1950s. He served on that Bill McLeod volunteered for war service in the Second the Napier High School Board of Governors, being at one time World War. After serving in the Pacific, Bill returned to Napier Deputy Chairman. and on 1 April 1945 was admitted to Partnership with Sainsbury Logan & Williams. Bill McLeod was very proud of his Scottish Ancestry and was one of those responsible for the founding of the Clan McLeod Bill married Nell Brown (born 10 July 1912). Nell was the of New Zealand. daughter of one of the founders of W D & H O Wills (Australia) and was the first woman in Sydney to drive a car. They had two Bill McLeod purchased a property in Taupö jointly with Jock Twigg1107 and would often entertain Owen and Peggy Woodhouse there. Later on, during a New Zealand Law Society Triennial 1101 Hawke’s Bay Club Archives. Conference held in Taupö, Bill and Nell McLeod hosted Lord 1102 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal archives. 1103 Portrait of a Profession, page 287. Denning at their Taupö house. Also present was Hutchinson QC, 1104 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal archives. who became a Judge and was the last member of the New Zealand 1105 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 3.9.1941, record that judiciary to sentence a man to death. Allan McLeod recalls that “Notices regarding the sale of Mr Runciman’s Practice to Mr W A an Australian Judge was visiting at the time of the conference McLeod were received and Mr McLeod’s application that Mr H E Edgley be approved as Auditor was directed to be referred to the Joint also and was personally involved in a motor vehicle accident Committee.” That approval was subsequently granted and a letter con- somewhere close to Four Mile Bay, near Taupö township. The firming that was recorded in the Minutes of the subsequent Council Meeting held on 24.11.1941. Mr Runciman, who had been suffering from ill health, died shortly thereafter as was recorded in the Minutes 1106 See later in this chapter under the heading Allan McLeod. of the AGM on 15 May 1942. 1107 Allan McLeod, personal recollection, 26.7.2010. 294 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Bill McLeod’s Certificate of Court showing his admission as a barrister of the Supreme Court. Image source: Allan McLeod.

Police arrived and there were “QCs everywhere”. He observed the crash and in particular the mud on the mudguard and mused that one of the decisions he was currently writing back in Australia would need to be “re-­organised” on account of what he had just observed himself from his own accident. Apparently no charges followed for anyone at the scene. Bill McLeod dressed immaculately and always wore a hat.1108 It Bill and Nell McLeod’s house in Coleman Terrace/Selwyn Road. Image source: is correct to say that he was critical of some of his colleagues Allan McLeod. and clients and did not suffer fools gladly, but was nevertheless a kindly man and a very able lawyer. to Wellington for treatment. Ian was left with two children and During the time that Ian Logan was a Partner at Sainsbury Logan although he had the services of a Karitane Nurse available to & Williams (1947–1956) he found his professional relationship him, he had a tough time running the house. with Bill McLeod very awkward.1109 According to John Logan (Ian’s brother) he was not the only one. Ian Logan in particular was a chap who needed encouragement and he had a tough GILBERT WILLIAM STEWART (1907–1976) time also because his wife had tuberculosis and she had to go

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Gilbert William (“Gib”) Stewart was born in 1907, admitted to the Bar in 1947, became a Partner in 1947, retired on 31 May Bill McLeod pictured separately on the occasion of Allan McLeod’s admission. 1964 and died in 1976. Gib Stewart was for many years a con- Image source: Allan McLeod. scientious Clerk in the firm and admitted as a Partner after the war.1110 1108 Ibid. 1109 John Logan, personal recollection. 1110 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal recollection. T he ParTNERS 295

25th Company in the Wairarapa before leaving New Zealand. Gib Stewart is indicated with the yellow arrow and Bob Logan with the red arrow. Image source: Bob and Hiraani Logan.

Jan Chalmers recalls Gib Stewart as “a very, very nice man. He and his wife made a lovely couple. They had one daughter”.1111 Gib Stewart saw active service (twice) in World War II and rose to the rank of Captain. His bravery and war contribution was recognised by, amongst other things, the United States Military awarding him the Bronze Star.1112 When he signed up in January 1940, his medical records dis- closed that he was 32 years of age, 5’ 9” tall, weighed 11 stone 10 pounds and was in excellent health. Gib Stewart served with the 25th Infantry Battalion in Egypt, Greece, Libya and also with the 19th Battalion in Italy and had a brief period away from the front line when he returned to New Zealand on furlough between May and September 1944. He also received the Africa Star, Italy Star and Defence Medal Star in addition to the Bronze Star.1113 Bob Logan served with Sergeant Gib Stewart (C Company, 25th Battalion, 3rd Echelon, 2nd NZEF) during the Second World War. Bob recalls:1114 When war was declared, Gib enlisted immediately. Early 1940 he received orders to report to Trentham Military Camp for a crash course in infantry, completed in 2 ½ months. He became a Sergeant Instructor. New recruits arrived in May, finished their course in early July and joined C Company. That completed the 25th Battalion for overseas duty. There was then 16 days of final leave before embarkation. We slipped out of Wellington Heads early in the morning. The escort Achilles was waiting for us and we linked up at Perth with two Australian troop ships. From there we had a huge escort (one battleship, one cruiser and five destroyers to guide us through dangerous seas). We reached our destination (Egypt) safely and went to base camp (Maadi) and then straight into training. That was tough. We had to route march 25 miles From a legal and accounting perspective, when a Partner retires from practice, in full web one day a week in searing heat. We were only allowed the current Partnership is dissolved and a new Partnership formed among one litre of water and sucked pebbles to keep our mouths moist. the remaining Partners (which may or may not include the admission into Greece was the first big battle. The New Zealand Division was Partnership of new blood). This document records a settlement between the outgunned. remaining Partners and Gib Stewart (personally) on his retirement from practice in 1964. The signatories to the document are Buck Amyes, Bill McLeod, Jim Zohrab and Allan McLeod. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. 1111 Christine Stewart (now Jenner); Jan Chalmers, personal recollection. 1112 He received it for his involvement at Cassino in 1944 for gallantry in battle. According to New Zealand Defence Force Archivist David Gibson, the Bronze Star was rarely awarded to non-US infantrymen. 1113 NZDF Archive, Lists & Postings in WW2 Army Service records (Reg No 30997). 1114 Bob Logan, personal recollection, 9.5.11. 402 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Following the War, Gib Stewart obtained assistance through a series of rehabilitation loans that helped pay for the completion of his law professional papers in preparation for his admission to the Bar, a house at No. 8 Lucy Road, Napier, which he purchased when he married Mavis Alice Fenton in 1946, renovations to that same house and a car (arguing, as he did to the Rehabilitation Board, that it would assist him in his fee totals because he was required to attend the firm’s “branch office” in Waipukurau and a better fee total would improve his prospects of moving from being a salaried partner to a profit-share partner).1321 The records show that he was on annual salary of £650 at the time.

Gib later became an equity partner of the firm alongside Budge Staff photo beneath the cupola. Back row: Buck Amyes, unknown, Roy Grant, Buck Amyes and Bill McLeod. Although the firm records Langley, unknown, Len Lister, Jock Twigg, Gib Stewart, unknown, unknown, show that he “retired” from partnership in 1964, the circum- Albert Scheele, Ian Logan. Front row: Unknown, unknown, Mrs Hancox, stances of his leaving were far from happy.1322 At age 57, Gib Bill McLeod, unknown, unknown, Norman Mackay. Image source: Christine Stewart continued a very happy career with the Lands and Deeds Jenner Office in Napier, utilizing to the full his knowledge and skills in Maori Land dealings, amongst other talents.

From left to right: Arthur Robinson, Vic Langley, Jock Twigg, Gib Stewart (date unknow). Image source: Christine Jenner

From left to right: Buck Amyes, Bill McLeod, Ian Logan and Gib Stewart at the foot of the stairs (date unknown but thought to be the mid-fifties). Image source: Christine Jenner

Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Law Ball 1953. From left to right: Edwin Bate, Mrs Bate, Gib Stewart, Mrs Wacher, Weston Wacher, Mavis Stewart.

1321 Archives New Zealand (Servicemen Rehabilitation Files, Series 20203). At one point, to prove his case, Gib produced the firm’s ledger book to the Rehabilitation Board (without having asked the partners for permission).

1322 Gib’s daughter Christine recalls her father having been “persuaded” to retire rather than having made the decision by free choice and that led to unhappy consequences at home for a period. THE PARTNERS 403

Gib Stewart’s Bronze Star together with the presentation box and newspaper clipping (date and newspaper unknown) and a picture of Gib in uniform (date unknown). From Christine Jenner’s personal collection. 296 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

IAN McGREGOR LOGAN (1915–1958) leave in New Zealand Ian was posted to the Middle East and saw service in Italy before being sent home in 1945. Ian rejoined Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1946 and was made a partner in 1947. During the next few years, Kay was seriously ill from time to time and had to be hospitalised away from home which caused a lot of stress on the whole family. At the same time, Ian’s partnership with the firm was not a happy one. During Ian’s posting to Fiji he had become very friendly with a lawyer there (John Falvey) whose firm was “Cromptons”. Ian had kept in touch with John and the upshot of it all was that Ian accepted John’s offer of a partnership so a decision was made to move to Fiji in 1956. They were well and happily settled in when Ian died of polio in 1958 and the family returned to New Zealand to the home in Hadfield Terrace which they had fortunately retained. I believe that if Ian had had any encouragement to remain in Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. partnership in Sainsbury Logan & Williams he would have chosen to stay with the firm. Ian got very little encouragement. He was Ian McGregor Logan was born in 1915, admitted as a solicitor of the type of bloke … who was quiet, very friendly, good sense of the Supreme Court in Wellington on 9 April 19481115 and became humour and very thorough. He was a plodder and I think if he’d a Partner in 1947. He retired from the Partnership in 1956 to stayed there he could have done well. relocate to Fiji and died in office in 1958 from polio. I also believe that had he stayed, the Firm would have benefited Ian Logan joined the Army in April 1940 and proceeded to greatly from his total honesty, sense of humour, sense of duty to Trentham.1116 Frank Logan in his Memoirs records in July 1942 his clients and loyalty to his fellow partners – qualities which that news came that Ian Logan had married Kay Wilson, who were dear to his grandfather (Francis) and to his father (Ivan). was nursing in Fiji where Ian was stationed for some months with the New Zealand Forces.1117 Ian and I were great pals and his passing was tragic. 1121 In July 1943 Ian Logan was back from war service in the Islands. Ian left the practice and moved to Fiji. He had met a good Ivan and Mary gave a party before he went off to New Caledonia. friend in Fiji during the war, John Falvy. At that time Ian and Later he proceeded to Italy on commission.1118 his wife had three children (Jan, Andrew and Anabel). Ian contracted polio and died. There was no vaccination available Kay Logan who had been ailing for some time, was pronounced in those days. Ian’s parents were shattered. They were living in to have a tubercular infection in her spine and was admitted to Taupö. They got the news through the Taupö Post Office by cable Napier Hospital Shelters. It was a sad business but she was very and they were very upset. Ivan and his sister, Nancy flew over 1119 plucky and resigned. for the funeral. Ivan’s wife could not go because she suffered John Logan provides the following history on his brother’s time from bad claustrophobia, something to do with being trapped in and out of the law:1120 in a store during the 1931 earthquake which had traumatised Ian left Wanganui Collegiate at the end of 1932 and went down her. A lot of children had contracted polio during that epidemic to Victoria University in 1933 to study for his LLB. He worked in in Fiji. Ian was placed on an iron lung but died pretty quickly the legal firm of Luke Cunningham & Clare at the same time until afterwards.1122 1937 when he returned to Napier and joined the firm of Sainsbury Jan Chalmers (Ian and Kay’s eldest daughter) recalls the time of Logan & Williams. At that time he was almost qualified. her father’s premature death:1123 Ian was a quiet, unassuming person with a dry, delightful sense [Y]ou see Dad died in September 1958 and there was no social of humour. He was always friendly and never had a bad word to security over there [in Fiji] and so Andrew and Anabel, who were say about anyone. Needless to say he was popular with all his five and three at the time were just little children and there was clients as far as his work was concerned. He was a real plodder nothing to do but to come back. Fortunately they hadn’t sold the and made sure everything was correct. house in Hadfield Terrace, they’d just rented it out because my He joined the army in 1940, was commissioned in New Zealand mother had thought, we’ll just see how it goes in Fiji and you and posted to Fiji for further training. He saw service in the never know – your parents might want the smaller house, she Solomon Islands and elsewhere. He was married in Fiji to Kay and was quite practical. My father was all for selling up and going and they both arrived back in New Zealand in 1943. After spending as it turned out it was very good decision not to because she was

