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Office of the Ombudsmen:

I created a community garden at the South End School on behalf of Friends of the Carterton Community Gardens, with support from several local businesses and individuals.


Early in 2009 I received a visit from the Deputy Principal of the South End School in Carterton, Dallas Powell, to tell me that she had seen notes made by the staff representative on the Board of Trustees regarding a Board meeting at which a false allegation was made against me to the effect that I had recently been charged by police with an offence involving a child.


I immediately told her that the allegation was completely untrue.  I asked for a meeting with the Board to discuss the matter and requested all information held by the school about me.


The Board refused to respond to my request for a meeting, and on the 25th March 2009 the Board wrote me a letter sacking me from my job at the school on the basis of the false allegation that I had recently been charged by the police with an offence involving a child.  


The letter also says that the Board appreciated the contribution I'd made to the School and all the work I'd done in creating and maintaining the gardens, and that they looked forward to continuing this as soon as either the charges are withdrawn or I am acquitted.


Formal Complaint to the Office of the Ombudsmen, 1 May 2010:


URGENT FORMAL COMPLAINT:

I made a formal complaint to your office over a year ago regarding a letter I received from the Board of Trustees of the South End School in Carterton and the involvement of the local Mayor, members of the Carterton and Masterton District Councils and local police in ongoing corruption, including the deliberate lies to the Privacy Commission.

The Privacy Commission was asked in writing to forward the complaint to your office on 1 April, and as I have received no response to date I assume they have failed to do so.

This complaint involves the huge backlog of uninvestigated child abuse allegations in the Wairarapa, including the allegations made to the police by me against Michael Murphy, Tracey Feast and others, and the fact that at least two of those people have gone on to commit serious violent crimes since I made those allegations, which have not been investigated, and if the complaints had been investigated the subsequent offending could have been prevented.

Regarding the deliberate lies told to the Privacy Commission by the Principal and Board of Trustees of the South End School:
  1. I received a visit from Deputy Principal Dallas Powell in about January 2009 to tell me that she had seen written notes made by the staff representative  regarding a Board of Trustees meeting at which the allegation had been made that I had been charged by police with an offence involving a child.  
  2. Deputy Principal Dallas Powell told me that she had asked about the allegation, and been told by the Principal and other staff that local police and the Carterton Mayor had made the allegation to the Board, and that I would be receiving a letter from the Board of Trustees sacking me from my job at the school.
  3. I immediately told the Deputy Principal that the allegation was completely and utterly untrue, and that contrary to the false allegation against me, I had made allegations about the three people mentioned above, which have since been validated by the subsequent violent and abusive offending which was the subject of my allegations, and which have been ignored by police.
  4. I asked the Deputy Principal to convey this information to the school, and pass on my request for an immediate meeting with the Board of Trustees to correct the false information, and to confirm where the information had come from.
  5. I was asked by the Deputy Principal not to come to work at the school until the matter had been resolved.  I co-operated with this request.
  6. On 25 March 2009 I received the attached letter from the Board of Trustees, despite asking Deputy Principal Powell to pass on the message that the allegation was untrue.
  7. I immediately made an appointment to meet with the Principal.  At this meeting I told the Principal that the allegation was completely untrue, and requested all information about me held by the school, including all notes and minutes of the Board of Trustees meeting such as those seen by Deputy Principal Powell, which she told me had been made by the staff representative at the Board meeting, which was apparently held in late 2008 or early 2009.
  8. The Principal, Rod O'Leary is now deliberately lying to investigators about these matters, falsely claiming to the Privacy Commission investigator that I met with him prior to the letter being sent and told him that I had been charged by police, which is completely ridiculous and is obviously a blatant lie.  There was no meeting, prior to my receiving the letter, apart from the meeting when the Deputy Principal visited me and the allegation was made by her and soundly refuted by me, as it has been strongly and consistently refuted by me ever since.
  9. The school is also lying about the existence of information, and obstructing the provision of other information, and has now made a false complaint to police.  The school has also stolen plants and equipment belonging to the Carterton Community Gardens.
  10. The Mayoral Diary shows that local recidivist violent offender Mayor McPhee met with O'Leary days before a violent attack on me in my home in February, involving McPhee and child abuser Michael Murphy.  I asked McPhee and O'Leary for notes of this meeting or any other information about what was discussed, and both have refused to provide any information.
  11. I advised the Privacy Commission that I have not received the complaint to police from the school, or any other information such as an incident report or notes of the matter being discussed at a Board of Trustees meeting.  
  12. The School have also denied the existence of other information such as the numerous letters from parents in support of me and letters of complaint about the actions of the Board.
  13. Because these matters have been unresolved for over a year now, and because the school is deliberately lying in claiming that there had been any meeting with me prior to the letter from the Board of Trustees, and because of the recent false complaint to police, and the refusal of the school to provide information, and the theft and destruction by the school of plants and equipment belonging to our organisation, we request an immediate investigation by your office, as requested a year ago.
  14. We also request an immediate investigation into the Carterton District Council and the involvement of persons associated with Council in the illegal takeover and closure of the former Carterton Community Centre, and the refusal of the PCA and IPCA to address complaints regarding these matters made by me, and supported by letters from several lawyers, and two community petitions.


Katherine Raue
Friends of the Carterton Community Centre
Transparency in New Zealand
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Here's the latest lies cooked up by the staff and Board of Trustees of the South End School in Carterton, and condoned by Dawn Swan, the 'investigator' at the Privacy Commission.  The original article about these matters is under the heading "South End School Shame - What they're teaching kids in Carterton these days"
at this link.
Aren't you ashamed of these blatant lies Rod O'Leary, Gavin Kennedy, and you others?  You should be, I set up a Garden for the children, and an orchard, I didn't get any funding.  I worked at the school every week, teaching the children, and the letter from the Board was a deliberate lie, because you had obtained funding on the back of the work I did, and wanted to take over everything I had worked for, and slander me as well, for political purposes.
Rod, you should resign before you have another heart attack, you know perfectly well that I am telling the truth and you are deliberately lying.




