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SOUTHERN CONFIDENTIAL
NZ Music Month?
NZ Music Month is a promotion run by the NZ Music Commission that takes place each May, in association with other
organisations including NZ On Air, RIANZ, APRA, Independent Music NZ, and the Radio Broadcasters Association.
And obviously NZ Music Month could not succeed without the support of the country’s labels, media, the general public, and, most importantly, the artists themselves.
Firmly entrenched as part of our cultural landscape,
over the course of the last decade the month of May
has gone from a period of encouraging radio to play
more local tunes, to a 31 day celebration of homegrown
talent across the length and breadth of the country.
By Ben C Vidgen.
“Would you be willing to plant evidence on a suspect
you knew to be guilty, in order to secure an indictment”
? _ LA Confidential James Elroy.
“Maureen had a diary...The diary would go missing as well.
In the end the police stated that they had a suspect, a vagrant passing through. A vagrant whom Maureen McKinnel had let into her house? The police even went so far as
taking DNA samples. These were sent overseas and four
years later we were told the results were inconclusive.
STATE SECRETS (B Vidgen Howling At The Moon 1999).
“We have a system now of officers who don’t want to
look at who done it, they’re protecting their own, covering up for their own. And this is New Zealand, and it’s a
shame we have
this system of cover up,”
Arthur Alan Thomas ‘Police One New April 10, 2013.
NZ Music Month want to help you get to great gigs, make
new musical discoveries, and get excited about your faves
from the past. With a bunch of new releases looming
over the horizon, hundreds of gigs around the country,
and media of all kinds gearing up to get behind NZ Music
Month you won’t be able to miss it. NZ Music Month will
also be spreading the word about everything else that’s
going on around Aotearoa, so stay tuned for our personal picks throughout May and dig deep into our comprehensive gig guide to find gems that tickle your fancy.
- Ballads & Badlands Tour - Nadia Reid & Luckless @ The Church, Dunedin Dunedin Sun
12 May / Alternative, Indie
- Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire Tour ReFuel Bar Dunedin Fri 31 May / Metal
+ A series of free concerts by local musicians on the Dunedin Central Library ground floor.
Last March Jarrod Mangles was denied parole for the
murder of Maurren Anne Mckinnel in Arrowtown in
1987 over twenty six years ago, when Mangles was
only 15, having been convicted on the strength of DNA
in 2004. Head lines at the time such as ‘Mangles Admits
Guil’t and quotes in which Mangles states “you cant
beat DNA” reinforce the image, as rammed down our
throats in cop shows such as CSI, that DNA is infallible
and the Mckinnel case was an open shut case. Or was it?
In the very less a reexamination of the Maureen Mckinnel case high lights the flaws in police culture at this time
and high lights questions which continue to surround the
case in contrast to media material found on line today
- which fails to present the defence case at the time of
the trial of Mangles, following Mangles arrest in 2003,
after police obtained DNA voluntarily following a drinking
binge in Nelson, the court case would open in February
the week that senior police officers were being stood
down in relation to the pack rape of Louise Nicholas.
Poets Corner
Sunday Lullaby (Phil Corfield)
Do you know the sound of the city, on a Sunday afternoon
Roaming around for hours, know body knowing you
Sunlight on the windows, bikies on the street
Slowly heading homeward, hoping I would meet
Hey, hey girl, Hey, hey girl
Quiet & peaceful parkland, Collar against the cold
The winters seeping into, every heart and soul
The sound of children’s voices, muffled in the park
Quietly fading into, the winter and the dark
Hey Hey Girl, Hey hey Girl
A boy of 17, can dream impossible dreams
And a boy of 17, can love what’s never seen
Oh girl I know you’ll come, you’ll come along some day
Oh girl I know you’ll come, but I wish it was today
It would come after freedom of David Bain in 2009. Bain
freed not because evidence had made it clear that Bain’s
father Robin must have committed the murder of the
Bain family but largely due the issue of beyond reasonable doubt and in part because of the contamination
of the chain of evidence, including allowing the murder
scene to be torched before a trial was even over. Or the
fact that an avidavit signed by the police forensic optrometrist claimed that the Officer of the Crime Scene (OCS)
Detective Sergeant Milton Weir, had altered evidence.
A claim also made in the Olivia Hope and Ben Smart
homicide case. Where a single of hair had led to DNA
conviction of accused Scott Watson, (handled by then
Detective Inspector Rob Pope), despite the hair found,
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www.Nzmusicmonth.co.nz
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Dunedin Picks
-Mannys:
-Live Music may 17 Basket Case ,18 The Arguments
-Big Wednesday - Fresh Blue Cod Day Chef special Blue cod and
bluff Oysters + A Massive Music selection from 60.’s, 70’s, 80’s
today reggae, blues, rock, dance.
