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MPs told:No secretdeal overleadershipLabour Party president MoiraCoatsworth has delivered a shotacross the bows of the party’s MPs,warning that grassroots memberswill not accept a deal over the lead-ership done behind closed doors.

David Shearer stepped down asparty leader on Thursday to head offan inevitable no-confidence vote. Hesaid he no longer had the support ofthe full caucus.

Ms Coatsworth said yesterday shehad supported Mr Shearer but ac-knowledged his leadership hadfailed to fire.

‘‘I think there’s a general agree-ment that the place we were in thepolls was not the place we wanted tobe.’’

Under Labour’s new rules, a con-tested leadership would be put to thevote among grassroots members, theMPs and affiliated union members.

Ms Coatsworth and general sec-retary Tim Barnett yesterday re-leased a timetable for the vote, withnominations closing at 10pm onMonday.

A series of hustings meetings willbe held over the following threeweeks before a vote. The result willbe announced on September 15.

Ms Coatsworth said the leader-ship vote was a ‘‘historic’’ oppor-tunity for Labour’s 40,000 to 50,000members to participate.

The rule changes that allowed theleadership vote were an importantpart of modernising the party.

She emphasised there was hugeexpectation within the party thatgrassroots members would get to ex-ercise their rights.

A deal done ‘‘behind closed doors’’

between the party’s MPs would cutacross that mood.

It was also important the party gotto decide so the next leader wouldhave a strong mandate.

Ms Coatsworth said there wouldbe a code of conduct for the leader-ship race. Only financial membersup till midnight on Thursday wouldbe allowed to vote.

She said there had been a run ofmembership applications on Thurs-day night as people tried to get inahead of the close-off date. Fairfax NZ

Kind donation: Hospice South Canterbury staff, Alan Munro, left, Hazel Harrison and Karen McCrostie receive a cheque for $50,000 fromTimaru South Rotary Club Charitable Trust officials Dick Allan, standing, left, Allan Barr and Gavin Craig, kneeling.

Photo: MYTCHALL BRANSGROVE/FAIRFAX NZ

Hospice gets trust’s largest giftAndrew Voerman

Hospice South Canterbury is‘‘overwhelmed’’ to receive a$50,000 donation from the TimaruSouth Rotary Club CharitableTrust.

The cheque was handed overyesterday.

‘‘We’re constantly needing

funds to support our work here,’’hospice chief executive AlanMunro said.

The donation will be used toextend therapeutic services.

‘‘Without the support of thecommunity we wouldn’t be ableto provide these services for freeto people with a terminal illness,’’Mr Munro said.

The money will be spent on up-

grades to the hospice’s thera-peutic day centre, ‘‘The Cottage’’.A wheelchair-accessible bath-room, toilet facilities and a laun-dry will be added. Also on the listis new furniture and mainten-ance to the building’s exterior.

Charitable trust chairmanGavin Craig said it was thelargest donation they had evermade.

Mr Craig said they knew thehospice was in need of funds andthe trust looks to support health-related fields, which was whythey gave such a large donationto the hospice. The money wasraised ‘‘over a lot of time’’ fromclub activities such as book sales.

Mr Munro said Rotary clubshad been a great support to thehospice for many years.

Fugitiveon sexchargesbroughtbackA convicted child molester wasaccompanied by three Botswanapolice officers as he was flownback to New Zealand after fleeingon a fake passport last year.

Christopher Ian Crause, 48, ofHamilton, was immediately ar-rested by police and remanded incustody for sentencing afterarriving in Auckland yesterday.

Crause was found guilty at triallast year of four counts of sexualconnection with an underage girl,four of indecent acts with an un-derage girl and two of supplyingcannabis to a person under 18.

He is expected to appear incourt on those charges as well ascharges over the false passportthat his wife, Brigitte, created toget him out of the country.

The couple met the parents ofone of the sex victims through aswingers’ website.

After a jury returned guiltyverdicts, Crause was freed on bailbut did not turn up for sentencingthree months later.

Soon afterwards police con-firmed he had left the country ona fake passport and was thoughtto be hiding in South Africa,where he grew up.

Detective Senior SergeantSteven Dunn, of New ZealandPolice Interpol Wellington, saidinitial inquiries suggested Crausetravelled to South Africa viaAustralia.

