Bridgecorp Ltd

A specialist property finance company that failed July 2007

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Bailey, Margaret, collector: [Invoices for services, businesses, banking, finance, 1980...

Date: 1980 - 1999

By: Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-; Bailey, John Patrick Macarthur (Dr), 1943-2005

Reference: Eph-B-FINANCE-Bailey-1980/1999-1

Description: Material kept as examples of companies' letterhead and branding at specific dates. Includes statements, invoices and communications to Dr John P M Bailey and Dr Margaret Bailey, from the following: AMP Life, AMP Services (NZ) Ltd Australian Mutual Provident Society AXA New Zealand AXA Asia Pacific Bank of New Zealand, BNZ Finance Ltd Bridgecorp Limited BT Funds Management Ltd Chevron International Investment Services Ltd CIGNA Life Insurance New Zealand Ltd Colonial First State Investments Computershare Contact Energy Ltd Countrywide Bank DFC, Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand Equitable Group; Equitilink Group FAI Metlife Farrow Corporation NZ Ltd; Farrow Finance Ltd Government Superannuation Fund Guardian Trust Henderson Group plc ING (NZ) Ltd Inland Revenue Department Joseph Banks Trusts Ltd Kiwibank Ltd Macquarie Investment Services Ltd Medical Securities Ltd MFL Mutual Fund Arranged alphabetically by company within folder; please keep in order. Accompanying detailed documentation in spreadsheet provided by Dr Margaret Bailey, at CLIO#573993 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and computer printout on sheets, sizes varying around 297 x 210 mm.

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- : 'Trusting the system...' 29 March 2012

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020624

Description: Refers to the Bridgecorp scandal. Rob Roest, along with fellow directors Rod Petricevic and Peter Steigrad - are accused of misleading investors in Bridgecorp prospectuses and offer documents and are on trial in the High Court at Auckland. Black and white versions of this cartoon available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :[Finance director jailed]. 26 April 2012

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021004

Description: The cartoon shows a grim prison cell block wall in silhouette with a downward trending line graph in one of the barred windows. Rob Petrivcevic, former chief executive of the failed finance company Bridgecorp, had just been jailed for misleading investors and making false statements. Colour and black and white versions available Alternate version of DCDL-0021005 Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :"Sucked in by a pack of lies in a flash finance company pro...

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0021005

Description: The cartoon shows two prisoners in a cell. Voices can be heard from outside the cell - another says: "...I lost everything and so was forced into crime to survive..." The prisoner sitting on the bottom bunk asks his cellmate "..what are you in for mate?" The inmate on the top bunk hides under his bedding. Rob Petrivcevic, former chief executive of the failed finance company Bridgecorp, had just been jailed for misleading investors and making false statements. Colour and black and white versions available Alternate version of DCDL-0021004 Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :'Hey Bluey - got any fags?'. 17 April 2012

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Fairfax Media Limited (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0020874

Description: A prison inmate wants to borrow a cigarette from a neighbour who is prepared to give it to him at a cost. Someone from the next cell overhears and asks them if they want to double their cigarettes. Context: Refers to the jailing of Rob Petrivcevic, former chief executive of the failed finance company Bridgecorp, for misleading investors and making false statements. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :"Why not? I got millions from Bridgecorp.." 13 July 2011

Date: 2011

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018311

Description: The cartoon is headed 'Duvet man...' and shows a man sitting under a blanket in the street holding out a begging bowl. The man, Rod Petricevic, says 'Why not? I got millions from Bridgecorp..' Context - An application by Petricevic for his trial to be deferred because he could not afford legal representation was declined by Justice Geoffrey Venning. The Legal Services Agency said he could use money in a family trust to fund his defence. Petricevic, along with four other Bridgecorp directors - Rob Roest, Gary Urwin, Peter Steigrad, and Bruce Davidson - face Securities Act charges, with the trial due to start on August 8. The 'duvet man' is a reference to the 'blanket man', Ben Hana, a homeless man who has become a feature of Wellington streets. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :No bailiff - not his TRUSS. I said his assets are hidden in...

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018301

Description: A bailiff in court reaches into the trousers of the accused; the judge calls out 'No bailiff - Not his truss. I said his assets are hidden in his TRUST!' Context - Rod Petricevic, along with four other Bridgecorp directors - Rob Roest, Gary Urwin, Peter Steigrad, and Bruce Davidson - face Securities Act charges, with the trial due to start on August 8. Petricevic applied for his trial to be deferred because he could not afford legal representation but the application was declined by Justice Geoffrey Venning. The Legal Services Agency said he could use money in a family trust to fund his defence. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :"While the Board regrets that yet another director has been...

