Tepakigroup Ltd got their own telephone number on Raro now. - Archi 27th Jan. 06

 

Tim, you seem to be in the news every day. - It is hard to follow your speed while working on cookislands.com. But I still try. Now it is about that lease agreement with Pa Ariki concerning the Vaimaanga site. First thing I always notice. The clever lawyer Tim Arnold is never on the photos. -So you signed it now. Dan McEwan signed the lease for Investors Forum NZ, then Pa Ariki signed it. Did you have to sign it ? Probably not. Marc Brown from Development Investment Board (DIB) approved it. - "JV Ltd." CI branch has been clearing the way for that the lease can be considered by the Lease Approvals Tribunal. Who is JV Ltd. ? Tepaki and Dan Mc Ewan sharing the land they leased for 6,25 NZD per sqmeter (what a bargain!) and put money in a trust right away, for the benefit of Pa Ariki and the Takitumu people. Who sits in the deciding Lease Approval Tribunal ? Chairman Ollie Peyroux and Minister of Justice Tangata Vavia. They ageed fast and clause 20.3 is in. This clause allows the lessee to remove the lessee´s improvements to the property at the end of the lease. - And the last decision is with the High Court now, in NZ ? or CI ? they will perhaps give final approval to that lease of the century on Rarotonga ! What I like is that you appointed the chief justice as arbritrator. (Tim you are clever again, the service of this chief justice is payed with government money again! - A highly experienced staff member for free, Tim you are a genious in getting tax money but you won´t get away with making the taxpayers pay the rerouting of the main road.)

Ahhhh, not it is December 2007 and opening the hotel will not take place within 12 month like in the last article. Now the "hotel" or "pensioneer residence" should open in 24 month. - Have you been reading my expertise dated 13th January 2006 Tim ? - You still have to put the total investment down to app. 40 Mio NZD otherwise nobody will ever buy the studios and apartments !!! - Are you going to get a 60 year lease ? You should seek a 60 year lease agreement otherwise the invest doesn´t make enough sense. After 60 years Pa Ariki´s son Napa Napa will take over a worn out building structure and a new street that is an old street by that time. - Obviously the Investors Forum paid a deposit of 250.000 NZD already and the 750.000 NZD to complete that magic little million are going to follow if high court gives approval to the 6,25 NZD/sqm deal. - Kia orana High Court, that is not a market price for land on Rarotonga. Increase the price per sqm / acre please. These NZ fellows from Investors Forum should have a good deal but not a bargain with Rarotonga. - To give some money to chairitable projects in Takitumu is nice. Hopefully some local people and a country development architect bring up good ideas how to use this money for charity sooner or later. - Tim, the beautiful people of this island will change you more then you expected. Take it on. Become and islander again after so many years. Find yourself a church where you can go on Sundays on Raro. I liked that last newspaper photo showing you all on the table, you´ve been all smiling. - Rarotonga, the island of love ;-) - greetings from the archi, 30th Jan. 2006

I hope and anticipate that Cook Islands Audit Office director Paul Allsworth is going to look into the Environment Impact Assesment (EIA) or wherever that question of who has to pay the new main road is burryed. - There is crown land, crown resources and taxpayers money involved in this issue. - Meitaki Maata - Grad. eng. Archi 31 Jan 06

Tim there is rumors that a kiwi couple that invested 100.000 NZD into a timeshare unit hotel (source CI Herald Rooster!?) seeks a local lawyer to get their money back. It might be good if you invite these people for dinner and explain them your plans, for that they do not run around in Auckland or Wellington spreading out bad rumors about Rarotonga. - Rarotonga is a holiday island that has a reputation to loose. Tim your projects are making waves that can hit not so stabile businesses. - Archi 2nd Feb. 06

Tim you staffmember Helen Wong and her daughter Sue had an unexpected enemy. - The motivation of the person threatening them is still unclear. - Archi 3rd Feb. 06

Doing her own investigation Helen Wong cought the enemy and became heroine for a day. - But without the Police involved their might not be enough evidence given for the court to bring the enemy to justice. - Helen, emotions are female and we all understand your pain. But too many emotions and not listening to the right voices can cause problems to. You are in the building sector now. That is a lake where the big fishes swim. Please talk things over with a friend before you act. - Archi 10th Feb. 06

