Official Information act request Auckland film studios

Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2011 7:17 p.m.
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Subject:Official Information act request Auckland film studios

 

Could you please by way of OIA provide   the following documents.

1.       Documents and discussion papers which were the basis of the cost benefit analysis , and  the cost benefit analysis  on which   Waitakere city  based its decision to purchase  the ENZA cool stores for  film studios

2.       The name of the law firm which  provided a legal opinion as to the purchase and  associated involvement  in Film studios   being  an activity in which council could engage  and that this was not  ultra vires and had a mandate for such an activity.

3.       The  constitution of WAITAKERE PROPERTIES LIMITED  at  point 1A.1 states that its activities are restricted to obligations imposed upon Local Authority Trading Enterprises by the Local Government Act 1974 ,

a.       Please provide documentary evidence that these obligations were  considered  when deciding to Purchase the  cool stores  and   in operating  film studios.

4.       In the 2009 Annual report  Waitakere city Holdings Limited as at 30 June 2009     reports    with regards to Prime West Management Ltd  on page 45    “The company is insolvent and the investment has been written down to nil.”  And page 49 this company is now insolvent.

a.       Please supply all documentation with regards of an advancement of   funds of $49,902 from Waitakere properties Limited to prime west management which was insolvent at the time.

b.      The  documentary evidence  detailing the reasoning and consideration  By Waitakere city in   providing  such a sum to a company in which the shareholding was  $400

c.       Please provide all supporting evidence, agreements etc which provided for this advance and required repayment of this sum during the 2010 financial year.

d.      Documentation which considered the amalgamation of an insolvent  company  with a solvent one  .

e.      What  investigations  the council conducted  into    the insolvent companies cause of insolvency  and any documents which show  why it was insolvent.

5.       At the meeting 25 may 2005  from which the public was  excluded  , Mr  Kenneth Michael Williams was permitted to stay  he was allegedly eligible as a trustee of enterprise Waitakere, Please provide any  disclosure made by  him of  his relationship with   the advisers  B & A Management Limited and therefore the potential   conflict of interest ( Mr Williams was appointed  director of Prime west Ltd  on 9 may 2005, who were the successful   party to  enter into a partnership with council )

6.       Please advise the names of the unsuccessful parties who  were contenders for the partnership  and the considerations which were  given to  excluding them .

a.       Please also provide documentation  as to  why these parties had not  been given the same opportunity as the successful company Prime west to have representatives  present at the  confidential council meetings.

7.       The council ultimately entered into  an agreement with  Prime west Limited  a company which had been set up by the  “ advisors “  and  in which the advisors   had significant control , Please  provide any disclosure  documents made to this effect by  Mr Coldicutt , and Maher of B&A Management Limited .

 

8.       In selling the land and buildings to the  company  what consideration was given to  options such as tender, please provide all documents which discuss this option.

9.       On 28 June 2006  Council accepted Tony Tay group And its associated  entities  as shareholders in Prime west.  The reality is that  Tony Tay Trust   which was not owned by the Tony Tay group ( and therefore not associated )   became the investor  and then  on sold to  Tony Tay  Films  in which  there were   shareholdings by 3^rd parties.

a.       Please provide  documentation which discusses entering into an agreement with one legal entity and then  proceeding to act with another entirely separate  entity.

b.      Documents  with regard to any   diligence done as to whether Tony Tay trust was owned by Tony Tay and his wife or if they were acting as trustees for  person and persons unknown.

c.       Discussions and documents which  considered the appropriateness of Kieran Boru FITZSIMMONS, the on site manager  also being a part owner of the property through his shareholding through his company REHOBOTH ENTERTAINMENT (NZ) LIMITED  in Tony Tay film Limited.

10.   On 6 March 2007, 60,000 shares were  transferred from Waitakere properties Limited to Waitakere city council, please provide the minutes of the council meetings, or any correspondence  which facilitated and explained  this  transaction .