1115 Roll of Solicitors currently held in the Registry Office in the High 1121 His resignation as a member of the Law Society was recorded in the Court, Wellington. Council Minutes of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society at its meeting 1116 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 115, paragraph 12. held on 17 November 1955 and it was moved at the subsequent meet- 1117 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 124, paragraph 9. ing on 15 December 1955 that “Mr Logan is to be formally advised that 1118 Frank Logan Memoirs unpublished), page 128, paragraph 15. it is with regret that the Society accepts his resignation”. 1119 Frank Logan Memoirs (unpublished), page 146, paragraph 13. 1122 John Logan, personal recollection 1120 John Logan, personal recollection. 1123 Jan Chalmers, personal recollection. T he ParTNERS 297 able to come back with the children. Unfortunately a few months she was in hospital for a year. I went to the Napier Girls High after we got back my mother got TB for the second time. School – she went to Napier Hospital. My parents were married in 1942. I was born in 1945. My mother She was lying in a plaster cast – it came back into her spine again had been a nurse at the hospital in Suva and had contracted TB and she was lying flat in a plaster cast for a whole year. We had from a patient and it stayed in her system and came out probably a succession of housekeepers when she was in hospital and so it about 1946. She spent a year, 14 months I think, it was down at was a fairly disruptive time for everybody. Wellington Hospital and Otaki Sanatorium and my father and I She did not harbour any bitterness about going to Fiji and my went and lived in Gladstone Road with my grandparents while she father dying and the fact that it might not have happened if they was in hospital. The Hadfield Terrace house was right next door had stayed in New Zealand. She was not like that. She didn’t to the Gladstone Road house, so Dad went back there and I think have it in her. he used to go down to Wellington on the weekends to see her. She absolutely adored our father and they were married for six- She came back and eventually recovered. She was not supposed teen years and she never married again, he was her kind of person to have any more children, that was a no-­no for her, but she did and only love in lots of ways. There were quite a number of cases have a pregnancy which old Dr Barnett terminated when I was of polio. I think there were only three people who died and Dad about three which was an absolutely terrible heartbreak – it was was amongst them … his polio attacked his chest, rather than dreadful for them … yet they has another 2 children, Andrew his legs like it attacked a lot of people’s legs – he was paralysed in and Anabel? the chest – he was on an iron lung and because of that there was Dad had met Mum in Fiji. Mum was a nurse at the CWN Hospital a huge strain on his heart and I think he lived a week and then when they met – Dad was stationed there during the war at one he died of a sudden major heart attack. He had a tracheotomy. stage. They took nurses out, those guys, and they met by default He contracted the polio they think from a client and he wasn’t really because he was supposed to be taking out somebody else immunized and it was just before a vaccine came out. He had and he kind of reneged, he’d met mum in the meantime and an enormous temperature of course and they thought they were took her out instead, anyway that’s what she told me. They had getting on top of it – he was starting to get movement back in his a whirlwind romance really – they were engaged within weeks fingers and his legs were absolutely unaffected, in fact he could and married within months. They married in Fiji in 1942 and move his legs. He could bang them up and down inside the iron they had met several nice people who lived there, including lung, but his whole chest was paralysed and he couldn’t talk of John and Margaret Falvey …. So John Falvey was in Cromptons course, so he had a tracheotomy done to help him breath and he (Lawyers) in Fiji and they had kept in touch and mum and dad was starting to get the feeling back in his fingers when he died had had a holiday over there and I think it was in the early 1954. of a massive coronary. He was a fit young man at 42 and it was It was then they must have talked about maybe going over there just too much for him … permanently. The Logan thing, Gran and Grandpa expected an I was nine going on ten when we went to Fiji and was 13 when awful lot of their children, especially Granny. She was very keen my father died. I have absolutely clear recollections of the whole on her sons doing her bidding – in the nicest possible way. They thing – we lived in a series of houses. There was a housing short- were good boys and they did what they were told. David Logan, age at the time and we lived in rental housing in Suva. They the youngest one went and lived in England for years and years looked at lots of places to buy and never ever found anything and and came back in the early 1960s. He was the youngest and they decided they were going to build. In the end they bought Granny doted on him but he couldn’t bear all that, so he escaped a section up on a suburb called Tamavua which is on the hill and I don’t know that he ever really had a very good relationship overlooking the bay. It had a lovely view of the harbour and of with his mother. Granny was very protective, I don’t think she the hills around. That’s when dad got sick and died and so that really liked any of her daughters-in-­ ­law or her son-in-­ ­law for that never eventuated. The land at Deuba was bought by my mother matter particularly, but funnily enough Granny really mellowed who had got an inheritance from her parents side. She inherited in her old age and my mother and her got on like a house on fire a little bit of money which she put into five acres of land atDeuba when we came back from Fiji. Granny was wonderful to mum which is right on the beach– it’s now a tourist place on the eastern – they both were. side, 20 miles north of Suva … When my father died, Grandpa came over to Fiji for the funeral They bought a section at Taupo which was before they decided to but Granny stayed in New Zealand. She couldn’t fly because of go and live in Fiji and then when they went to Fiji they decided claustrophobia … she had been locked in the loos at Blyth’s dur- to sell up their land and put the money into buying this land ing the 1931 earthquake and that seriously affected her. which was undeveloped really, it was quite swampy and so they I came back with [Grandpa and my Aunt, Nancy Fisher] on a spent weekend after weekend going down there and draining the plane with TEAL as it was in those days. Mum and the two little land, planting coconut trees. They planted absolutely dozens and children stayed over there for probably another six weeks. It was dozens of coconut trees and they had had it all drained by the time before Christmas when they got back. I actually stayed with my Dad died. Mum held onto that land for years and in fact wanted to grandparents in Taupo. They were retired to Taupo then and I sell it but there were no buyers around but then in the 70s a buyer lived with them for a while and then I lived with Uncle John and suddenly appeared. John Falvey was still over there and he acted my cousins for a while and went to the local primary school up for Mum as far as the land in Fiji went. He was a wonderful help there. It was the next year 1959 that mum’s TB came back and to her because he was able to complete the conveyancing. Because the currency in Fiji was still sterling in those days for 298 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Order of service, Christmas and New Year Celebrations for the 8th Brigade, 1941–1942. Image source: Andrew Logan.

every pound she got three times as much in dollar terms. It was wonderful. It enabled her to build the house at Taupo. We had a cottage at Pukawa on Lake Taupo and it enabled her to extend and renovate her own house, put on a room and so forth and also have money left over. Anabel (Jan’s younger sister) recalls:1124 I remember mum saying on the day he died, they all thought he was going to get better cause he had this sudden burst of energy where he could do all sorts of things and it just killed him like that. Aunt Nancy and grandpa came over – granny of course couldn’t face it. Everyone was notified by cable including his brother, David Logan who was at that time in England. One of the adventures reported by the (un)official journalists of Ian’s service during the Second World War involved a potentially 1125 embarrassing moment as follows: 2nd Lieutenant Ian Logan during his during service with the 8th Brigade, With the Japs pressing hard around Soanotalu, Lieutenant I. McG. 2nd NZEF. Image source: John Logan. Logan decided to take a stroll in the evening air, and returned later to tell his sergeant that he was sure there were Japs about, for several had run away from him, and that he would have shot Eulogy for Ian McGregor Logan1126 at them, if he hadn’t forgotten to take his pistol with him. Reverend Figgus Suva Fiji September 1958 We stand this morning in the deep shadow of personal loss occasioned by the death of Ian McGregor Logan. A death which 1124 Anabel Kornigstrofer, granddaughter of Ivan and Mary and sister to Jan Chalmers, personal recollection. we in our human near-sightedness­ call tragic and ill-timed.­ 1125 Story of the 34th: The Unofficial History of a New Zealand Infantry Battalion with the Third Division in the South Pacific, The Third Division Histories Committee, A H & A W Reed. 1126 The text of this eulogy was kindly supplied by Jan Chalmers. T he ParTNERS 299

Order of service, Christmas and New Year Celebrations. Image source: Andrew Logan

We cannot judge the worth of a human life – a son, a husband, a father, a friend and fellow-­worker by length of years along. The value of a human life can only be assessed in terms of love. Ian Logan was dearly loved by many; but, what is far more import- ant in the final reckoning, Ian Logan loved greatly. He loved his work and those with whom and for whom he worked. He gave himself to that work wholeheartedly, holding nothing back. He loved his family, his wife and children with a deep and abid- ing affection. To them he gave himself completely, “loving and cherishing them even as his own flesh.” He loved his God and served him “faithfully in the fellowship Ian Logan and his wife, Kay, during service years in Fiji. Image source: Andrew of his Church.” And to him who loves much, shall much be Logan. forgiven. And so for ourselves we are reminded in this solemn moment that one day we too must come to die. When that day comes, be it soon He is a strange man who, in the presence of death, is not humbled; or late, we shall be judged of God not by how long we lived, how who in the sudden passing of a friend well loved, and in the prime much we did, how much money we made or how many honours of life, is not moved to serious thoughts about the meaning and we accumulated, but solely by how much we loved. purpose of this life. And he can count himself an exceptional Ian Logan’s death was marked by the Council of the Hawke’s Bay man who is not at a time like this tempted to question the ways District Law Society in the following way:1127 of God and fling out towards heaven the ringing, echoing cry of all distressed and perplexed humanity, “My God, my God, The President referred to the death of the late Ian Logan and it why …”? was resolved on the motion of Messrs. Tattersall and Bisson that the Society records its sympathy with the father and widow of Yet in all our distress and perplexity, our sorrows and our pain we Mr Logan and a letter of condolence is to be sent accordingly. The shall do well if with a sense of thanksgiving and joy we “gather up the fragments that remain.” 1127 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 10.9.1958. 300 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Ian Logan (4th from the left) during his service years. Image source: Andrew Logan.

Ian Logan with daughter Jan Chalmers, John Logan holding Mary Logan and John Oakley holding Sarah Oakley (date unknown). Image source: Jan Chalmers.

Secretary [Mr A K Monagan] reported that he had arranged for a wreath to be forwarded, after discussion with the President. The Annual Report of the Society for the year ended 31 December 1958 recorded the following:1128 We record with deep regret the death during the year of Mr Ian M Logan. Mr Logan was formerly a member of this Society, and at the time of his death was practising in Suva. He was the third generation of his family to practise in this district. The Council, on your behalf, has tendered its sincere sympathy to his widow and parents. Ian Logan and his wife Kay (date unknown). It is thought to have been taken at Allison Armagh’s wedding some time in the 1940s. Image source: Andrew Logan. 1128 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Annual Report, 10.2.1959. T he ParTNERS 301

JAMES HADFIELD ZOHRAB (“JIM”) (1936–2001) together with Rodney Gallen (now Sir Rodney Gallen QC, retired High Court Judge) and Bruce Carran. During school holidays Dan worked as office boy in the firm and again it was a “positive experience to cross paths with Jim”. In the profession he was respected and liked. Jim Thompson1132 was a lifelong friend of Jim Zohrab. He recalls Jim as an old boy of Wanganui Collegiate School, a top student, but also a keen sports lover, playing for the First XV rugby team and captaining the cricket XI.

