One Flew Over the Vipers Nest: Wairarapa Mental Health

Update on the Viperapa Mental Health "Services".

I'm lucky they don't do frontal lobotomies on so called "difficult" women these days'.  Here's what they do instead:

In the interests of Transparency in New Zealand, here is how they cunningly try and label me as mental, how the psychiatrist was told by corrupt Court Forensic Nurse Alison Mulholland to interview Ken Daniels, a lawyer who was no longer acting for me because of a serious conflict of interest, for the third time, and therefore a completely inappropriate person to interview, and the corrupt prosecuting police constable, Peter Cletus Cunningham, who told the Board of Trustees of the South End School he had recently charged me with child abuse - an utter lie - I had reported the people who attacked me in front of witnesses for child abuse and he and his Wairarapa police mates are refusing to investigate any allegations against Murphy because he is their mate.

Ken Daniels' letters are on this site, and they show that my concern at these injustices is well founded, and supported by him.  It is completely rational to be emotional and make representations and write letters about it.  My concerns have more than just a "grain of truth" in them as he well knows and only become distorted by other people, mainly police, lawyers, PCA, etc, and the distortion is usually quite deliberate, and intended to enable the distorter to avoid dealing with the matter and addressing the concerns.  The concerns are serious and completely valid, well documented by the information on these sites.  (What's with the comma after woman?)

This rubbish from Cunningham is a deliberately orchestrated litany of lies.  I won't dignify it with a response apart from challenging Cunningham to produce evidence of this pattern of behaviour in Wellington.  It simply doesn't exist apart from in Cunningham's imagination, like the rest of the lies.

I had nothing to do with the police after a couple of absolutely trivial convictions about 30 years ago until what is indisputably a campaign of corrupt, malicious and vindictive litigation against me by the Wairarapa police, who are conspiring with Court staff like Alison Mulholland, and Police Prosecutor Gary Wilson's de facto partner Liz Harpleton, to have incarcerate innocent people and drive others to violence and suicide.  My concerns about conspiracy are not paranoid they are evidenced by letters like the ones written by Ken Daniels to the police dated 25 July 2007, which says (p2, para2) "It was always apparent from an early stage that for whatever reason you were a 'lightning rod' for police attention in Carterton.  This was, in my view, most unfair to you, and unwarranted police attention resulted in unnecessary charges being laid."  In other words, the police are corrupt, and acting with prejudice and bias.

25 July 2007, says (p2, para2) "It was always apparent from an early stage that for whatever reason you were a 'lightning rod' for police attention in Carterton.  This was, in my view, most unfair to you, and unwarranted police attention resulted in unnecessary charges being laid." 

I'm due in Court tomorrow, from what I can gather it is to hear the lies from Alan Donoghue, the little creep who spend years in prison for armed robbery, who has never had a proper job in his life, and who sexually assaulted and detained me, then maliciously lied because I rejected his sleazy advances.

Local police refuse to charge him, just like they refuse to charge any of the people who committed the violent attack on me in my home on 11 February 2009, involving the Mayor Gary McPhee.

I have extremely limited access to the internet at the moment and have to sign out of this post at this moment, it will be updated tomorrow evening.  This situation is not "a result of underlying personality characteristics" of mine, it is the result of police corruption and bullying.  The "history of trauma" refers to things like the serious violent attack by Murphy and his mate's which the police are corruptly refusing to acknowledge.  

Police Inspector John Johnston and Gary McPhee make up their own statistics:

Click on these images to enlarge them, or open them in 'Paint' program:

Constable Laura Rhymer's evidence:

 

This is the evidence given by Constable Laura Rhymer at the hearing of the Crown application to try and prevent Rhymer having to appear in Court or be cross examined regarding her "evidence" on the charge of Escaping from Custody.

I am awaiting the written decision of the Judge, but the charge was thrown out by Judge Barry at the end of the hearing of the Crown application.

More lies and corruption from Julie Hallam and Ewen Hyde - Facility Focus Group:

Read how Carterton District Council librarian Ewen Hyde and Council "Support Services Manager" Julie Hallam corruptly pervert the course of justice in covering up the fraud and gross misfeasance committed by the committee of the Carterton Community Centre and Facility Focus Groups - of which they are both members (of both groups), as well as being employed by the Carterton District Council, a major funder of the CCC.