 

11.   The documentation which backs up any decision from council   or  notification given to council  on  or about 13 April 2008 that  Kensington swan the councils  solicitors to become the  registered office and solicitors for  Prime west Ltd

a.        and   considering that  Kensington Swann were the solicitors for council   was it seen as a conflict of interest that  Kensington swan was also acting   for a company in which council was a minority share holder.

b.      Please provide any lawyers accounts   for Kensington swan  and itemised   charges  associated  with this joint venture which was paid out of public  funds.

12.   Any documentation in which  Mr Graeme  Wakefield   declared  is interest in WAITAKERE CORPORATE LIMITED and states the purpose of this company.

I look forward to  your response  this is a matter of public interest   On the one hand  our water supplies are being considered for  privatisation yet on the other hand the council runs movie studios.

I am particularly  concerned  with the nature  of the trading in this matter as it appears to  reflect the same  ignorance of what constitutes a company and  a trust as which occurred when the council allowed a council  manager Mr wells to contract to himself  for  animal welfare services through the name of a  fictitious trust , which also happened to be involved in monitoring animal action in the film studios  , this action was carried out by Mr Wells Wife.

It appears to me that   Waitakere city was  very loose about  what constituted a legal entity  and who represented it, I   wish therefore  to highlight the past so that the opportunity for third parties  to profit from the public  will not be  something  which is capable in the future.

Please find here with  a full chronology , those mentioned in the chronology have been shown to be connected   and for your interest I have also attached news item Tax loophole no sin, says charity . The recurrence of biblical names, the associations of the same persons  interlink   this with  a group of people who share the same religious  practices    this could be coincidental   or maybe not.

It appears that this is all about using  public funds, public funding and tax avoidance.  The council has to be careful not to be associated with this or be a vehicle for  this due to  many councillors  not being  up to speed  with regards to  company and legal structures  and the principals  of transparency and corruption.

In the interest of transparency I will be posting this on  My blog https://anticorruptionnz.wordpress.com/

Regards

Grace Haden

Axminster system.. we sweep it under the carpet..then we don’t have corruption.

This week   I received back several official information act requests    in one I had asked Mr Key about state capture.. this was sent on to   MAF to answer.. Of course they didn’t know  .

I had also made two further OIAs  which came back  with very interesting results   this document is worth a read OIA dated 14 feb

I have now made a request for the ombudsmen to have the whole thing investigated  considering  it was brought to the attention of MAF in 2004  that AWINZ did not exist  it has been allowed to continue to  trade through its agent   Mr Wells, with seemingly no accountability.

The work I am doing with Gary Osborne  who runs the accountabilitynz Blog is  interesting and  it would appear that   this all ties in neatly with   public   facilities being used for private enterprise .. known overseas as state capture.

But if this is not recognised in New Zealand as a  form of corruption  then  it must be ok

and  if it is Ok then it is not corruption

hence we have  no corruption

Those in control of councils and  in places of control can quietly rip off the tax payers and rate payers  and ask them to pay more  while  enforcing laws on them..  keeps them busy and distracted while those at the  top of the food chain stuff their pockets with proceeds from  the public dollar.

I just love  Gary’s  take on it    In  most parts of the  common wealth  our law  system is based on the  Westminster system   but in New Zealand we have the Axminster system.. that is we sweep it under the carpet.  It  is apparently  condoned  by all except house wives  who know that  the mess will spill out   and its best to deal with dirt in  small manageable portions.

But we have a good back up system  if any one  speaks out  or draws comment on the bulge under the rug  we  sue them . Not a problem    just burden  them with  financial costs and the economics of our  over priced under resourced justice  system which does not rely on facts and evidence will  take care of the rest.

Perjury is not an issue   as it is not enforced by the police    and you can always  say that the person who drew comment on the bulge in the carpet   was vindictive..  .heaven forbid  if they  can speak the truth and be believed  our bulge could be  EXPOSED.

Its time to get accountability. Time for our useless public servants to start earning a wage,  they  are there as our representatives they are there to  protect  our society ,   but somehow think they are  there to  get a wage packet and  get  part of the action of what ever is going.

