Corruption at the Carterton Community Centre

I became aware of corruption at the former Carterton Community Centre Inc after it was brought to my attention by members in 1999.  In April 2001 committee Chairman Tony Feinson assaulted me in the office of the Carterton Community Centre, in response to numerous complaints and concerns from members, evidenced in the Minutes and other documentation.  I was Secretary and Finance Officer.

The assault was serious and broke two teeth.  Police wrote me a rude letter after I opposed their suggestion of Diversion, “Dear Madam, you’ve obviously been misinformed about Diversion” blah blah, before granting it anyway.

The same prosecutor then wrote a grovelling letter to the attacker, Feinson, apologising for the delay in organising his Diversion, blaming me for the delay, and informing Feinson he would be let off if he paid $50 to Women’s Refuge and attended ONE stopping violence assessment session.  Feinson never wrote a letter of apology, but the police prosecutor told the Court that he did - an outright lie, like “ACC will pay for what Feinson did.” It cost me around $850.  Three mandatory conditions of Diversion, according to the Police policy and procedures manual, are that the offender ‘fess up at the earliest opportunity, which Feinson did not, he wasted the time of the Court repeatedly, lying through his teeth, secondly that the offender make a written apology to the victim, and thirdly that the offender pay reparation to the victim.

The police prosecutor told the Court that ACC would pay for my dental costs, which was untrue, they only paid for 50%, as the prosecutor should have been well aware.

I sent Feinson monthly accounts for the medical and dental expenses, and asked Constable Wakefield for the tooth back which I had entrusted to the police as evidence of the attack.  Wakefield said he had “thrown the tooth away in accordance with normal police practice.”  The policy and procedures manual clearly states that evidence is to be returned to the owner by police when no longer required, especially something culturally significant like a tooth.  Then Wakefield started telling people that it wasn’t an attack it was an “incident”.

Feinson hired local lawyer Peter Stevens to help him take proceedings against me in the Court for alleged harassment for sending him the medical and dental bills.  The Court wisely threw Feinson’s application out, but not until after I had had to attend Court numerous times and a considerable amount of tax payers money had been spent on the offender Feinson.

On 8th May 2001 Mark Hinton of Wollerman Cooke and McClure wrote to police on behalf of the group of people associated with the Carterton District Council, who had taken the Centre over illegally, alleging that I had stolen property belonging to the incorporated society.  I told police that for one thing the ‘group’ had copies of everything I had, and for another thing, I would hand the financial records over to an auditor, not to the Carterton District Council, who were deeply involved in the fraud and misfeasance which typified the administration of the Carterton Community Centre and the ten bank accounts the committee controlled.  Councillor Elaine Brazendale refused to meet with an auditor and hand over the information the group held (after punching me in the face and changing the locks on the building.)

On 11 June 2001 a Sergeant Reid of the Masterton Police wrote a letter to Ainslie Hewton’s law firm, who were representing me (or so I thought,) to say that police had thoroughly investigated the allegations made by John Crawford, John Gordon and the rest of the group who took over the Centre, in the letter from Mark Hinton of Wollerman Cooke and McClure, and found that I had broken no criminal laws and was perfectly entitled to possession of the Miinutes Book and the copies of the financial records of the Carterton Community Centre.  Councillor Bill Knowles stupidly accused me of obstructing the audit by retaining the only copies of the financial records - what utter lies - Knowles knows perfectly well that Brazendale, Carter, Hallam, Greathead, Hyde, etc, NEVER APPOINTED AN AUDITOR, REFUSED TO MEET WITH AN AUDITOR, AND HAVE COPIES OF ALL THE FINANCIAL RECORDS.

The locks were changed by Council employee Jerry Rotman, acting on instructions from Councillors Brazendale, Carter, Greathead and Julie Hallam, acting in their capacity as trustees of the Carterton District Community Trust.  Their lack of community spirit and unsuitability for the role of Trustees is evidenced by their letter refusing permission for the community to hold a meeting at the site of the former Community Centre, on 5 September 2003.  Rotman changed the locks while he was meant to be working for the Council!