‘‘An Interpol blue notice wascirculated by Interpol Wellingtonto alert other member countriesand request their assistance in lo-cating Mr Crause. In July wewere contacted by the Botswanaauthorities.’’

Crause had contravened Bots-wana immigration legislationwhen he illegally entered thecountry which enabled his re-moval back to New Zealand un-der Botswana law.

‘‘This is a very good example ofNew Zealand’s government agen-cies working together to over-come problems,’’ Mr Dunn said.

‘‘Our high commission in Pre-toria co-ordinated the liaisonwith the Botswana authoritiesand it involved significant inputfrom Interpol Wellington, Immi-gration New Zealand and the De-partment of Internal Affairs tobring this to a conclusion.

‘‘Mr Crause was detained over-seas without any legal traveldocuments, making it impossiblefor him to travel internationallyand transit through third coun-tries.

‘‘The professionalism displayedby our colleagues in Botswana inlocating, detaining and removingMr Crause back to New Zealandis commendable.’’ Fairfax NZ

ArderndeclinesOne of Labour’s rising starshas ruled out a bid for the partyleadership.

Since David Shearer con-firmed he was standing downas leader on Thursday, Auck-land list MP Jacinda Ardern,the party’s social developmentspokeswoman, had refused tocomment in Parliament.

She confirmed yesterday shewould not be standing.

‘‘Many have predicted this al-ready but thought I should con-firm – I won’t be putting myselfforward for Labour leader,’’ shetold her followers on Twitter.

Ms Ardern did not saywhether she would put herselfforward for deputy leader, orwhom she preferred as leader.

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Appeal bid on cathedral ruling‘‘There are only two possibilities when you go to court– one is you win, the other is you lose. You always livein hope.’’Jim AndertonGreat Christchurch Buildings Trust co-chairman

A potential Supreme Court fightby opponents of Christ ChurchCathedral’s demolition will provea costly case of ‘‘here we goagain’’, Bishop Victoria Mat-thews says.

The Great Christchurch Build-ings Trust says it will contest lastmonth’s Court of Appeal decisionthat the demolition of the earth-quake-damaged landmark shouldgo ahead. It sought leave to makean appeal to the Supreme Courtyesterday and had 20 workingdays to file submissions.

Bishop Matthews said the chal-lenge came after ‘‘very clear’’judgments from both the Court ofAppeal and High Court.

‘‘I don’t want to be rude, but‘here we go again’ would be thesum of my comment,’’ she said.‘‘They are acting as if this is newinformation. I don’t think it is.’’

The focus of the trust’sSupreme Court case will be on

the terms of the Church PropertyTrustees’ ownership of the cathe-dral, and its obligations to main-tain and repair the building.

Last month the Court of Appealupheld a High Court ruling clear-ing the way for demolition afterthe legality of a decision to bringit down to a safe level was tested.

The trust’s Supreme Court ap-peal would argue against fourmain findings of the lost Court ofAppeal battle:! The public funds donated to thecathedral were irrelevant indetermining the AnglicanChurch’s powers.

! The church is required to haveonly ‘‘a’’ cathedral in CathedralSquare. Demolition and erectionof a new cathedral is permitted,provided funds are available to doso.! The church trustees have no ob-ligation at all to maintain or re-pair the existing cathedral.! The church is free to demolishthe cathedral, despite what is saidin the Anglican (Diocese ofChristchurch) Church PropertyTrust Act 2003, and other legis-lation.

Trust co-chairman Jim Ander-ton said it was a ‘‘last resort’’ bid,

but the trust believed it had achance of success.

‘‘There are only two possi-bilities when you go to court –one is you win, the other is youlose. You always live in hope.

‘‘You only get one shot at re-taining the cathedral. Just be-cause one or three judges make adecision doesn’t mean it’s right.’’

Those funding the legal battlesto save the cathedral – people inCanterbury prepared to ‘‘puttheir money where their mouthis’’ – would prefer the money wasspent on restoration, he said.

Bishop Matthews said shesuspected the Supreme Court bidwould cost the diocese moremoney, which was ‘‘a huge pity’’.

Fighting court battles over thecathedral was not the church’s‘‘first choice’’ for its spending.

A Supreme Court representa-tive confirmed it had received theappeal application. Fairfax NZ

Funding boost for volunteersAlexia Johnstonalexia.johnston@timaruherald.co.nz ‘‘[We’re] delighted to

receive an increase in thefunding. ’’

Lyndal WattVolunteering Mid and South Canterbury co-ordinator

Volunteering Mid and South Can-terbury is $23,000 better off thanksto its latest grant.