Read the arrogance with which they tell lawyer Ken Daniels to get stuffed:

This is how your taxes are being thieved by people exactly like Julie Hallam and Ewen Hyde. Think about how easy it is for these two nobodies to just tell lawyers to stuff off. Ken Daniels never followed up this correspondence, or other correspondence such as the outrageous email from Sergeant Murray Johnston. These people just keep churning out this rubbish and getting away with it!

Jullie Hallam and Elaine Brazendale "elect" Ewen Hyde:

COURT ORDER SILENCES CORONER AND CONCEALS FARDELL SUICIDE FROM PUBLIC - Kiwisfirst, first with the real news:

COURT ORDER SILENCES CORONER AND CONCEALS FARDELL SUICIDE FROM PUBLIC      

27 August 2007 Late in July 2007 it was revealed that Auckland High Court Justice Paul Heath ruled last December - more than a year after Robert Fardell QC (right) fell to his death from the 15 metre high Takapuna Head cliffs into the rocky surf at high tide - that the Auckland Coroner's findings and the evidence into the bizarre circumstances of Fardell's death would be largely suppressed.  This Court ruling by Heath J followed prominent barrister Harry Waalken QC obtaining a restraining order in July 2006 preventing the Coroner from releasing his written report while the family sought a judicial review designed to censure and obscure the Coroner's findings.  Unfortunately for Waalken, the cat had already been let out of the bag at a special inquest conducted at the Auckland Coroner's Court in June 2006.  This was when Auckland Coroner Dr. Murray Jamieson issued an oral report stating Mr. Fardell died from drowning, with the post-mortem examination revealing drowning was precipitated by massive injuries consistent with a fall immediately prior. 
 
With foul play and suicide the likely scenarios facing police officers responding to report of a lifeless body on the rocks, foul play must reasonably be ruled out simply on the response of police that day finding a middle-age man unexpectedly dead.  What is known is that the police and ambulance response to the call of a body found 6:30 pm 11 December 2005 as the tide receded was unusually brief for an untimely and, presumably, uncertain cause of death.  Although Mr. Fardell was 52 years old and in good health at the time he died, neither cordoning of the scene nor forensic analysis in-situ was apparently conducted.  The ambulance crew left shortly after inspecting the top of the cliff above where the body was found. Moreover, as Fardell was an extremely heavy-set man who additionally had to breach a fence to reach the edge of the cliff, it is highly unlikely that his fall could have been an accident or murder in this area active with people enjoying the early summer weekend.

Nonetheless, Barrister Waalken vehemently pressed the Coroner that suicide was not a finding the Coroner could legally make - or even mention.  While the Coroner seemed ultimately prepared to delicately acquiesce to Waalken's demands, Waalken's subsequent legal motions that the Coroner permanently seal the evidence and his finding were rejected outright by the Coroner as incompatible with the fundamental precept of transparent proceedings and justice.  It is this ruling by the Coroner that has now been overturned by Auckland High Court Justice Heath.

There has been some speculation, unproven, that Mr. Fardell had a life insurance policy, the death benefit from which may have been lost if the Coroner's findings indicated suicide.  However, it is more likely for reasons that will become apparent deeper in this story that, given the tremendous media exposure to the death, concerns were heightened within the judiciary that allowing the circumstances of the death to be made public would only increase the public's curiosity as to what drove Fardell to such self-destruction.  It was anticipated that attention into the deceased's sordid personal and professional life would then raise legitimate and troubling questions as to how such a person could reach the pinnacle of the legal profession and be next in line for a judicial appointment while those in authority had turned a blind eye to numerous disturbing complaints concerning his professional conduct for several years leading up to his death. 

In the days immediately following his death, the New Zealand Herald ran front page stories claiming that Mr. Fardell died of a heart attack while swimming - irresponsible news reporting easily dispelled by facts that were immediately available to any reporter interested in accuracy.  Other than the location of the body on rocks hundreds of meters from the nearest beach, Mr. Fardell was not dressed for a swim as he walked away from his house for the last time.  The inquest officer assigned to the case said the body was found with shorts and no shoes but that his experience was "articles of clothing quickly get separated from the body in the water".   And as any viewer of CSI can tell you, there are definitive forensic tests to quickly determine whether someone has suffered a fatal heart attack. 