Image source: Rosemary Zohrab

James Hadfield Zohrab was born in 1936, admitted to the Bar in 1958, became a Partner in 1961, retired in 1994 and died in 2001. Jim was the second son of Dr J F Zohrab and his wife, and a great-­grandson of Octavius Hadfield,1129 Archbishop, and great- ­grandson of Henry Williams, Archbishop. He was one of the three Zohrab sons who all won the P B Cooke Cup for the “Best All Round Boy” at Wellesley College, Wellington (a preparatory school situated in Eastbourne).1130 Dan Stevenson Jim Zohrab featured in the “toss” with King’s College in 1954. Jim is seventh from the left, standing opposite the King’s College First XI Captain. Image recalls that his first memory of Jim was1131 source: Wanganui Collegiate School Museum Trust. See also Bruce and as a new boy at Wanganui Collegiate in 1954, the Centenary year Don Hamilton, Never a Footstep Back: A History of Wanganui Collegiate School of the school, and Frank Gilligan’s last two terms as headmaster. 1854–2003, published by the Board of Trustees of Wanganui Collegiate School, Jim was Deputy Head Prefect and Captain of Cricket. He was a 2003. colourful and entertaining personality, both as a prefect and as a sportsman. He was a very energetic fast bowler who met with He was a more-­than-­useful fast bowler representing the success through speed rather than accuracy. He started his run in University team and Hawke’s Bay. He was a passionate tennis “somewhere close to the river”. More importantly my memories player and golfer. Attending full-time at university he passed are of a generous personality, and if a new boy has that memory his LLB in four years. After a short stint with a Palmerston of a prefect it is a testimony for life. North firm he accepted a position with Sainsbury Logan & Jim studied law at Victoria University and during that time was Williams. Due to the Second World War, new blood had not a Law Clerk in Dan Stevenson’s father’s firm, Izard Weston, been introduced into the firm for many years. After a short probationary period, Jim was made a Partner and soon became a Senior Partner, existing Partners having either retired or died. 1129 Octavius Hadfield (1814–1904) was a missionary who came to At that time the firm operated gentlemen’s hours, closing at Waimate in the Bay of Islands and then to Otaki and Waikanae. Later 4.30 p.m. Jim introduced modern-­day business practices and he became Bishop of Wellington and then Primate of New Zealand: Ian St George (Comp), Colenso’s Collections, New Zealand Native Orchid also recruited new Partners into the firm. He was instrumental Group, Wellington, 2009, page 397. As an example of how the char- in building up a strong farming practice and most of the well- acters involved in the early Colony became entwined, an individual ­known Hawke’s Bay families are present- ­day clients of the by name of Wi Parata sued Octavius Hadfield in his capacity as the Bishop of Wellington in 1877. Parata was a wealthy farmer and a mem- firm. He developed a large tax and trust practice. In doing so 1133 ber of the Executive Council. He was an astute politician and a skilled he identified a mistake in Deeds of Trust used at that time orator and debater. He took the Bishop of Wellington to the Supreme by many of New Zealand’s leading law firms, which resulted in Court over a breach of oral contract between the Anglican Church and breaches of the law against perpetuities. An Act of Parliament the Ngäti Toa and a breach of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. 1134 Ngäti Toa had provided land to the Church in 1848 in exchange for a was needed to correct the error. In fact, Jim was so particular promise that a school for young Ngäti Toa people would be built by the Church. However, no school was built. When the case came to 1132 Fellow Practitioner based in Wellington and later Master of the High Court, Parata lost. Another of the characters involved in the early state Court based in Wellington. of the law firm (Chief Justice James Prendergast) ruled that the Treaty 1133 Adrian Coleman (retired Hastings solicitor) observes that Jim Zohrab of Waitangi was a “simple nullity” having been signed by “primitive picked up the error in the B T Coleman No. 1 Trust Deed which barbarians”. That ruling had far-­reaching consequences well into the had to be rectified by Court Order duly obtained in April 1963: see 20th century. A J Coleman, Lust for Land, Printlink, Wellington, 2011, page 184. 1130 Kindly supplied by Alan Zohrab of Taupö, Jim’s brother. 1134 Perpetuities Act 1964. See in particular section 15: Rule of remorse- 1131 Dan Stevenson is a Senior Partner in Izard Weston, Solicitors, less construction abolished “Where a Court is construing a will or Wellington. other instrument, whether made before or after the commencement of 302 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS about the correctness of documents already signed and dated by Jim became a Partner in 1961 and retired in 1994. Initially he clients he would regularly commission himself and his fellow did some court work (including criminal). The Minutes of the Partners to check the entire contents of the Wills Safe. So, for Hawke’s Bay District Law Society1137 reveal that Jim Zohrab example, in early 1966 it was resolved that:1135 was nominated as a member at that time and on his formal Wills to be checked will be done as follows D– I (JHZ) application (at the same meeting) was appointed to the Legal J – R (ADM) Aid List which was required to be approved formally by the S – Z (PRGC) Council before advising the Court Registrar. The Minutes in 1961 also reveal that Jim Zohrab put himself forward to accept Special emphasis on substitutionary clause. the appointment as Society Librarian at a modest annual remu- Jim had a large personal practice helping his clients through neration of £30.1138 Jim was a proponent of the establishment good times and bad. They were a very loyal clientele. Many of a joint Medico-­Legal Society1139 (the remnants of which are leading businessmen sought his advice including Sir Selwyn still functioning today). He was an expert in Trusts and Trust Cushing. He was a Director of a number of companies including Administration and at the same time established a significant Chairman of the Board of Williams & Kettle Limited, a company rural client base. He could write any figure on an invoice and which expanded rapidly under his leadership. He was a man his clients would pay. He had no bad debtors among his own of strong opinions balanced by a good sense of humour and clientele. Towards the end of his Partnership days Jim became he always enjoyed a few gins after a hard fought golf match. A Chairman of Williams & Kettle and was well respected in that devoted husband, his daughters and granddaughters were his role. He would have mourned the demise of that company pride and joy. He developed a strong band of friends, some of when it was sold to PGG Wrightson. According to Sir Owen whom fell on hard times and no one did more for them than Woodhouse, Jim Zohrab was inclined to judge success in money Jim to help them get over their troubles. His early death due to terms and his interests probably lay more in commercial activi- cancer was a severe blow to all who knew him and great loss ties than the law, but he had a driving, business-lik­ e approach to to the firm. legal practice which may have given a degree of impulse to the Hamilton Logan tells the story from a client perspective:1136 firm at a time when it had become rather quiescent.1140 Jim was our family lawyer during his whole time with the firm. Current Partners recall with a touch of humour when Jim set I found his new ideas as to how to arrange one’s affairs very his rubbish bin alight with a match that he had just discarded refreshing. He was diligent and very thorough. He was not only after lighting his pipe.1141 There was a small, red light that he my lawyer but also a friend and we played some golf and tennis had installed just above his office door (not big enough to give together. He was always very competitive in both sport and the wrong message) which, when turned on, meant to the business. receptionist that she would lose her job if she put a call through. In my grandfather’s time [Francis Logan] Sainsbury Logan & It was a double-­edged sword really because she was in danger Williams had the cream of the province as its clients. I know of losing her job if he had forgotten to turn the light off and that my Uncle Ivan [Logan] was concerned that the firm was was denied an important call that he was expecting! Jim had an losing ground, mainly due to restrictions during the war, but enormous intellect and at times could take on the persona of a this trend continued after the war. It was therefore crucial that slightly absent-­minded genius: his tireless and uncomplaining any appointment to the staff should have the ability to win back secretary, Judy Lins, was once sent on a wild-goose chase to find some of those clients. I must say, to Jim’s credit he was able to his car which he said he had parked in town when in fact it was do this and more. parked at the repair shop all the time. Jim had the ability to work in all facets of the law so as time went Jim Zohrab was well known and widely respected by peers and on he gradually shifted towards the commercial side of business. adversaries alike. He quickly gained the confidence (and work) He took up directorships, the most notable being Williams & of many of the traditional farming families in Hawke’s Bay and Kettle Limited, a regional mercantile firm. Under Jim’s chair- became their personal lawyer. He has been credited with saving manship, Williams & Kettle expanded into a strong competitive Sainsbury Logan & Williams from certain mediocrity when, on company. Jim would be very disappointed at the direction that his arrival in 1961, the firm was possibly over-ba­ lanced with the company has taken since he left the helm. older Practitioners who had no clear direction as to succession planning within the Partnership. This may be a little unfair to Jim worked tirelessly for his clients. It was a tragedy that he died some, but with Jim, and later Allan McLeod, came a rejuvenation at such a young age. of the firm and a means by which the practice could grow and continue to support its very large farming base and contribu- tory mortgage portfolio. Jim could often appear abrupt and he this Act, and the will or instrument makes a disposition of any property, the Court may have regard to the fact that, while under one possible definitely did not tolerate fools. He seemed almost indignant, construction the disposition would or might be void as infringing the in his twilight years of practice, that the legislature should rule against perpetuities, under another possible construction it would or might be valid; and, in considering which of those constructions is to be preferred, the Court may take into account that the maker thereof 1137 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 13.4.1960 (R G Gallen as would probably have intended the construction under which the dis- Secretary at that time). position would be valid. 1138 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 12.4.1961. 1135 Minutes of a Partners Meeting held on 2 February 1966. JHZ was Jim 1139 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 24.9.1968. Zohrab, ADM was Allan McLeod and PRGC was Peter Chetwin. 1140 Sir Owen Woodhouse, personal recollection. 1136 Hamilton Logan, personal recollection, August 2010. 1141 Gerry Sullivan, personal recollection. T he ParTNERS 303

ALLAN DUNCAN McLEOD (1940– )

Jim Zohrab and his daughter Penny Zohrab at Penny’s admission ceremony in Image source: Sue McLeod. Wellington in 1987. Image source: Rosemary Zohrab. Allan Duncan McLeod was born in 1940, admitted as a solicitor in 1963, became a Partner in 1965 and retired in 1981. Allan is the son of Bill and Nell McLeod.1144 He attended Central School introduce reforms (such as GST) which required Practitioners in Napier, Hereworth, Napier Boys and then Victoria University. to modify their practices and learn a whole set of skills in and Initially he worked for Bell Gully & Co. in Wellington (clerk- around time of supply and taxable activity and then collect the ing there from 1960 through to 1963) and ‘devilled’ for Denis tax on behalf of the Government. Blundell (later Sir Denis Blundell, Governor-General). He was Jim O’Donovan recalls a story involving Jim Zohrab and the there at the time Des Dalgety, Laurie Greig (later Mr Justice phones. There was a convention that a Practitioner always Greig) and Lyndsay Papps were Partners. He was admitted as answered the phone if another Practitioner was calling. It didn’t a solicitor in 1963 in an admission ceremony presided over by matter who was calling or who was with you. Suddenly Jim Mr Justice McGregor and later admitted as a barrister of the began refusing to take calls when he had a client with him: “I am Supreme Court on an application before Mr Justice Woodhouse sorry, but Mr Zohrab has a client with him. Can I ask him to call in 1964. Back in Napier during this time, Budge Grant had died you back?” This had never happened in over a hundred years. in 1961, Jim Zohrab had joined the firm and Buck Amyes had A Special Meeting of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society was a stroke in 1963. Allan’s father approached him and invited convened to consider this disgraceful departure from the way him to come back to Hawke’s Bay. Allan recalls finishing his things were done and so all of the Practitioners met in the then exams in 1963, taking 2 weeks’ holiday in the Bay of Islands Supreme Court on the Marine Parade to discuss the matter. Jim (a place to which he was to return and settle) and starting at O’Donovan recalls that Hallam Dowling called the meeting. Jim Sainsbury Logan & Williams “on the day that JFK was shot!”1145 was (in retrospect, quite understandably) unrepentant and the Allan became a Partner in 1965. He recalls that within a short matter was resolved in his favour but not without some fairly time, beginning with Jim Zohrab’s arrival, the firm changed harsh words being uttered. The only other time Jim O’Donovan markedly from being one dominated by old Partners to one recalls a special general meeting being convened was when Dave that had received some “new blood” which, according to the Welch (then a Partner of Lusk Willis and Co.) stopped payment new arrivals (of course) was much needed at the time. He says on a Trust Account cheque. Such an outrage had never previ- that it quickly became a different firm with “thirteen children ously been perpetrated in the district.1142 running up and down the hallway and stairs”. His major clients In his final years in the practice as Partner he pulled back from included Hawke’s Bay Farmers Co-­op Limited (for whom his day to day involvement in Partnership affairs and concentrated father, Bill McLeod, had previously done much work), Hawke’s on his directorships, in particular Williams & Kettle. He stopped Bay Harbour Board, East Coast Farmers Fertiliser Co. Ltd and attending Partners’ meetings at one point and retired as a Partner various large Family Trusts and Estates. There was much work just in time to avoid (unintentionally) the New Zealand Law involved in breaking up the large Farming Trusts and subdivid- Society levy1143 imposed on each and every principal of a law firm ing the historical farming blocks. Allan says that this type of in New Zealand resulting from the defalcation case surrounding initiative would often falter at the last “hurdle” because the the Lower Hutt firm of Renshaw Edwards in 1992. in- la­ ws would want to retain a small piece of land for their horse paddock. He was involved in the Hawke’s Bay Harbour initiative of creating vast areas of residential subdivision on 1142 Jim O’Donovan, personal recollection, 2.2.2011. reclaimed land (some earthquake, some from reclaimed lagoon 1143 A levy in the sum of $10,000 for each Partner. Andrew Morrison was at that time President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society and had the difficult task of persuading the members of the national body’s plans to levy all Practitioners in order to make right the $26 million 1144 See earlier in this chapter under the heading William Aeneas McLeod. shortfall as a result of the defalcations. 1145 Allan McLeod, personal recollection, 27.7.2010. 304 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Allan McLeod with his father, Bill McLeod, in 1963. Image source: Allan McLeod. Allan McLeod’s first Practising Certificate. Image source: Allan McLeod.