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022656

Description: Cartoon in two panels. The first shows a couple of dignified businessmen. One of them says that while the Board regrets that yet another director has been sent to prison. In the second panel the two are in a prison cell with two other men. The man concludes '... we're delighted to again have a quorum!' Context: Neal Nicholls, Wayne Douglas and Owen Tallentire, Directors of Capital + Merchant Finance, were jailed for fraud, adding to the number of other finance companies which have been involved in fraud cases recently (National Business Review 2 Nov 2012). Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :"They've had enough of freezing cold days and nights and wa...

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022011

Description: The top frame shows the barbed wire and watch tower of a prison. There is a comment about someone wanting the warmth of a prison cell. The second frame shows prison staff chatting at cross purposes about a petition from Christchurch with homes wrecked by earthquake pleading to be allowed to live in prison and the sentence imposed on the Bridgecorp directors who have been accused of defrauding investors. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :'Everyone else at Bridgecorp denies responsibility for misl...

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0020563

Description: Three men from the 'SFO' 'Serious Fraud Office' turn the spotlight on a cleaner because everyone else at Bridgecorp denies responsibility. Context: Rob Roest, along with fellow directors Rod Petricevic and Peter Steigrad - are accused of misleading investors in Bridgecorp prospectuses and offer documents and are on trial in the High Court at Auckland. It was "human nature" for a co-accused to attempt to "mitigate their position" when standing trial, Petricevic's lawyer Charles Cato said. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Bridgecorp - before ... after. 1 May 2011

Date: 2012

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021336

Description: Shows two frames in which a man representing 'Bridgecorp' smashes a rock that represents 'investors' and then 'after' is seen in prison garb smashing plain rocks in a quarry. Context: Refers to the jailing of Rob Petrivcevic, former chief executive of the failed finance company Bridgecorp, for misleading investors and making false statements. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"A group of Bridgecorp investors have occupied all the toilets and would like you to fl...

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016888

Description: An air hostess tells the pilot that 'a group of Bridgecorp investors have occupied all the toilets and would like [him] to fly over the home of a Mister Rod Petricevic'. Context - Rod Petricevic is one of the former Bridgecorp directors along with Robert Roest. Petricevic and Roest, the managing director and chief financial officer respectively of the failed finance company, appeared in the Auckland District Court 18 January 2011 charged with the fraudulent acquisition of a $1.8 million luxury boat using Bridgecorp investors' money. Petricevic also faces a separate charge of making dishonest payments of $1.2m of Bridgecorp funds to a business entity called ABb. (NZH 18 January 2011) Colour and black and white versions available. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

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100% pure New Zealand. 29 December, 2007

Date: 2007

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0004729

Description: Shows a lahar in which flounder people and objects in the news for (mainly) negative reasons in 2007. They include Bridgecorp, a finance company that collapsed, an armed policeman involved in the anti-terrorist raids, the Eiffel tower commemorating the Rugby World Cup in which the All Blacks did not shine, a Taranaki cyclone, a colossal squid caught by a fishing vessel in the Ross Sea, MP, Taito Philip Field on corrupton charges, a diver with a military cross stolen from the Army Museum at Waiouru, Refugee Ahmed Zaoui, at last free after several years of being jailed as a terrorist suspect, MPs Trevor Mallard and Tau Henare having a fight, for which Trevor Mallard got into very hot water, a Harry Potter book, a Ribena box, Ribena having been discovered by two schoolgirls to be making fraudulent claims about its vitamin C levels, MP Steve Maharey who has decided to retire from politics, Fijian dictator Commodore Frank Bainimarama, and lastly National MP Tony Ryall who let the cat out of the bag when he announced that National would ditch limits on doctors' fee increases if they got into power in the 2008 election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Mum and Dad Investors. National Finance 2000, Western Bay, Bridgecorp Limited, Provinci...

Date: 2007

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0003544

Description: Two climbers wearing packs labelled, 'Mum and Dad Investors' and 'Bridgecorp Advisers' realise that the slope they are attempting is very dangerous with large boulders named after various investment organisations crashing towards them. Refers to the failure of Bridgecorp Limited which is a specialist property finance company that has meant that many investors are in danger of losing their savings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).