Looking into todays Cook Islands News and inspecting the first bulldozer work for rerouting the main road there is a few things to say. It is still about a Hotel on a 10 hectare site named Papua Section 4 of Takitumu. The 750.000 NZD are still not payed into Takitumu trust to complete the first magic million dollars because the lease agreement is still at High Court Rarotonga waiting for a decision to get approval or not. - JV Ltd., a joint venture enterprise by Tepakigroup Ltd. and Foruminvestor Dan McEwan seems to change their businesplan again ! - What has been 1,5 % of the gross turnover became 1,5 % of the Hotels income. Income is a word that has to be defined now. Income can be gain. Gain can be negative if you have more costs then money coming in. Using turnover the amount might have been close to a million dollar by leasing all 182 units within the first three years. But income can mean nothing for the landowners. - As the 1,5% turnover regulation could become very expensive for JV Ltd. they offer a fixed rent of 75.000 NZD now. That is 75.000 NZD divided by 160.000 sqm = 0,47 NZD per sqm per year - Oups, another very low benchmark price for Rarotonga. - Landowners you are well of with the 1,5 % from gross turnover, but that can be only half a million NZD for them, within the first three years if the Capt. Cook Lagoon Resort & Spa can only lease out 50 % of the units which is very likely. - Archi 10th Feb. 06

Looking onto the "bulldozed first jungle path road" it is pretty much clear that this rerouting of the main road needs two new bridges. We can´t afford to have sharp 90° and 115° curves that slow down traffic to 10 kmph. The sections boundries are little rivers, creeks, that fill up high when the tropical rain is on. Driving into the section from Takitumu side the new road has to go in some 30 meters before the existing bridge. (you have to build a curved bridge suitable for heavy lorrys on both lanes and a least one pedestrian path that is app. 11 meter wide) and going out of the section has to begin a lot higher then marked up by Project Supervisor Tuta Ina for not having a sharp curve there. That means JV Ltd. has to go right over the section where the waves apartments should have taken place. That becomes an expensive thing now to lease that additional land. (Archi mentioned that 9 month ago to Tim by Email already )The road question is very serious and can stop the project ! - I wish you good luck when you negotiate with Taratoa Metuariki and perhaps even with Sarina Cummings lawyer. As far as I know they are the landowners of the 1.200 sqm section you will need. Taratoa Metuariki commissioned Architect Romani Katoa in 2005 to make plans for the Waves Apartments and I have been the innocent draftarchitect who drafted and delivered these plans with all measurement given. - Have a look at Archis plans with measurement done in 2005 . - Archi 11th Feb 06

A curse has a reason, a reinforced curse had still the same reason. A men has been shot dead on Vaimaanga land long time ago. Ask Pa for healing. - Archi 11th Feb 06

Tims reaction in CI Times : "The truth is, God owns the land and we are mortals who occupy the land for our lifetime only and so it is with Vaimaanga.- Archi 12th Feb 06

Kia orana More Taunga, Pa Ariki and Tim Tepaki. - If a story doesn´t get forgotten it becomes a legend. Legends may sleep, but never realy die. - It might need a piece of art in a long lasting material like carved stone to keep our memory alive. It can be a sculpture with a little poem and the deads men name. Ask Mike Tavioni or Eruera Nia to dicuss that theme with the involed persons. - Most wars are related to misunderstandings, greed, religion, too much pride and limited knowledge. - Archi 13th Feb. 2006

Tepakigroup Ltd. fixes an adbanner (see above) with telephone number on the beachvilla they have rented from Dr. Woonton for 1.000 NZD / week - Archi 20th Feb. 2006

The question who payes the rerouting of the main road around the upcoming Capt. Cook Hotel on Rarotonga is still not answered by JV.Ltd. For further information see grey text on the bottom. - Rarotonga High Court did not give approval to the lease contract for Vaimaanga site yet - We don´t rush things here on Rarotonga - Archi 20th Feb 2006

Tepakigroup Ltd. Spokeswomens knowledge about building is so poor, that she is completely unappropriate for doing this job Tim. Please think about giving Helen Wong a job she is qualified for, otherwise she drives your project in the sand sooner or later. - You have failed in Aitutaki with the Akitua Hotel already ! - Archi 23rd Feb 2006