and calculations were always expressed as pounds-­per-­acre, never as a global sum. Allan refers to the sizeable contributory mortgage portfolio the firm had from early times. In its heyday both the Nominee Mortgage Company and the Williams & Kettle on demand mortgage competed very favourably with the Banks and produced a result that was sometimes two percentage points clear of the return from the ordinary trading Banks. The contributory mortgage market became heavily regulated by the Law Society and the requirements for lending became long- ­winded and burdensome to the extent that decisions on lending could not be made quickly where the Banks were able to respond rapidly in comparison. After more than 100 years of offering loan monies to the public through client investments,1146 the Partners of Sainsbury Logan & Williams resolved in 1992 that the mortgage portfolio be assigned to the Guardian Trust. In 1996 it was resolved that the solicitor Nominee Company be liquidated as at 30 June 1997.1147 Among Allan’s extra-­curricular interests was his involvement in Jaycees (including being Napier President in 1976), Napier Lions, Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust (as trustee), United Building Society (as a Director). He was appointed to the posi- tion of Assistant Secretary to the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1969 and on Graham Cowley’s retirement became Father and son at Allan’s admission ceremony in 1963. Image source: Allan Secretary in April 1970.1148 He married his wife Suzanne (“Sue”) McLeod. in 1969. Sue came from a timber family background and recalls coming to Napier where her mother-in-­ ­law had the household meat and groceries delivered weekly. It was often a challenge to fit into an environment where everyone was expected to enter- and swamp areas) such as Pirimai and Tamatea. Allan recalls the tain visiting judges and other dignatories. Allan and Sue have Waipukurau office which was visited every Tuesday (to coincide three adult daughters. Allan retired as a Partner of Sainsbury with the saleyards). Initially Allan used to go down there with Buck Amyes. Allan vividly remembers the hogget sales in January and the overwhelming stench of sheep manure but it was a way 1146 Refer to the regular advertisements in the Hawke’s Bay Herald placed by George Sainsbury and then Francis Logan in the 1880s. See Chapter 1 to get among the well-­off rural clients and that meant getting and also Hawke’s Bay Herald, 11.1.1878; Hawke’s Bay Herald, 17.12.1880; to know the meat schedules like the back of your hand. When Hawke’s Bay Herald, 24.11.1881; and Hawke’s Bay Herald, 2.2.1883. negotiating and talking about land sales and leases, the prices 1147 Sainsbury Logan & Williams Partnership Minutes, 1992 and 1996. 1148 Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Minutes, 30.4.1969 and 13.4.1970. T he ParTNERS 305

Allan McLeod’s celebration dinner at the Hawke’s Bay Club on 1 April 1965 Reverse side of previous image. Image source: Allan McLeod. when he became a Partner of Sainsbury Logan & Williams. The reverse of the card has his leaving function (same venue) on 27 March 1981 signed by Jim Zohrab and Rosemary, Andrew Morrison, Steve and Jenny Lunn, Magnus opinion came back and confirmed that the value in the stamps Macfarlane, Gerry and Stephanie Sullivan. The last two named guests are (as collector items) remained with the families of the clients Francophiles and would be mildly horrified to observe that the Maître d’ has who were originally responsible for their production (and not in preparing the programme (a) incorrectly masculinised the main dish of the firm). Allan was given the job of looking after his father’s Fillet de Sole Bonne Femme (a classic French fish dish accompanied by shal- lots and mushroom in a creamy mushroom sauce grilled under a salamander) affairs when he retired in 1975. and (b) mistaking the second “v” “Veuve” and omitting the second “c” in “Clicquot” in the name of that famous champagne from Epernay. Regardless PETER RICHARD GEORGE CHETWIN (1938– ) of the spelling, the meal for that evening was bound to be delicious. Image source: Allan McLeod.

Logan & Williams in 1981 and left Hawke’s Bay with his fam- ily for Kerikeri where he went into Partnership with David Welch and formed the legal firm of Welch & McLeod, which subsequently became McLeod & Partners in 1986. Allan retired as a Partner of that firm in 2003 but kept up his involvement in the law by serving as Coroner from 1988 and retaining his office as a Notary Public. During his time at Sainsbury Logan & Williams he was responsible for preserving a good many of the original documents, which now make up the historical record. He says that at one point the Partners obtained an opinion from George Barton QC in relation to the ownership of the ad valorem stamps1149 which were affixed to numerous (and by then obsolete) documents stored in the strongroom. The Image source: Maree Chetwin.

Peter Richard George Chetwin was born in 1938, admitted as 1149 An example can be seen on the Order of Probate for William Colenso’s Will and Codicil which represented over £1,850 in stamp duty – see a solicitor in the Dunedin Supreme Court in 1962, became Chapter 7 under the heading The Estate of William Colenso. 306 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS a Partner in 1965, and retired in 1969 when he moved to The Partners at that time were Bill McLeod, Buck Amyes, Christchurch. Milton Grant, Gib Stewart and Jim Zohrab. The firm was much Peter was educated at Otago Boys High School from 1951 to as it had been for years with handwritten ledgers, Partners writ- 1955, was a member of the First XI from 1953 to 1955 and was ing a daily fee diary and a sign saying “There will always be an Captain in his final year. England” on the front glass door! There was no such thing as Dictaphones or copiers in those days. All the secretaries were Peter completed his solicitor’s requirements for admission as a proficient at shorthand. solicitor at Otago in February 1962 and as a result of extramural study graduated LLB from Victoria University on 6 May 1966. The Partners (apart from Jim Zohrab) had a leisurely approach He represented Otago University at cricket for several years and to practice. Morning teas were lengthy affairs with the Partners gained a blue in 1958. He was subsequently selected for the New toasting muffins over the gas heaters in the winter! It was not Zealand Universities team following a Universities tournament considered appropriate for Partners’ wives to work and Peter in Wellington. recalls that Rosemary Zohrab was the first one who did! Peter was employed by the Public Trust Office in Dunedin Peter recalls that Jim Zohrab in those days had a thriving crimi- and after qualifying as a solicitor he was appointed as District nal jury trial practice. Some of his clients looked distinctly out of Solicitor for Gisborne and subsequently for both Napier and place sharing the waiting room with the firm’s rather patrician Gisborne where he gained valuable training in both trust admin- Hawke’s Bay farming clients! istration and the operation of the lending practice in respect of Peter left the firm at the end of the year and in 1962 began study- the Common Fund lending of that organisation. ing for a law degree at Victoria University, which he completed Peter was admitted as a Partner of Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1966. along with Allan McLeod as from 31 March 1965 and his duties Peter returned to the firm in 1967 and became a Partner in 1968. involved general legal work (apart from any common law) but His fellow Partners at this time were Bill MacLeod, Jim Zohrab, with an emphasis on Trusts, Wills and Administration. Allan MacLeod and Peter Chetwin. Andrew Morrison joined the Peter subsequently retired from Partnership and moved to firm shortly afterwards. Peter recalls Peter Chetwin as being the Christchurch for family health reasons in 1969. He was later most exquisite draftsman he ever met in legal practice as well engaged as a Partner from 1 October 1972 by the Christchurch as a classic leg spin bowler continuing the firm’s tradition of firm of Anthony Polson & Robertson (now Anthony Harper). Partners who were successful cricketers. Peter retired from that Partnership some years ago. Peter married Lesley Davey in 1967 and they subsequently had three daughters Louise, Caroline and Catherine. PETER JAMES TONG (1943– ) Initially Peter was engaged in criminal and civil work but then concentrated on general conveyancing commercial and trust work The firm did not have a conveyancing practice of any note and Jim Zohrab and Peter concentrated on building this up with considerable assistance from Nominee Company mortgage funds. Mortgage funds from any other source were extremely difficult to come by. As a result a thriving residential conveyanc- ing practice was established. During the 1970s and 1980s Peter acted for a number of cor- porate and institutional clients among them the Angus Group Ltd, one of New Zealand’s major construction companies, the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board, the Daily Telegraph Co. Ltd and Image source: Peter Tong. The Waiapu Board of Diocesan Trustees as well as developing a substantial farming practice among the firm’s second- and third- ­generation farming clients. Peter James Tong was born in 1943, admitted as a barrister on 24 February 1967,1150 became a Partner in 1968 and retired in Peter also developed a specialised town planning practice and 1986. in later years appeared on numerous town planning appeal In 1960 in his last year at Napier Boys High School, Peter was hearings notably representing the Hawke’s Bay County Council selected to play cricket for Hawke’s Bay and met Jim Zohrab, in hearings seeking consent to establish the first regional refuse then a Partner in the firm, the team’s opening fast bowler. collection centre – unfortunately on a farm next to a property owned by one of Napier’s leading litigators. Another notable Jim suggested to Peter he might like to come and work for the case and one of the first of its kind in New Zealand was appear- firm as a Law Clerk to see if the law appealed to him so Peter ing for the Hospital Board applying for consent to establish a joined the firm in this capacity in 1961. psychiatric half way house in a residential area on the Napier Hill which drew objections and appeals from over 300 people, 1150 Roll of Barristers currently held in the Registry Office in the High many of whom were friends of Peter’s. Fortunately the appeal Court, Wellington. T he ParTNERS 307 was successful and the resident’s fears were never realised. of senior positions with that Bank including Chief Executive of Peter also appeared before a number of liquor licensing and the Bank’s global private trust group. His early training under other tribunals. Jim Zohrab as a trust lawyer stood him in good stead in these In the mid-1970s Peter was appointed a Director of the Napier positions! Building Society and later served as Chairman until his retire- On returning to New Zealand in 1995 Peter represented the ment in 1986. Bank of Bermuda in New Zealand and established a successful consultancy practice, acting as a negotiator for a number of The 1970s and early 1980s represented a period when the firm prominent media personalities. Peter was appointed a Director was prosperous with the Partners who now included Stephen of a number of private and public companies and is presently Lunn and later Gerry Sullivan and Magnus Macfarlane at their Chairman of the University of Auckland School of Medicine most productive. Foundation and Chairman of a specialist medical company. Peter recalls that during the mid-1970s consideration was given Peter has retained his sporting interests as a very active member to moving premises as space was at a premium and plans for a of the Royal Auckland Golf Club and is a keen fly fisherman. new office building on the other side of town were prepared by the Angus Group. However, nothing eventuated and the then Partners purchased the office building from the Logan family ANDREW MacLEAN MORRISON (1944– ) and an adjacent building. Two notable employees of the firm with whom Peter had a close association were Norman Shearn, a retired Englishman, who worked in various capacities for many years, and Trevor Cardo, who worked directly for Peter handling his Estate and Conveyancing practice. Norman was of very conservative politi- cal persuasion and he, Jim Zohrab and Peter had many vigorous debates over the years usually over a glass of gin! Trevor had a delightful bedside manner particularly suited to dealing with Estate clients. In 1977 Peter stood for and was elected to the Napier City Council. In 1980 he topped the local body poll and was elected Deputy Mayor. Peter served as Chairman of the Council town planning committee for a number of years.