Dear Ms Raue
I refer to previous correspondence concerning your complaint that the South End School has not provided you with personal information as requested.
I have now had a response from the School. It advises that the only personal information it holds about you comprises emails you have sent; a supporting letter the principal Rod O'Leary wrote on your behalf on 9 November 2006; a letter from the Board of Trustees dated 25 March 2009 explaining its concern over an incident; and a copy of an incident report sent to Carterton Police on 5 February 2010.
As you sent the emails to the School you will have copies already. You also have a copy of the Board of Trustees letter as you have provided us with a copy.
The School says that you also have a copy of the supporting letter and received a copy of its complaint (or incident report) to the Police during the court process. As such, it does not have to provide this information to you again. If you have not received this information please let me know.
As I have told you previously, you are not entitled to information about the school garden under the Privacy Act as this is not 'personal information' for the purposes of the Act.
The School has also told me that it did not collect any information about you from the Police. I understand you had a meeting with Mr O'Leary at which you told him about being charged by the Police, and which is also referred to in the Board of Trustees letter. As you disclosed this information to the School, and it did not collect any further information gathered from Police, there is no privacy issue for us to investigate.
You are welcome to provide your comments which I would appreciate receiving by 9 April.
Regards
Dawn Swan | Team Leader, Investigations (Wellington) | Office of the Privacy Commissioner | PO Box 10094 | Wellington 6143 
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Open letter to Dawn Swan, Ombudsmen, John Key, Anne Tolley
To recap:
  1. Deputy Principal Dallas Powell came to my home in early 2009 and told me that she had seen written notes made by the staff representative on the BoT referring to the allegation that I had been charged by the police by an offence involving a child, and that the allegation was being discussed at the school.
  2. These written notes are information about me which the school is trying to conceal, along with the complaints from the parents about the actions of the Board and staff.  
  3. This was the first time I became aware of the allegation.
  4. I immediately asked for my request to meet with the BoT and the Principal to be passed on.
  5. I immediately told the Deputy Principal the allegation was untrue - weeks before the letter was even written.
  6. I went to the school immediately after receiving the letter, made an appointment with the Principal, and again made it very clear that the allegation in the letter was untrue. 
  7. Dawn Swan, like Tara Sewell at Police National HQ, is being paid a lot of tax payers money to TELL LIES to cover up gross misfeasance.  She's talking rubbish, there's nothing in the letter from the BoT about any meeting with me because there never was one!
  8. The cover-ups by Dawn Swan and Tara Sewell are enabling bullies and manipulative liars access to positions of influence in our schools.  
  9. Principal Rod O'Leary is lying to the Privacy Commission now.  The meeting was a result of the letter, not the cause of it - what lies, no wonder O'Leary has so many heart attacks, it's a wonder lighnint doesn't strike him down - the most overlooked commandment (for the religiously inclined) is YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOUR.
  10. Tell the truth Rod, and Dallas, these lies are pathetic.
  11. The Mayoral Diary for January and February 2009 (will be up soon), and the abusive text messages on my phone, show that McPhee met with Murphy, came to my home and intimidated and bullied me more than once for no reason,and days before Murphy returned and smashed the door in and assaulted me.
  12. It shows clearly the meetings at the same time with police and Rod O'Leary,  
  13. I have seen copies of some of the recent letters from parents, protesting and complaining about the letter sent to me from the Board, and the refusal to acknowledge the existence of these letters is a blatant attempt to lie to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
  14. I cannot access documents because of the corruption of the local police regarding my illegal eviction, and bail address, etc, and request copies of all the information.  
  15. This would not be necessary if O'Leary and Kennedy were honest, but they are not, and should not be running a school.  It is imperative that the Board is removed immediately for the safety and well being of the children.  
  16. A local District Court Judge recently highlighted the huge backlog of uninvestigated child abuse allegations n the Wairarapa.  One of these is the one I made, which is very closely related to the false allegation spread by the BoT and staff and police, for that reason it is important that there is a full and open investigation into these matters immediately, because there are children in our community who are at risk, while this absolutely corrupt and incompetent cover up by Dawn Swan, Tara Sewell and other incompetent and corrupt public servants is encouraged.
  17. Deputy Principal Dallas Powell has apparently taken a year off rather than face all the people who want to know if what I am saying is true - she knows it is, and will be subpoenaed in Court, along with O'Leary, to give a character reference for well known local criminal Aaron Brook later this year when I face the corruptly laid charges of perverting the course of justice and escaping custody.
  18. Just like to remind everyone that the matters referred to in the previous paragraph were set down before Judge Behrens on 8th December last, I was threatened by Michael Murphy in the supermarket and the pollice refused to do anything about it, saying he was allowed because he was anxious for the hearing to go ahead and thought I might not turn up and would "waste everyone's time."
  19. The police, and Murphy, were the ones who didn't turn up, applying for leave 2 working days before the trial - WASTING TAX PAYERS MONEY YET AGAIN - because they know Judge Behrens isn't corrupt like Judges Susan Thomas or Bruce Davidson (I left Ronald Young out because I think he got the wrong end of the stick from old Appleby, I wasn;t there, and am STILL waiting for the transcript, which Appleby won't give me).
Katherine Raue
Transparency in New Zealand
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