-Queens:
-Every Thursday Darts nights and dancing Queens
-Every Wed Queensgot talent mc by the every sexy Tahu - Free
entry
-Fri 24th May Red Velvet showcase belly dances, hoolahoops
and burlesque
-Sat 25th Toke - electronic DJ
-Fri 31 May Die Die Die
-Fri June 8th Midnight Boosh Party
-Fri 15 June Secrets Knives + Glass vault
-- Live Music --
THE POSTMAN SHOW RADIO ONE 91FM
Avaliable world wide VIA FREE STREAMING internet RADIO
www.r1.co.nz
www.postmanproductions.org or 91 FM.
Every Sundays from 12pm - 2pm Hosted by Ben Vidgen.
For any one now wanting to catch The Postman Gazettes
Postman Show as hosted on Radio One every Sunday
12-2 whose not in Dunedin or can’t tune into 91fm on
the radio on a Sunday at 12PM. The pod cast is now
avaliable so you can listen when and where you want
(so far feed back for the show has come from as far as
New York, Cairns London and Switerland). Past shows
now up the websites as pod casts to date, to give you
an idea of what you can expect on the show include;
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (21/4/13) with Ben
Vidgen and Linda McCallum from the award wining Havoc
Pork on biosecurity, free range farming and farmers markets in their role in building communities.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (14/4/13) with Ben
Vidgen and Dunedin award winning artist Ali Bramwell on
her experiences on arts and politics, as an artist, living in
Japan, Korea, the Far East and the Balkans.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (7/4/13) with Ben
Vidgen with the Inch Bar’s Joel Kenton & Otago Musican
Richard Wallis on Food Music & Beer.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91FM (31/3/13) with Ben
Vidgen with Queenstown media consultant and Alexa
Forbes on PR, Media and the Environment.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (24/3/13) with Ben
Vidgen with the award wining Paul Jacobson from Judge
Rock Wines on Wine & Climate Change.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (17/3/13). COUNTERPOINT: Ben Vidgen debates with Darren Atkinson and
guest (Otago Polical Science Department Otago University) on Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (10/3/13) with Ben
+ Abe Grey Radio with Alistair Thompson editor of Scoop
Media on Kimdotcom and online media
Continued on page 10
-Breakfast with (Chef) Dylan -- homemade beans, hash browns,
Havoc Pork begins 10 am - check out their lunch & dinner
options all made from scratch using quality local produce on a
menu made for students & the backpackers budget - the pies
are to die for
- Tiny Ruins Fri 24 May 2013 feat. A.J. Sharma Taste Merchants,
Dunedin
- Dunedin massive Here is your chance to be of Kindred Sounds
History , First Kindred Dance with Four scoops , Heavyweight
Roots and Kulture style live and direct @ Sammy’s Dunedin Friday May 31st with fresh tunes ,Tough unplyedoutyet Dubplates
and Positive vibe for all reggae and Roots Massive be in on this
Historic event $ 10 with free Kindred Sounds live @ HQ mix for
the first 100.
- Die! Die! Die! Sat 1 Jun feat. Trick Mammoth, Opposite Sex @
Queens, Dunedin
- Sat 8 June 2013 Smokefree Rockquest 2013 Otago FinalKings
High School, Dunedin
- Sat, June 8 9:00pm Wonky Bush.@ Queens.
www.facebook.com/events/546904108692944/?notif_t=plan_
user_invited,Mighty Boosh themed dance party at Queens
Saturday 8th of June line up announced very soon......limited
capacity. $10 on the door
- Sat 22 June Matt LangleySat 22 Jun 2013 feat. Lindon Puffin
Queens, Dunedin
- Fri 19th July The Veils @ Sammy’s as part of their ‘Time stays,
we go’ album release tour !
FREE @ INCH
THU 9 May 7PM Katharticus
SAT 11 May 7pm Swampy, D, & 5 Pints
SUN 12 May 5pm Humboldt County
THU 16 May 7pm Riki Lind
THU 23 May 7pm Bill Money
SAT 25TH May Inch bar turns 18 coming of age 4 bands.
SUN 26 May 5pm Monty Bevin
Invercargill Picks
- Sleeping Dogs Fri 17 May feat. Thomas Coffey Tillermans Cafe
Bar & Music Lounge Invercargill
- Saturday 25 May 1814 Sat 25 May feat. People Of The Land
- Saints and Sinners, Invercargill Saturday 1 June Beastwars
-Sat 1 Jun feat. Mountaineater, Concubine The Beach Bar,
Invercargill.