Peter and stood against Dave Prebensen in the mid-­1980s but Image source: Morrison Daly website. was unsuccessful in securing the top spot, remaining as Deputy Mayor until he left Hawke’s Bay in 1986. Andrew MacLean Morrison was born in 1944, admitted as a Peter continued his sporting interests playing cricket for Napier solicitor on 24 February 1967 and as a barrister on 23 February Old Boys until the mid-1970s and becoming an active member 1968.1151 of the Napier Golf Club and the Hawke’s Bay Ski Club. Peter Andrew joined Sainsbury Logan & Williams as a solicitor on served on the committee of the Napier Golf Club for a number 24 November 19691152 and became a Partner in 1970. He retired of years and was also a keen squash and tennis player. Many in 1996 to become a Partner in Buddle Findlay and later Izard tennis matches were fiercely competed on Jim Zohrab’s court Weston before launching out and forming the two- ­person at his home on Napier Hill. Partnership of Morrison Daly with offices in both Wellington He competed in the legal profession’s Devil’s Own Golf and Hastings. Tournament at the Manawatü Golf Club for over 20 years’ He is the son of N A Morrison, who was Senior Partner of winning this tournament in 1977. Wellington firm Chapman Tripp & Co. for many years. At the Peter recalls practice in Napier over these years as being very time he decided to move to Napier in 1969, Andrew was working busy but enjoyable. Fellow Practitioners could be trusted implic- for Chapman Tripp under Tom Eichelbaum (later to become itly and a number were personalities in their own right which Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum). brought colour to the legal profession. Andrew acted for Hawke’s Bay Farmers Co-­op (based in Hastings) and was involved in the merger of that company with Dalgety In 1986 Peter left the firm and moved to Auckland, having been appointed General Manager of the Angus Group Ltd a then public company with its Head Office in Auckland. In 1151 Roll of Barristers and Roll of Solicitors currently held in the Registry 1989 Peter returned to the law and joined Russell McVeagh, Office in the High Court, Wellington. He married Kate-­Mary Smith on the same day he was admitted as a barrister. then New Zealand’s largest law firm, as Partner in charge of 1152 The Partnership Minutes at the time (recording the backdated deci- the trust specialty. sion on 11.2.1970) show the then Partners (Bill McLeod, Jim Zohrab, Allan McLeod and Peter Tong) resolving that Andrew was “1. To be In 1992 he accepted a position as Head of Compliance with employed as from 24.11.69 at a salary of $4400-­00 per annum. 2. To be Standard Chartered Bank based in Hong Kong and held a variety advised not later than December 1970 whether a Partnership is avail- able and if so on what terms”. 308 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

NZ which then became HBF Dalgety, and included the stock Much was happening in the meat industry and Richmonds and and station company de Pelichet McLeod & Co. Andrew was Dawn Meat were at the forefront. Andrew had a significant input also involved in Hawke’s Bay Harbour Board work (latterly into the case before the Licensing Authority, for a sheep and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, following Local Government lamb slaughtering and export licence for the two companies. The Reorganisation in 1989) the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board and application was unsuccessful, but the companies weren’t going establishment of Royston Hospital (now part of the Wakefield to allow the matter to rest there. Group). Richmonds and Dawn now put pressure on the Government Andrew also had an active involvement in the rural sector acting to deregulate the meat industry and by the end of year this had for Williams & Kettle Ltd, East Coast Fertiliser Co. (including its been achieved with the passing of the Meat Amendment Bill. merger with Ravensdown), East Coast Gas (which involved the This brought to an end 80 years of Meat Board control, the Meat securing of a franchise for Hawke’s Bay, developing a corporate Industry Authority was abolished in 1981. Andrew didn’t take a structure and public float). leading role in presenting the case but provided much valuable One of Andrew’s notable achievements (commented on later research and back-up­ support. by Hamilton Logan) was his involvement with Richmond Richmonds major expansion took place in 1986 when Dawn Limited during its period of remarkable expansion and the Meat and the assets of Hawke’s Bay Farmers Meat Company, 1977 litigation which issued as a result of a takeover bid by except the Whakatu plant, which was permanently closed, were Brierley Investments. Restructuring ensued as a result of the acquired. Due to a huge blunder, beyond Richmond’s control, de- ­licensing of the industry which brought constant questions in informing Whakatu management about its impending fate, around “capacity” and “unions”. The firm at the time was also Richmonds was subjected to unnecessary and unwarranted involved in the famous injunction proceedings brought against criticism. As Chairman I had to deal with the full wrath of the the Meatworkers Union when certain factions threatened public and press during this time. Andrew was extremely busy New Zealand export markets by placing stickers on product dealing with the many legal matters that arise from a takeover. in protest over the restrictions imposed by management on He gave the Richmond Board good advice and much assistance the amount of time that could be spent in the conveniences. during this risky and turbulent time. I much appreciated the help Andrew was Lead Counsel in a groundbreaking case before he gave me at all times, he also made himself available night or the Commerce Commission to do with the meat industry day – surely rare service today. restructuring. Richmonds was Andrew’s largest client, in fact it was probably In terms of Andrew’s involvement in community matters, he the Firm’s largest. Richmonds was now the largest Hawke’s Bay represented Hawke’s Bay in cricket, represented New Zealand company and Andrew did all the legal work, on certain occasions in a number of national and international yachting events, he called upon outside advice, but otherwise he was responsible was Chairman the Napier High Schools Boards (covering five for negotiating through some thorny issues. separate secondary schools), Vice-­Commodore of the Napier In my 15 years involvement with Richmonds I never saw him Sailing Club and a Life Member of the Hawke’s Bay Branch of trumped. He held his own against the best in the metropolitan the NZ Deerstalkers Association. areas and in my opinion is an excellent corporate lawyer. He was President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society from Andrew himself recalls an incident1154 involving a meeting of the 1992 to 1994. region’s mayors to discuss the prospect of a southern satellite Hamilton Logan recalls his contact with Andrew Morrison in suburb in the Poraiti Hills to cope with future expansion of the the following way:1153 region. The meeting was convened at the Napier Wool Exchange Some of the major issues that Andrew had to deal with during Building (no longer standing but a place of intense commercial my time as a director of Richmonds are set out below. Richmonds activity in its day when wool prices were set and tons of wool was had first call on his time whenever it was needed. bought and sold). The significance of the venue becomes obvious with the telling of the story. It had raked seating in a lecture- In the early 1970s Andrew was asked by the Richmond Board to ­theatre style and a central desk at the lowest level from where look at and if necessary rewrite some of the Company’s articles, proceedings were directed (or not, as the case may be). Andrew because it was perceived that the existing ones wouldn’t with- Morrison was invited to Chair the meeting which involved the stand a move on the Company by an aggressive party. mayors of Napier, Hastings, Havelock North, the Chairman of This he did, but not before time because in 1977 Brierleys, rec- Hawke’s Bay County Council and the Commissioner of Works ognising that Richmonds was under-­capitalised and had a low (a man by the name of Peter Norman). The focus of the meet- share price made an offer for a strategic holding. What they hadn’t ing was to achieve some unity in the services and community realised was that Richmonds was an unlisted public company planning for the Napier/Hastings area. that required all share transfers to be approved by the Board. The In the middle of a very large crowd and whilst the Mayor of Board also had the power of veto and the power to ascertain who Hastings was addressing the assembled crowd, I inadvertently had the beneficial interest. Brierleys were forced to relinquish turned on a switch (which I believed to turn on the heater, but their shares and undertake not to attack Richmonds in the future. was wrong about that) and it seems that a large neon sign above It would have been one of the rare occasions when Brierleys were beaten off and Andrew must take much of the credit for that.

1153 Hamilton Logan, personal recollection. 1154 Andrew Morrison, personal recollection, 7.7.2010. T he ParTNERS 309

the Chairman’s seat on the wall then swung forth with the words Board of Hawke’s Bay Rugby Football Union. Steve’s father was “STOP TALKING” which caused great amusement. an All Black (Bert Lunn). Steve and his wife Jenny have two boys. Steve’s particular professional career interest has been in Trusts and the Law of Torts. STEPHEN PETER LUNN (1951– )

MAGNUS EDWIN JAMES MACFARLANE (1953– )

Image source: Steve Lunn.

Stephen Peter Lunn was born in 1951, admitted to the Bar in 1975, became a Partner of Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 1978 Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. and retired from Partnership in October 1990 to join in the Napier firm Elvidge & Partners. Magnus Edwin James Macfarlane was born in 1953 in Singapore, Steve was born in Clyde and educated at Ranfurly District High came to New Zealand in 1957 with his parents where he attended School and then Otago Boys’ High School where he played rugby Te Mata Primary School for a brief period then Hereworth and in the First XV. He attended Otago University from 1970 to 1974 Christs’ College. He attended Victoria University and gradu- and then took a job in 1974 with Chrisp, Caley & Co. He spent 18 ated LLB and was admitted to the Bar in Wellington in 1976. months there and was approached by Messrs Zohrab, Morrison He joined Sainsbury Logan & Williams in November 1975 and and Tong (via Rob Elvidge) to come and work for Sainsbury became a Partner in 1978. The Law Practitioners Act contained a Logan & Williams in 1975. He became Partner in 1978 and a rule that no lawyer within the firm that no lawyer could be made Notary Public in 1983. a Partner within 3 years of being admitted to the Bar unless a special application was made to the then Supreme Court for Steve recalls playing a curtain raiser at Carisbrook for Otago the purpose. An application was made on Magnus’s behalf, sup- Boys’ High School against King’s College of Sydney. That day he ported by (now) Sir Rodney Gallen QC and was duly granted. scored a try for Otago Boys’ High School. The main game was played by New Zealand Universities against a Japan XV in which Despite an early grounding in general practice which included Steve Reaney scored four tries. A young Steve Lunn approached two conveyancing transactions and one Estate, Magnus’s focus Reaney for his autograph and has suffered the ignomy of being was on litigation. There was then no real litigation practice at reminded about it ever since.1155 Sainsbury Logan & Williams apart from a smattering of cases run by Andrew Morrison. Magnus honed his considerable litigation Steve went on to play for Otago in 1970 and 1972. He was also skills doing legal aid and Family Court work, the odd jury trial heavily involved in senior athletics and competed at national and prosecutorial work (some with the Crown Solicitor) in level. He still holds (jointly with Bruce Hunter, Stuart Melville Customs and Apple and Pear Board cases. Among Magnus’s more and Dick Taylor) the 4 x 800 metre New Zealand record. notable cases are Nation1156 and Ward1157 involving Matrimonial When Steve came to Hawke’s Bay he played sub-­union rugby Property and Trusts. He has appeared on a regular basis in the and then commenced a rugby refereeing career in 1984 ending Court of Appeal and twice in the Supreme Court. DHL v Richmond with over 30 first-­class games to his credit. He occupied a place Limited1158 (concerning exclusion clauses in contracts) and East in the top 15 referees in New Zealand for a period of 3 years and Coast Fertiliser1159 (involving the enforcement of a Bill of Writ) are when he gave up refereeing became Chairman of the Hawke’s interesting reported examples. In the early part of his career he Bay Rugby Football Union. One of his achievements in that role ran a series of perpetuity reformation cases which arose out of was to disband the Vikings team (an amalgamation between drafting issues in several Deeds of Trust. He also appeared for the Manawatü and Hawke’s Bay) which he strongly believed dis- Board of Hawke’s Bay Area Health Board to defend its decision enfranchised Hawke’s Bay. Later he became a member of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union Board. He remains on the 1156 Nation v Nation [2005] 3 NZLR 46. 1157 Ward v Ward [2010] 2 NZLR 31 (SCNZ). 1155 Steve Reaney is a Director and Shareholder of Gardiner Reaney Ltd, an 1158 DHL International Ltd v Richmond Ltd [1993] 3 NZLR 10. old established accounting firm in Hawke’s Bay having regular dealings 1159 International Ore and Fertilizer Corporation v East Coast Fertilizer Co. with solicitor firms within the Province. Limited [1987] 1 NZLR 9. 310 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS to establish a regional hospital located in Hastings. There was Greer swears the rat electrocuted itself by biting the power considerable opposition in Napier. The Board succeeded in its cable. In any event, over the next days and weeks an appalling defence of all main causes of action which included bias except smell developed and it took some considerable time to discover in respect of the consultation whereby the Board was directed the cause of it until the cover was removed and the decomposing to go back, consult and make a fresh decision. corpse of the rat was found. It is not known how many clients Magnus decided to give up his criminal practice when he began noticed the smell but were too afraid to ask. attracting a number of clients who might not be considered by him or the then Partners to be suitable people to wait in GERARD JOHN SULLIVAN (1951– ) the reception area with the firms commercial, local body and farming clients. He recalls acting for one woman who was charged with indecent exposure for having sex on her sub - urban front lawn. She pleaded rape as her defence without success. Following reports of this case on the front page of New Zealand’s leading tabloid Truth, there was a sizeable increase in the number of sex offenders seeking Magnus’s services. Magnus moved to a more settled commercial litigation and arbi- tration practice branching out into Resource Management1160 litigation and developing a speciality in Fisheries Law. He was rescued on one occasion by Steve Lunn when he had an older Mäori couple in his office who wanted to adopt their granddaughter, the basis for which in that case had to be that their daughter was not fit to be the child’s mother. He had advised them that they would have to produce evidence that their daughter was a bad person and not fit to look after the Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. child. At that suggestion, the couple became very angry and upset to the extent that their raised voices were clearly audible Gerard John Sullivan was born in Westport in 1951, admitted to through the walls of the office and gained the attention of Steve the Bar in Wellington in 1978, and became a Partner 1983. Lunn who burst into Magnus’s office and rescued him from an Gerry’s father, Des Sullivan, was a Practitioner on the West uncertain fate. Coast for a time before moving to Palmerston North in 1962 to When they were newly admitted as Partners, Magnus and Steve set up a practice on his own. From there he was appointed to Lunn were caught up in an “old-school” culture that governed the District Court Bench in 1967. the relationship between Senior and Junior Partners. In an Gerry went to Palmerston North Boys High School until the endeavour to effect a paradigm shift, they spent time late at family moved to Wellington on his father’s appointment to the night obtaining information (to which they were entitled) to Bench in 1967. Des eventually became Chief District Court see who was producing the fees and how the Partners were paid Judge. in relation to that. When they put the information to the older Partners they were upbraided for daring to obtain the informa- Gerry went to Victoria University where he excelled himself tion. In any event they were told that what they would be paid, at sport and was a member of the Victoria University Rugby and if they didn’t like it they would be shown the door. Club Senior A Team playing alongside Graham Mourie and also played in the University Cricket First XI. Magnus confesses that when he arrived at Sainsbury Logan & Williams he had long hair and a moustache and smoked “15–20 After graduating LLB, Gerry was admitted to the Bar in 1978 a day”. Sometimes he worked crazy hours (in excess of 100 hours and then spent 18 months overseas before returning to work in a week) and late at night went unnoticed searching through the Wellington doing court work at Sievwright & Quinn. office for cigarettes when he had run out. He is unsure now, He then came to Hawke’s Bay to take up a job with Sainsbury when approached, how desperation could have driven him to Logan & Williams engaging himself in lease work and general menthol cigarettes, cadged off Anna King (at that time Andrew conveyancing under Peter Tong and Andrew Morrison. Morrison’s secretary) and other menthol addicts. Gerry has kept up his sporting interests in a variety of fields1161 He recalls that Jim Zohrab’s office had a heater with a cover- including golf and basketball and cricket coaching. ing over it. For some reason a large rat made its home there Gerry has been a Director of the Napier Building Society for unbeknownst to Jim or anyone else. Magnus suspects that it over 10 years and has served on the St John’s College Board of was because Jim used to eat his lunch in his office and may not Trustees. always have finished the last crumb. Somehow the rat died. Gerry met and married Steph in 1981. They have three boys Magnus believes it was because of Jim’s tobacco smoke. Stephen and a girl together.

