Dear Queenstown-Lakes District Council,

The QLDC Council report of 30 June 2021 refers to the establishment of a Representation Review Advisory Group, whose responsibility was to make recommendations to the Council on the issue of representation the District.

Would you please provide me with a copy of the report or written recommendations of the Representation Review Advisory Group.

Yours faithfully,

Wayne Hudson

Dear Jane Robertson,

Thank you for your reply.

The PowerPoint presentation you sent me appears to be a document prepared by QLDC rather than by the advisory group, as it contains the QLDC logo and formatting.

While I accept that Bruce Robertson may have spoken to the PowerPoint presentation, I have some doubts that the presentation accurately reflected the findings of the advisory group.

For the advisory group to have done its job properly, there must have been some other documentation that preceded the PowerPoint presentation. In particular, if the advisory board met to discuss the representation review, minutes of their meetings and discussion must have been taken.

This being the case, could you please let me have copies of the minutes of the meetings of the advisory group that preceded the Council presentation.

Yours sincerely,

Wayne Hudson

Dear Jane,

I refer to my earlier email and would remind you that I am still waiting for your reply.

You responded quite quickly to my first email, for which I was both surprised and grateful, and I was hoping you would reply just as promptly to my second email.

But the subsequent delay is concerning. I would like the documents I requested, so that I can use them in order to prepare my submission by Friday 6 August.

I therefore hope that you will reply in time. Otherwise the only inference I will be able to draw is that you have been instructed to delay replying for the remainder of the 20 working day period.

I say "instructed" because I do not believe that you would personally deliberately engage in delaying tactics. Everyone I have spoken to recently considers you to be an honest person of high integrity, who would not choose to indulge in such behaviour.

I hope I am right and that you will let me have the information requested at your earliest convenience (and mine).

Yours sincerely,

Wayne Hudson

Dear Jane,

Thank you for your reply and for furnishing the requested information.

Your assistance is very much appreciated,

Kind regards

Wayne Hudson