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Spied on since she was 10

By MARTIN VAN BEYNEN – Thursday, 29 January 2009

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I SPY: Activist Marie Leadbeater, 63, discovered that she has had her own SIS file since was 10-years-old.

You are never too young to be regarded as a potential subversive, a Security Intelligence Service file shows.
Maire Leadbeater, now 63 and a long-time activist on peace issues, was an early target because of her Christchurch parents, Elsie and Jack Locke, who were prominent members of the New Zealand Communist Party and community activists.
One of Leadbeater's siblings is Green MP Keith Locke, a former Trotskyist and member of the Socialist Action League who has also received his SIS file.
Elsie Locke left the Communist Party in 1956 when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, but her husband stayed.
The next item refers to her membership of a junior drama group that the file says was connected with the William Morris (a Fabian socialist) Group, regarded by the SIS as a front for the Communist Party.
Leadbeater's file, which she received late last year, begins when she was 10, with a note that she delivered the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Voice, to the mother of twins in Bangor St, in central Christchurch. Elsie Locke performed in the group. "They lost me for about 13 years," she said.
The file continues to track Leadbeater's life, although the SIS lost track of her when she married and took her husband's name.
"I find that the hardest to accept," Leadbeater said.
Her file, like most of the others released, contains material from private meetings.
"It's pretty shocking really. "That small groups of people gathering together in private homes and offices should have someone planted in the meetings. It's potentially very bad for democracy because it makes people anxious about involving themselves in free discussion of ideas and has a big impact on trust if you have to think to yourself `one of us could be a source'. It's potentially very bad for democracy because it makes people anxious about involving themselves in free discussion of ideas and has a big impact on trust if you have to think to yourself `one of us could be a source'.
“It's all wrong anyway,'' Leadbeater said.
Her file contained references to the state of her parents' marriage, which the SIS thought would be strained by Elsie's departure from the party. . “It's unpleasant, inaccurate speculation about highly personal family issues.
"Does this mean that snooping is less or done in a different way?'' she said.
Leadbeater's activities on behalf of the Fiji Coalition for Democracy, the anti-bases campaigns and the Ahmed Zaoui campaign are not mentioned in the file. He had yet to view his file and was not prepared to comment.
Keith Locke confirmed he had received his own file, which was thick, and his mother's biographer was in possession of his mother's file.
He was not sure the SIS kept a file on him, but said he would feel a bit insulted if it did not.
Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt, who was once prominent in a number of radical movements, said he would be travelling to Wellington to uplift his file as part of a TV3 news programme. I suspect they would have got a lot more detail if they had just read my book Bullshit and Jellybeans,'' he said. I suspect they would have got a lot more detail if they had just read my book Bullshit and Jellybeans,'' he said.
Shadbolt said he had led at least five radical organisations, including the Radical Students Association and Auckland University Students for the Prevention of Cruelty to Politically Apathetic Humans.
"If they figured out what [the latter organisation] was about, then good luck to them because we never could,'' he said.

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European-only ‘mini-state’ planned

– Thursday, 22 January 2009

SEEKING DONATIONS: Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman wants to set up a community for "like-minded Europeans” in North Canterbury.

"Shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white power" – meet your new neighbours Rangiora.
Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman is attempting to set up a "unified mini-state" in North Canterbury.
Chapman's "Land Base" proposes to have:
* Training areas for "sport fighting".
The proposal, a commune-style arrangement for "like-minded Europeans", has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum.
* A "meeting house for gatherings of leaders and active nationalists". .
* A "social bar for fundraising and building unity".
Chapman's plans were uncovered after a copy of an email to members of a far-Right group, the Nationalist Alliance, was leaked on to the internet.
* A large vegetable garden.
"With an ever decreasing European population we face the real risk of having no power in our Nation," it said.
Beginning "Hello Patriots", Chapman asked for donations for the project. We must act to build a unified mini-state that we could build up in future to be a base for other like-minded Europeans to come to from other dying countries. "It currently crumbles through the current system of bad government policies, greedy politicians and businessmen."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
* "Ability to put our European skills and intelligence to create new technologies and build something to be proud of."
* "Encouraging, supportive and friendly interaction with like-minded people."
The proposal said the base would be established "in the North Canterbury area"."
* "Safety in numbers.
Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove said Chapman's plans were of concern, "given his track record of shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white-power activity".
Chapman declined to comment to , saying there was plenty of information in the email.' Cosgrove said the language Chapman used in the email "bred hate and division".
"If the motivation is some sort of extreme white-power compound, I'd be deeply concerned, as would any community. He's 50 or 60 years behind the world.
"This is nutty stuff. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said.
Hurunui Mayor Garry Jackson was unavailable for comment but a spokeswoman, Naomi Woodham, said the proposal was "abhorrent and offensive".
"All of us here at the Hurunui District Council welcome and embrace cultural diversity, and if there was a proposal to set up a white supremacist movement in the Hurunui District it would be strongly opposed," she said. "Especially one encouraging sport fighting and survivalist training. This sounds like a form of surreptitious terrorist instruction."
National MP Kate Wilkinson, a North Canterbury resident and Associate Minister for Immigration, said most "thinking people" would not consider membership of Chapman's "exclusive club".Discrimination and division were not part of our culture, she said.
Chapman resigned as leader of the National Front in 2005, citing pressure on his children, who were being shunned at school.

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European-only ‘mini-state’ planned

– Thursday, 22 January 2009

SEEKING DONATIONS: Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman wants to set up a community for "like-minded Europeans” in North Canterbury.

"Shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white power" – meet your new neighbours Rangiora.
Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman is attempting to set up a "unified mini-state" in North Canterbury.
Chapman's "Land Base" proposes to have:
* Training areas for "sport fighting".
The proposal, a commune-style arrangement for "like-minded Europeans", has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum.
* A "meeting house for gatherings of leaders and active nationalists". .
* A "social bar for fundraising and building unity".
Chapman's plans were uncovered after a copy of an email to members of a far-Right group, the Nationalist Alliance, was leaked on to the internet.
* A large vegetable garden.
"With an ever decreasing European population we face the real risk of having no power in our Nation," it said.
Beginning "Hello Patriots", Chapman asked for donations for the project. We must act to build a unified mini-state that we could build up in future to be a base for other like-minded Europeans to come to from other dying countries. "It currently crumbles through the current system of bad government policies, greedy politicians and businessmen."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
* "Ability to put our European skills and intelligence to create new technologies and build something to be proud of."
* "Encouraging, supportive and friendly interaction with like-minded people."
The proposal said the base would be established "in the North Canterbury area"."
* "Safety in numbers.
Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove said Chapman's plans were of concern, "given his track record of shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white-power activity".
Chapman declined to comment to , saying there was plenty of information in the email.' Cosgrove said the language Chapman used in the email "bred hate and division".
"If the motivation is some sort of extreme white-power compound, I'd be deeply concerned, as would any community. He's 50 or 60 years behind the world.
"This is nutty stuff. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said.
Hurunui Mayor Garry Jackson was unavailable for comment but a spokeswoman, Naomi Woodham, said the proposal was "abhorrent and offensive".
"All of us here at the Hurunui District Council welcome and embrace cultural diversity, and if there was a proposal to set up a white supremacist movement in the Hurunui District it would be strongly opposed," she said. "Especially one encouraging sport fighting and survivalist training. This sounds like a form of surreptitious terrorist instruction."
National MP Kate Wilkinson, a North Canterbury resident and Associate Minister for Immigration, said most "thinking people" would not consider membership of Chapman's "exclusive club".Discrimination and division were not part of our culture, she said.
Chapman resigned as leader of the National Front in 2005, citing pressure on his children, who were being shunned at school.

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European-only ‘mini-state’ planned

– Thursday, 22 January 2009

SEEKING DONATIONS: Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman wants to set up a community for "like-minded Europeans” in North Canterbury.

"Shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white power" – meet your new neighbours Rangiora.
Former skinhead, National Front leader and Christchurch mayoral candidate Kyle Chapman is attempting to set up a "unified mini-state" in North Canterbury.
Chapman's "Land Base" proposes to have:
* Training areas for "sport fighting".
The proposal, a commune-style arrangement for "like-minded Europeans", has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum.
* A "meeting house for gatherings of leaders and active nationalists". .
* A "social bar for fundraising and building unity".
Chapman's plans were uncovered after a copy of an email to members of a far-Right group, the Nationalist Alliance, was leaked on to the internet.
* A large vegetable garden.
"With an ever decreasing European population we face the real risk of having no power in our Nation," it said.
Beginning "Hello Patriots", Chapman asked for donations for the project. We must act to build a unified mini-state that we could build up in future to be a base for other like-minded Europeans to come to from other dying countries. "It currently crumbles through the current system of bad government policies, greedy politicians and businessmen."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
Once established, the Nationalist Alliance intended to use its "high concentration of like-minded folk" to elect local officials and a member of Parliament sympathetic to its views."
* "Ability to put our European skills and intelligence to create new technologies and build something to be proud of."
* "Encouraging, supportive and friendly interaction with like-minded people."
The proposal said the base would be established "in the North Canterbury area"."
* "Safety in numbers.
Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove said Chapman's plans were of concern, "given his track record of shaven-headed, jack-booted, race-based, white-power activity".
Chapman declined to comment to , saying there was plenty of information in the email.' Cosgrove said the language Chapman used in the email "bred hate and division".
"If the motivation is some sort of extreme white-power compound, I'd be deeply concerned, as would any community. He's 50 or 60 years behind the world.
"This is nutty stuff. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said. It's crackpot stuff," Cosgrove said.
Hurunui Mayor Garry Jackson was unavailable for comment but a spokeswoman, Naomi Woodham, said the proposal was "abhorrent and offensive".
"All of us here at the Hurunui District Council welcome and embrace cultural diversity, and if there was a proposal to set up a white supremacist movement in the Hurunui District it would be strongly opposed," she said. "Especially one encouraging sport fighting and survivalist training. This sounds like a form of surreptitious terrorist instruction."
National MP Kate Wilkinson, a North Canterbury resident and Associate Minister for Immigration, said most "thinking people" would not consider membership of Chapman's "exclusive club".Discrimination and division were not part of our culture, she said.
Chapman resigned as leader of the National Front in 2005, citing pressure on his children, who were being shunned at school.

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Smashing return for constable

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

A Hamilton police officer has had a rough two days back on the job, swimming after an escaping man down the Waikato River and watching another smash his own car to pieces after being ticketed.
Constable James Jeffery returned to duty this week after four months' leave while his wife had a baby.
The man was clinging precariously to a branch and yelling out that he would rather drown than be arrested.
About 10am yesterday he joined the chase for a 32-year-old man, who was wanted for breaching his bail conditions, and ended up swimming about 300 metres down the river.
"I kept abreast of him for about 200 or 300 metres until the police boat arrived," he said. When he lost his grip on the branch, Mr Jeffery took off his boots, belt and stabproof vest and dived into the river after him."
The man was dragged kicking and screaming on to the police boat and appeared in Hamilton District Court yesterday. . While searching for three escaped prisoners, he pulled over a car that he thought looked unroadworthy.
On Monday afternoon Mr Jeffery experienced something even more bizarre.
The man, joined by about six others from the house, then proceeded to smash every window and light, and cave in every panel on the car.
He gave several tickets to the driver, who then did a handbrake skid and drove off to an acquaintance's house down the street. The man was not arrested. The car was impounded as a result of the man's dangerous driving and was towed away. But it's not illegal to smash up your own car," Mr Jeffery said.
"Usually people take out their belongings or stereos when a car is impounded, but I've never seen anything like that before.