1160 Including the Cape Kidnappers case in which Julian Robertson, a US billionaire sought and was refused permission to build a luxury lodge and a leading case in odour prosecutions Hawke’s Bay Regional Council 1161 He has the most extraordinary hand–eye coordination the Author has v Hawke’s Bay Protein Limited. ever experienced and is well known as a “burglar” at golf. T he ParTNERS 311

of significant farming interests in Central Hawke’s Bay and elsewhere. He is well known for his rugby talents and played at the highest level of club rugby in Hawke’s Bay. Often the pressure of working in a busy practice and raising a young family was balanced with hard-­fought battles on the rugby field. That often saw Steve turning up to work with a black eye or some other scar to show for it including one he received in a game against MAC in which the perpetrator was charged with assault. Steve is also well known for his lethal left-hand tennis game which was and still is much feared throughout the Province. Steve famously participated in the “Round the Mountain”, an event that was organised by the New Zealand Army and typi- cally involved a team of ten runners who would begin running at 2 a.m. in the morning up the Desert Road from Waiouru in a tag- ­team individual 16 km sprint north to Rangipö and then west passed Tongariro and back to the Army Base at Waiouru some Gerry Sullivan in a familiar pose in the 1970s-style tearoom. Image source: 160 km later. The infamous leg was “Leg No 9” which started Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. on a gentle hill climb and gradually got worse, without relief until the end of the 16 km section of road. The use of two-­sided coins over copious volumes of beer and wine the night before seems to have been responsible for Stephen’s disproportionate Gerry recalls in his first year as Partner being given a special share of Leg No 9. draw of $5,700 only to be told immediately afterwards by the accountant that this was the amount of his terminal tax for In terms of community involvement Steve was on the Napier that year and he would have to pay it all to the Commissioner City Council L.A.T.E. which was responsible for the establish- straight away. ment of the National Aquarium. Also a keen golfer, Steve recounts the amusing story of one day visiting Jim Zohrab after Jim had retired as a Partner. Steve STEPHEN ALEXANDER GREER (1956– ) was nominated by the remaining Partners to deliver some bad news to Jim, suggesting that the Partnership curtail the arrangement whereby Jim would come to the firm sporadically to do consulting work for some of his former clients in return for a consultant’s fee. The word had got out that the clients were no longer prepared to pay Jim a mileage allowance to come from his home in Havelock North and upon hearing this news, Jim, who was practising his golf swing on the back lawn, lost his temper and stood there menacingly with his 9 iron raised, arguing the point with the (very) brave Stephen Greer for an extended period of time.

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Stephen Alexander Greer was born in Hastings in 1956 and attended Mahora Primary, Heretaunga Intermediate, Lindisfarne and then Auckland University for a brief time before enrolling at Otago University, graduating LLB in 1980. He was admitted to the Bar in 1980 before Mr Justice Gallen (as he then was) and returned to Hawke’s Bay that same year to work for Sainsbury Logan & Williams. Stephen married Denise Townshend in November 1980 and later became a Partner of the firm in 1985 working closely alongside Jim Zohrab, learning the tools of Steve Greer making it back to the finish line of the Tremains triathlon char- trade predominantly in the trust area which has made him a acteristically in record time. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams recognised expert in that area of practice. He acts for a number Archive. 312 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

STUART JOHN WEBSTER (1961– ) which the deponent swore in evidence that he was in receipt of “wheels on meals”. At that same ceremony Stuart’s grandmother, Hazel Keyte, approached one of his female solicitor colleagues and asked her “how long have you been a secretary with the firm?” Stuart then left for Hawke’s Bay in 1987 with his then wife to start at Langley Twigg where he was involved exclusively in litigation. He was later approached by Andrew Morrison and invited to join Sainsbury Logan & Williams.1162 In the same year that he was admitted to Partnership, Stuart took the lead role of (a very young) Juan Peron in the musical Evita produced by Napier Operatic Society in 1990. Apart from a brief subsequent appearance in a Maurice Shadbolt play, his thespian pursuits have been curtailed. One of his clients tells an amusing story about pursuing a receivership debt in the Kingdom of Tonga where the Director of the defending company (whether by mistake or intention) insisted on calling him “Mr Wobster” in Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. all correspondence. Unfortunately, the name stuck for quite some time afterwards. Stuart John Webster was born in 1961 and attended Maungaturoto Stuart was President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society Primary School and then Otamatea District High School until from 2003 to 2005 and one of the four New Zealand Law he left for Victoria University in Wellington where he studied Society Vice-­Presidents (representing the North Island except Law and graduated LLB (Hons) in 1984. He began practising for Auckland and Wellington) from 2005 to 2007. life in Whangärei with the firm Webb, Ross & Co. undertaking a variety of legal work including conveyancing and litigation. He was admitted to the Bar in a ceremony in the Whangärei High Court on 4 November 1984 presided over by Mr Justice Moller who chided the new admittee on falling standards of grammar and spelling among Practitioners. He bemoaned the fact that an Affidavit had been presented to him the previous week in

Photo taken at Stuart Webster’s graduation in Wellington in May 1985; Stuart pictured here with his parents, Mavis and Ken Webster. Image source: Mavis and Ken Webster.

1162 At that time, having recently arrived in Hawke’s Bay and new to the profession the author was sporting a small gold earring in his left ear. That attracted more than a little interest from Jim Zohrab who, dur- ing a lunch-time interview, stood up to shake hands upon leaving and positioned himself between the author’s left ear and the door, staring Stuart Webster was admitted to the Bar on 4 November 1984 in the Whangärei at the jewellery item for some time before allowing an escape. It is sur- mised (although awaits confirmation) that if the firm was prepared in High Court before Mr Justice Moller and is pictured here with Pat Brady, 1975 to take on a long-­haired, moustache-­oed, chain-­smoking litigator Senior Partner of Webb Ross & Co., who moved his admission. Image source: in 1975 then when 14 years later earrings became fashionable, who was Northern Advocate, 4.11.1984. to stand in the way of a bona fide legal career on that basis? T he ParTNERS 313

ANDREW ROSS WARES (1960– ) ADRIAN GRAHAM BARCLAY (1967– )

Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Andrew Ross Wares was born in Napier in 1960 and attended Adrian Graham Barclay was born in 1967. He attended Clive Greenmeadows Primary, and Taradale Intermediate and High Primary School, Hastings Central, Hastings Intermediate and School before attending Otago University in 1979 where he Hastings Boys High School. He was a prefect in his sixth- and graduated Bachelor of Commerce in 1983 and Bachelor of seventh-form years. He made the First XV while in the fifth form Laws in 1984. He began working in Wellington for Watts & and the First XI cricket team when he was in the fourth form. Patterson and was admitted to the Bar in 1984. He spent some He left at the end of the seventh form to attend Officers Cadet time overseas from 1987 to 1990 on an extended backpacking School in Waiouru1163 and graduated in 1986 as a 2nd Lieutenant venture working for a time in London to catch his breath and in the New Zealand Army. He then spent 2 years with the to earn some money for further travel. Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corp., He returned to New Zealand in 1990 to work for Rudd, Watts including periods in Papakura and Trentham Military Camps. & Stone in Auckland working in the company/commercial He attended Victoria University from 1989 to 1994 completing area including mergers and acquisitions. He moved back to a BA (majoring in Education) and an LLB and was admitted to Hawke’s Bay with his family in 1994 to work for Sainsbury the Bar in 1995. Logan & Williams and became a Partner in 1996 at the time He came back to Hawke’s Bay to work for Bramwell Grossman that Andrew Morrison retired from Partnership and relocated and moved to Sainsbury Logan & Williams in 2000 and became to Wellington. a Partner in 2003. Andrew has been involved in a number of community-­based Among Adrian’s extra-­curricular interests are coaching the organisations including as President of the Hawke’s Bay Medical Juniors at Ocean Beach Kiwi Lifesaving Club, swimming, cycling Research Foundation Inc. and as Chairman of the Napier Central and deer stalking. School Board of Trustees. In the latter role, he became famous at a certain prize-­giving by giving an address which had as its cli- max the chopping off of the bottom half of his business tie. The NATHAN TODD GRAY (1969– ) parable is probably lost to time, but the effect of the tie-­cutting gesture burns bright in the imagination of the pupils, teachers and parents who attended that day. Andrew is also an active participant in the Citizens Advice Bureau scheme operated by the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the New Zealand Law Society. Andrew has been a keen participant in a number of triathlons involving Partners and staff of the firm. On one such occasion he and the author were involved in a successful sporting foray hosted by and known as the Fay Richwhite Triathlon held at Karapiro. A medical Practitioner friend had been invited to participate as a “ring-­in” and, being of a hardened South African disposition, the road trip back to Hawke’s Bay involved Andrew, the South African doctor and the author drinking beer from quart bottles purchased at the Rangitaiki Tavern, smoking over- sized Cuban cigars and telling funny stories of dubious origin. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

