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James Wallace (businessman)

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other rural services companies Wallford Meats (NZ) Limited, Eureka Hides and Skins Limited, and Wallace Industries Limited, which were amalgamated as Wallace Corporation Limited (WCL) in 1994. In 2007, WCL was reported to employ 600 staff seasonally and had an annual turnover of about $ 200 million. In 2017, WCL merged its meat co-products businesses with Farm Brands Limited, to form Wallace Group Limited Partnership. The Wallace and WCL interests in Farm Brands Limited have subsequently been sold. The merger excluded WCL's farms, investments in biopolymer companies, and its Chilean dairying operation.
44: 206:, the richest awards, mostly as overseas residencies, for New Zealand artists. The final awards occurred in 2020. While operational, the James Wallace Arts Trust injected about $ 1 million dollars into the arts in New Zealand annually, through new acquisitions and another approximately $ 200,000 for the Wallace Art Awards. Wallace has been involved with the trust that aims to restore earthquake-damaged 199:, which is leased from Auckland City As noted above, most of the art in the James Wallace Arts Trust was resettled in early 2023 on an entirely independent trust, the Arts House Trust, and lease of the Pah Homestead assigned to the Arts House Trust. The James Wallace Arts Trust continues to exist, but no longer has a public profile. 177:
Wallace joined his father's rendering business, J. D. Wallace Limited, while his younger brother David partnered with their father in farm contracting and cattle and dairy farming operations as J. D. and R. D. Wallace Limited. J. D. Wallace took over other rendering companies, and Wallace established
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on 23 November 1937, the son of James Dunning Wallace and Frances Lindsay Wallace (née Hay). His father was a pig farmer and agricultural contractor who, in 1937, founded a small rendering company, J. D. Wallace Limited, that would eventually become the Wallace Corporation. James Dunning Wallace was
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had Wallace's name suppression revoked on the morning of his first trial in 2019. However, Wallace appealed this, and his name could not be revealed while these appeals were being heard. In June 2023, Wallace's final right to appeal was dismissed by
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Wallace was found guilty in 2021 of three charges of indecently assaulting three men and two charges of attempting to dissuade a witness by offering a bribe for the 2016 victim to drop his claims. He was imprisoned for two years and four months.
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Goulter and Edmonds were granted immunity from prosecution in return for evidence given against Wallace. Mika X pleaded two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice, and was sentenced to 11 months home detention.
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watercolour in 1964. In 1992, he established the James Wallace Arts Trust, to which he transferred ownership of his collection, which by 2020 held over 9,000 pieces. In 2010, the collection moved from Wallace's home to the
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in Christchurch since 2016. In 2022, it was reported that he had taken the chairmanship of the trust and financed the restoration of the building, which is expected to open to the public in 2024.
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Wallace first faced trial in 2019, but that trial was aborted. He was found guilty at a subsequent trial in 2021. Wallace initially received name suppression. Media entities
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Wallace and others made multiple attempts to convince one of the men to drop his complaint. Associates of Wallace, Jevan Goulter and Alison Edmonds, flew to the
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was also involved in the attempt to convince the complainant to drop the complaint, providing a draft contract promising work in the United States.
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Wallace amassed a collection of New Zealand art that he transferred to the James Wallace Art Trust in 1992, and is now displayed at the
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in 2017 and offered the man work contracts if he came back to New Zealand and withdrew his police statement. Dancer and arts producer
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Wallace began collecting art in the 1960s, with a focus on young and emerging New Zealand artists. His first acquisition was a
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in 1961. He gained international experience working in New York for a year, and worked for
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The assaults took place in 2000 or 2001, in 2008, and in 2016 at Wallace's
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In December 2018, Wallace was conferred with an honorary doctorate by
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Convictions for indecent assault and attempting to dissuade a witness
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three men, but his identity was suppressed until June 2023.
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granted in August 2023. This forfeiture removed Wallace's
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New Zealand arts patron and sex offender (born 1937)
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Index

James Wallace (philanthropist)

Cambridge
sex offender
Pah Homestead
Auckland
Wallace Art Awards
indecently assaulting
Cambridge
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1994 Birthday Honours
King's College, Auckland
Bachelor of Laws
Auckland University College
Robert Kerridge
Woolf Fisher
Fisher & Paykel
Toss Woollaston
Pah Homestead
Hillsborough
Wallace Art Awards
McLean's Mansion
Epsom
Gold Coast
Mika X
Stuff
NZME
New Zealand's Supreme Court
New Zealand Parole Board
parole

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