Official information act request MAF and minister and office of the auditor general .
Open letter
Animal welfare institute of New Zealand (AWINZ) has at all times been a trading name .
This trading name without proof of who it represented ( that is the parties who were alleged trustees) was given approved status under the animal welfare act 1999.
The approved “ organisation “ has never been an Organisation under any enactment which provides it with the ability to act in its own name, ie independent existence from those using that trading name.
The trading name Animal welfare Institute of New Zealand has been used by various groups
1. Neil Wells personally .. in 1999 when he made an application for approved status, and for funds falsely claiming that a trust existed.
2. An unincorporated trust consisting of Nuala Grove, Sarah Giltrap and Graeme Coutts this trust was formed allegedly 1-3-2000
a. these trustees never applied for or consented to the application for approved status ,
b. or appointed or approved any person to sign on the individual trustees behalf in such an application . the deed specifically states that powers of the trustees can be delegated in writing. If such a document had existed then this would have had to have been produced, and kept on record , before one could sign for and on behalf of the others.
c. This trust has a common seal , this common seal has not been appended to any formal document to show that it is this trusts trading name that is being used. According to the deed , and without further evidence this trust ceased to exist 1.3.2003
3. Neil Wells personally Dec 2003 when he signed the Mou with Maf and Mou with Waitakere city council
a. Opened a bank account that only had access to
b. Applied for IRD status
4. The name of a subsequently formed trust 5.12.2006 who without evidence claim that they are the same trust as the trust which ceased to exist in 2003. These persons became a Charity and subsequently asked for the revocation f the approved status. These persons were Wyn Hoadley, Neil wells , Tom Didovich and Graeme Coutts. There is no record with Maf of these people having entered into a contract with maf for animal welfare services , They could therefore not request the relinquishment of the approved status
In December 2009 the minister accepted the application to revoke the approved status from the last group listed above , Could the minister please advise what checks were carried out and what evidence was presented to him to satisfy him that these people wer the one and the same “ organisation using the trading name Animal welfare institute of new Zealand.
And what evidence the minister has that would indicate to the public who at any time during the existence of the approved organisation , were the persons or person who used that trading name.
Could you also please provide a copy of the criteria the government used for contracting to a trading name
and by which means was accountability to the public addressed given that no one knew who was using this trading name at any given time.
Could you please also provide any discussion papers and documentation which considered the implication of providing a trading name with law enforcement powers .
Anticorruptionnz's Blog 