1163 Rank 53775. 314 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Nathan Todd Gray was born in Palmerston North in 1969 and Wellington which had connections to local “Italian mafia”. He attended school at Waiopehu College in Levin. He attended received threats including the legendary “concrete gumboots” Otago University from 1988 to 1991 and was admitted to the Bar but a call to the lawyers on the other side fixed the problem and in the Wellington High Court. He worked in the general litiga- a large tray of food was delivered to Nathan as a peace offering. tion area for Hornblow, Karran, Curta & Bell from 1992 to 1994 While at Chapman Tripp Nathan was involved in the arrest of a and then Chapman Tripp from 1994 to 1997 mainly involved in tugboat in Wanganui. The outgoing tide was about to break the Maritime Law with Tom Broadmore (now Judge Broadmore, a back of the tug which was then carrying iron ore. It involved District Court Judge). He then travelled overseas and worked an urgent hearing. Tom Broadmore was so impressed with the for Herbert Smith in London from 1997 to 1999 (Maritime effort that he paid for a meal out to get the tug moved while Law) and returned to New Zealand to work for Izard Weston under arrest to prevent the loss of the vessel and cargo, which from 1999 to 2003 (Civil Litigation and Maritime Law). He was successfully achieved. then came to Hawke’s Bay with his family, by reason of lifestyle Nathan now practises general civil litigation. choice in 2003. He has been involved in Citizens Advice Bureau Stories about transport by shopping trolley on the streets of Port and has coached soccer. Douglas are fictional and have no sound evidential basis. He recalls his early maritime experience arresting a ship in

Recent publicity and marketing shot taken in January 2011 which graced one of the billboards at Hawke’s Bay Airport for a short time. The subject matter of the photograph was loosely nicknamed “The Tennyson Street Flying Wedge”. From left to right are: Gerry Sullivan, Magnus Macfarlane, Stuart Webster, Lincoln Reid (Associate), Andrew Wares, Nathan Gray, Stephen Greer and Adrian Barclay. Image source: Eva Bradley Photography.

Hawke’s Bay Club (front entrance). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. Hawke’s Bay Club (view from Marine Parade). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. T he ParTNERS 315

PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS, MINUTES AND FINANCIAL What we do know is that it was the habit of the Partners to ACCOUNTS hold their Partners Meetings on a regular monthly basis at their beloved Hawke’s Bay Club. This was probably for two very Regrettably not all of the firm records are intact. It seems that, important reasons: confidentiality and proximity to the comfort apart from small snippets of information extracted from folios, of food and beverage. Truth be known, in the configuration special Deeds packets, partial minute books and accounts, that of the premises (in all its three forms – the southern side of much of the day-to-day records have been disposed of after their Tennyson Street (from 1875 to 1886) where George Sainsbury (presumed) useful life. started out, to the Robert Lamb designed premises (the same

This note dealt with the question of preferential payments as between Napier and Hastings Partners in 1914. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Hawke’s Bay Club (billiard room). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. Hawke’s Bay Club (stairwell and first-floor landing). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. 316 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

The passage from the last part of the previous page to the top of this page reads: “All accounts to be closed and drawings to take place on assumption that net profit from both offices would amount to £7000. If any falling off takes place in any one year the drawings for the next to be reduced so as to make up the deficiency”. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Hawke’s Bay Club (foyer). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. Hawke’s Bay Club (billiard room). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. premises having been built twice because of the 1886 fire) on Throughout the history of the firm there are many times the northern side of Tennyson Street at the corner of Tennyson when the profit share has had to be adjusted on account of a and (then) Church Lane and the Finch & Westerholm designed wide variety of circumstances: the sudden death of a Partner premises which were completed in 1932) there was never (George Sainsbury in 1901, as an example, and J H G Murdoch any provision for a proper boardroom where the affairs of the in 1918),1164 the war years when Partners were called up for Partnership could be discussed in a full and frank way without service, the paying of an Annuity to the family of a deceased fear of being overheard by staff. Partner (J H G Murdoch), the 1931 earthquake which required It can be seen from the next image that oftentimes notes requir- adjustment to the Partners current accounts, and on retirement ing further action were handwritten on Hawke’s Bay Club stationery. 1164 See Appendix 1. T he ParTNERS 317 of Partners from practice where the capital (and goodwill) would be assessed (for example, Gib Stewart). Francis Logan and Heathcote Williams were Partners of the Hastings “branch” (in legal terms it was a separate Partnership formed in 1902 by the name of Logan Williams & White) but obviously closely connected in profit-­share terms. The note refers to a memorandum prepared by A B Campbell which is not part of the record. It will be recalled that Heathcote Williams had gone to look after the Hastings office in 1913 at the request of his Napier Partners (he was an orchardist and his orchard property was located there, but it is not known that that was the reason – see Heathcote’s personal letter to Francis Logan in 1928 which appears in Chapter 3). What appears to be intended by this note is that the practices would merge and a new Partnership would be formed comprising Francis Logan, Heathcote Williams, A B Campbell, J H G Murdoch (who was killed in action 4 years later) and Ivan Logan commencing on 1 April 1914. The premises in Hastings were to be retained by Francis and Heathcote and rented to the new Partnership at the rate of £150 per annum. Francis and Heathcote were to continue drawing Hastings profits until the end of 1915 in accordance with some formula proposed by A B Campbell and then a mecha- nism in place if any of the Partners was to die within the next 7 years. The profit share between the Partners is clearly set out on the right-hand­ side of the memo: both Francis and Heathcote as Senior Partners would get 19/70ths, A B Campbell 15/70ths, J H G Murdoch 10½ /70ths and the balance of 6½/70ths to Excerpt from the Partnership Records showing the handwritten adjustment I B Logan. For whatever reason the proposal was not proceeded made as a result of a Resolution on 1 November 1944. It is not known what with and was cancelled. There is a pencil reference on the that Resolution said because the Minute book cannot be located. Most likely second page of the note which suggests that it was superceded it arose out of some circumstance to do with the War. Image source: Sainsbury by an arrangement agreed to on 22 May 1922.1165 Logan & Williams Archive.

Amyes.1166 The Partners had contemplated purchasing a car for the purpose of making the travel to and from Waipukurau tax deductable. After a number of years of debate about whether to keep the branch office going, the Waipukurau office was eventually closed in May 1969.1167 We are fortunate to be able to extract from the records that we do hold information about how much it cost to run the practice and the profit split among the Partners. Bearing in mind that these were depression years, the earthquake had just occurred the previous year and the figures are in pounds which would require careful CPI adjustment before they could be compared with relative income levels these days, the following gives a Hawke’s Bay Club (members bar). Image source: Hawke’s Bay Club. glimpse of how things were. It may come as a surprise to many in business just how confident law firm Partners have been over the years in practice about Later on, believed to be sometime in the 1940s or 1950s, a being the best placed of all people to manage and run their branch office was established in Waipukurau. It was obviously businesses. Not until it became fashionable and economical to intended to serve the Central Hawke’s Bay clients. Allan McLeod have Practice Managers (and in the case of Sainsbury Logan & recalls travelling there on Tuesdays (saleyard days) with Buck Williams that did not occur until 1997) was it widely accepted that spending Partners’ collective chargeable hours discussing 1165 There is no note about that in the Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive relative trivia was not a sensible way of conducting a seemingly but there are other arrangements recorded in Chapter 5 in November 1925 when the Death and Retirement Rules were amended, and again in 1927 when the Annuity arrangements for J H G Murdoch’s widow 1166 See earlier in this chapter under the heading Allan Duncan McLeod. and family were recorded. 1167 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 6 May 1969. 318 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Profit and Loss Accounts for the year ended 31 March 1932. Image source: Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 March 1932. Image source: Sainsbury Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. Logan & Williams Archive. profitable business. In the case of the current seven Partners on 27.10.65 and Chetwin sometime in 1969). The Minute Book (billing at ordinary rates) that represents $2,275 (plus GST) per recorded the Resolutions passed at each of the monthly Partners hour which is potentially billable time lost to the firm. So to put Meetings (typically held after work at 5.10 p.m. sharp). One of things completely into perspective, a half-hour discussion about the early entries may give a clue as to what happened to the whether to send a Staff Solicitor to a seminar out of town for a earlier records:1168 cost of $900 is simply bad economics. That the partners attend the office on 18th July to clear safe. When reviewing the documentation available in putting this It is known that some time in the 1960s a good quantity of book together, it came as a huge regret that we did not seem to historical material was donated to the Hawke’s Bay Museum have any Partnership Meeting Minutes prior to 1 April 1965. with the assistance of Allan McLeod but the precise date that Snippets of documents relating to ledger balances or “death and that occurred is not known. retirement” rules did survive but the records are not complete. It Technology was forever a topic of discussion. Apart from legal can only be assumed that it was intended that meeting Minutes texts and casebooks, equipment was a major tool of trade for be discarded when it was no longer thought that they were useful. lawyers:1169 So, the record of Partners Meetings that might otherwise have surfaced on Hawke’s Bay Club letterhead are now lost to time. ADM reported the purchase of a new typewriter for As mentioned earlier, the reason for meeting at the Club was £93/15/-… ­ probably because of the relative privacy and freedom from inter- That ADM make further enquiries into entering into a typewriter ruption it provided. It was not fashionable to have boardrooms agreement with Armstrong & Springhall … in legal premises until much later. They were certainly not part of the original Finch & Westerholm design in 1932. 1168 Minutes of a Partners Meeting held on 23 June 1965. The usual way of The Collins Series 274 Cathedral Minute Book, which recorded recording individuals in the Minutes was to use their initials. So that every meeting after 1 April 1965, is the only apparent survivor. WAM stood for William Aeneas McLeod (Bill McLeod), JHZ James Hadfield Zohrab; PRGC Peter Chetwin; ADM Allan Duncan McLeod; The front page lists the Partners as at that date (Messrs Amyes, PJT Peter Tong and AMM Andrew Morrison. Initials are still widely W McLeod, Zohrab, A McLeod and Chetwin) and the additions used in Partnership communications today, probably because they are as they occurred (Messrs Tong on 1.4.68 and Morrison on not too personal but not too formal. 1.4.70) and the absences through death or retirement (Amyes 1169 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 23 June, 7 and 21 July and 4 August 1965. T he ParTNERS 319

Excerpt from the Partnership Records describing an arrangement for I B Logan’s retirement. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

Wartime Balance Sheet 1944. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. 320 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

Excerpt from the Partnership Records describing an arrangement for I B Logan’s Excerpt from the Partnership Records describing an arrangement for I B Logan’s retirement (page 2). Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. retirement (page 3). Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive.

That two (2) new Grundig Dictaphones be purchased … Approved the relinoing [viz. replacing the lino] of the typists’ That WAM be authorised to enter into typewriter agreement lavatory. Suggested the work be done in the first two weeks of … January. ADM reported typewriter agreement entered into … Lino in women’s toilet was discussed and ADM apologised for not having seen to it to date. Question of renting or buying Grundigs still under review … It is difficult to appreciate the scale of pay and relative cost of Finances and economic health were ever to the fore:1170 living, but as an example of wage levels in 1966:1174 JHZ gave a “state of the partnership” report and stressed that in New employees of the firm Carol White at £6.0.0 pw and Dianne view of new tax commitments every endeavour should be made Sims at £11.0.0 pw. to collect outstanding costs. The prospect of joining forces with other firms was discussed Underemployed typists were a cause for concern:1171 from time to time. It is not known what spurred the following Memo to typists that if they haven’t got sufficient work to do, entry in March 1966 1175 but it should be remembered that onus is upon them to find some if possible. A H Robinson was a former Law Clerk at Sainsbury Logan & Buck Amyes died in October 1965 and although he does not Williams before he left with Tom Gifford to commence practice appear to have attended any Partners Meetings from 1 April as a Partnership across the other side of Tennyson Street: 1172 there is an entry for 1 December as follows: The question of a proposed amalgamation with Robinson & That the office pay the £30 bill for GB Amyes funeral expenses. Toomey was discussed. It was decided that before WAM Building renovations (Partnership, not owners’ expense) approaches Robbie, JHZ should sound out Noel Toomey. JHZ cropped up from time to time:1173 said he had already told Noel we were interested. Noel was to talk to Robbie.