-Sun 2 June Die! Die! Die! feat. Trick Mammoth Tillermans Cafe
Bar & Music Lounge Invercargill
Lakes District Picks
- The Boundary Riders Fri 17 May 2013 Athenaeum Hall,
Arrowtown
- The World Bar
Everyweek in April
Monday Nights- Free Live Music
Wednesday Nights- $2 Taco Night
Thursday- Old School English Garage
Friday & Saturday Mashed! Live DJ Stubacca Sundays-Free
Outdoor Cinema featuring Cult Films
www.facebook.com/worldbarqtn?fref=ts
- Fitzpatircks Wanka Irish Pub -www.facebook.com/fitzpatrickswanaka?fref=ts
Oamaru Picks
-Thurs 23 May 2013 Tiny Ruins Grainstore Gallery, Oamaru
-Sunday 23 June 2013 Matt Langley feat. Lindon Puffin Criterion Hotel, Oamaru
-Tuesday 16 July 2013 The Shot Band feat. Katie Thompson
Penguin Club, Oamaru.
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To be followed by;
June 2nd Sunday 12-2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE
91 FM Matt Langley The Postman Show RADIO ONE
91 FM-- on his new albulm Virgina Avenue and being
out and about on his latest tour.www.facebook.com/
events/149722631861967/?fref=ts
June 7th Sunday 12-2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91
FM The Wizard of New Zealand the Crhistchurch Earthquake Commision Debarcle and the need for a FUN Revolution!
June 14th Sunday 12-2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91
FM Counter Point Ben Vidgen and Darren Attkinson (Otago Policitical Science Department) & guest debate current
affairs.
August Former CIA spy - Glen Carle author of the Interrogator comes into the RADIO ONE studio as part of his
Postman Productions NZ tour.
Local music (because here at the Postmanshow we believe
every month is NZ Music month) from Otago and Southland Music played on the show includes Kataharticus, Matt
Langley, Shakes and the Swells Guys, Richard Wallis, The
Drunken Silly Bastards, Eastern, Toy Destruction, Die Die,
Die, Mountain Eater, Left or Right, Ptty Wicked Head &
the Desperate Men, Osium, Opposite Sex, Shifiting Sands,
Minuit (as hon southerners) + any local indy music sent in
cd format to to the POSTMAN SHOW C/O Jonas @ The Inch
Bar 8 Bank Street North East Valley Dunedin.
Details for the Postmanshow can also be found in Point (Dunedinwide) and
Fold (Nationwide).
Angels & Demons
By B Vidgen for Sapho my Angel & Jen.
The World is ruled by science so were told by clever men.
Yet in the universe of our soul a battle rages on.
If you ever want to find your angel you will have to fight your demons
first.
Everybody lies sometimes it doesn’t make you evil.
Everybody cries sometime it doesn’t make you weak,
Everybody dies the price of being mortal the beauty of imperfection.
I don’t need no golden halo when brass will suffice.
I don’t need redemption just a little self understanding.
I don’t need salvation to learn how to live in peace in this skin.
The World is ruled by science so were told by clever men.
Yet in the universe of our soul a battle rages on.
If you ever want to find your angel you will have to fight your demons
first.
To protect you must walk away. To keep an oath sometimes you have
to break a sacred promise first. To win sometimes there’s no choice
sometimes but to loose big.
The secret key to the divine cup which will never be grasped, by lost
souls doomed to worship lies as they embrace those who deceive, deaf
to warnings, blind by their fear and self loathing.
Such is the void that can not be crossed when there is no inner faith, or
true belief in self. The very mischief wove on perpetual eternal victims
set us free once you understand the illusion of hell we cast on the I.
A divine opportunity to pair deed with words. So thank all the fiends for
even as they set out to burn with malice and wicked joy the treasures we
once let posses us for they unwittingly free us of the chains we forged
ourselves.
To awake and stop giving praise to false prophets - who know the price
of all chattels they eye but who will never value anything good such
is their absence of honor, their hate of self. Shed a tear in compassion
they can not fathom but nows the time to say farewell to be true to thy
fortunes.
Everybody lies sometimes it doesn’t make you evil.
Everybody cries sometime it doesn’t make you weak,
Everybody dies the price of being mortal the beauty of imperfection.
I don’t need no golden halo when brass will suffice.
I don’t need redemption just a little self understanding.
I don’t need salvation to learn how to live in peace in this skin.
Everybody experiences harm sometimes it doesn’t mean they’re bad
Everyone take a wrong turn sometimes it ain’t the end of the highway.
Everybody does foolish things at times in the name of love. Caring
doesn’t make you stupid. Everybody feels pain that’s okay it means your
alive.
Demons and Angels more often than not one in the same.
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New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards
The New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards
will be held from Thursday 30th May Sunday 2rd Jun 2013 following a week
of country music celebrations, including the NZ Country Music Awards,
MLT Songwriting Awards, various
concerts & busking competitions. Every year for the last 39 years Gore has
hosted the New Zealand Gold Guitar
Awards. This event attracts artists
from around the world and continues to grow in stature and popularity.
Audience levels reach over 5,000 and
the entries in all sections and events
total 700 competitors. Visitors to
Gore leave with fond memories of
the ‘Southern Hospitality’ and along
with the locals, just soak up the Country Music atmosphere.The festival begins on Wednesday prior to the
weekend with a walk up concert and the week continues with inductions into the Hands of Fame, Songwriting and the NZ Country Music Awards for the RIANZ
Best Country Album and APRA Best Country Song finals.