The inquest officer, Paul Herman of the Takapuna Police, immediately realized that he was in over his head on this investigation.  The last person to talk to the deceased was Chris Morris, son of (now retired) High Court judge David Morris.  Chris Morris admitted to Herman that he had come to Fardell's home this Sunday afternoon to discuss pending legal matters with the deceased but declined to grant a formal interview or provide further detail.  Same with the widow.  Also, as the press was widely reporting that ten High Court judges had attended the funeral, the estate hired Barrister Harry Waalken QC, widely regarded as a legal Houdini on medical cases, to advance the family's position on the death - and stymie the investigation.   Faced with such powerful stonewalling Mr. Herman did not need to be a genius to identify that careers are made or lost on how someone might handle himself in an investigation where a litany of prominent lawyers and judges were not only expressing a keen interest in his approach to the investigation but were simultaneously speaking out effusively in the press about what a great man of integrity Mr. Fardell was.

Mr. Fardell undoubtedly had many fine qualities, but integrity was not one of them.  It didn't help that Mr. Herman quite quickly uncovered this darker side to the man.  Herman casually revealed to a private investigator early in his investigation that an Asian gang Fardell had a falling out with were phoning him in an attempt to gain information.  Within a month Herman was also informed that Fardell was being sued in the Auckland High Court for deceptive practices by former clients Paragon Oil Systems Limited and Vince and Jane Siemer, and that an application detailing allegations that Fardell three times perjured himself had been filed and served less than two weeks before his death.  Adding insult to a potentially career-killing injury for Fardell was the fact that Hugh Williams, a judge whom Fardell considered dim-witted and vain and, hence, was an irresistible butt of his jokes, was, as judge in the case, going out of his way to unduly protect Fardell.  Fardell was a proud man whose career and legitimate standing among his peers meant everything to him.  This graft from an unlikely ally whom he had been all too quick to dismiss as unprofessional was a tremendous blow to his ego as much as an inescapable symbol of poetic justice. 
 
Yet another former client, New Zealand inventor Hugh Price, was also embroiled in a legal battle against Fardell before he died.  Mr. Price had years earlier obtained a ruling from the Lay Observer that overruled the Law Society's dismissal of a formal complaint he had lodged against Mr. Fardell for deceptive practices and seeming incompetence.  Despite this ruling of the Lay Observer, the Law Society refused to act on the complaint.  Now, in December 2005, Mr. Price was again challenging Fardell in a current case for acting in a conflict of interest capacity.
 
Topping off all this was Fardell's close personal and business relationship with powerful Auckland insolvency practitioner Michael Stiassny, a relationship he would come to ruefully regret in the weeks before his death   This was due in large part to (what Fardell was obviously convinced to be) an intentional release of information by his former friend that helped expose Fardell's legal scams.  This information put Fardell's career at risk in addition to severely undermining his credibility.  Whether this was the straw in the mountain of straw that broke the camel's back is difficult to say.  However, given the significant betrayal by someone he had put so much trust in, it is not difficult to surmise this weighed heavily on Fardell as he solemnly walked to the precipice this otherwise sunny Sunday.   Ironically, as Stiassny was trustee of the Fardell family trust (Delfar Holdings Limited) at the time of his death Fardell could not escape his clutches even in death. 
 
In this pressure cooker where the powerful legal community's obituary contrasted so sharply with the unfolding facts of the man's real life, Officer Herman did the only thing he considered safe under the circumstances - he went to ground.  As the Coroner's representative, Officer Herman was responsible for publicizing the public inquest.  Despite the tremendous number of contacts he had received from media and financially interested parties, Officer Herman informed only the widow and Harry Waalken QC of the public inquest that he had hastily convened barely 2 months after the death.
 
