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#NewZealand

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People (10)

  • Bill Birch New Zealand National Party minister of energy from 1978 to 1984, the minister behind the Think Big projects, and later finance minister; he co-announced the 1981 Temuka distillery licence.
  • Brenton Tarrant Brenton Tarrant is an Australian who killed 51 in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, livestreaming the attack behind an accelerationist manifesto that became the founding saint-template for Terrorgram Collective and subsequent attackers worldwide.
  • Hugh Templeton New Zealand National Party minister of customs from 1978 who, with Bill Birch, announced the 1981 distillery licence for the Temuka ethanol plant of Chemical Technology Limited.
  • Ian Shearer New Zealand National Party minister of science and technology, environment and broadcasting from 1981 to 1984, who opened the Chemical Technology Limited whey-to-alcohol plant at Temuka in April 1982.
  • John Rutherford (New Zealand lawyer) Christchurch lawyer who set up Chemical Technology Limited and brought the American fugitive R.C. Horsch, posing as the chemist Stanley Stokowski, to New Zealand to build a whey-ethanol plant.
  • K.N. Curnow Christchurch chartered accountant of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, appointed by Westpac in May 1984 as joint receiver of Chemical Technology Limited after its American director fled.
  • Kerry Burke New Zealand Labour minister of immigration from July 1984 who announced in October 1984 that the impostor Raymond Hoersch had entered the country in 1980 and cleared the department of blame.
  • Lindsay Smith New Zealand army brigadier who directed the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service from 1983 to 1991, including the 1984 Stokowski affair and the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing.
  • Myroslawa Ferkuniak Welsh-born wife of the fugitive R.C. Horsch, whom she married in Reno in 1980 under his stolen name and accompanied to New Zealand, and mother of Eugene Horsch.
  • R.C. Horsch Philadelphia pornographic filmmaker, counterfeiter and fugitive who lived in New Zealand under a stolen identity, said he wiretapped for Wackenhut in the 1960s, and whose Olney house is the center of a 2026 missing-women investigation.

Organizations (4)

  • Chemical Technology Limited South Canterbury company, set up by the Christchurch lawyer John Rutherford, that built a whey-to-ethanol plant at Clandeboye with the American fugitive R.C. Horsch working under a stolen chemist's identity.
  • Development Finance Corporation New Zealand state development lender founded in 1964, corporatized in 1987, sold in 1988 to the National Provident Fund and Salomon Brothers, and placed in statutory management as insolvent in October 1989.
  • New Zealand Security Intelligence Service New Zealand's domestic intelligence agency, founded in 1956 as the New Zealand Security Service on the model of MI5 and given its present name and a statute in 1969.
  • The Press Christchurch daily newspaper published by the Christchurch Press Company from Cathedral Square, whose 1981 to 1986 reporting is the principal record of the Stokowski affair.

Events (1)

  • 2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in a live-streamed attack, inspiring the founding of the Terrorgram Collective and becoming the most cited precedent event in post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attacks.

Places (3)

  • Hadlow, New Zealand Rural settlement just west of Timaru in South Canterbury, New Zealand, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch lived as Dr Stanley Stokowski until March 1984.
  • Temuka South Canterbury town north of Timaru, site of the ethanol distillery of Chemical Technology Limited licensed in 1981 and of the 1984 burglary in which a passport was stolen.
  • Washdyke Industrial suburb five kilometres north of central Timaru, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch ran a mail-order computer software exchange as Dr Stanley Stokowski.