The NZ Gold Guitar Awards are held annually on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Each
day auditions are held in two venues. At the auditions
judges choose finalists in the various sections. The Junior
and Intermediate finals are held on Saturday night and
the senior final night is Sunday. The 40 Plus and 60 Plus
finals are held prior to the Professional Artists Showcase
concert on Sunday afternoon at the end of the auditions.
Contestants may enter as an individual, in a duet
and or as part of a group.Contestants compete in either the junior, intermediate, senior or 40 Plus and
60 Plus sections, depending on their age. There are a
variety of sections, including male and female solo,
gospel, traditional, country rock, duet, yodeling, vocal group, group NZ composition and instrumental.
High quality bands provide backing for contestants. See the rules for details of the conditions of
entry. Join Gold Guitars On FacebookThe Awards
are open to all country music artists who have not
entered the New Zealand Country Music Awards
song of the year or album of the year at any time.
On @ EAST SOUTHLAND GALLERY
The Imaginative Life & Times of Graham Percy 13 April
- 9 June 2013
One of New Zealand’s most talented and original
artists, Graham Percy was born in Stratford and attended the Elam School of Fine Arts. He was a pivotal figure in designing and illustrating the New
Zealand School Journal in the early 1960s before
moving to London, where he become a hugely respected artist, illustrator and typographer.
John Money Collection -The John Money Collection
features more than 300 works of art, representing a
dedicated collecting career spanning 50 years. Until its
relocation in late 2002, the collection was housed in
John Money’s university office and small terraced home
in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. The collection
includes eight works by Rita Angus and some 114 works
by Theo Schoon. These New Zealand artists were of
great interest to John Money - Angus, because of his
introduction to one of her landscapes in the room of
composer Douglas Lilburn, where he ‘saw New Zealand
for the first time’, and Schoon, because of what he saw
as an ‘undoubted natural genius’ and an unrewarded
commitment to celebrating traditional Maori imagery.
Born in Morrinsville in 1921, John Money went on to
study education and psychology at Victoria University, completing two masters’ degrees by the time he
was 23 years old. After a short time teaching in remote primary schools during World War II he took up
the position of junior lecturer in psychology at Otago
University. John Money was a research fellow at the
Johns Hopkins University for more than 50 years, retiring from his positions as Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Medical Psychology, and Director of thePsychohormonal Research Unit in September 2004.
www.esgallery.co.nz/john-money-collection
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The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (3/3/13) with Ben
+ Abe by Radio One 91fm on Mixcloud with Ben + Abe
Grey with Former CIA spy - Glen Carle author of the Interrogator.
The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM (24/2/13) with Ben
+ Abe Grey intro show.
This months up coming shows include our New Zealand
Music Month special
May 04 Sunday The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91 FM122 Katharticus Mike Wingfiled - Richard Wallis - Chris Pendergrast ‘Shakes and the Swell Guys’ war stories from on
tour.
May 11 Sunday 12 -2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91
FM Roger ‘Remo’ Morris Artist on art living in New York
the “polemic” of the media in reporting the war on terrorism after 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing
anomalies followed by Lara Jane ** (Queens ?Inch Bar)
on brekfats at Queens, NZ music and more Hospo/band
war stories.
May 18 Sunday 12- 2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE 91
FM Ruth Carr from Nelson based Minuit on achieving international sucess and her fav NZ artists and why?
-- Live Music --
May 25th Sunday 12-2 The Postman Show RADIO ONE
91 FM Invercargill’s Jay Selwood; Foto, Silly Drunken Bastards, Rocknrollar Records (to be conf) on Southern subculture, the benefits of being an artist in Southland, local
musing and his NZ Music Month favs.
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No exploration of Dunedin Beer scene can go by (better or for worse)the Speight’s
Brewery.
www.speights.co.nz/Find-Speights/Brewery
As equally you can not mention beer in Dunedin with out mentioning Emersons
Dunedin’s premier craft beer www.emersons.co.nz/
Lesser known Mcduffs favoured by students and locals who flock there for good beer
at good prices,
www.facebook.com/pages/McDuffs-Brewery/38392685941
Another uni favourite for beers drinkers Eureka bar and restaurant on Albany Street
. This is one of the few bars in town to offer a hand pump which is changed regularly
to show off local brewers experiments. www.eurekadunedin.co.nz/index.php
Of course legendary in beer drinker circles is the inch also getting a name for quality
music
www.facebook.com/pages/Inch-Bar/100507150007389 or check out the listings
above.
A a short walk from the Octagon down Princess St. A hot spot for the local lawyers,
accountants, council members and many professionals from the nearby exchange
business district yet also happily casual. www.tonicbar.co.nz
However if English Beers then it to the Duke of Wellington. opposite Queens park
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Duke-of-Wellington-Dunedin/183094081729101
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Sex & Satyr:
Remembering Mallory
Catlins -- Riverton -- Southcoast -- West Southland
(or Socking it to the Harper Valley PTA): brought to you by Cocobella.