But how do we stop it   when all those charged with being a public watch dogs don’t?  look at this clip its happened before  its happening here

Its time for   the average New Zealander to get his head out of the sand   and speak up . its our country and were being fleeced.

How to invest using public funds

13 June 1999  CHRISTIAN charity director John Massam is unrepentant about his pro-family values Challenge Communications Foundation funding its activities by exploiting tax loopholes which benefit the wealthy. See story

“The people who invest in the film feel they are doing something worthwhile with their money,” he said. “In a sense, they are choosing how the money is spent rather than the Government. Some might prefer to do it this way than to fund abortions,” said Massam, whose organisation publishes the conservative Christian newspaper, Challenge Weekly.

 

This news item   links the   events which follow and  the use of public funds for private enterprise revolving round the film industry , I would   like to thank Bob Dey for   the   excellent web site he runs  which has made much of this material   so readily available

Had those  in local government done   some research they could have saved many  millions of dollars but as  with the granting of   law  enforcement ability to non existent organisations  such as   Neil Wells  “AWINZ “ it just goes to prove  that our government and local governemnts never check  and  certainly don’t verify.

Not surprisingly   the majority of those involved in this are Baptists who through their   church have  a high level of affiliation.  Another council  Baptist affiliation which   was highlighted in my research was that of  Dale Ofsoske  who is connected  to  Tony Tay through the  Tabernacle .

I  present this chronology to show   that the writing was on the wall for the Auckland  film studios  before it even began. It was never more than a vehicle that   people were going to use for their  riches and not something for the  public good.

Also Read  the blog Tony Tay Film Limited in Receivership.

A chronology is attached by way of PDF  it is interesting reading .These are the events to the present day a trail of liquidations

 

Baptist connection with movie industry

I have been doing some research into the  Auckland film studios of which I found there had been two.

The first   changed its name and    has since folded the other  has been involved with a huge  chunk of public assets.

The  second  Auckland film studios  was previously called prime west Ltd  it changed its name   on 21 July 2009 .  I was keeping tabs on it as prime west had  sub divided the land at  Henderson  and  helm many smaller titles.  The name changed had left the   sub divided areas  still showing as being  owned by prime west.

Strangely enough  there I s no record now of   Prime west having owned any land , I can only presume that these smaller titles  have been cancelled

All I  can say is that someone in authority   should have a closer  look at these land titles.

I rather suspect that some land may have ” dropped out” in the re arrangement of titles

 

Prime West  changed its name 21 Jul 2009 its directors and shareholdings

WILLIAMS, Kenneth Michael      Ceased Director, Resigned 09 Jun 2006

MAHER, Andrew John                   Ceased Director, Resigned 13 Jun 2006

COLDICUTT, Andrew Bruce          Ceased Director, Resigned 21 Mar 2007

MAHER, Andrew John                   Ceased Director, Resigned 27 Feb 2006

FITZSIMMONS, Kieran Boru        Director, Appointed 01 Aug 2009

PARKER, Gregory Kenneth          Director, Appointed 01 Aug 2009

TAY, Tony Meng Hiang                   Director, Appointed 21 Jul 2006

JEWELL, Ross William                      Director, Appointed 21 Jul 2006

DUNCAN, John William                  Director, Appointed 28 Feb 2007

TONY TAY FILM LIMITED               Shareholder, 56% Individually Held

AUCKLAND COUNCIL INVESTMENTS LIMITED     Shareholder, 44.44% Individually Held

In December 2009 Auckland film studios amalgamated with

PRIME WEST MANAGEMENT LIMITED

MAHER, Andrew John   Ceased Director, Resigned 14 Jun 2006

TAY, Tony Meng Hiang   Ceased Director, Resigned 17 Dec 2007

COLDICUTT, Andrew Bruce          Ceased Director, Resigned 29 Jul 2009

DUNCAN, John William  Director, Appointed 13 Oct 2009

FITZSIMMONS, Kieran Boru        Director, Appointed 17 Dec 2007

PARKER, Gregory Kenneth          Director, Appointed 21 Jul 2006

TONY TAY FILM LIMITED               Shareholder, 56% Individually Held

WAITAKERE PROPERTIES Limited 44% Individually Held

TONY TAY FILM LIMITED 85.00% TONY TAY TRUST LIMITED (Tony & Salina Tay )

