A.White Kabi Submission

        [PN 157]
        Commissioner: When you say that, your primary objective was to maintain - - -?

        Mr Offenhauser: Our golf course.

Cross examination of Mr Offenhauser

        [PN 175]
        Mr White: In relation to that, the consultation was with the greenkeepers as to what to do
        with the golf course. Could you explain why, as the most qualified orchardist obviously
        on the premises, that I wasn't consulted about what was best to do with the orchard?

        Mr Offenhauser: Because the orchard - the business was closing. The orchard was
        non-functioning. It was like the pro shop. There was no-one that came in and said, "Well,
        now, what we should do with the pro shop. What do we do with all the merchandise in the
        pro shop? What do we do with all the food and beverage?" Those items were, "They're
        closed." Actually the orchard was the easiest because if you've got a heck of a lot of
        merchandise, shirts and shoes and golf clubs and everything else, can we return it, or can we
        not return it, and then you're stuck with all these golf bags. But the orchard was
        straightforward. It was the business is closing. That division was non-existent any more.

Examination in Chief - Mr Troy Maclaren (Course Superintendent) (16/11/2011)

         [PN 279]
         Mr Maclaren: Look, you know, because we've got such a small crew now, there are a lot of
         things that get left, and I guess the orchard is probably the first one that suffers. Because
         our main priority is to keep the golf course as a saleable product, so when Rena decides to
         put it on the market, it still looks like a golf course, and that's why we were kept employed.

         [PN 280]
         Commissioner: The harvesting of the fruit though. That's not being done by employees, is
         it?

         Mr Maclaren: No, it's a non-working orchard as we speak. You know, we don't receive any
         money for it. We just look after the golf course grounds and unfortunately the orchard will
         - or fortunately, whatever, the orchard is a part of the golf course and needs to be tidy. So
         when the time does come that the property is put on the market, it gets what we can get
         for it, I guess. You know, rather than what used to be a golf course orchard.

     22. These statements prove from April 2011, the Permaculture and Golf Course “Uses” of Kabi
         ceased with only a skeleton staff of greenkeepers employed to prioritise maintenance of
         the disused golf links and improve the property’s sale prospects.

     23. I reject any contention the integrated Permaculture “Use” at the time was ongoing,
         considering the only two staff members responsible for maintaining the Permaculture
         orchard and gardens were made redundant.




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