The Star: October 03, 2019

Thursday October 3 2019 The Star
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White supremacist posters appear at university
• By Louis Day
THE SAME white supremacist
posters that appeared on the
University of Auckland campus
have been found on Canterbury
University’s campus.
A Canterbury University
student made a post on the USCA
Noticeboard Facebook group
saying they had found the posters
on campus and warned students
to keep a look out for them and
rip them off if they come across
any.
The posters encourage people
to visit the webpage of a white
supremacist group who wish “to
build a new generation of capable,
young white men who will
assume the mantle of re-taking
control of our own country.”
It has been reported that
women, non-Europeans and
non-heterosexual individuals
are excluded from becoming
members.
A Canterbury University
spokeswoman said they had not
come across any of the posters
but would remove any discovered
on campus.
Vice-chancellor Professor
Cheryl de la Rey said the
university will not tolerate
racism or harassment of any
kind.
This comes after University of
Auckland vice-chancellor Stuart
McCutcheon said the posters
were “unfortunate” but the
university would not be removing
them.
This has led to more than 400
university staff signing an open
letter declaring racism and white
supremacy has no place on the
campus.
REMOVAL: White
supremacist posters
found at Canterbury
University’s campus.
Dumped rubbish could
jeopardise mill project
• By Louis Day
THE DUMPING of rubbish
outside the historic Wood
Brothers Mill could jeopardise its
$9 million restoration.
Developer Michael King has
been working
for more than
two years on
grand plans to
transform the
19th-century,
four-storey
former mill
building in
Michael King
Addington
into a mecca of
offices, restaurants, a theatre and
apartments.
However, he said the constant
dumping of rubbish outside the
building could jeopardise the
entire project.
“It drives me insane, I have got
the boys out there cleaning it up
and I’m paying their salaries to
clean it up. The other thing is the
state of the building, it is completely
covered in graffiti.
“I can’t afford to pay people 40
to 50 bucks an hour every week
to get rid of graffiti and rubbish,”
he said.
Mr King said he has installed
cameras due to the persistent
EYESORE:
Rubbish
dumped
outside
the Wood
Brothers
Mill on
Bernard
St.
dumping and vandalism.
“It is cheaper for me to buy
cameras and monitor this, I can
yell at people through the camera
which freaks them out when the
building starts talking to them.”
Stage one of the restoration
was completed in July, which was
largely structural work, repairing
and strengthening the mill
before turning the building into
offices.
Stage two is converting the
grain store building into restaurants,
apartments and the community
theatre, as well as refit
with new roof and floors.
A glass tower joins the two
buildings with stairs, a lift and
toilets.
Mr King hoped to have the
project completed within a year.
“I can’t afford to not have it
finished by then.”
The restoration was previously
delayed due to a pay dispute
between Mr King and D & M
Solutions.
This led to delays to work on
the elevator, under-floor electricals
and heating, ventilation and
air conditioning, holding the
project up.
However, the dispute has now
been resolved and the work
completed.
Before that, the works were
delayed due to the creation of
unit titles taking longer than
anticipated to complete.
Mr King originally hoped to
have eight restaurants and the
theatre open by Show Weekend
and the apartments finished
early this year.
NEWS 3
in brief
Mother of fraudster
also pleads guilty
A mother who helped her
fraudster son con people and
a finance company out of
hundreds of thousands of dollars
has pleaded guilty. Karinya
Isherwood will be sentenced
on December 6 on multiple
receiving charges for her role
in the $250,000 scam. Her son,
Brendon Karl Dean Harris,
also pleaded guilty to 12 fraud
charges. He obtained the money
by collecting the identification
details of people online, typically
using fake social media accounts
and advertising items for sale. He
then used those details to apply
for loans from Gem Finance.
The money obtained was
transferred into his friends and
family members’ bank accounts,
including his mother’s.
Arrests made after
police pursuit
Two people have been arrested
and charged after a police
pursuit ended with a vehicle
being stopped with spikes.
The pursuit on Saturday about
11.25pm started and ended on
Marshland Rd. Police attempted
to pull the vehicle over but it fled.
It was spiked and two people
were arrested and charged with
unlawfully getting into a vehicle
and failing to stop.
Bid to move accused
gunman’s trial
An application to move the trial
for the March 15 terror attacks
out of Christchurch is due to
be heard in court today. At a
call-over hearing in the High
Court, the accused gunman’s
lawyers, Shane Tait and Jonathon
Hudson, will argue the trial
should be transferred out of the
city to a different venue. The
accused gunman pleaded not
guilty to the murder of 51 people
and the attempted murder of 40
others, along with one charge
under the Terrorism Suppression
Act. Justice Cameron Mander
will make the final decision on
whether the trial, which has
been scheduled to start on June
2, 2020, will be moved. The
defendant will appear via audiovisual
link.