Officer Herman would arrogantly respond later to those who felt slighted by his subterfuge regarding the public inquest that he was under no obligation to inform interested parties of the date or setting.  This was simply untrue.  The Coroner's Act 1988 specifically required him to notify in advance parties who may have an interest in the inquest.  In the winter of 2006 Judge Borrin issued a ruling on behalf of the Police Complaints Authority of New Zealand stating Herman was derelict in his obligations under the Act.  The Coroner had earlier been compelled to conduct a special inquest due to Herman's railroading of the public one.
 
The year 2006 saw significant changes in law for the Coroner's Office.  The 1988 Act was repealed in favour of the Coroner's Act 2006, which was passed into law in August 2006, and the establishment of the Coronial Services of New Zealand was formed on 1 July 2007.  Perhaps this chaos explains why the Coroner - having a year earlier been ready to issue his written inquest findings before a cease and desist order of the Court prevented him from doing so - released his report on 20 July 2007, seven months after Judge Heath finally gave him the approval to do so - sans the evidence and guts of the report.  Perhaps the Coroner's delay was a demonstration of conscious indignation at the Court imposed coverup. 
 
So it was that what started as a whitewash intended to be quickly disposed of in record time was eventually whitewashed by judicial order more than a year and a half after the fact.  And when one reads the Coroner's brief final report, it is obvious that Mr. Waalken earned his substantial fees on this one.  In legal speak, lawyers deceive by omission.  This is obvious in this case when one reads the Coroner's two page report.  This reporter's favorite line from that report is "No evidence was located to suggest that Mr. Fardell harboured any intention to commit suicide.  Indeed, his work on forthcoming cases suggested to the contrary".  It is as perverse as it is ironic that the Coroner could not write massive injuries from a fall directly contributed to the drowning but was encouraged to get into the highly speculative (let alone non-medical) realm of saying busy people do not have time to commit suicide.  Read Coroner's censured report.  
 
In obvious double-talk the new Coronial Services website states on its' front page, "The (new) Act was designed to enhance public confidence in the integrity and independence of the coronial system."  All too sadly, the net result has proven the opposite true. 

                  - by Vince Seimer, Kiwisfirst 

Julie Hallam and her crooked Council mates cover up FRAUD: (For Anne)

At left is a letter to me from Julie Hallam,  Elaine Brazendale, and "P Smith", on behalf of the Carterton District Community Trust.  Hallam was "Support Services Manager" at the Carterton District Council and committee member of the Carterton Community Centre, and incorporated society whose main funder was the Carterton District Council, Elaine Brazendale, Carterton District Councillor, was also on the committee of the Carterton Community Centre.

This rude arrogant letter is noted "cc: Edwin Perry" because MP Edwin Perry was due to attend the advertised public meeting to discuss the illegal takeover mismanagement and closure of the former Carterton Community Centre.

Below that are the Minutes of the 2002 AGM of the Carterton Community Centre, showing how a group of people associated with the Carterton District Council passed motions to pervert the course of justice by removing liability and indemnifying the committee (themselves).  Note: Noeline Thomas was the mother of Bev Thomas, the Administrator who fiddled the books, and Adrienne Thomas, who committed adultery and ran off with Martyn Preece, Vice Chairman of the Centre.  Count the conflicts of interest.  Julie Hallam was the author of her own legacy, not me.  'Anne' made a disgusting comment at the end of the original post about Julie Hallam, so this one's for you Anne, more will be put up tomorrow for the benefit of ignorant, abusive half wits like Anne:

Carterton Community Centre

171 High Street, Carterton

PO Box 173, Carterton Ph: (06) 379 7306 Fax: (06) 379 7851

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting

Held in the Ron Wakelin Centre - O3rdJuly 2002

MEETING OPENED at 7.30 pm

PRESENT: Chair-John Crawford
Paid up members- Frank Craig, Maureen Craig, John Gordon, Heather Crawford,
Evelyn Dearnley, Ewen Hyde, Noeline Thomas, Elaine Brazendale, Julie Hallam,
John Fairbrother, Anne Hay
In attendance-Jim Wilson

APOLOGIES: The Petersens and the Bowers
Motion: That the apologies be accepted.
Moved: J Gordon
Seconded: E Brazendale
Carried

MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING:
Motion: That the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting be accepted and approved.
Moved: Ewen Hyde
Seconded; Frank Craig
Carried

