Corruption in Carterton

Regarding  continued propaganda circulated by various local journalists, and  recent article in the Wairarapa Times-Age promoting local political aspirants, including incumbent members of Carterton and Masterton District Councils, particularly those involved in the illegal takeover, mismanagement and closure of the Carterton Community Centre and Community Gardens: Ruth Carter, Elaine Brazendale, Jill Greathead, Ewen Hyde, Lyn Patterson and others.

Ruth Carter is one of several people associated with the Carterton District Council who are responsible for the closure of the former Carterton Community Centre amid allegations of serious mismanagement, fraud, bullying, etc.  The Centre was closed to try and get rid of the evidence, which we are now posting on the internet for all to see.

These are serious allegations.  If they weren’t true, action would have been taken long ago to shut these sites down.  Posts like “Beyer the Liar” are the reason that Beyer had to resign from Parliament in disgrace, and corrupt and dishonest politicians like Beyer are the cause of the social dysfunction in the Wairarapa.

The so called ‘news’ media has hoodwinked people gullible enough to believe the rubbish they publish and broadcast.

“Exclusive - McPhee: Why I Did What I Did” is a confession of a cowardly violent crime against poor, sick, vulnerable people, for no reason, a drunken home invasion and assault committed by McPhee and his mate.  McPhee announced that he was not a violent deranged criminal after all, he was a hero, because the occupants - THE VICTIMS - were “troublemakers”.  He boasted that he’d run them out of town as part of his efforts to stamp out crime, and the lying local police backed him up saying that the flat had been “the centre of police enquiries for some time.”  What vague and slanderous rubbish is this?  It was the centre of inquiries into McPhee and his mate's violent crime.

These people were not troublemakers or criminals, it wasn’t the boogie man as McPhee tried to make out, they had names and faces.  The occupants were small, harmless men, and women, all together they wouldn’t have weighed half of what McPhee weighs, or his co-offender.  None of the occupants was a danger to the community, unlike McPhee and his mate.  The main tenant had only got out of hospital the day before after having a stroke, and weighed no more than seven stone.  The were not violent people, unlike McPhee and his mate.  McPhee threatened the occupants with further violence if they pursued the complaints to police and bribed the owner of the building.  Police told the occupants to piss off and told the owner of the building they couldn’t press charges because the tenants hadn’t made a formal complaint.  McPhee didn't run them out of town, they moved into a house over the road from the old folks home and lived there peacefully like they had been before McPhee's mate decided he wanted to fence off the alleyway that was the tenants access, in order to put tables and chairs in the alleyway and sell more alcohol.   We’ve had enough of McPhee's lies.  Compare this with the number of prosecutions pursued against me which have been based on no evidence whatsoever, for which there weren’t even statements of complaint - a letter from the police dated 30 October 2007 referring to the Bill Sticking complaint states: “the complaint was not put to paper and I am not prepared to say who complained.”

Well I am:  It was the manager of the NZ Post shop in Carterton, Paul Fafieta.  His wife Colleen works for Wollerman Cooke and McClure, who made the complaint to police that I had stolen property of the CCC - complaints dismissed as being without foundation.  The complaint was corrupt.  The manager changed the lock on the CCC post box without lawful authority and police continue to refuse to charge him.

“Corrupt Police Cover up for Beyer the Liar and Their Other Mates” shows how Police “Area Commander” Rod Drew fobbed off letters from seven lawyers (at the last count) calling for an inquiry into the affairs of the Carterton Community Centre, the District Council and individuals associated with the Council and with other organisations funded by the Council, and other government agencies, departments, etc.

Drew’s comments in response to our serious complaints, supported by letters from 7 lawyers, are clear evidence of corruption, here they are in black and white: “I am aware that the MP Georgina Beyer has recently discussed issues around the closure of the Centre with the mayor and Council and Police therefore think it most unlikely that any Criminal Law would have been broken.”  What blatant codswallop!

There are also two petitions calling for an inquiry, one from the Carterton Residents Association and the FOCCCers (Friends of the Carterton Community Centre and Caring Communities Everywhere).  We called for an audit of the Centre’s affairs in 2001 with a mandate from a public meeting held on 18th April 2001, eight days after I was punched in the face in the office of the CCC by the Chairman of the committee, Anthony Rolf Feinson.

