TRIBUTES PAID

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 6

TRIBUTES PAID

Mr. Izard’s Services To Wanganui BENCH AND BAR UNITE COMUNITY’S SYMPATHY Tributes to the memory of the late Mr. W. A. Izard were paid yesterday by his colleagues in the legal profession, by the Wanganui Harbour Board and by the Wanganui City Council. The cortege which followed to the Aramoho Cemtery also testified to the respect in which he was held by the community.

When the Magistrate's Court assembled yesterday morning there was a full gathering of the Wanganui Bar, and also of the Justices of the Peace Association, to pay respect to the memory of Mr. Izard.

Mr. A. D. Brodie, president ot the Wanganui Law Society, paid eloquxit tribute in the following words:— “Your Worship, Gentlemen: The inexorable summons has been received and answered by William Arthur Izard, a member of this community of the Bar and we stay our affairs tor a space in order to do honour to his memory. It is fitting that this tribute should be paid in these precincts where much of his work was don", and where, as elsewhere, his just dealing and unswerving rectitude earnc’i for him the respect and high este-rr. of those before whom and among whom he worked.

"He practised the profession of the law in Wanganui for more than thirty years. At his death he was the senior partner in a notable firm, in succession to men who bore the respected names of Fitzherbert, of Marshall, of Hutton. His activities were wider than the practice of the law and extended to many social and civic services.

“In his conception of right he was direct, and, in his acting upon it, fearless. He was the trusted confidant of many, and was one to whom a fellow practitioner could readily go for helpful conference. “It is sad —and it is our loss- that more years of useful service should not have been allowed to him. We pay the tribute of this gathering to his memory. To his widow and family we offer deep sympathy and the hope that knowledge of his race well run may later, in some measure, comfort them.” Tribute From Magistrate “Our late friend was not only the leader of the Wanganui Bar but a distinguished member of the profession in New Zealand,” said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M.

In higher courts, even in the august tribunal of the Privy Council, and on the rare occasions when he appeared in the lower court, Mr. Izard brought to his cases a sound knowledge of the law and the thoroughness and attention to detail which always characterised the work of the higher tribunals. His death would create a loss which would be felt in the bar, in. the courts, in the community.

“He was a devoted husband and father and I join in expressing condolence with his widow .'■.nd family,” said Mr. Salmon. The ceremony concluded with the magistrate, the Bar and Justices of the Peace standing in silence prior to the resumption of the Court’s business. Harbour Board Tribute At a special meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board yesterday afternoon reference was made by the chairman, Mr. N. G. Armstrong, to the death of Mr. Izard, who had been solicitor to the board for 18 years. "I had known him for 30 years in the profession, in different institutions and in sport,” said Mr. Armstrong. “He was a man of high ideals, straight in his dealings, and whose word was his bond. He was a man in whom reliance could be placed. Quiet and

unostentatious, he was appreciated by those who knew him as of a very sympathetic and kindly nature. He was very attached to his family and fond of his home and hearth-side, and therefore was not so prominent in public matters as he might otherwise have been. He was a man -.'ho enjoyed the quiet places rather than the bustle of city life.” Mr. W. J. Rogers also made eulogistice reference to the memory of Mr. Izard.

On the motion of Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Rogers, it was decided that the board place on record its. regret at the sudden death of its solicitor, the late Mr. W. A. Izard, and its appreciation of his services, and also that the board extend its sincere sympathy to his widow and children. Funeral at Aramoho. A lengthy cortege followed the funeral of the late Mr. W. A. Izard at the Aramoho Cemetery yesterday morning. Representatives of many sections of the business and professional community, including the Wanganui City Council, Wanganui Acclimatisation Society, the Automobile Association (Wanganui), the Wanganui Justices' Association, the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce and members of the legal and medical profession, were at the graveside. The services at the residence and at the graveside were conducted by Archdeacon J. R. Young. The pallbearers were Messrs. Nowell Izard, Douglas Earle. Oswald Montgomery, T. Latham, Athol Wilson and Edmund Oliver.