Julian Batchelor Rawhiti

Maori spiritual beliefs have always been very important to tangata whenua.  Particularly with regard to our waahi tapu, spiritual places, urupa, burial grounds where our tupuna rest and other sacred and historic sites.  It is therefore deeply, deeply offensive to discover the evidence of the history of the house which Julian Batchelor currently occupies at Rawhiti and which is the site of Mr Batchelor's unconsented works and breaches of the local bylaws . A woman was murdered in this house by her husband, in front of her children , in a particularly sad, and vicious, attack. The plot thickens however - the murderous husband pleaded not guilty of bashing his wife five or six times in the back of the head with an axe, embedding it about six inches in her skull, in front of the witnesses, because his wife wouldn't give him money.  The murderer's favorite son, 13 year old Herbert, witnessed the gruesome deed, before his father shouted "Goodbye" and rushed out ...

In 1981 plans were made to shift an old villa by barge to land at Rawhiti. That house came from 150 Bank St in Whangarei. Formerly known as Glucina House, it was also known as the Huimai Boarding House, run by Mary Hammon and her husband Daniel. The story of the murder of Mary Hammon is horrific indeed, sad in the extreme, and a telling account of the reality faced by a lot of our great grandmothers.  The fact that this house is sited on the most sacred waahi tapu of Ngati Kuta o Te Rawhiti is an obscene travesty given its history - on top of everything else. This land is the site of at least two historic archaeological sites, it is highly valued and treasured waahi tapu with huge spiritual significance to tangata whenua , and the history - and illegality - of what's gone on on this land is being uncovered.   The penultimate paragraph of the account of the history of the house (above) states that it is believed that the house has recen...

Julian Batchelor's "Oke BayLodge" was shifted onto the land Mr Batchelor is currently occupying by barge, from Bank St, Whangarei, the site of a heinous murder. Maori spiritual beliefs have always been very important to tangata whenua.  Particularly with regard to our waahi tapu, spiritual places, urupa, burial grounds where our tupuna rest and other sacred and historic sites.  It is therefore deeply, deeply offensive to discover the evidence of the history of the house which Julian Batchelor currently occupies at Rawhiti and which is the site of Mr Batchelor's unconsented works and breaches of the local bylaws . A woman was murdered in this house by her husband, in front of her children , in a particularly sad, and vicious, attack. The plot thickens however - the murderous husband pleaded not guilty of bashing his wife five or six times in the back of the head with an axe, embedding it about six inches in her skull, in front of the witnesses, because...

On his websites Mr Julian Batchelor states that he plans to develop three blocks of land in the Bay of Islands, at Rawhiti. On his websites Julian states that the land is owned by a trust . In an email to the Far North District Council dated 19 October 2015 he claims he's the Director of "a charity": Here on his websites and in his applications to Department of Conservation he proclaims that he is the director of "a Christian Charitable Trust" which owns the land:  Mr Batchelor is a real estate agent, a property developer, and he is the director and shareholder in a number of limited liability companies, including Grace Alone Oke Bay Holdings Limited .  He certainly knows the difference between a trust and a limited liability company, and it appears that he may have recorded false details on his application to the Far North District Council   or on his website claiming that the properties are owned by a trust or a charity, because Mr Batc...

Te komiti o te Kaitiaki o Opourua received information this afternoon that Heritage New Zealand are investigating possible damage to archaeological heritage sites on the land Julian Batchelor is occupying at Rawhiti. On top of all his other problems, Batchelor now has to pay to have an archaeological report undertaken, and faces having the book thrown at him if he has damaged the ancestral wahi tapu. Julian and 'the team'

Te komiti o te Kaitiaki o Opourua are looking forward to viewing the information held by the FNDC and Julian Batchelor regarding the plumbing at his 'Oke Bay Lodge'.  Locals are less than impressed by Mr Batchelor's project management of the developments at Rawhiti in the breathtakingly beautiful Ipipiri (often referred to by visitors as the Bay of Islands). The crucial criteria Julian Batchelor requires from the engineer apparently consists of the following: Be a Christian Be retired Be prepared to work for no pay  Julian sees himself not so much as a real estate agent , but more as a knight in shining armour, ready to save the world and evangelise every one of the (supposedly) heathen savages of the land and anyone else who ventures forth on the 'Cape Brett Track' and everyone in the near vicinity in fact, and nothing is beyond his superman capabilities, even plumbing and building retaining walls, let alone being God's spokesperson.  His God will prov...