Beare, Thomas, LL.B., Barrister and Solicitor, Hamilton Street, Hokitika. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Beare is an Englishman by birth, but was educated in Christchurch. On leaving school he entered the office of Messrs Garrick and Cowlishaw, Christchurch, and passed the general knowledge examination for solicitors in 1888. In the same year he matriculated, and after a successful course at Canterbury College graduated in 1892. He took his degree of Bachelor of Laws at the New Zealand University, and was admitted to the Bar in 1893, at Hokitika. He accepted an engagement with Messrs Guinness and Kitchingham at Greymouth, where he had considerable experience in conducting all the cases for the firm during the absence in Wellington of the senior partner, Mr. A. R. Guinness, now (1906) Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1836 Mr. Beare started practising his profession at Hokitika, where he has ever since been most successful, particularly in criminal law. He holds the position of solicitor for the Government Advances to Settlers Office in the Westland district, and for the Waiho Water Race and Sluicing Company, Limited, etc.

Lewis, Joel Barnett, Barrister, Solicitor, and Conveyancer, Hamilton Street, Hokitika. Private residence, Brittan Street. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales, Mr. Lewis was born in London in 1848, educated privately, and arrived in Australia in 1857. Crossing over to New Zealand a few years later, he was articled to Mr. J. A. J. McGregor, of Dunedin, admitted to the bar in Christchurch in 1873, and practised in Dunedin till 1882. Prior to establishing his present practice in Hokitika, he was for a time associated with Mr. S. M. South, then Crown Prosecutor, at Hokitika.

Park, James, Barrister and Solicitor, Hamilton Street, Hokitika. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New Zealand. This business was established by Mr. Park at Hokitika in the year 1883. He was afterwards joined in partnership by Mr. James A. Murdoch, but later on the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Park has a first-class connection throughout the West Coast, and has long been prominently identified with the interests of the mining community.