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Wednesday 20 March 2013
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Charity scam rips off locals Page 4
Not one dollar donated by locals to a man collecting for bowel cancer research is expected to make its way to the intended cause, but to an alleged Australian charity scam instead. The Cancer Research Charitable Trust is currently collecting in Nelson and Tasman, its financial records show it raised a little over $111,000 for the year ending 2011 and spent it all on wages and expenses with not one dollar being donated to a single charity. The trust is registered with the Charities Commission but an 0800 number on its invoices does not exist, nor does its website. The listed officer of the charity, Troy Manhire, has been the target of police investigations in Australia and is currently under investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs here. Door-knockers for the trust earn up to 40 per cent of the money they collect, a practice deemed to be “unprofessional” by the Fundraising
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz Institute of New Zealand. “No professional fundraising institute in the world condones relating fundraising fees to the amount raised,” says FINZ CEO James Austin. In 2009 Mr Manhire was investigated for fraud in South Australia after he pocketed a salary topping $500,000. The licence of his Cancer and Bowel Research Association – and the four trusts it worked with in that state – was stripped and only reinstated two years later and under the strict condition that Mr Manhire was not involved in its management “in any way”, according to a statement by the Office of the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner in South Australia. SEE PAGE 2
Wakefield farmer Nigel Gibbs checks a full water gauge on Tuesday morning after three nights of rain. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
‘Drought breaker’ Phillip Rollo
Tasman District Council’s dry weather taskforce convenor Dennis Bush-King says the second round of rain on Monday evening and night was sufficient enough to boost river levels. “The rain is welcome but I still encourage people to conserve water and use it wisely. There are still growers out there who still need to use water, but hopefully this rain event will be seen as a drought breaker” Seeing an overflowing water gauge was a welcome sign on Tuesday morning for Wakefield
The first substantial rain in more than a month has saved the region from a drought. Over the past 30 days Richmond has received just 60mm of rain with 59mm of that landing since Sunday while other areas such as Brightwater and Wakefield received more than 70mm during the same period. That means all rural and urban areas except for the Moutere Western and Eastern groundwater zones have had its water restrictions lifted for at least the next two weeks.
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