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As for the events of the past couple of days, he said it had been a good reminder why he loved the job

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Key breaks arm in stairs fall

By MARTIN KAY Monday, 19 January 2009

The Year of the Ox has started on a painful note for Prime Minister John Key, who broke his right arm in two places during a Chinese New Year celebration.
A spokesman for Mr Key said he would seek specialist treatment today to see whether he needed an operation for the injury, which happened when he slipped on stairs as he left the stage at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland on Saturday morning.
He then sat through another hour of the show and photos afterwards before heading to another function where he had to shake hands with 120 touch rugby players.
He would be seeing a specialist today to see if an operation was necessary, his spokesman said yesterday.
His arm is in a temporary cast, which runs right up to below his armpit.
He also planned to go to a Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Papua New Guinea next week.
Mr Key's spokesman said he intended to continue his schedule, including attending the first full Cabinet meeting of the year tomorrow. That trip includes a half-day flying visit to New Zealand operations in the Solomon Islands. .
The Cabinet meeting is likely to focus on the economic crisis, and comes after Treasury warned that New Zealand faced zero growth this year, with unemployment almost doubling to 7 per cent.

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Two dead after Fox Glacier collapse

– Thursday, 08 January 2009

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ICE FALL: Two tourists lost their lives when they were buried by falling ice at the face of Fox Glacier.

FOX GLACIER

Two men were crushed under 100 tonnes of ice at Fox Glacier today.
Constable Tony Le Sueur said the ice fell from the glacier's terminal face at around 4.
Ithit two men, aged in their twenties,who had gone over the safety barriers to get a better look at the terminal face.20pm.
Fox Glacier Guiding chief executive Rob Jewell said some of his experienced guides had helped with the rescue effort.
Police last night recovered the body of one man using a digger to break through the ice but said it was too dangerous to attempt to remove the second body.
He did not want to comment on the issue of unguided tourists visiting the glacier.
In February of that year, two tourists were rescued from Franz Josef Glacier after ignoring warnings and crossing two safety barriers designed to stop them venturing into an unstable ice cave at the glacier's face.
In 2007, DOC said almost a third of the 600,000 visitors to the West Coast glaciers ignored warning signs and entered danger zones.
LeSueur described the pair at the time as "bloody stupid", saying every day tourists ignored the safety warnings about the dangers of the glacier's terminal face.
Two men- a 34-year-old from New Caledonia and a 61-year-old from Queensland- were injured, one seriously, when tonnes of ice fell from the roof of the cave.
The 30-year-old tourist apparently ignored DOC warning signs and a safety barrier to approach the glacier's terminal face.
In October 2000 a woman, who was part of a Thai tour group, was injured at Fox Glacier when she was struck by a falling 500kg block of ice.
Fox Glacier will be open to the public tomorrow. .

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Mystery man may have information on Manning murder

Thursday, 08 January 2009

Christchurch Police are looking for a mystery man who may have "seen something" the night prostitute Mellory Manning was murdered.
Detective Inspector Greg Williams said police had recently been approached by a Christchurch street-worker..
". one of the girls working on Manchester Street . …"
He said it was clear the man had been parked close to the area where Manning disappeared and may have seen something. told us that on the evening of the 2nd of January 2009 she was approached by a man who wanted to talk about Mellory Manning's death.
The man is described as being in his late 40s with brown way hair.
The girl asked the man to talk to police about what he had seen but he is yet to contact them.
Mr Williams appealed for the man to contact Christchurch police. He drives a small silver car which could be an Audi, he said.

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Mum tells of stingray attack

Monday, 05 January 2009

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LASHED IN THE WATER: Laura Bradley, 11, shows her 10-centimetre wound and sticks her thumb through the comparatively small rip in the shirt she was wearing during a suspected stingray attack.