Dedicated to St Jude;Patron Saint of Prostitute, Gunners and Lost Causes
By Ben C Vidgen (Gunner D77971 Royal NZ Artillery).
MOTHER DAYS
Seaweed art by the Postman’s Mum Jenny Vidgen.
This is the work of Jennifer Ruth Vidgen (my mum); a student of Micahel Smithers and
Colin McCahon who began her art career when she got the top marks for art for all of
NZ and for which she was awarded a scholarship to study at Christchurch art school.
A career cut short by her first pregnancy 12 Years later (and five children and one divorce) Jenny resumed her art carer and began painting in ernest first Keri Keri - where
her legendary and super life like cats now don the walls (and frustrate many a small
dog) of houses in the US Europe Australia and through out NZ. My fondest memories
of my mum and her art are coming home everyday after school when just a wee chap
to find my mum painting on the porch. I always saw this as my time - where we would
talk and she ask me about my day before she began the process of switching from
being a painter to being a mum by cleaning her brushed and then fixing me sandwich.
Her current specialty is her seaweed (no one knows more about seaweed or NZ gold
mining history than Jenny) sculptures of which the above images are taken at her
studio Seaweed Creations - Hedgehog Cottage 31 Coast Road Karitane - her figure are
available for sale and the studio open by appointment call 03 465 7628.
Happy Mothers Day Mum. You are constant inspiration for me one of my best friends
and I am so proud you are my mum cos you Rock! your son Ben.
Early on when deciding to whether to advertise a mas­
sage parlour or not and suspecting it would loose more
clients than it would gain Ngatailynette Manning (also
known as Mallory Manning) made the decision for
me. For those who have forgotten, which I suspect is
the vast majority of people reading this Mallory was a
prostitute. The second in fact to be murdered and her
body dumped in the Christchurch Avon river while walking Manchester Street and plying her trade. Last seen
at 9pm her watch was stopped at 11 and her handbag
was still slung over her shoulder, when her body was
found floating face down in the water. I never spoke
to Mallory but I use to pass her most nights of the
week as I walked from Blue Jean Cuisine on Manchester and before that Americanos on Hereford Street,
my work places as a hospo worker in the late 1990’s.
Thigh high boots, pony tail, pretty but not in a way that
attracted attention - she wasn’t keen on that. Cig­gys
and a pot pipe, killing time before it eventually killed
her, having been on the game since she was age 14.
Would she have been safer in parlour. Hard to say in that
particular city, the main parlour boss was a man (who
actually used the phase ‘sleeping with fishes’ during the
one occasion I had the ‘pleasure’ of interviewing him),
whose inclination for violence can be seen by his ran­
dom purges of Manchester Street. When he felt the
street girls where taking too much money from him
and he would send thug with pool balls in stockings to
send a warning to the street hookers. Bloodied attacks
in which the cop cars red and blue lights flashed in the
dark of the night as they cleaned the mess up - but no
related headline ever ap­peared the following morning,
when the sun had risen and nothing remained to show
that the monsters had come but a few blood spots on
the concrete foot path. Mallory’s death in a time before David Bain called us to question the justice process
and not long after Detective Milton Weir had moved to
Dunedin and was no longer the darling of the Christ­
church vice squad. A time where those giving the street
walkers the bash where no less than simultaneously
the walkers ‘pimps’ and the very lackies of disgruntled
bikie turned businessman. A man whose retainers also
extended to cops moon lighting as security consultants
and moving in the same circle as South Canterbury Finance executives. One big happy sordid status quo.
Dont get me wrong; to use the words of the English
band‘The The’ “I was just another western guy with
desires he could not satisfy” so this is not a lecture of
the morality of the oldest game (I’m too much a child
of St Jude to play that moral trump card). I however
do not belive that anything good can ever come from
dealing with issues by burying them in the dark, where
they fuel an environment ripe for victimisation. However this may appeal to the niceties of society. I for one
ap­plaud the Prostitution Legalistion bill of Labour MP
Tim Barnett. A man to whom I owe personal thanks
for his role in funding the phone bills for my research
that resulted in my 1999 book State Secrets. If nothing
else that law gave a level of protection to working girls
that had simply not existed before. For the first time
the bad men in good suits (and who says werewolves
are not real), who at night preyed on the criminality of
prosti­tion, where now in turn potentially vulnerable.
It did not matter what was happening in the bordellos
themselves and the focus of reporters now shifted to
the LIMS report. Which identified the bigger picture;
who exactly owned the building that where used by
the girls? Girls who advertised using reused cell phone
numbers and who listed their description in the classified as “very young”. Not quite a level playing field
but its not a bad start. I can’t change the world and
I’m done tilting at windmills. Yet the hypocrisy of the
world we live in allows us to stigmatise those who work
in the sex industry while we turn a blind eye to those
who cre­ate the demand in the first place. All part of
the offi­cial dogma (don’t bite the dogma that feds you).