The Timaru-based organisation,which supports volunteersthroughout the district, receivedthe $23,043 through the Support forVolunteering Fund. The funding ispart of an annual governmentgrant.

Volunteering Mid and SouthCanterbury co-ordinator LyndalWatt said the funding made avail-able to the group had increased in

recent years. ‘‘[We’re] delighted toreceive an increase in the funding.We wouldn’t have normally gotthat much.

‘‘I understand it’s increased byapproximately 20 per cent.’’

Community and Voluntary Sec-tor Minister and Rangitata MP JoGoodhew announced the latestround of grants yesterday.

She said the funding aimed tohelp develop and support volun-teering.

‘‘Whether it is arts, sports,health and emergency services, orworking with migrants, volun-teers make a huge contribution tosustainable, active communities.’’

Mrs Watt said the money wouldhelp support volunteering acrossSouth Canterbury.

A portion of it would be used forInternational Volunteer Day cele-brations on December 5.

Memories makefor strong show

REVIEWThe Daylight AtheistThe PlayhousePerformed by Kevin FoleyReview by Gordon Prowse

Really, it cannot be easy toloathe one’s father, let alonewrite as viciously as Tom Scottdid about his pater familias inThe Daylight Atheist, even if heconvinces us that what he saysis true. Nor can it be easy toportray onstage such a man, onewho undoubtedly deserves thatvitriol.

Yet the younger Scott’sdrama, directed by Jon Harris inTimaru for the coming week,does have its moments of lighthumour and poignancy and isnot just an analysis of a purebastard. Kevin Foley’s interpret-ation of the overall loathsomeman is brilliant, and his controlof the unfolding one-man presen-tation, told exclusively in remin-iscences through his manyvoices, will hold the audience’sattention throughout.

One can see from a psycho-logical angle how Irishman Denbecame such an utter cad, rightfrom his Royal Air Force war-time experiences, then a hastymarriage and emigration, to‘‘raising’’ four basically un-wanted children in rural NewZealand, Marton to be precise.

Den’s language is alwayscolourful, occasionally profaneor crude, and his mannerisms,clothing and general behaviourshow us someone who in the endis essentially a furious, if lonelyand unloved man.

He has told lies, abused and letdown his kids, been rude tofigures of authority (work boss,teacher, officers) and has no re-

morse for his self-centredactions and words. His totaldenigration of wife ‘‘Dingbat’’and eldest child ‘‘Egghead’’(Tom) is mean and vehement,yet one of his saving graces liesin the camaraderie of old mates,soldiers and freezing workersmostly, who have now becomefellow drunks. His recollectionof friend Jack’s dying and burialare powerful and positive.

Den lives in a self-made waste-land. The set emphasises this,the sound effects and lightingchanges are most appropriate,while Foley’s movementsaround his room, a filthy, leak-ing bolthole, enhance the vilenature of his life. His delivery,in a variety of accents, is quitemasterful, and in a stream ofconsciousness he moves fluidlyfrom one past situation to an-other, in an almost Proustianmanner.

This is no static performance,even if character interaction isconveyed through the memoriesof one sad, bad old man. So, welldone Kevin Foley and your sen-sitive director, Harris, and theimportant backstage crew. TheDaylight Atheist merits strongsupport from Timaru audiences.

Royalist cheesedoff with burger adOne Kiwi royalist has gotBurger King in a bit of apickle.

They were cheesed offabout an ad that insin-uated Prince Harry wasnot Prince Charles’ son,and complained to theAdvertising StandardsAuthority (ASA).

The television advert forBurger King’s ‘‘ChangeRange King Special’’burger pictured a burgerunder a spotlight, ac-companied by a voice-oversaying: ‘‘Meet the newestmember of our royal fam-ily. We were going to call itHarry, cause it’s a bitnaughty and people say it

looks nothing like its Dad.But we went with the KingSpecial instead, just to besafe.’’

The complainant saidthey objected to the insin-uation that Prince Harrywas not Prince Charles’son.

The advert was a satiricportrayal of Prince Harryintended to invoke hu-mour and was within thecontext of Burger King’sbrand, the chairman of theASA said. The chairmanruled there was no breachof the advertising codes,and there were no groundsfor the complaint toproceed. Fairfax NZ