MATTERS ARISING:
A Fraser, Chartered Accountants was asked to do accounts for year ending 2001/02.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS:
The attendees of the AGM were given an overview of the current prepared Financial Accounts by E Brazendale.
A Fraser prepared the accounts and the Community Centre was offered a 40% discount if they were paid within 10 days of invoice date.
The amalgamation of all accounts into one i.e. Carterton Community Centre Account was tabled but it was thought prudent to remain with the VOSP account on its own until the programme was closed.
Motion: That we remain as is until things are clarified.
Moved: J Crawford
Seconded: Frank Craig
Carried

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 byJohn 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

AMENDMENTS:
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 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
Signed Date_____________________

Here's another example of Hallam's conflict of interest, and the way the Carterton District Council operates

More information will be posted tomorrow - like the "Business Plan" Crawford refers to - I promise you, it has to be seen to be believed! A "roll over" of the previous Business Plan - watch this space, you will not believe your eyes!

Hallam was on the committee of the Community Centre!

Carterton District Council was the major funder of the Community Centre, and Councillors and staff were thieving all the money hand over fist and using the Centre as their own private slush fund!

Remember the verbal "overview" of the financial reports given to the AGM by Elaine Brazendale (see above minutes of the AGM), Elaine Brazendale, Julie Hallam, Georgina Beyer, Ruth Carter, and every single one of the group who took over the Carterton Community Centre knew about the fraud evidenced indisputably by the Financial Records of the Centre.


ACCOUNTANTS STATEMENT - DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY


The financial statements and supporting schedules of Carterton Community Centre for
the year ended 31 March 2001 have been complied solely for my client.


A compilation is limited to the collection, classification and summarisation of financial information supplied by the client.  A compilation does not involve the verification of that information.  I have accepted the information and explanations provided by the client and have not audited or reviewed the financial statements.  Further, the financial statements have been prepared at the request of and for the purpose of the client and I disclaim any responsibility on any ground whatsoever, including liability in negligence, to any other person.


Lyn Patterson Carterton
Chartered Accountant 20 September 2001
                            Note- Patterson is currently a Masterton District Councillor.

Georgina Beyer the Liar was forced to resign from parliament, and has been unable to get a job since, because of the evidence of Beyer's lies and corruption:

For the benefit of those who 

The following is an account of the events that occured at a public meeting to discuss the proposed Carterton Community Facility, and in the days following the meeting.  In particular it features evidence of Georgina Beyer's corruption, and that of the group associated with the Carterton District Council.  It was written by a married couple, whose names I have changed to X and Y Z in order to protect their privacy.  Some idiot hiding behind the name 'Justice' has posted a comment on this blog claiming to have heard the rubbish he spouts "on good authority".  

These people are mature, professional people with absolutely  impeccable credentials, who did not know me from a bar of soap, in other words they are completely impartial and independent, and sane, unlike 'Justice' I suspect.  

There are four documents below, (1) an account of what happened at the meeting, (2) a copy of an email to Prime Minister Helen Clarke expressing outrage at the behaviour of Beyer and the police at the meeting, (3) an account of a discussion that took place between the one of the writers and Ewen Hyde, Carterton DIstrict Council librarian, and member of the group that took over the former Community Centre illegally and closed it down to cover up the fraud and mismanagement, and self appointed chairman of the Facility Focus Group, and Georgina Beyer, and (4) an account of a discussion between the writer and police area commander Jack Johnston about what happened at the meeting.  

The police burst into the meeting like the Gestapo, after driving at dangerous and reckless speeds to get from the Masterton police station to the Masterton Municipal Hall in only seven minutes (it usually takes 25 minutes).  They seized me physically as I was trying to leave with everyone else after the meeting finished.  I was most definitely not told I was under arrest, let alone what for, and these witnesses attest to that clearly and firmly.  It was an outrageous act of politically motivated police brutality, committed on the instructions of Georgina Beyer and Gary McPhee and the Area Commander of the local police.  The evidence of the Court hearings will be posted soon, and the judgement.  Watch this space, you won't believe your eyes.