Dear Helen Wong. Archi feels sorry for being angry with you yesterday. Today I´ve met you and Pa Ariki in Avarua and adressed my concerns that the proposed rerouted road will cause many accidents if the in- and outgoing curves are too sharp. - You have answered that you have taken that in account now and that your engineers (i´ll try to find out their names now) are going to plan with Ministry of Works and then build a safe and appropriate new main road around the Capt. Cook hotel that suits the needs of the Rarotongan citizens. Concerning the running maintenance costs for the new three times longer road Archi still propose to share the costs. CI Government 34% and JV. Ltd. 66 %. - All costs that have an "only once" character like rerouting telephone cables, water pipes, power lines have to be paid by JV.Ltd. - The new road is given to the Government then in exchange for the approx. 400 meter old road that you make a beach then to offer your clients a beachfront hotel. - Grad. Eng. Volker Goebel aka Archi 24th February 2006

Archi is going to be in Aitutaki soon, to do research for the new nationwide information system cookislands.com he is actually working on. - Archi 24th February 2006

There is a new name in the newspaper. "Strategic Finance Ltd.? " Archi is going to have a look at their website to see who they claim to be - Archi 28th February 2006

Kia orana Tim Tepaki. I´ve got you on the monitor for a year now, since you began to propose the Capt Cook Lagoon Resort & Spa. Please keep an eye at the page where I proposed you a building sign.
I´ve been sending you a dozen of emails with scetches, drawings, ideas, questions and answers last year from Rarotonga to Wellington. My critizism has been always showing a contructive manner.
Actually you are a step further with your ideas for Rarotonga. - I´ll be always at your side to help you for a usual payment. - But you´ll be never allowed to buy me. I´ll be always with all Cook Islanders.
Many builders on the island are not sure, if they want to build for you. It seems so difficult to quote a renovation ! - Take the roof metal off and you find problems. The deeper you dig, the more problems
and water will come up. - But you are clever enough to do a soft start and some first units to show for the marketing campain. - I´ll be watching your building site ! - grad. eng. volker goebel a.k.a. Archi

Who pays the new road ? The only reason for rerouting the main road from the waterfront away is that Tim&NZ investors want a beachfront hotel. The road is crownland, government land, public land
that is owned by all Cook Islanders. They give you the oppertunity to reroute the main road, but the new road you have to build will be public land again. You need that road, you have to build it and then
you have to give the land the new road is build on to the public, to the crown, to the government. In exchange you get the piece of land the main road is actually on. And it might be fair if you pay a Dollar
for every vehicle, that has to drive a the 3 times longer way now, to pass this area. 3 Dollars for every pedestrian that passes/walks by on the pedestrian path beside the new road because walking is
not so easy as driving is. We have a departure tax and now we get a Tepaki tax. I propose this Tepaki tax as a law because the existing road is easy to drive and causes little maintenance. But the re-
routed new road will have 2 "curved bridges" and will be three times longer and goes a little bit up the hill and down again. Such a road causes a lot more maintenance costs to the government budget.
The cost for redirecting the road I anticipate in the area of app. 2,5 Mio NZD and the 2 new curved bridges might cost 0,6 Mio NZD each. - The gardeners and roommaids won´t pay that with their taxes !
I propose you to lease the little triangular section on the left of Ngatoe stream, for not having a sharp 125° curved situation there, that brings vehicles down to a speed of 5 km / hour. - Archi 20th Jan. 06