15.00% REHOBOTH ENTERTAINMENT (NZ) LTD FITZSIMMONS, Kieran Boru

There have been many strange things going on with the share holdings of  PRIME WEST MANAGEMENT

By dissecting the shareholding  it would appear that  Andrew Bruce COLDICUTT  did  well when he sold his  shares in PRIME WEST MANAGEMENT LIMITED  to  the newly renamed AUCKLAND FILM STUDIOS LIMITED.

This share parcel is them mysteriously removed   on 17 December  2009 just prior to this company being amalgamated  with the company whose shares have been removed.

The question has to be  how much  did  Auckland film studios pay  Coldicutt for his shares  and what happened to the money  since the company was then  taken over  for no remuneration.

I have located a most interesting   news item  Tax loophole no sin, says charity,” CHRISTIAN charity director John Massam is unrepentant about his pro-family values Challenge Communications Foundation funding its activities by exploiting tax loopholes which benefit the wealthy.”

John Barry  MASSAM is also  intrinsically entwined with

MAHER, Andrew John  current director AUCKLAND FILM STUDIOS LIMITED  & PRIME WEST MANAGEMENT

COLDICUTT, Andrew Bruce past  director / shareholder  PRIME WEST MANAGEMENT & previous director  AUCKLAND FILM STUDIOS LIMITED

BRADLEY Leslie Grant   ( previous director of CHALLENGE COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION LIMITED )  who together  Dale  ran a company  AUCKLAND FILM STUDIOS LIMITED  which changed its name to AUCKLAND FILM STUDIOS (NO. 1) LIMITED  and is now being struck off

Challenge communications in itself is interesting as it   has 50% share holding in CANTERBURY TELEVISION NETWORK LIMITED, its address is care of the challenge Communication  foundation  .

The  CHALLENGE COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION LIMITED   has dubious shareholding  with many of the share holders   in receivership    or struck off.

IMPACT TELEVISION AND VIDEO PRODUCTIONS LIMITED struck off since  1994

LYNFIELD MINISTRIES LIMITED struck off  since 1989

CALLARD PROPERTIES LIMITED in receivership  since 1991

CHALLENGE PUBLISHING SOCIETY LIMITED does not exist

Estate Of Peter TAIT  is not a legal entity capable of holding shares

PAYNTER CORPORATION  struck off since 2001

I also found  that Tony Tay is a former  trustee of the  Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Church

Neil Wells who used to monitor animal action  at the Auckland film facility through his pseudonym  AWINZ  in which he  ran  a so called   charitable trust   which prior to 2006 had no existence  is also a Baptist    he is on the  board of the Laingholm Baptist Church

Wells  was also on the board of the  Waikato SPCA trust where he through clever manipulation of trusts saw $400,000 removed from the SPCA for use else where. (see my earlier post }

I see a trend emerging….

and then  some how I stumbed on another connection  I dont know  how it occured but the name cropped up and led me to

An excerpt from Nicky Hagers book  which  reads “Brethren had formed a front company called Strategic Information Services Limited to hide the financial backers of the campaign.⁴² The obvious intention was that no one would trace the advertising back to the church, at least until the election was safely over”

The three directors and shareholders of the company were, in 2006, Gregory Charles Mason, a wealthy Auckland businessman who has been described in the news media as head of the New Zealand church, Andrew James Smith, the Hastings man who co-ordinated the ‘Wake-up call’ advertising, and Caleb Hall, a Palmerston North Exclusive Brethren member who helped Andy Smith arrange the printing and distribution of the ‘Wake-up call’ pamphlets.

Andrew James Smith  was also a director of find a  and yellow pages group  something  which  scares me with the amount of  information  that would through these portals be available to  Strategic Information Services Limited.