The other letter at the previous link is from the local Area Commander, and is most extraordinary indeed.  It claims that because this senior police officer is aware that Georgina Beyer discussed matters around the closure of the Centre, it is most unlikely and criminal laws have been broken - this is Corruption.  the police knew perfectly well that criminal laws had been broken, I had been assaulted in my workplace and there had been serious fraud among other things.

I wrote a number of letters to Police and Ombudsmen, etc, making formal complaints regarding the theft of the mail and funds and assets belonging to the incorporated society by the group who had taken it over illegally, and about the fraud and misfeasance, assaults, etc.  I made specific complaints about various matters including the personal grievance payments which were made against specific legal advice and without any justification for the payments, and regarding the fraudulent manner in which the payments were made and the manner in which money was stolen from various other organisations in order to fund the payments, and that the committee, which consisted of people associated with the Carterton District Council, a major funder of the Centre was acting unlawfully, Jill Greathead was making considerable pecuniary gain from her “e-centre”, set up after the group closed our e-centre and community resource centre.  All my complaints, supported by letters from several lawyers and a substantial petition, were scoffed at and ignored by local police, and Sgt Reid abruptly disappeared.

Then, on 20th June 2001 Alan Royal of Riversdale Road Carterton wrote to my lawyer Ainslie Hewton, and to the Masterton and Carterton Police, formally complaining in writing about a caravan which Royal alleges “disappeared” from the site of the Carterton Community Gardens.  Royal states in this letter to police that he has authority from Jonathon Hooker, but Hooker, an ex police officer who perfed out of the “Force” and set up a church of which he was the prophet, a la Brian Tamaki, wrote a letter soundly refuting this and making it clear that Royal and his mates on the Council, etc, made several deliberately false, and politically motivated, complaints to police.  Royal knew several things when he wrote this letter, he knew that he had no authority from Oasis, and he knew that he had no authority whatsoever in fact because the Carterton Community Centre had signed over everything to do with the Gardens to Oasis Trust in January 2001 after forcing the closure of the Gardens by making the illegal payments.  This was a deliberately false complaint to the police and it wasted considerable time and resources, and Royal, Crawford, Gordon and their mates on the Committee should be charged without further delay and be forced to reimburse the tax payers for this waste of time and money, and charged with the gross misfeasance at the former Community Centre as well.


On 6 August 2002 Constable Cunningham wrote me a letter stating that there had been a complaint of trespass made against me at the Carterton Community Centre on 3 July 2002.  The minutes of the AGM held on that date, and the Incident Report, written by the group who took over the Centre illegally, show that the meeting was adjourned due to my mere arrival, there is not mention of me doing or saying anything before I was verbally abused and ordered to leave by John Crawford and John Gordon, etc.

The Minutes of the Carterton Community Centre AGM held on 3 July 2002 are well worth noting.  They show that Carterton District Councillor Elaine Brazendale gave attendees of the AGM a verbal “overview of the current prepared Financial Accounts” which had been “prepared” by A Fraser, according to the Minutes.  The following is quoted from the Minutes:
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REPORTS:
Chairperson's Report: Was read by the current Chairperson -John Crawford.
The closure of the VOSP Programme was discussed and also a current complaint to WINZ from an unknown complainant was added to the report verbally. It was discussed that the CCC may have to go to a lawyer to finally end this harassment.
Motion: That the Chairpersons report be accepted.
Moved: J Gordon Seconded; B Brazendale
Carried
Community Centre Report -  There was no Community Centre Report. The present administrator is new and has not been in the position long enough to issue a report.