I feel "that it is about time now" to establish a Tepakigroup Watchdog webpage for that you can´t do with this country whatever you like. The people here have problems to restist the power of so much
money that comes out of your mouth. But physically the money always seems to end up in your account ! Somebody has to watch your steps for that we do no wake up like in 1990. The keywords are
Capt. Cook, Capt. Bligh, The Diplomat, The Unit Titles Bill/Law, Kia Orana Management Ltd. and Tim Tepaki himself. - Which church are you going to Tim ? - Sincerely yours, Grad. Eng. Archi 20th EIA 06
(I anticipate that you want to kick me of the island as soon as I find a platform to start the watchdog page, but then you have me in Wellington, think about having dinner with me soon to stay colleagues)
(Tim, I am not a dreamer, during architecture/engineering studys I´ve been working for german industry preparing international deals worth a few million Dollars US and EU. - And after studys i ´ve been
working with towns from 199.000 up to 6 Mio inhabitants without getting a single scratch on my skin and in the police clearance. Don´t shoot on me, I might shoot back, and I am a lot younger than you !)
Tim, Cook Islanders are rich by birth but they do not all have money and land. Most of them work and pay taxes. Tim, please think about if you realy want to make them pay a new road for NZ Investors?
Actually - I hope that the Audit office will look into that "rerouting the main road" question because it concerns crown land. Paul Allsworth is a lot more qualified to do that then I am. - Archi 1st Feb. 2006

Archi has been investigating the proposed shape for the rerouted road around the Capt. Cook Hotel ! - Please read a first short expertise inside the slow loading building sign page - Archi 10th Feb. 2006

The CI Herald writes that there is a curse on that Vaimaanga Land by Metua A More, daughter of More Uri Atua. - The curse has been reinforced by More Amoa on 25th May 1990 - Archi 11th Feb. 2006

Kia orana, goooood morning Tepakigroup Ltd. - Grad. Eng. Archi had a testwalk during daytime and a testride during nighttime with a motorbike on the proposed rerouted main road around the proposed
Capt. Cook Hotel and Spa in Vaimaanga with a few locals on motorbikes. After inspecting the "gravel-track" it is clear, that there is a heavy and unappropriate "jump" in the road ! Some 50 meters before
the proposed later on main entrance coming from Titikaveka direction. That "jump" has to be smoothend up by filling in a dozen of truckloads stones, soil and gravel in. Flaten it by grader and compress
it with the biggest roller you can find on Rarotonga. To keep the filled in material their, it might need 2 little but long triangular sidewalls with a propper foundation underneath. - I am 100 % sure now that it
will need 2 curved concrete bridges over the streams for not having sharp curves that slow down traffic and creates noises that disturb the hotelguests. During the nighttestride which has been pretty
much an adventure, it became obvious, that there has to be street lights installed on the rerouted main road. - JV.Ltd (Joint Venture of NZ Investors and Tepakigroup Ltd) will have to pay the appox. 12
streetlamps and the much higher powerbill. - The Vaimaanga site looks a lot more presentable by now. The lawn mowing obviously helped to clear the jungle. I´ll be on site Friday the 24th to experience
the so called "Takitumu Day". I hope that you get the site blessed and that you find a more proactive answer to deal with the curse. - For sure we say kia orana and peea koi like we always do, but then
I am going to ask you a single question. "Who pays the road ?" "JV. Ltd. or the taxpayers ?" Your answer will decide the future. - You are arriving on Monday morning at 2:55am with flight NZ48 coming
from Auckland. Your team will be completely on Rarotonga Thursday 23rd. You are going to celebrate Takitumu Day on Friday 24th of February. Thank you for taking the challange on to fix a sign on the
Villas facade you´ve been renting for one grand per week from Dr. Woonton in Arorangi, just opposite Blackrock 6 til 11 shop. That shows good manners and that you got nothing to hide. - Archi 17th Feb

You are also going to visit, invade Aitutaki with a group of engineers? There you want to claim public land. The lagoon is public land. Government land, crown land. As the lagoon offers a lot more public
surface then the streets does, it is of great importance to all the people on the islands ! - Hardly anybody talks about the streets, but everybody is concerned about the lagoon. - As Aitutaki is an atoll like
island, there is a lot of lagoon surface. But once again you put your hands on public land. But you are from Aitutaki and you are Cook Islander. - I only hope that the people on Aitutaki are aware of how
fast you can swallow and get hungry for a next bite of the big cake. Please pay that lagoon land, give honest information about your plans and be careful with the lagoons sensitive biosystem. Archi 17th