(1)

An Account of the Happenings at a Meeting at the Community Hall Carterton
We, X and Y Z were present at the Municipal Hall, Holloway Street, Carterton on 26 October 2005 at a public meeting to discuss a report being presented by the Community Focus Group on a proposed new community facility.
We estimate that there were approx 40 – 50 people present at the meeting. However the attendance book, which we were asked to sign, would give a more accurate head count.
Prior to this meeting we did not know Kate Raue or know of her. We had never heard her name. It was not until the following day when discussing the incident on this night that we were given her name.
After signing the attendance book in the foyer of the hall we seated ourselves on the right hand side of the room, four or five rows from the back. Approximately a third up the bank of chairs.
The meeting was chaired by Ewen Hyde and began with a presentation by Mr Hyde and Glen Hughes of Opus Consutants who had carried out the preparatory work on the concept.
Ewen Hyde then invited the public to ask questions and offer comments regarding all aspects of the proposal. There were diverse comments on the financial and physical aspects of the proposal.
A person, who the next day we were informed was Kate Raue, was seated a couple of rows behind us, on the same side of the room and slightly to the left of us. Kate waited politely for a chance to speak and when she did she asked the people present, in words similar to the following, “Do you really want to let these people who caused the last community centre to close down amid allegations of mismanagement and fraud, to be the ones in charge of a new four million dollar project?”
She said that members had asked for an audit of the books and these people had refused. She said that people had been asking for this for some time and asked why the same people trying to push the $4,000,000 proposal continued to refuse the audit. She said there had been a cover up of the mismanagement and because of this the same people shouldn’t be allowed to control this new proposal.
Ms Raue spoke forcefully but was not screaming or shouting. She was making her point but not ranting or raving. Her body language was neutral and non-threatening, she stood in place, used mild gestures and referred to a piece of paper she was holding.
Ewen Hyde asked her to sit down. He said that this was old ground and that she was disrupting the meeting by raising old issues when they were looking at new matters. Kate added 2 or 3 more comments and then sat.
Two or more people spoke, then Kate spoke again and was again asked to sit down by Mr Hyde which she did but added the comment “I haven’t finished yet, I’m just having a rest.” Mr Hyde then said “You will be asked to leave.” Kate replied “This is supposed to be a public meeting for people to comment on your proposal and that is what I am doing.” Ewen said “Please leave.” To which Kate replied “No.”
Others then spoke after which Georgina Beyer stood up to speak. Ms Beyer was seated two thirds of the way up the room on the left hand side, the side opposite to us, and a few rows ahead. She commenced by thanking the committee for their work on the project, said that it was a good idea and she would do all she could to facilitate funding, by which we thought she was implying that she would be a facilitator between the committee and those in power in Wellington.
Then with absolutely no provocation Ms Beyer turned and faced Kate Raue and began to abuse her in a most personal manner. One phrase being “Kate Raue you are a blight on this community.” Ms Beyer also threatened Ms Raue with legal action. Ms Beyer’s body language was aggressive and threatening. She was leaning forward, pointing and jabbing her finger at Ms Raue. Her facial features were distorted as she ranted and stunned the room in to silence.
Georgina Beyer’s reaction was excessive to what had preceded it and actually alerted us to a shared history. She was obviously aware that she was under attack from Kate’s comments but she had not been named, whereas her comments were a direct personal attack on Ms Raue.
Ms Beyer’s inflammatory and defamatory tirade continued for 30 seconds or so and others in the hall appeared stunned but at no time did Mr Hyde say anything to her about her behaviour. Her outburst was embarrassing and seemed to us an over-reaction to robust criticism.
Kate Raue responded briefly and there were some low murmurings for her to sit down, which she did and the meeting continued with others exchanging their views on the proposed complex.
One of the speakers, who introduced himself as Matthew Morris, a consultant, stood up to ask some very pertinent questions but before he did he very pointedly looked at Georgina Beyer and said words to the effect of “there is more than one person in this hall tonight who should be reprimanded for their behaviour.”
A debate continued regarding the desirability of the new building complecx, what was to happen to the old Municipal Hall, etc. A member of the public offered the view that it was disappointing the Lord Mayor wasn’t at the meeting, Whereupon Bill Knowles put in an apology for the Mayor, but as the meeting had been going for about an hour at that point a few in the audience seemed sceptical about the late apology. Ms Raue commented that he was probably at the pub. Many of those present laughed but one person did call out “Be quiet Kate.”
About then Bill Knowles and Ewen Hyde left the hall leaving Glenn Hughes of Opus to chair the meeting which was quiet and orderly. Kate was sitting in her seat. X leaned towards to me and asked “What are those two up to?”
A little while later two policemen entered the main hall and stood, leaning against the wall at the back of the room in a direct line with Kate Raue’s seat. One of the policemen was a large man with close cropped grey hair. The second officer was younger, shorter, of finer build and had dark hair. Several people, including us, became aware of them and turned to look. It was only up to a matter of a minute at most from the time they entered the body of the main hall to the moment the larger officer approached Kate Raue who was sitting quietly in her seat.