No I cant change the world. Yet I can remember Mallory Manning and not leave her in the dark forgotten.
Mixed Platter
26 April 2013 - 17 May 2013
Riverton Community Arts Centre, 129 Palmerston Street 11:00AM
BOOKS ON THE CATLINS
AVAILABLE AT THE OWAKA MUSEUM, contact [email protected] to
order or for further information.
THE WRECK OF THE SURAT - Author - Bruce E. Collins
THE WRECK OF THE MANUKA - Author - Bruce E. Collins
THE WRECK OF THE OTAGO - Author - Bruce E. Collins
ROCKS, REEFS AND SANDBARS - A history of Otago Shipwrecks Author - Bruce E. Collins
CATLINS PIONEERING - Author: A.R. Tyrrell
CATLINS RAIL - The story of the Catlins River Branch Railway 18791971 - Author: A.R. Tyrrell
POUNAWEA - A Catlins Township and its estuary - Author A.R. Tyrrell
RIVERS AND PUNTS - Author A.R. Tyrrell
THOSE WERE THE DAYS - VOL I, II, III, IV, V - Personal Stories of the
Catlins by its residents - Catlins Historical Society
THE CATLINS THROUGH KITTY’S EYES - Story as told by Kitty
Burgess on her life in The Catlins - Author: Shirley Deuchrass (out of print)
FULL CIRCLE 1875-1975 - 100 YEARS SCHOOLING IN THE CATLINS Author: S. Lord
THE NEXT QUARTER - SCHOOLING IN OWAKA - The Catlins 19752000
DOWN THE BUSH - Rugby through the years – Author Owaka Rugby
Football Club
END OF THE LINE - Catlins River Branch Railway - Author - Catlins
Historical Society
I REMEMBER - Personal stories on his life in the district - Author Bill
Leslie
FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA - Marking 100 years since the
establishment of The Shipwreck Relief Society of New Zealand in 1902 Author Ian Church
GAINING A FOOTHOLD - Historical Records of Otago’s Eastern
Coast - 1770 to 1839 - Author Ian Church
NO WIND IN THEIR SAILS - The story of the Hanning Family at seas
and on New Zealand shore – Author Dave Hill
The sculpture of John Wishart and Invited Artists including Helen Back,
Chris Flavell, Dana King, Ruth Myers, Irene Schroder. An eclectic mix of
Southern sculptors.Sculpture Exhibition; The sculpture of John Wishart
and Invited Artists including Helen Back, Chris Flavell, Dana King, Ruth
Myers, Irene Schroder. An eclectic mix of Southern sculptors.
www.rivertonart.org.nz
OWAKA - Residents & business people who lived or worked in the
Owaka Township up to and including 2008 - Authors Jessie Coote & Pat
Hollander
CATLINS BOUND - Williams McPhee’s Southern-built sailing ships, NZ
1860-70’s – Author Mike McPhee
www.riverton-aparima.co.nz
Riverton
15 Colac Bay Road, Colac Bay 03) 234 8399
Open 7 Days from 11am
Great Country Pub, Outdoor Area with Fire, All Day Food
Duck Shooters
Clay Bird Shoot Saturday 20th April 11.30am
Colac Bay v Orepuki
Register at Colac Bay Tavern $20 per team of four
Duck Calling Competition Friday 3rd May 7.30pm
$10 Entry, Cash Prizes, Dress in your best Camo
Duck Shooters Breakfast Saturday 4th May 5am til 7am
Band Entertaining Saturday 4th May from 8.30pm til late Paul Winders
(from Queenstown)
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at the time Milton Weir had taken charge of crime
scene on the Watson boat, being secured in a evidence bag later found to have a split the size of razor blade. Meaning once again a conviction had
taken place despite their existing real issues concerning the potential for contamination of evidence.