As far as I know and found out, the National Environment Service granted Tepakigroup Ltd. a payback of the money that is needed to reroute the main road within the Environmental Impact Assesment !!!
That could have been illegal !!! - I am pretty sure that NES has never had any right to spend more then 3,7 Mio NZD taxpayers money ! - They are not elected politicians ! - Only Parliament can take such a
decision, on spending so much public money. I´ll ask crown law proscecutor Tingika Elikana, solicitor general Janet Maki and Audit office to review the Environmental Impact Assesment concerning Capt.
Cook Hotel Resort & Spa. Nobody should be allowed to rob the everyday people ! Hard working people paying taxes for that NZ investors have an easy gain on Rarotonga? Shame ! Grad. Eng. Archi 20th

Archi has given information to CINews / Phil Evans, CIHerald / Charles Pitt, the Audit office, Sir Apenera Short and other people about his concerns, that the proposed road is not suitable yet and that he
doubts the fact, that a private investor should get payed a road by taxmoney. As at least 2 persons of importance confirmed, that a refund for building the new road is in the Environmental Impact Ass
ment paper for the proposed Capt. Cook Lagoon Hotel Resort & Spa, this EIA paper has to be reviewed by Audit office and NES. - Tim Tepaki and Dan McEwan have to make a public commitment that
they pay the road only they need themselve and that it is going to be a suitable road that does not cause accidents by having curves that are to narrow. There has to be a contract for the higher main-
tenance costs that Government (34%) and JV.Ltd (66%) have to share. - And on top of it I would like to know what contract or agreement allowes JV.Ltd to reroute the existing road around the pro-
posed hotel ?- We all want to see that old Sheraton scarf healed. But it has to be undertaken propperly and if JV.Ltd is asked to pay an extraordinary amount of money for the 60 x 50 meter of land on
both sides of the streams that borders the Sheraton site, Government has to speak with the landowners to enable a propper investment and a propper rerouting of the main road. grad. eng. archi 22th

Some familys will not come to join the so called "Takitumu Day" organized by Promoter Tim Tepaki. That is not a good sign. Many others won´t come either, the invitation has not been bilingual ;-( archi 23

Tepakigroup spokeswomen Helen Wong says "... and the ring road has been completed around the hotel". - Dear Helen Wong find yourself another job ! 1. There is no Hotel yet 2. The ring road is not at
all completed. - In fact the rerouting of the main road just reached a first stage. What you propose as a road track is a scandal that is far away from being accepted by the Rarotongan people. Archi 23th

 

On the 24th Feb. 2006 Rarotonga High Court Judge Heta Hingston decided that the Vaimaanga Lease between JV.Ltd and Pa Ariki can become valid now. - First speaker during the one hour trail has
been Pa Ariki´s clever lawyer Tim Arnold who described the clause 20.3 as a possible incentive to landowners to renew a 60 year lease before it expires. Concerning this special case, land with an
uncompleted building structure on, he pointed out, that no bank would like to give a credit for a project like this, if the improvements on the land can´t be taken away if the lease is not renewed. The so
called Vaimaanga lease that has been given approval, can, but doesn´t has to be an example for other lease contracts. The clause 20.3 only says, that improvements on the land can be taken away by
the lessee in the end of the lease. - The clause 20.3 doesn´t say that the landowner have to take over and pay improvements. - Judge Hingston stressed on the fact that in most other cases there are
anyway no improvements on the land given usually. - Archis comment : What kind of improvements could you take away from a land in the end of a lease that isn´t continued ? The taps, the aircon´s
the solar water heating systems ? But would it make sense to take a building with its foundation away that has been build during the lease term ? No !. - Judge Hingston told the audience that he has
read the proposed lease contract propperly and decided that the Vaimaanga lease can become valid now. He rejected William Framheins submission to pass it only without clause 20.3. - Archi did not
understand a word of John McFadziens speech. An audiance of app. 40 people have been present in the court room, including Tim Tepaki, Helen Wong, Pa Ariki, Napa Napa, Norman George, Charles
Petero, Helen Greig and other citizens of Rarotonga. I personaly liked the moment, when Tim Arnold pointed out that nearly everybody in the country would like to see the old buildingsite becoming a nice
accommodation finaly and that only 30 Mio NZD should be invested for that the 182 units don´t become too expensive and find clients later on. (For example Cook Islanders coming back from NZ to retire
on their home island would be the best clients for the Capt. Cook accommodation project, because they do not need a visa to stay constantly on the island of Rarotonga ;-) kia manuia. - Archi 24th 2006

