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The Star Thursday October 31 2019 14 OPINION The coming week in our history October 31, 2015 – The All Blacks defeated Australia 34-17 at Twickenham to become the first team to win back-to-back Rugby World Cup competitions. November 1, 1898 – Oldage pensions Act becomes law. The Act gave a small meanstested pension to elderly people with few assets who were ‘of good moral character’. November 2, 1868 – New Zealand became the first country to regulate its time in relation to Greenwich mean time. November 3, 1974 – Summer time was reintroduced on a trial basis. Daylight saving of one hour between October and March was made permanent in 1975. November 4, 1930 - New Zealand-bred (but Australianowned) wonder horse Phar Lap ridden by Jimmy Pike, won the Melbourne Cup by two lengths. November 5, 1913 – The ‘Battle of Featherston Street’, in downtown Wellington, saw some of the most violent street fighting of the 1913 Great Strike. November 6, 1908 – Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward opened the North Island main trunk railway line. THE DEATH of Les Green may have closed the book on ever solving one of the great South Island crime mysteries – what did happen to Ron Jorgensen? Green was one of New Zealand’s most notorious criminals. He was a prolific bank robber and had a liking for violence, albeit his diminutive stature. He was also suspected of murders both in New Zealand and Australia – the ones across the Tasman linked to the Mr Asia drugs syndicate. There are people in the criminal underworld in the decades past who believe Green held the key to Jorgensen’s disappearance from Kaikoura in the mid-80s. There are three theories over what happened to Jorgensen, who gained infamy for his part in the Bassett Rd machine gun murders in Auckland in the 1960s. He had been paroled with strict conditions to live with his elderly father in his hometown Kaikoura. It was not a place Jorgy wanted to be. It was far too small. On December 17, 1984, Jorgensen’s Mark II Cortina was found at the bottom of a 15m sea cliff near Kaikoura. His body Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Crim’s death rekindles Jorgy mystery was never found. One theory was Jorgy had engineered his own disappearance and had made his way by boat to Australia, and was living in Perth. There were several reported sightings of him between 1986 and 1990 in Perth, one supposedly in the company of a former Christchurch lawyer. But nothing was ever substantiated. The belief was if Jorgensen From the editor’s desk Barry Clarke NOTORIOUS: Career criminal Les Green (above) and Ron Jorgensen (right). had made it to Australia he would not have been able to live a normal life and would have certainly come to the attention of the police at some point. Another theory at the time was if Jorgy had made it to Australia, he would have got offside with criminals there and they would have ensured he was never found. The other theory was that he did crash over the cliff near Kaikoura and his body was swept out to sea. A Christchurch woman who was in a relationship with Jorgensen said in 2000 she believed he plotted his own disappearance and was still alive, somewhere. Her theory was based on what she says Jorgy said to her in the weeks leading up to his disappearance. Years later when the disappearance caught the attention of the media again, police said they believed a Christmas card sent from Western Australia to a woman soon after he went missing, was from Jorgy. And so the plot continued to thicken as the years went by. But in the Auckland underworld in the 80s and the years later, there were some key figures who firmly believed Les Green was the man responsible for the disappearance. Green had travelled south to settle an old score, it was believed. Green was feared amongst criminals and settling scores was second nature. Leslie Maurice Green was 82 when he died in Auckland. He may have taken the fate of a number of people with him. Was Jorgy one of them? barry@starmedia.kiwi Otago Daily Times Your trusted source of news from across the South AVAILABLE FROM 7.30AM AT BP CONNECT: FENDALTON 1 Memorial Ave BUSH INN 330 Riccarton Road MOOREHOUSE 144 Moorehouse Ave DALLINGTON 712 Gloucester St RUSSLEY RD 661 Russley Road ROLLESTON 1705 Main Road EDGEWARE 712 Edgeware Road QEII 308 Travis Road MARSHLANDS 432 Marshlands Road
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