CrossWord
ACROSS
1 Upper class deservin’ to get the chop - that’s not changed (9)
6 Originally Arthurian errant knight, resident of 6 dn (5)
9 Some writing that stands out (7)
10 Hermione, leaving island with bag, stupidly makes a bloomer (7)
11 Hearty desire to take on the unknown (5)
12 Streep performs with bad actor in “The Greatcoat” (9)
13 State airline gets capital backing (8)
15 Chief of 6 ac’s is silent? (4)
19 Heartless trick by Venetian magistrate (4)
20 One fool to fool around endlessly - describes old Secondary system (8)
23 Unseats from steed with horn blast (9)
24 Not any sun on the 7th of March? (5)
26 Day boy takes on head of school for a thrill (7)
27 Some chapter ministers’ final destinations (7)
28 Invest with bear right away (5)
29 Drinking den where the conversation flowed? (9)
DOWN
1 A French mistress isn’t at all liked (9)
2 Kings and Queens having no love for old coins (5)
3 One of 15’s attendants who went for a noted ride (8)
4 15’s transport provided by Northern Irish, after mistake involving English (8)
5 Obligation involving a bit of effort gives rise to contention (6)
6 One draws up by home of 15 and 6 ac’s (6)
7 Sources of heat in Heaven and Hell under which you won’t bum (9)
8 Region in which King Alfred the First hid in a tree (5)
14 See 22
16 An essential tax, it is accepted in rising foreign currency (9)
17 Sleeper is angry with Oriental we hear (8)
18 Newspaper informant obtains nothing from downfall of 6 ac’s (8)
21 Water rescue leaders endlessly try lifting up swimmer (6)
22,14 Is sane in half of brain? (2,4,5,4)
23 Bored with Old English writer? (5)
25 People of Kerala accepted currency (5)
Solution for Issue 8:
In 2003 Weir would ring this author, after I had filed an
Official Information Act ,seeking to confirm sources information that Weir had being active in the handling of evidence, as a source, a former police officer, maintained in
the original Mckinnel, Bain and Hope-Smart murder cases. Weir now retired would hint that there would be trouble if this author “kept asking questions” at which point
Weir was informed that he was on speaker phone and
that his comments could be heard by others. This was
followed followed by a written complaint to the Police
department, all which this author first reported in DEADLINE (Postman predecessor) in 2003. The irony of Weir’s
action being that the original response to our OIA, while
confirming Weir’s role in Smart and Watson case, cleared
him of official involvement in the 1987 Mckinnell homicide
investigation. The OIA’s reply, the subsequent response,
however failed to adress the issue of which officers had
handled the later processing of the Mckinnel’s clipping
years later. In which DNA would link Mangles to Mckinnel, citing the DNA had a one in ten million chance of not
being Mangles. Press reports online often cite the DNA
and clipping as being secret. This is incorrect. For a press
report found in microfiche (not online) archives also note
that in late 1990’s after improvements in DNA techniques
- DNA evidence taken in the McKinnell had resulted in
samples being sent for testing overseas in relation to
an offshore suspect. However the results proved inconclusive, largely due to insufficient sampling of the DNA
and corruption of DNA samples. Yet in 2004 the contamination was now not an apparent issue and was of sufficient quality to identify Mangles. Mangles was now a
gang prospect of the Road Knights Motorcyle gang who
could also be linked to the murder of Lisa Blakie. Blakie
was a Queenstown prostitute, with ties to the Highway
61’s and the Road Knights who worked at Candys, massage parlour who had fled Queenstown in 2000 shortly
before her murder north of Christchurch. Her death
coming shortly before the discovery was made that the
parlour where Blakie had been working, managed by a
senior Road Knight associates, was found to have had a
miniature cameras, secretly installed on the premises. A
discovery which goes a long way to corroborating a separate source claims that it was standard practice for gangs
related parlours to install cameras in brothels for the purposes of extortion. Prostitution at this time was illegal,
making potential subjects (especially those married or
with posistions of influence) vunerable to blackmail. The
camera found at Candys, having been of the same kind
as advertised in the Mountain Scene earlier that year in
May and of which known Road Knights members are said
to have brought not one but half a dozen. Blakie’s case
would be headed by Detective Inspector Rob Pope who
had also headed the Ben Smart Olivia Hope homicide in
1997 and was subject to criticism by Olivia own father for
his belief Watson was the key suspect. “What we got was
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Memorials to Robert Falcon Scott in
New Zealand
Oamaru Opera House Thurs 16th May 2013 7.30-pm
Oamaru “On Fire“; Friday 31st May 2013 - a
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Last year’s event was an outstanding success. 3 000
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This year the event will take place on Friday 31 May
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themed entertainment for the entire family produced by professionals and again only $5 per person.
The unique Victorian Architecture of Harbour St
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British explorer Captain Robert Scott. Scott used New
Zealand as a base for both the British National Antarctic Expedition in 1901-04 and the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. News that he and his polar party had
made it to the Pole on the latter expedition, but perished on their return journey, was transmitted to the
world from New Zealand in February 1913 from Oamaru.
The first memorial to Scott appears to have been a
marble plaque unveiled at Waitaki Boys’ High School
in June 1913. A memorial oak tree was also planted in
Arun Street, Oamaru, overlooking the harbour. The crew
members who arranged for the coded message to be
sent regarding Scott’s death had walked up this street to
reach the local harbourmaster’s residence. The memorial oak and an accompanying plaque bearing the names
of the five men who died were unveiled on 28 November 1913. They are surrounded by a wrought iron fence.
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a conviction but we never got the truth. And that’s the
part that still really rips me up,” Hope said. “Nothing ever
was confirmed, it was all circumstantial, there was no
hard evidence. And that’s where my greatest doubts lie”.