After land court Archi met Pa Ariki and Helen Wong and talked about his concerns that the rerouting of the main road has to be undertaken propperly with no sharp curves. Pa Ariki and Tepakigroup Ltd
spokeswomen Helen Wong said, that they have taken these facts into account and that "their engineers" will care for the problem together with Ministry of Works. Meitaki maata - grad. eng. Archi 24th 06

Even if Tepakis invitation to "Takitumu Day" on Vaimaanga site has been only published in Maori and not in a bilingual version, what disappointed and astonished many islanders, Archi is going to attend
Takitumu Day now and hopes that Tim Tepaki makes a public commitment concerning the question who pays the rerouting of the main road around the site. JV.Ltd or the taxpayer ? - grad. eng. Archi 24

Takitumu Day has been very nice ;-) There has been approx. six-hundred Cook Islanders and guests from overseas present on site. (the same number of people attended the Community Hall opening in
Arorangi). The site has been blessed by the highly ranked minister Tutai Pere. The famous Orama Dancegroup performed and we prayed that the old island scarf can be healed this time. Developer Tim
Tepaki was humbled during his speech and promised the children of Takitumu that they will own the place in some 60 years. Hopefully they find good work in the Hotel until this day is reached ;-) As Dan
McEwan could not be present due to illness his smart son Kelly McEwan said a few words in Maori and greeting words. The Investors seem to be nice people. - Archi had a talk with Kelly McEwan to
make him aware about the rerouting the main road situation and did a little scetch into the fine gravel to explain. Kelly took it into account but stressed on the fact that it is once again Tepaki who has to
negotiate with the two landowners beside the site to get some safe curves done there. (Hopefully Government can help if necessary ;-) Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Terepai Maoate who spoke on behalf
of the Ariki´s (traditional tribe leaders) called for unity and described how a small group of Government officials managed to negotiate and to settle the old debt taken on in 1988 to get a hotel build. There
has been a choir singing nicely and the sun put some magic light onto the szene. What a happy day for the Cook Islands. Then it was about Kaikai time and we all enjoyed traditional umukai food on the
typical leave plates. The food has been prepared very clever and hygienic like take away food. I enjoyed Chicken, Kumara, Raw fish salat, Poke, asian Pork stew and Mangaian bred. This has been the
first time in one year looking afterTepakigroup Ltd. that I´ve been invited to a meal. Danke ;-) The coconut nu that came with it I took home and put it on the table to remind me a few days on Takitumu day.
Tim, you know that a single mens power can change the world if he is just determined enough ! I wish you all the best for the next years work on the island of love. - Grad. Eng. Volker Goebel 25th Feb.

One of Tim Tepakis most used method´s is : Throughing up something irrelevant or something of minor importance as a smoke screen. - Then all the talking time is spend on that, but he never talks about
the real problems. - Many phrases about children, no word concerning the new road. - 5 Star fantasy dreams but only 30 sqmeter rooms. - I´ll invest 90 million Dollars (2005) and now it is about 30 Mio.
Dollars. - Curses rain and blessings, but no word about who pays the road? - He is a promoter / developer who never gives real information. - Who are the responsable engineers ? - Archi 1st March 06

Tepaki, Tim Nooapii Tepaki, hero of the day. - Cook Islander of the year for the good or for the worse. - You are posing on CINews frontpage with a cartoon of Corned Beef to save lives in Atiu. - But the
Atiu island secretary Man Unia on Rarotonga / Atiu says that there is no food shortage on Atiu ! Shops are well stocked. The owner of the Centre Store on Atiu Roger Malcom also says that his store on
Atiu is well stocked ! - Could it be that you had a promise to keep with your cousin Upoko Simpson ? Therefore you hired the R/V Bounty Bay (but you promised to pay their regular rates ;-) Because you
didn´t want or you couldn´t move your own inter-island ship, the M / V Thor Mette. - Tim, you are wonderful, I love your energy, please put some healthy carrots on the corned beef. - Archi 2nd March 06