In digging  just a little bit further  under the surface I find another directorship  to NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF SCREEN INNOVATION LIMITED SMITH, Andrew James  was appointed Director 08 Apr 2009

they are all wheels  within wheels  and it looks like the tax loop hole may have extended to using the public money for private  enterprise.   I hope   the  council has  sufficient expertise to look into this.

RNZSPCA Waikato asks ratepayers to fund their bad bookkeeping.

The headlines read Support swells for stray cats funding

Now there is a call for the residents of Hamilton to all contribute   a few cents a year to   the RNZSPCA, all this because the SPCA cannot   deal with the stray cats.

First of all  Only dog and stock control re the responsibilities of  Council   and unless  there is some  legislation which I am unaware of  it  has actually been ultra vires  ( outside the scope ) for councils to become involved in animal welfare .  Cats   unless  they are a health issue are not  the responsibility of council .

Now I have heard that the SPCA has adopted a no kill policy.. very good humane  wise  but not so good given that some cats  are  not the type of animal you could re home    who would  want a wild cat   ?

So the no kill policy effectively  does  two things..

1.       It fills up the cattery, requires more staff requires more funds, keeps more  friends family and associates employed    ( this used to be done by  volunteers) they spent an extra $100,000   in the past few years

2.       It is a reason to  plead  poverty and ask for more funds

.. Isn’t keeping a cat in a  cage at infinitum would be  cruel  and the animal  is better off being  put down humanely.  Neil Wells    who claims to be AWINZ  has told the charities commission that he has funded studies  on   the stress  suffered by animals  kept in captivity..  Yes he is the same Neil wells  who signed the deed   where the $400,000  was slipped sideways..  do you feel like you are going in circles???

The Waikato SPCA  trust and the Waikato RNZSPCA are two different entities..  One is a trust the other a society.  The trust has the societies fund and appears to act with it as it likes  it was going to be part and parcel of yet another  recently formed trust the Waikato Animal Welfare Foundation   which   was going to build on the  land at wintec  .

The development officer at WINTEC is none other  than the husband of  mayor and chair woman of the RNZSPCA  Julie Hardaker .  Now as a lawyer  you would think that  she would be wanting to look a bit closer at  the $400,000  which has left a visible trail through the  charities commission and   Societies web site.

She wears both the hats which  should be  concerned  about the drain of these resources.   I have covered this story  earlier  in Secrecy breeds corruption

You need only look at the article Update on Waikato shows  who is  who on the   Waikato SPCA  to see who  was on the trust at the time.. How convenient that this proposed  vet school   was going to benefit the vet on the board of the SPCA

It should also be noted by any one looking at the accounts of the Waikato RNZSPCA  that the accounts   several years ago  represented a number of bank accounts, now only the working account is listed.  But it does not hide the fact that there have been significant donations to the  RNZSPCA in the form of bequests over the years.

The ral issue with  bequests is that   those who leave money to the SPCA or RNZSPCA are not specific  as to who should  receive the money  and  there is apparently constant battles   with regards to the terminology  used in the  individual wills as to  where the money should go .. It has the ability to go  anywhere  and  much does not go for the protection of  animals but into investment plans   and side trusts.

There is also no mention in the Waitakere RNZSPCA  accounts of the   money which the government gives to the RNZSPCA  for the  control of animals   . I believe that stays with the   main branch in  Auckland  and    does not   get  distributed to the  smaller societies.. This is so that they  can individually plead poverty  and   tug at the heart strings of the public.

Then there is  section 171  of the  animal welfare act where by the approved organisation , which the  Waikato branch of the RNZSPCA is , is able to  keep  the funds for  prosecutions.. it would appear that  the Waikato  RNZSPCA  dos not prosecute  although it is an approved organisation by virtue of  being a branch under the   RNZSPCA section 190 animal welfare act.

Last but not least  there are the  smaller trusts which  the money is  siphoned off into   in the case of the Waikato RNZSPCA  I have identified the one  above    about which there is more information in  Submission to the select committee where  I  wrote this

Mr Didovich  also plays a key role in the RNZSPCA    and Mr Wells is also a  trustee  of the  Waikato SPCA trust  which  has  taken over  $400,000  charitable funds  from  the Waikato branch of the RNZSPCA , then  dropped the  corporate trustee RNZSPCA off the deed and  then formed an entity in its own right.. Evidence of this is available from public records Societies register and charities commission. I will happily provide more evidence on this if required.