In the Blakies case Pope would like wise run the case
more on spin than facts. Maintaining the case “had no
gang connections” Though the man convicted for Blakie’s death was a Highway 61 prospect and had been at
the Highway 61 club where Blakie just happened to be
partying the night before her death. The convicted killer
of Blakie, Timmothy Taylor, continues to protest his own
innocent, despite his stance impacting on his parole hearings. Taylor had appeared in court in 2000 with his arm
broken after being set upon with a crow bar by his own
gang comrades. A situation previously repeated in Jarrod Mangles case, when the young prospect was found
at a Road Knight headquarters in a pool of blood after
being beaten by co gang members.His beating was said
at the time to be connected to Jarrod complaining that
his motorcycle had been stripped at the clubs premises.
Yet insiders point out beatings of prospects who refuse
to do time for other senior members of gangs or their
clients can also expect a beating - jail time being means
a chance to earn their patch and show gang loyalty.
At the time of the murder, Mangles had a string of run
ins with the police for burglaries including knives, firearms, and cars. He was certainly capable of violence
but his repeat conviction also show the important fact
that he was not a very good thief. In contrast despite a
violent struggle with McKinnel, which had left multiple abrasions on her and broken bones, disconnected
an alarm and smashed a lamp, in addition to the killer
ransacking draws in just the bedroom, the alleged killer
Mangles left no other DNA sample or finger prints in
Mckinnel house other than the most minute of samples that would later identify Mangles. Despite the
DNA samples previously being deemed insufficient by
offshore experts. The police DNA samples of course
make sense (if we accept the official narrative) and
rule out the chance of Mangles wearing gloves. In contrast finger prints were left at the crime scene in the
bedroom on the light switch just inside the door and
the bathroom, where the seat was left up, were never
identified, but known not to be Mangles. Its appears
that the intruder not only systematically searched the
bedroom (but seemingly no other rooms) but knew
the layout to McKinnel house well enough to know
where the light switch was in the dark. Which when
turned on startled McKinnel, whom responded by
throwing the lamp at the intruder, before being wrestled off the bed and on to the floor where she was
stripped and strangled. Mangles primary brushes with
the police being for burglary. Yet the only items known
to be missing was a piece of jewellery a garnet ring
and the keys to her house and car - found later to both
be locked (and the car cleaned) and a diary missing
which she is believed to have kept in her bedrooms
draws. In addition to possiably a pair of underwear
which Mckinnel was not wearing when her body was
found and are not cited as also been in the room by
officers documenting the crime scene. No seminal
fluid are noted (the body howefver was in state of advance decomposition) but bruise on her inner thigh
and that her body was stripped naked suggest a possible sexual component. Mangles had no prior history
of sexual violence before and after Mckinnel’s death.
Stomach content showed Maureen ate around nine
PM while dining with a guest Andrew Hill (whose prints
were not those found on the bedroom or bathroom).
Hill maintains as “a matter of habit” he always put the
seat down when in a females house, a few hours before her death, at approximately some were between
midnight and one oclock. The lead detective in the case
Brian Hewitt maintains her body was dumped sometime before dawn having been killed “over an hour
before” her body was dumped. All of which raise two
issues; one Hewitt’s time line creates a discrepancy of
over two hour before forensic says she died and when
her body was disposed. Two paints a picture of a immature 15 year old, with a history of impulsive petty
criminal behavior (but no history of sexual violence),
conducting an impulse murder, only to calmly then
take his time to consider and execute the disposal of
her body. In addition to removing all evidence of his
presence in the house - bar miniscule samples of DNA
( of which the chain of evidence and potential contamination remain a concern- ala Smart/Hope hair
samples) and cleaning her car. The finger prints on the
bathroom (with raised seat) and bedroom light switch
raise the very real possibility that even if Mangles DNA
was untainted and is accurate that some one else
was also in the house, asides from Mangles. As family
friends stated at his court case in 2003 when they told
journalists “it makes you wonder if he acted alone”...
Rex Haig, spent nearly twenty years in jail for the wrongful conviction for his role in the murder of a follow fisherman is in turn is scornful of police culture and specifically of the man who lead the investigation that would
result in Haig spending nearly 20 years in jail before
finally being pardoned the very same Detective Senior
Sergeant Brian Hewett who would over see the Mckinnel murder case . Haig describes Hewett as a man with
a known drinking problem which affected his decision
making process and who had a history of “seeing what
he wanted to see”. Other issue continue to surround
the Mckinnel case now forgotten, including the dumping of police reports down a bank at a hotel where the
officers in charge of the investigation were staying and
a kinown failure to do follow up investigations on other
suspects of interest other than Mangles. Suspects who
however had more influence and clout than the delinquent teenage Jarrod Mangles who before his conviction for Mckinnel’s murder go on to become not just
a gang prospect but a former rugby club associate of
no less than Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Hewett.
Just one more coincident in string of oddities that
mark the Mckinnel investigation and those who lead it.