Unaccountable Expenditure
UNACCOUNTABLE EXPENDITURE OF TAXPAYERS FUNDS,
From: Ross Baker
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:14 PM
To: information@police.govt.nz
Subject: Re: Form submission from: Contact New Zealand Police
Public Affairs Team.
New Zealand Police.
It is now some six weeks since I sent the letter below, with attachments to the Commissioner of Police. While the public Affairs Team forwarded it on the new Commissioner, Peter Marshall I have still not received confirmation of our complaint being received by the Commissioner.
Yours sincerely,
Ross Baker,
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
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From: information@police.govt.nz
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:55 AM
To: Ross Baker
Subject: Re: Form submission from: Contact New Zealand Police
Dear Sir
If you sent this letter to the Commissioner he would have received it. However Mr Broad is no longer the Commissioner, this week was his last week. His correspondence will have been passed to Commissioner Peter Marshall. I will also forward this email on to Commissioner Marshall’s office.
Thanks for your enquiry.
Kind regards
PUBLIC AFFAIRS TEAM
NZ POLICE
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From: Ross Baker
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:49 AM
To: Martyn RUTH
Subject: Unaccountable Expenditure of Taxpayer’s Funds
Inspector Marty Ruth,
Could you please pass the letter below with attachments onto the Commissioner of Police.
Regards,
Ross Baker.
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
ONE NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION INC
Email Address, rossbaker@austarnet.com.au
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3 March 2011.
Commissioner Howard Broad,
Commissioner of Police,
Police National Headquarters,
PO Box 3017,
Wellington.
Dear Sir,
Re: Unaccountable Expenditure of Taxpayer’s Funds
After speaking to Inspector Marty Ruth, Northland Professional Standards Manager, New Zealand Police re our complaint that the Government must take some responsibility for Mr T being arrested, it became obvious there is a more serious problem; taxpayers funds were used to settle unaccountable debts of Mr T’s and to purchase land to help settle the “alleged” Te Roroa claim under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975.
While Inspector Marty Ruth said this was not part of his investigation, from our discussions, I believe he agreed it should be investigated. Inspector Ruth suggested we take our complaint to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, the Hon Christopher Finlayson but as he was a member of the Maori Affairs Select Committee that misled Parliament to allow the Te Roroa Claims Settlement Bill to proceed, we decided it should be brought to the Commissioner of Police’s attention. Mr Finlayson attended our submission hearing at Parliament on the 2 May 2007 when these matters were brought to the Committee’s attention.
In 1992, the Waitangi Tribunal recommended the Government purchase Mr T’s and Mr Harrison’s farms at Maunganui Bluff to help settle Te Roroa’s claim under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. (WAI 38)
By 1995, it became obvious to Mr T, the One New Zealand Foundation Inc, the Member for Northland, Hon John Carter and others there were doubts as to the validity of this claim, a claim that had been investigated with a judicial inquire by Chief Judge Shepherd in 1939 and rejected by Parliament in 1942. See copy of letter from the Hon John Carter.
When Mr T signed the Deed of Sale in 1995, he amended page 2, Background (B) of the Deed to read the claim for Manuwhetai was only an “alleged” claim. Before the document was signed by the Minister of Justice on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, people within the Crown Law Office, the Office of Treaty Settlements and the Minister of Justice had acknowledged this was only an “alleged” claim. See attached documents.
In a letter from Crown negotiator, Ray Chappell to the Minister of Justice in 1994, we find there was serious doubt as to some of Mr T’s debts the Government paid using taxpayers funds with one of the solicitors being in jail. See page 4 of letter between Ray Chappell and the Minister of Justice attached.
“The Government is accountable to the public for the responsible expenditure of taxpayers funds and must stand up to public scrutiny“. Hon Doug Graham, Minister of Justice.
We believe Parliament would not have approved the expenditure of $3.25 million of taxpayer’s funds to purchased this farm if it had been informed by those involved, it was only an “alleged” claim and Mr T’s debts were unaccountable or not associated with the purchase of his farm. This was not, “Responsible expenditure of taxpayers funds“!
We believe serious fraud may have been committed for the Government to use taxpayers funds to purchase two farms to help settle Te Roroa’s “alleged” claim and pay Mr T’s unaccountable debts, therefore we ask that the Police/Serious Fraud Office investigates the expenditure of taxpayer’s funds to purchased two farms for Te Roroa’s “alleged” claim, a claim that was rejected by Parliament in 1942 after a full judicial inquiry.
A similar letter was sent to the Minister of Police on the 6 February 2011, but so far, she has failed to respond.
Yours sincerely,
Ross Baker.
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