Ruth Carter, Elaine Brazendale, Jill Greathead, Julie Hallam, Ewen Hyde, Martyn Preece and others conspired with Georgina Beyer, and local police constable Peter Cunningham, who was having it off with Jo Roffe, who was one of the people using the Carterton Community Centre (CCC) as a slush fund (for her little “art courses” - which were a bit like Georgina Beyer’s little “Life Skills Courses”)  Roffe was a signatory of the cheques, but not on the committee, Ruth Carter wasn’t on the committee either, but was signing funding applications and claiming to be the Secretary.  These people have conspired to pervert the course of justice by covering up the fraud and gross misfeasance at the Carterton Community Centre, and organisations such as the “Facility Focus Group” and other organisations associated with the Council and the Community Centre, such as the so-called Heart of Carterton “Trust”, also appointed by the Council.

I, Katherine Raue, was elected Secretary and Finance Officer of the Carterton Community Centre at the 2000 AGM.  I was asked (in writing) by members to investigate serious allegations, which I attempted to do.  I was prevented from accessing information by Carter, Brazendale, other members of the committee including Martyn Preece, who was having an affair with Bev Thomas, the Administrator at the Centre, who was fiddling the books, which can be seen at the post showing the financial records of the CCC, and the large payments to individuals, made against legal advice and listed as Miscellaneous on the financial records.

Our petition called for the affairs of the CCC and the CDC to be audited.  They never have been.  The letter from Sgt Reid of the Masterton police shows that I offered to hand copies of the material I held to an auditor, and that Elaine Brazendale refused, on behalf of the group who took over the CCC by punching me in the face and changing the locks of the building (because they were also on the committee of the District “Trust” which owned the Health Centre, in which the CCC was housed,) to meet with the police, myself and an auditor.  Why do you think that was?  If you can’t work it out have another look at the Minutes of the CCC showing how Carter, Brazendale and their mates decided to just give a woman an exorbitant amount of money when there is no evidence that the payment was justified.  There is evidence that the payment was made against legal advice, and by a committee which was acting ultra vires, with no lawful authority.   There is evidence that this was one of two such payments being made at the time I was elected.  It soon became apparent that the CCC was exploiting vulnerable members of the community in order to secure funding that was going straight into the pockets of incompetent bullies.

NOTE: The Carterton Residents Association, which I represent, supports competent, transparent and accountable governance.  The CRRA or CDRRA is another ‘group’, formed as a support group for failed politicians Bill Knowles and Georgina Beyer, and is not committed to fair and open democracy or they would support our call for an inquiry into the fraud and misfeasance a the CCC and CDC.  These people have no credibility whatsoever, do not waste your time or money supporting them.  After listening to them argue for an hour and a half about what the group should be called, I proposed the Motion at the inaugural meeting of that group, a public meeting held in the Bowling Club (of all places), that the group be named the Carterton Residents Association.  Frank Riley, the pompous organiser of the annual ‘community’ Christmas dinner usually held at St Mark’s Church, piped up and argued that the group should be called the Carterton and District Ratepayer’s Association, only ratepayers should be allowed to belong to it, and there should be a membership fee.  The Constitution of this ‘group’ is designed to exclude people with differing opinions, your membership application has to be approved by the Chairman, etc.

The article in the Times-Age titled “Controversy persists” ignores the fact that the meeting at which Council librarian Ewen Hyde claims he was elected head of the “Facility Focus Group” was not advertised and not open to the public, it was only open to a small group of his friends, including the group associated with the Council.

This is typical of the way the group manipulate the public consultation process regarding the plans concerning community facilities in Carterton.

Taxpayer’s money, and the time of the Court and the police, has been wasted on a campaign of malicious and vexatious litigation which has been almost without exception unsuccessful (and the exceptions certainly do not stand up to scrutiny).

For the ten years I have been in Carterton this has been going on.  On 14th August 2009 the Times-Age published a front page feature article titled “Police mum on case backlog ”about how local police Area Controller Inspector John Johnston refused to comment on the recent revelations made by a District Court Judge that there was a huge backlog of child abuse allegations that Wairarapa Police have failed to investigate.  That's because the local police have been acting as the private Gestapo of Georgina Beyer and Gary McPhee, and anyone else who can make it worth their while, and pursuing vexatious and malicious, politically motivated litigation for Bill Sticking, and those described in scathing and damning terms by lawyer Michael Appleby and Judge Behrens QC.

Because of repeated assaults by the police I am unable to write for long.  Please follow the links to Kate Raue's Blogspot, and explore the links on that site to the Cartoon Town website,  and others such as Kiwisfirst.  Join the FOCCCers and put and end to corruption and incompetent governance in Carterton, and join Transparency in New Zealand to expose corruption, injustice, incompetent use of public funds, etc, in New Zealand.