Laura Bradley, 11, saw a large shape floating in the shallow water beside her then felt what is believed to be a stingray's barb slice a deep wound into her arm and leg.
The attack happened in knee-deep water close to Riversdale Beach on the Wairarapa coast on Friday after Laura's family had been combing the coastline for paua.
"She just stood up, turned around and held her arm up, saying, `Mum, mum', screaming at the top of her voice, `I've been bitten'," Laura's mother, Helen Bradley, said yesterday.
"There was just like a ripple," Mrs Bradley said.
The year 7 Papatawa School pupil and competitive swimmer was getting ready to head home when she and her older sister went down to the water to wash sand off their bodies about 5pm. . "It wasn't like a full wave.
"She was crying and screaming."
Mrs Bradley said Laura saw a large shape and felt the slash of the suspected stingray's razor-sharp barb. It was like a whip. Oh, God."
Laura suffered a deep 10-centimetre-long wound to her arm and smaller cut to her leg. The way it's marked her body was like the tail of a whip.
Laura needed 26 stitches. Slipping into shock and bleeding heavily, she was driven to Riversdale where the Westpac rescue helicopter landed before flying her to Wairarapa Hospital.
"It's a clean cut. Doctors told Mrs Bradley her daughter's wounds were consistent with those of a stingray attack. "It could have been so much worse. Nothing could have done it so sharp," she said."
Australian crocodile hunter Steve Irwin died in a stingray attack in September 2006 when a barb pierced his chest. You count your lucky stars. And Maia Freeman had her thigh pierced by a stingray barb at Golden Bay on December 30.
An American tourist suffered shin wounds during a stingray attack at Otaki Beach on December 14. "It's just going to take time," her mum said. "It's just going to take time," her mum said.

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Murdered prostitute working for money for Christmas

AND JO MCKENZIE-MCLEAN – Saturday, 03 January 2009

Mellory Manning had quit working as a prostitute for more than a month before the night she was killed, her family says.
Her brother, Robin Manning, said she had gone back to the Christchurch streets on December 18 only to pay for more Christmas presents.
"There's definitely people out there with blood on their hands," Robin Manning said yesterday.
Police are entering the third week of inquiries into the murder of Manning. There's got to be someone that knows something who is not saying anything at all.
"And there are people that obviously know something.
In July, Manning's Auckland-based sister, Jasmine, died."
Manning returns to work today while his mother, Sharon, continues to try to put her life back together after losing her two daughters in the space of six months.
"That was a huge reality check for her (Mellory) because she kind of realised how precious life is," he said.
That loss spurred Mellory Manning to try to turn her life around, her brother said."
His sister had been on methadone for about six weeks to try to break a drug habit.
"She'd been talking to my mum about it since Jas died, and then she made the right steps to get off what she was doing.
"She had to get money for Christmas presents .
She had been off the street for at least as long, he said… She was going to buy more," Robin Manning said. she had actually bought quite a few Christmas presents, she just hadn't finished off buying them all.33pm on December 18.
His sister was last seen standing on the corner of Manchester and Peterborough streets at 10.
Her injuries were described by Detective Inspector Greg Williams as the worst he had seen in 29 years of police work.
Her body was discovered the next morning dumped in the Avon River about 250m from the gates of St Paul's School in Avonside.
Yesterday, Williams said "very few" of their appeals for information had been successful.
She had been strangled, stabbed in the chest several times and beaten about the head and legs with what appeared to be a piece of reinforcing steel.
Her last text message was sent at 10.
Her last text message was sent at 10.43pm to a client that she had seen earlier. Police have spoken to the client.
Police still wanted to talk to about 30 street workers yet to come forward.
Yesterday, police teams searched the Avon River from Kilmore Street down to the Swanns Road bridge.
Hundreds of people had been spoken to in relation to the case but there were many more being sought.
They included a man who went to a Salvation Army van, near where Manning was last seen, with a stab wound to his leg.
Police had yet to identify where Manning was attacked or where she had gone into the river.
A knife discovered 150m upstream of Manning's body was still with forensic investigators. .
Referring to two other murders of prostitutes in Christchurch in the past three years, Williams said suggestions that two people were involved in Manning's death were unlikely.
"In the last two, it was lone people and if you look at the overseas (cases), generally they're lone people who are the offenders for this stuff."
Criminal profiling was beginning to yield information.
The Operation Dallington file was with a team in Auckland, which included a criminal psychologist.
"Whoever knows something needs to come forward," Robin Manning said yesterday.