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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
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NEWS<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Receivers put project manager’s home<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
A FAILED building project<br />
manager’s million-dollar<br />
property has been put on<br />
the block by receivers as<br />
tradespeople - including a<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> plumber - are still owed<br />
thousands from a previous<br />
bankruptcy.<br />
The five-double bedroom,<br />
three-bathroom property on<br />
Chevron Pl, Ilam, occupied by<br />
Marc Findlay and Deborah Jane<br />
Robinson-Findlay was scheduled<br />
to be sold by deadline sale late<br />
yesterday.<br />
It had a rateable value of $1.18<br />
million in August 2022.<br />
The property is among collateral<br />
supplied by the couple to<br />
receivers Waterstone Insolvency,<br />
which is acting on behalf of<br />
Auckland-based business finance<br />
lender Ignite Solutions Ltd.<br />
Marc Findlay and Deborah<br />
Jane Robinson-Findlay were<br />
jointly placed into receivership<br />
on December 1 last year.<br />
Peter Drennan from Waterstone<br />
Insolvency said although<br />
Ignite Solutions Ltd was the sole<br />
appointer for the receiverships, it<br />
was aware of a number of other<br />
claims.<br />
“It’s not appropriate for us to<br />
comment on totals or numbers<br />
at this stage,” he said, adding not<br />
all creditors have claims against<br />
both individuals.<br />
The Ministry of Business,<br />
RECEIVING END: This property on Chevron Pl, Ilam, has been put up for sale after its<br />
owners Marc Findlay and Deborah Jane Robinson-Findlay were placed into receivership.<br />
Above – the couple in 2017.<br />
Innovation & Employment’s<br />
Insolvency and Trustee Service<br />
confirmed Findlay was previously<br />
adjudicated bankrupt<br />
on December 14, 2017, and<br />
discharged on January 30, 20<strong>21</strong>.<br />
This followed the liquidation of<br />
his project management firm,<br />
Project 1 Design, in July that<br />
year.<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> plumber Darren Maher<br />
was caught up in the collapse<br />
of Project 1 Design, and says he<br />
is still owed $65,000 for unpaid<br />
work carried out at an apartment<br />
complex on Manchester St in<br />
March 2017.<br />
He is investigating whether he<br />
can make a claim on proceeds<br />
from the house sale.<br />
“I’m speaking to my legal<br />
team. It’s still a possibility,” he<br />
said.<br />
Maher was among unsecured<br />
creditors owed $611,333.20, according<br />
to a liquidators’ report<br />
dated <strong>February</strong> 2018.<br />
“I was one of the ones who<br />
bankrupted him. I’ve been to the<br />
police, it’s just complete and utter<br />
burglary. He done me out of<br />
$65,000 plus GST in a week.”<br />
He said the work at six apartments<br />
on Manchester St was<br />
completed on April 3, 2017, and<br />
three days later Findlay had told<br />
him via a text message a payment<br />
had been made, but it did<br />
not appear in Gillon & Maher<br />
Plumbing Ltd’s bank account.<br />
On April 17, 2017, Maher told<br />
police he received an email from<br />
Findlay saying that he (Findlay)<br />
had not been paid “and for that<br />
he was forced to take action”.<br />
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