Solicitor dies
A well-known Hawke’s Bay . solicitor with extensive' Christchurch links, Mr C. E. W. Wacher, has died. He was 74.
Mr Wacher was recognised as a New Zealand authority on wills and in estate and trust administration. His academic career was distinguished. He was academic head of Christ’s College and Somes Scholar. He then took a masters degree in law with honours at Canterbury University and won the Law Society’s gold medal.
A post-graduate year followed in political science at the London School of Economics. !
Mr Wacher joiiied the Christchurch Public: Trust Office during the Depression and moved to its Napier office in 1937.
In 1945 he joined a Napier law firm, later to become Dowling. Wacher and Company. He was the Napier District Coroner for 22 years and at the time of his death was Napier’s only notary public. '• ' . . . Mr Wacher was the patron of the Hawke’s Bay Christ's College Old Boy’s Association: ■- •- ; .. M
He is survived. by, his,.wife and three daughters.
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