And in More submissions

“Transfers between charities could easily occur and   could be a way for third parties   to circumvent legislation by setting up as a  charity . The definition of  third party needs to be clearly defined.

1. On 15 May  2000 the  Waikato  SPCA trust was established .  This trust had a corporate trustee being the RNZSPCA  Waikato. The other  trustees were Garrick , Dalton Shepherd and Wells .

2. Land  belonging to the RNZSPCA  was  sold  and  as a result $400,000 was transferred  from the  RNZSPCA into the trust. ( this is verifiable through public records )

3. 12 may  2003 the  trust  amends the trust deed  and drops off the corporate trustee .

4. IN 2005   it  applies for  incorporation to  become  an entity in its own right  retaining the $400,000  and then becomes a charity .”

Other   blog postings worth visiting they are

Whats happening in the Waikato RNZSPCA – Parallels with AWINZ? this  article deals with $400,000  that was transferred from RNZSPCA Waikato to a trust which later  becomes a legal entity in it is own right  effectively having taken  $400,000 assets from the Waikato RNZSPCA

Waikato SPCA

The lack of verification -opens door to corruption

See also The role of Tom Didiovich … Trustee of AWINZ and RNZSPCA officer

 

 

Hot air and bullshit.

It  is official  New Zealand  functions on hot air and bull shit  protected by a very solid  brick wall of denial.

There are some  who belive that this is a veil of  corruption  but I am now firmly  of the belief that it is because it is because  apathy, arrogance, ignorance and incompetence rule.

The Charities commission has  accepted that the trust  which registered  with them  in  may 2007 called the animal welfare institute of New Zealand  has more right to the name  than the company which holds the trade mark.

The fact that the  company took over from a legally registered trust by the same name appears to be  beside the point   and just because four people sign a document claiming that their trust had existed since 2000 then that too must be true.

Have the charity people not heard of verification????  And why shouldnt we all just use trading names  just think of the confusion.. we could all call ourselves John Smith .. we have name registers for a reason.  the reason I questioned  the  name animal welfare institute of New Zealand in the first place was because it was a law enforcement agency and Neil wells on the  application to the minister had stated that the  deed had been singed and that the  registration was in process.

Judge Joyce   decided that Mr Wells got a head of himself.. Try that  one  in court if you ever appear  before his honour..  Well your honour I was doing   100 in a 50 area because there was a 100 kph area up the road  I got ahead of myself.

Or  I wasnt shop lifting  I   simply got ahead of myself I left the shop without paying.

If it works for barristers  then it has to work f or the rest of.

It also worked for Neil wells when  he applied for  funding    from the community board he said there was a trust  but   there wasnt one.. Any one  else would have been  done  like a dog’s dinner    but some how Neil Wells  has immunity.  He can

How to write legislation for his own business plan

Use the court to conceal corruption

Got his  litigation funded through the public purse

Give  false end titles to the lord of the  rings movies

use any name he likes   and   cover up to such an extent  that   he undermines  the entire company  society and trust structures.

It would appear that Barristers  who are  members of the  laingholm Baptist church    can   do anything and be immune to the law  because  they can  spin their  story  and be believed on their word.

Who needs  evidence  when they have Neiil wells.. he will make it up   he is a master of spin.

Proof of this is  his statement to the court where he contradicted the Statement of Claim how can a person have two versions of the same story and have them both believed.

Even though I  told the truth     and had evidence of  the truth I  was accused.. but never  found guilty of  defamation.

The legal process was alos re written By wells and his acomplice  lawyer Nick Wright  who saw to it that I was denied  a formal proof hearing and then convinced the court that I had had one.

Poor Nick was so confused that in one submission  he   got himself all tied up   and  contradicted himself  But that Was Ok   that was acceptable.  para 56 and 62 of these submissions

I am the villian in the peace   I should have known better than to question corruption.