VOSP report was read by John Gordon.
Motion That the VOSP report be accepted.
Moved: Elaine Brazendale
Seconded: E Hyde
Carried.
CONSTITUTION:
J Hallam, reasoning that the Constitution needs to be clearer and simpler suggested changes to the proposed Constitution. After any changes are made, a lawyer should check the Constitution. Also recommended that the roles of Hon. Secretary and Hon Finance Officer be removed.
Motion: That the interim constitution be accepted until a special general meeting to resolve the final constitution is held.
Moved: J Gordon
Seconded; H Crawford
Carried
Motion: That a clause of limitation of liability and indemnity be included.
Moved: J Hallam
Seconded: N Thomas Carried
AMEND MENTS:
Recommended that the Constitution is amended to reflect the above changes and any other deemed necessary and that the document be forwarded to the Centre's Solicitor for perusal to ensure that all legal requirements are met.
That a Special meeting of the Carterton Community Centre be scheduled for the 7th August 2002 to adopt the Constitution.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS:
The nominations were read out by John Crawford and then the meeting was asked if there was any further nominations.
Motion That the nominations be closed.
Moved: E Brazendale
Seconded: J Gordon Carried
Nominations-
Chairperson: John Crawford (for the next year only)
Vice Chairperson: John Gordon (for the next year only Secretary and Finance Officer positions left vacant.
Committee: Elaine Brazendale
Frank Craig
Maureen Craig
Evelyn Dearnley
John Fairbrother
J Hallam

J Wilson, the Administrator will carry out the roles of Secretary and Finance Officer. in the interim.
Motion- That there being no other nominations, that these be accepted.
Moved: E Brazendale
Seconded; J Gordon
Carried


Noted that the position of Patron has been eliminated.

GENERAL BUSINESS
A thank you to the previous manager and the current manager of the VOSP Programme was noted.
Moved: E Brazendale
Seconded: J Crawford
Carried

The implementation of Craft Programmes was discussed. These would be set up to eventually include people from all walks of life in the Community.
The Information centre now a major project. All Committee involved in developing this concept.


MEETING CLOSED at 9.15 pm
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Carterton District Council “Support Services Manager” Julie Hallam moved that the Constitution of the incorporated society CCC be changed, and a clause of limitation of liability and indemnity be included, before forwarding it to the Society’s solicitor to ensure that all legal requirements were met.  There was already such a clause in the Constitution, this shows Hallam’s priorities, make sure the committee is indemnified against legal action for fraud first and foremost.  The Constitution should have been forwarded to the solicitor in 2001 as I recommended, for the solicitor to make recommendations to the committee on what changes were required to the entire Constitution, which was in urgent need of complete review.  Hallam and her mates on the Council were only interested in making sure they couldn’t be held accountable for the fraud and gross misfeasance.

Regarding the Chairperson’s Report, by John Crawford, and the extraordinary comments that “the CCC may have to go to a lawyer to finally end this harassment.”  The CCC did go to a lawyer.  On 8th May 2001 Mark Hinton of Wollerman Cooke and McClure wrote to Ainslie Hewton and the Masterton and Carterton Police.  Sergeant Reid of the Masterton Police wrote a letter dated 11 June 2001 rejecting the complaints after I met with him the day before.  I took the Minutes Book to the meeting, which was at the police station in Masterton, and showed him the evidence of my election to the positions of Secretary and Finance Officer, and the evidence that members had called for the books to be audited, and some evidence about the fraud and misfeasance.

“There was no Community Centre report because the administrator is new and hasn’t been in his position long enough to write one.”  But long enough to be Secretary and Finance Officer as well apparently as can be seen further on in the Minutes.

Then we’ve got Julie Hallam’s sneaky attempt to get away without being held accountable, seconded by Noeline Thomas, the mother of Bev Thoomas and her sister, who Martyn Preece the Acting Chairman of the CCC ran off with.  The position of Patron, previously held by Beyer the Liar, was eliminated.  The committee was focussed on Jo Roffe’s silly little craft courses and the information centre, whish is just really a glorified art gallery for Roffe and her mates and an excuse to get a paid attendant for the gallery.  There was a letter to the Dominion from a Belgian couple which was scathing in it’s condemnation of the Information Centre, and of Stonehenge Aotearoa too.

Sergeant Reid invited Ainslie Hewton to provide further information to the police regarding the matters and I provided the information to Ainslie Hewton, who took $50 from me for the initial contribution for a legal aid application for a personal grievance claim in the employment Tribunal regarding my own dismissal from the Community Centre, where I had been employed as acting Manager of the VOSP program and Administrator of the Centre.  Ainslie Hewton promised to follow the matters up with the police and the Empolyment Tribunal, etc, but corrupt lawyer Ainslie Hewton never even forwarded the legal aid application, and refused to refund the $50.