He bent over Kate’s right shoulder with his head next to hers and spoke to her. We did not hear what he said. Kate stood up and attempted to leave the hall but was being blocked by the officer.
At this time Ewen Hyde closed the meeting saying it would continue another time.
By this time Kate and the two officers were involved in a struggle in the foyer, and it appeared to us that Kate was being prevented from exiting the building. The larger of the two officers was the one most involved and at one point I (Y Z) placed my right hand on his arm to try and get his attention and ask him to stop this fracas. This was a fairly violent struggle which continued on to the pavement outside. A male unknown to us, repeatedly asked the officers why they were arresting Kate, as did others, also what were the charges and to please release her and let her go home. At no point did we hear either of the officers say they were arresting her or what charges, if any, they were laying.
As the larger of the two officers bundled Kate, who appeared to be passively resisting, in to the back of the police car I (Y) stood behind and to one side of the younger officer, who was standing free of the melee, and just shook my head, saying “Oh dear, oh dear.” The young officer turned to look at me but without expression.
Before we left the area I (Y) had a short conversation with Ewen Hyde telling him that I was disgusted with what had just occurred and he should be ashamed of his part in it. He told me that I didn’t understand the history of the situation. I pointed out, for the first of many times to come, that I was only concerned about and commenting on what had occurred that night. Mr Hyde thrust a paper in to my hands citing a by-law that gave the action to be taken if someone was trespassing and refusing to leave if asked to do so. He said he was within his rights to ask Mrs Raue to leave as she was trespassing. I pointed out it was a public meeting and Kate was entitled to voice an opinion.
X and I left the area to walk home, venting our anger to each other at how the situation had escalated and how poorly we thought it had been handled. We were very angry and upset.
I (Y) sat down at my computer and started to write an account of the evening’s happenings. However after a few lines I abandoned this and went online to seek an email address for office of Helen Clarke, Prime Minister.
I typed and sent an email advising her of the behaviour of one of her party’s list MP’s. I did not expect a response to this email as it states on the web site that they only respond to letters. However I do know that the email is stored in their archives as I enquired about it in June 2006. * email attached (2)
Whilst I was composing the above email X returned to the Municipal Hall to speak to Georgina Beyer and Ewen Hyde. * account attached (3)
We both felt then and still do, that the actions of the police officers at the Municipal Hall that night were not only unnecessary but were inflammatory as there were no problems at the time of their arrival and nothing prior to that which even warranted them being called out. As they were called to the hall by one of the conveners a ‘wait and see’ attitude was all that was required. If necessary they could have spoken to Kate Raue later. As it was a mildly embarrassing situation was blown up out of all proportion. We felt that the only person who had behaved in a threatening and disorderly manner was list MP Georgina Beyer.
As a result of this meeting and its aftermath I made it my business to find out more about the demise of the previous community centre. I spoke to long term residents and also accessed the archives of the Wairarapa Times Age newspaper. Concerns were expressed to me regarding the manner of closing of the centre and the non-disclosure of the destination of any remaining funds. Newspaper articles also highlighted an arrogance on the part of some people involved as to how much they would tell the community, whom they were supposed to be serving.
The day following Ms Raue’s handcuffing and removal by police from the Municipal Hall X rang Masterton Police station and asked to speak to the Area Commander.
* account attached (4)
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This is a copy of the email sent to the office of the Prime Minister of New Zealand (p.m.@ministers.govt.nz) from Y and X Z of 22 Tyne St, Carterton on the night of a public meeting which ended in the arrest of Kate Raue.
Subject: list MP’s behaviour as a function of community welfare.
May I respectfully ask the Prime Minister to make herself aware of the actions and involvement of Georgina Beyer in a most disgusting and upsetting incident in a public meeting in Carterton on this night 26th October 2005.
A female member of the public, who in the first instance when she was speaking, evidently opened some old wounds relating to previous community projects. It was slightly embarrassing for some of us in the audience but the woman sat down and then when Georgina Beyer rose to speak, instead of concentrating on the agenda, she chose instead to launch a stream of verbal abuse including the threat of legal action. This did nothing to calm the situation.
However the meeting moved on but one councillor and the convener of the meeting chose to involve the Masterton constabulary. I was sitting one row in front of the woman who had so upset Georgina’s equilibrium and at the moment the two large police officers arrived on the scene she was sitting quietly in her seat, whereupon they tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to leave the hall. She refused and pointed out she was just having her say. The Police did not ask Georgina Beyer to leave due to her embarrassing behaviour.
The whole scene degenerated into a debacle which ended in the handcuffing and physical removal of the supposed offender.
Ms Beyer should be adept at defusing situations such as this and not allow others to exacerbate a mildly embarrassing incident into a deeply upsetting occurrence.
We are also of the opinion that the police actions were unnecessarily heavy handed. A wait and see position would have been more circumspect and a public meeting to debate and discuss a $4 000 000 community project would have concluded on a note of optimism and inclusiveness instead of dismay, disbelief and division.
Y and X Z