Tim. - Our honorable Prime Minister Jim Marurai says that NZ High Commissioner Dr. Woonton and Wellington based Developer Tim Tepaki are the driving forces behind a movement that want to bring the
Government down ! - Please don´t follow that road. Our Government is just a year in power and they drive a libaral policy that allowes everyone to exist. - Even you and me ! They settled the old Vaima-
anga debt to make the way free for further developments. As fas as I can see the PM and Cabinet didn´t do any major mistakes. Tim you should be busy preparing the two big Hotel developments ! How
come that you have time to endanger our political peace ? Please don´t be greedy, you got loads of promises to keep. Tim where are the engineers that build the streets and the artifical lagoon. Archi 3rd

Prime Minister Jim Marurai says that Tepakis method of "buying" peoples support are "corruption". He seeks legal advice. - Tim, please don´t ruin your reputation before shifting the first stone. - Archi 4th

Tim, you political friend Dr. Woonton has been sacked from his job as Cook Islands High Commissioner in Wellington / NZ. - His behaviour towards the country and the government has been illoyal. There
might come up some realy bad story´s soon how you two dealed when Dr. Woonton has been Prime Minister and High Commissioner. - For example not tendering the replacement of the existing CI High Commission Building in Wellington by a multi story - multi million dollar building !!! - For example writing refunds of expensive reroutings of the main road on Rarotonga into Environment Impact Assessment Papers in 2004 !!! - Better you do a public and written "Who pays the rerouting of the main road commitment now" - think about it. - Also your political friend Piho Rua / MP for Rakahanga, who showed a
bad work attitude being minister for a couple of month and later on sold bad quality copies of a brandnew Cinema Movie without having the copyrights. Tim stay away from politics. Do your job as a de-
veloper & businessmen. Which church are you going to ? Where is all the engineers for rerouting the main road, for the artifical lagoon, for the water and power systems ? - Grad. Eng. Archi 07th March

Tim, the CI Herald mentioned a new name as a second possible investor, the "Strategic Finance Ltd". Who are these people, what do we have to know about them ? - How many people are employed by
the Tepakigroup Ltd. based in Wellington / NZ. - Or is it only you ? - How much money does the Tepakigroup Ltd. owes how may different banks. We would like to know more by now ! - Archi 07th March

Tim you have said : " But what can one expect from politicians who taste power for the first time ? They become corrupted " (Cook Islands News 7th March 2006 - page 5) You said that concerning the
Hon. Prime Minister Jim Marurai and Hon. Minister Wilkie Rasmussen. - - - Can you give any proof or evidence ! --- Tim you are about to loose nerves and a nervous businessman is a dead business
men. Have you ever been in power as an elected politician ? Please take a week off. Go out and watch an island night, get a bit drunk, take a taxi into a hotel. You are sleeping in an office by now. Go to church on Sunday. Feel the spirit of being part of something bigger and more important. You are not on island time yet. This is Rarotonga, not Wellington. Please check your motivation. - your friend Archi

Tim Tim Tim - looking into todays CI News you get a response by hon. Minister Wilkie Rasmussen. "Cabinet minister Wilkie Rasmussen says that the Wellington-based property developer Tim Tepaki has
been a master of deception since his arrival back into the Cook Islands with the Vaimaanga Hotel project." - "Tepaki therefore then embarked on a mission to change any Cook Islands governments that
were not compatible with him," says Rasmussen. "He has boasted to me and other people be barely knew about his power to destroy governments and to form new ones." The minister says that when
he was High Commissioner in Wellington he got to know Tepaki and "Tepaki was the most egoistical person that I have ever met in my life" and Rasmussen continued "He has burned a lot of people in his
dealings and has left trails of debt in New Zealand and here in the Cook Islands." - Tim, what about taking a 3 week holiday and start with a fresh smile then. Let things calm down please. Archi 08 March

Kia orana Tim, last week you´ve said "... in order to focus on developments that will allow our displaced people to return home". That is a nice attitude. Please follow it more determined. - Archi 9th March

Goood morning Tepakigroup Ltd. - Audit Office confirmed that looking into Capt. Cook Environment Impact Assessment paper is on their work list now. - Grad. Eng. Volker Goebel aka Archi 13rd March 06

Rarotonga, the island of love ...