1170 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 19 August 1965. 1171 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 22 September 1965. 1172 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 1 December 1965. 1173 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 15 December 1965 and 2 February 1174 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 2 February 1966. 1966. 1175 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 17 March 1966. T he ParTNERS 321

Wage relativities meant that careful thought was required on the issue of wage increases:1178 After discussion the following rises were approved to be wage levels on 14/9/66 D Sims increased to £11/10/- ­p.w. (10/- ­increase) K Petersen increased to £12/-/-­ ­ p.w. (10/- ­increase) A Sweeney increased to £14/5/- ­p.w. (10/- ­increase) … N.B. Keep in mind a large bonus (£25?) for Len Lister at Xmas. The value of typists to produce fee-­paying work was not to be underestimated and they were paid accordingly. For example, Ann Sweeney gave notice in September 1966 that she intended holidaying in Australia and a replacement was required until Christmas of that year. In October it was resolved that until she returned, Ann’s salary was to be split between two existing typists (Karen and Pam) but that at the first salary date after her return her salary would be adjusted to £15 per week.1179 Several special Partners Meetings were convened in December 1966 including one at the Hawke’s Bay Club on 10 December 1966 to consider the admission of Peter Tong into Partnership. The terms of the offer of Partnership were recorded in the Partnership Minutes of 14 December 1966. Serious consideration was also given to relocation at that time to another building from which to continue the practice of law. The building (limited just to the corner site at that time) was owned by Ivan and Frank Logan. The Partnership Meeting Minutes of 14 December 1966 record: Excerpt from the Partnership Accounts for year ended 31 March 1966. A net profit to gross income ratio of 59 per cent is not a bad result by any current JHZ is to approach FB Logan on the basis that the building be standards. The Partners at the time are likely to have practised judicious purchased from the Logans for a figure not exceeding £15,000 at parsimony at all times in particular in what it paid their non-P­ artner solicitors a rate of interest to produce the same as the present rental during and clerical staff. An element of boarding school “fagging” has always been the lifetimes of IB & FB Logan and that a tactful intimation be prevalent between those “aspiring to Partnership” and those who have “made given that an early answer be given or it is our intention is to it there”. Image source: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Archive. purchase another building. Ironically at that same meeting the cost of the office Christmas Party was hotly debated and it was resolved:1180 For whatever reason, the discussions appear to have petered out This is to take place on Thursday 22nd December at 4.45pm. and it was not mentioned again. ADM to invite usual guests. An elaborate table is not to be prepared. [Emphasis added] Staff issues were always to the fore and encapsulated in the following slightly naive entry in the Minute Book:1176 The following year the start and end time of the Christmas Party was carefully recorded as 4.45– 6.15 p.m. (lest the firm’s profits Staff: A memorandum was to be drafted by PRGC to contain be consumed in one extended celebration).1181 The staff are to 1. hours of attendance be told that it is to be merely a “cheese and biscuit” evening.1182 2. availability of typists Such parsimonious attitudes to spending money on entertain- 3. door shutting ment seem quaint today compared with the staff recognition 4. telephone conversations that is now both expected and deserved. 5. staying here till end. The discussion about the building purchase was taken up again Office equipment continues to occupy a significant amount of at the Partners Meeting in the new year. Jim Zohrab reported partner time with the following quaint reference:1177 that1183 Electrolux: £6/-­/-­ approved for purchase of electrolux from Mrs McLeod [presumably second-hand­ and from Bill McLeod’s wife]. Heater: £3/10/-­ approved for purchase of heater for WAM from 1178 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 31 August 1966. 1179 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 12 October 1966. Mrs McLeod. 1180 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 14 December 1966. 1181 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 15 November 1967. 1176 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 23 June 1966. 1182 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 13 December 1967. 1177 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 3 August 1966. 1183 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 8 February 1967. 322 SAINSBURY LOGAN & WILLIAMS

he had sowed the seeds re Building to FBL. He was worried about reprimanded by WAM and paid restitution. Mrs Wight was told the roof. her children must not be in the office when she cleans. At times the Partners supported certain charities and political In the meantime, the firm had been busy working on its suc- allegiances. In April 1967 the Partnership resolved to donate cession planning and recruited Andrew Morrison to come £30 to the National Party.1184 By July 1968 it was left to individual and work as a Staff Solicitor. The official minute records that Partners whether to contribute or not.1185 Andrew was:1191 Professional indemnity insurance cover of £20,000 was consid- 1. To be employed as from 24.11.69 at a salary of $4400-­00 per ered adequate.1186 A donation of £20 to The Waiapu Board was annum. to be made for use of their carpark. 2. To be advised not later than December 1970 whether a part- It has been a Partnership convention for as long as Partnership nership is available and if so on what terms. Meetings have been recorded that the last Partner to join the It is very clear from the Minutes that a young and ambitious Partnership has the responsibility of taking accurate Partnership Andrew Morrison was keen to make his mark and within Minutes. This period of time in the Partnership was no excep- 5 months of commencing employment he was invited to tion. The irony is that the Minute Book recording the previous join the Partnership as from 1 April 1970. The Minutes of Partners’ deliberations about whether or not to admit the new 11 February 1970 record that PJT and ADM were “favourably Partner to Partnership were somehow immediately made avail- inclined to admit Andrew into Partnership” subject to discus- able to the incoming Partner (typically following a stern chat sion around entry terms and profit share. Not only that, but from the most Senior Partner about the need to keep all of the based on the principle (in true boarding school fagging style) Partners’ deliberations – past, present, future – completely requiring the newest Partner to take the Partnership Minutes, confidential). And so it was with Peter Tong’s admission to Andrew introduced a paper recommending some changes in the Partnership in 1968 where1187 administration of the firm (most of which were largely adopted 1192 [i]t was suggested that considerable thought should be given without amendment) and started having the Partnership to the question of whether or not Peter Tong should be offered Minutes produced in typewritten form. It is not clear which a partnership on 1/4/68 – one year earlier than anticipated. It of the secretarial staff was sworn to utter secrecy sufficient to was decided that WAM, PRGC and ADM should have a meeting permit her to perform this function but it seems certain that it and put forward proposals for consideration at the next partners was not Andrew who typed them up himself. meeting. These same Minutes recorded the first appearance of Trevor 1193 A special meeting was then held on 22 February at 8 p.m. and Cardo who was invited to work for the firm and be in charge of the National Insurance Agency.1194 He was to be employed by [a]fter much discussion in regard to the advisability and desir- the firm at a commencement salary of $3,000 per annum from ability of taking in a new partner and the resultant division of 2 June 1970 and like Ann Eaton (née Sweeney) still works for profits it wasRESOLVED 1/ That a partnership be offered to Peter the firm at the time of writing (both having greater than 40 years Tong commencing on 1st April 1968 … service, respectively). This resulted in Peter Tong arranging his own brass nameplate, in addition to the backboard at the foot of the stairs and adver- tisements and notices placed in the Dominion, Daily Telegraph, LAW SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT Herald Tribune and Law Journal and a letter to the Law Society The Partners of Sainsbury Logan & Williams have had a long 1188 advising of his elevation to Partnership status. and involved period of service for the Hawke’s Bay Law Society At this same time the Partners considered disestablishing the and New Zealand Law Society. This is not to take away from the Waipukurau branch office or purchasing a firm motor vehicle if voluntary service of other firms and individuals. they were to continue with the branch office. The matter of the The Roll of Presidents held by the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the 1189 branch office was finally decided in May 1969: New Zealand Law Society records the following: JHZ moved that the branch office be closed … [and] suggested George Sainsbury 1895 that a letter be written to CHB clients advising them of the Francis Logan 1897, 1907, 1923 closure of the branch. It was agreed that the name plate be left. The motion was carried. Heathcote Williams 1898, 1906, 1916 Curiously, there is an entry in July 1968 which reports the theft Alexander B Campbell 1909, 1917 of stationery from the office:1190 Bill McLeod 1959–1960 ADM reported a spate of thefts of pens and pencils. The cleaner was approached and it was found to be her young son. He was 1191 Minutes of a Partners Meeting held on 11 February 1970 but obviously ratifying a decision already made because he started 3 months earlier 1184 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 12 April 1967. than the date of the formal Resolution. 1185 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 31 July 1968. 1192 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 8 April 1970. 1186 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 26 June 1967. 1193 See Chapter 10 under the heading Trevor Cardo. 1187 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 31 January 1968. 1194 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 8 April 1970. The agency arrangement 1188 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 27 March 1968. was introduced as a companion service alongside conveyancing and 1189 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 6 May 1969. involved a commission payment if a client was introduced by the firm 1190 Minutes of a Partners Meeting, 31 July 1968. to that particular insurance company. T he ParTNERS 323

Andrew Morrison 1992–1994 But back to our leader, Andrew Morrison, who had a way of Stuart Webster 2003–2005. expressing himself that reflected on both his legal and sporting backgrounds. Stuart Webster was one of the four New Zealand Law Society Vice- ­Presidents (representing the North Island except for When he spoke, it was in calm measured terms, but it was hard Auckland and Wellington) from 2005–2007. to differentiate if he had a smile or snarl in his expression. He produced some memorable quotes (at least in the mind of this scribe) which included the following: SPORTING PROWESS: INDOOR CRICKET1195 •• Ye Gods: here we are in the middle of the night, in the middle In the early/mid-1980s, indoor cricket was the sporting rage. of winter, in the middle of the Pandora Industrial Estate, at Teams were organised from firms, social clubs, professional the apex of our sporting careers, being beaten by a team called associations, law firms and played“ ” at the ICA Centre at Thames Sports Dorks – how absolutely depressing. Street, Pandora (now the Napier Indoor Sports Centre). •• When enquiring of one of his team, why he was talking to a Interest was keen as games were scheduled for 6 p.m., 7.30 p.m., hyper-active­ opposition member and being told that it was 9 p.m. and the last game at 10.30 p.m. the opposition player’s 18th birthday, he replied, “never talk It was not uncommon for players to participate in two or three to the enemy in a friendly fashion – you might like them” and teams a night, for such teams as “ Flower Power” sponsored then following this up with a comment, “Ye Gods, I could have by Specific Orchards. “Sandwich Factory”, “Molar Men”, (HB sired him.” Dentists) and “SLOWS” (Sainsbury Logan & Williams). There •• When playing against a mixed team of male and female was also a team from the dark side, “WTR” – Willis Toomey players, he stated “that thing may look like a female, smell Robinson. like a female, and act like a female but as far as I’m concerned, The games consisted of limited overs, both batting and bowling it is a batsman, so bowl as fast and as evilly as you can, [name for prescribed periods, and the teams were limited to eight suppressed], and get the bugger out as many times as you can.” players. As an aside, if a player was dismissed by the usual methods Thus, the action was fast, adrenaline packed and furious (and – that is, bowled, caught, stumped or run out – they were this word is used most advisedly!!). not dismissed from the pitch, but had five runs deducted from the team score. Consequently, it was possible for a The leader of SLOWS was Andrew MacLean Morrison and pair batting within the restricted innings period to achieve included Gerry Sullivan, Magnus Macfarlane and invited mem- a negative total. bers including Doug Knight and David Arnott among others. And finally, our leader would give definitive instructions of Needless to say, Andrew sought a team who had all played •• the batting and bowling order, and then once followed them cricket to a serious level – at both the provincial or senior club up with the following game pep talk: “You may think that we stage. For Andrew, losing was not an option! are here to enjoy ourselves – absolute crap – we’re here to win; Magnus was a player of class, elegant, languid with a sense of that’s right? WIN [scribes emphasis] and I mean, BLOODY WIN! sartorial elegance. Who cannot remember his immaculate attire So don’t forget it. Now let’s go out and enjoy ourselves!” Maybe it of cream cricket trouser and V-neck­ ed cricket jersey? Both Gerry this attitude that allowed Andrew MacLean Morrison to leave and Magnus were somewhat akin to November fireworks – at Sainsbury Logan & Williams to continue his successful law times brilliant in performance; at other times duds. The instruc- career, to where he is now, the Senior Partner of Morrison tions on the fireworks were also appropriate, because if they Daly. were angered (as commonly occurred to all players), then it was a case of “once the fuse is lit, then retire to a safe distance”.

1195 Notes kindly provided by David Arnott, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, personal friend of Andrew Morrison and keen sportsman (23.10.10).