WCM LEGAL : NEWS
Featherston Office moves to larger premises
The Featherston office of WCM Legal recently moved to new premises
at Acorn House, 56 Fitzherbert Street. The move was prompted
by the firm's increasing business in South Wairarapa and the
need for a more flexible environment.
Acorn House is slightly more centrally located than the firm's
previous Featherston office. It is light and airy and provides
more space for client meetings and interviews.
Important Changes to Enduring Powers Of Attorney
Recent government changes to the Personal Protection &
Property Rights Act have brought about a lengthy expansion to
the forms used for giving Enduring Powers of Attorney. The forms
are now much more complicated and lengthy, with choices as to
the powers to be given to the attorney, and notes as to the
meaning and effect of the various provisions. Read
more . .
Tramp to Nowhere
When you've got to get away from the office you get right
away! Recently three WCM LEGAL partners and one of our solicitors
headed off to the Mangapurua Valley for a tramp. They started
out at the Bridge to Nowhere up the Whanganui River and after
three days rejoined the river some 40km further up.
The hardy lawyers (left to right Ed Cooke, Peter Broad, Keith
McClure and Juliet Cooke) tell us that this was the valley that
was surveyed out for returned servicemen of WW1, who tackled
the backbreaking task of trying to create farms. Apparently
it all came to an unhappy end in WW2 after the Government of
the day refused any funding to clear slips off the access road,
by which time a lot of the original settlers had already walked
off their farms and the last few were forced out. The bridge,
built for access as part of the road system, now stands as a
memorial to an endeavour that was ill fated from the start.
