Sir Wilfrid Joseph Sim (3 November 1890 – 5 November 1974) was a New Zealand

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and

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. Sim was born in

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, New Zealand in 1890.

William Sim Sir William Alexander Sim (13 September 1858 – 29 August 1928) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge. He was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, and died in Wellington. Wilfrid Sim was his son. In the 1924 King's Birthday Honours, Sim was appoi ...

was his father. Before WWI, he lived in Dunedin and when his former business partner, John Findlay, was hesitant to take him on again after the war, Sim moved to Christchurch and joined Duncan, Cotterill and Company as a partner. Sim was appointed

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on 19 July 1939 and moved to

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. He was appointed an

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in 1946. In the

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, he was appointed a

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, for public services. Sim was a

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lor from 1925 to 1927. He was a member of the National Party and served as its president for seven years from 1944 to 1951.

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