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Account of Conversation Between Mr Hyde, Georgina Beyer and X Z Outside the Carterton Municipal Hall on the 26/10/2005:
After Kate Raue had been removed from the Municipal Hall I returned home with my wife. However I was so incensed at what I had just witnessed that I returned to the Hall with the intention of voicing my displeasure to the two people I considered to be the instigators of the actions taken that evening.
When I arrived Ewen Hyde and Georgina Beyer were just inside the foyer, near the main doors. I spoke to Ms Beyer telling her that in my opinion people who enjoyed a position of trust and power such as she did should not abuse it. Ms Beyer told me I didn’t know what I was talking about and that Kate Raue had a history of this sort of thing. To which I replied “I wasn’t interested in the history I was only interested in what I had witnessed earlier that evening.”
Mr Hyde was similar to Ms Beyer’s in that he told me I didn’t understand the situation. I then told him that in my opinion his behaviour was inexcusable and a case of over kill.

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Account of a conversation between X Z and Area Commander John (Jack) Johnston of Masterton:
On the morning of 27/10/2005 I rang Masterton Police station and asked to be put through to the Area Commander who I was informed was Inspector Jack Johnston. I was told that he was not available and my details were taken. I informed the woman on the switch the nature of my call which I wanted her to pass on to the Inspector so that he had time to prepare his thoughts on the matter. I didn’t wish to ‘ambush’ him.
Inspector Johnston returned my call the next day, the 28th.
The general discussion was about my displeasure at what had occurred on the night of the 26th at the Carterton Municipal Hall.
My first point was that it was an over reaction by Mr Hyde and Mr Knowles to call in the police to remove a member of the community for expressing an opinion in opposition to that of the Focus Group Committee and list MP Georgina Beyer.
My second point was that the inexcusable behaviour of the aforementioned list MP should have resulted in her being removed or at the very least, spoken to.
The third point I raised was concern at the tactics employed by the police officers attending on the night in question. The physical removal of the ‘so called’ offender and the handcuffing and rough treatment used to put her in to the police car.
I also pointed out to the Inspector that I objected to the blatant misuse of police resources for such a trivial matter (2 vehicles and four officers) and that a more prudent use of tax payers funds was called for.
Inspector Johnston took my comments on board and said that I had the advantage over him of being there on the night and witnessing the events as they occurred.
Inspector Johnston pointed out that Kate Raue “has a history,” to which I replied “I am not interested in her history only the current debacle which we are discussing.”