Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 26 March 2013
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Aussie lawyer threatens Weekly The Gold Coast lawyer behind the cancer trust “ripping off ” local donors has threatened the Nelson Weekly with a lawsuit after it exposed the trust’s fundraising tactics. The threat comes as the Cancer Research Charitable Trust suspends all fundraising in New Zealand and the Department of Internal Affairs launches an urgent review of the trust and its activities.
Andrew Board Editor
andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz The Australian-based trust – which was collecting in Nelson last week – was found to have donated less than 5 per cent of the $1.1 million it collected from New Zea-
landers over four years, with the rest going towards staff and administration costs. Since the article was published in the Weekly the story has spread nationally and was printed in The New Zealand Herald last week and featured on the national Newstalk ZB talkback programme. Last week the Weekly received legal threats from Troy Manhire, the executive officer of
the trust and a lawyer on Australia’s Gold Coast. Dozens of locals have also come forward with their stories of donating to the trust, saying they feel “ripped off ” and are disgusted by the low amount that the trust donates to cancer research.
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Neighbours day celebrated
Rosemary Bygate celebrates Neighbours Day Aotearoa with fellow residents of Champion Terrace during their annual street party on Sunday. Photo: Sinead Ogilvie.
The residents of Champion Terrace, who threw their fourteenth annual street party over the weekend, are proof that to love thy neighbour, you must get to know them first. The event, held on Sunday as part of Neighbours Day Aotearoa, was just one of many held all over Nelson to encourage people to get to know each other and turn streets into neighbourhoods. Rosemary Bygate, Champion Terrace resident and street party organiser, says her street was still a wonderful small community despite people having come and gone since the first party back in 1999. “We’ve got a few new neighbours now and it is something nice we can do every year to get to know each other. It makes for a safer street. If some are away we let the others know to keep an eye out.”
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