Left to Right:
Ross Buckley, Angela Hauk-Willis, Gaven Martin, Michelle Matson, Paul Brock, Alistair Davis, Jan Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, Jo Davidson, Jerry Mateparae, Caren Rangi and Rebecca Argyle. (Note: Jan Thomas - pictured - was appointed Chairperson of the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council — one of Massey's own accrediting bodies — on July 1, 2026, having served as Vice-Chancellor of Massey University until January 2026, and thus having headed the institution during which period the events
documented in this publication occurred. Readers, and particularly pet owners, should note the
incestuous nature at the top of the international veterinary sector's governance and accreditation food chain.)
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On July 3, 2026, eight non-staff members of the Massey University Council were sent, by tracked courier, a formal brief documenting the
gross clinical, legal and ethical failures that form the subject of this publication's ongoing investigation into the abuse, torture and killing of a private fee-paying client's deeply beloved pet -
a little blind papillon, "Harry" - at Massey University's Companion Animal "Hospital" on December 1, 2025.
The brief took the form of the full published response to a recent email from
Veterinary "Science" Dean Jon Huxley . . . essentially an updated version of
Huxley's same January 30, 2026 letter in which he issued a legal threat to silence the author (myself, Harry's owner).
My
published response to Huxley had, in turn, summarised the numerous core elements of the case, including some of the information contained in the
342-page report to the Ministry of Primary Industries' animal welfare team that currently has Massey's Veterinary Teaching Hospital aka
Companion Animal "Hospital" under active investigation.
Each of the named eight was served at their respective external corporate addresses (i.e. those other entities at which they hold directorships, consulting roles or the like), rather than through Massey's own mail room. I had little doubt that had I sent anything to these directors through Massey itself, those packages either would not have been passed on, or would not have been passed on without their being opened, and likely also not without
Dean Jon Huxley and
Director of Legal and "Governance" Jodie Banner having their external legal provider draft a cover-up story alternative brief . . . almost certainly employing Huxley's favourite term, "wholly unfounded". (To be noted, his usage of that term to refute every element of forensically detailed evidence published across my
now more than 60 detailed articles, renders his own
claims of institutional innocence
more than wholly unfounded.)
So . . . Massey University Councillors (Alistair Davis, Chancellor; Caren Rangi, Pro-Chancellor; and Council members Paul Brock, Ross Buckley, Jo Davidson, Mark Ratcliffe, Sir Jerry Mateparae, and Angela Hauk-Willis) can NOT claim this information never found its way to them, was redirected, filtered, managed, or "summarised" by Massey's institutional apparatus before it reached them. It was logistically designed to have reached them
INTACT.
That matters. Because
under the Education and Training Act 2020 and the legal duties that attach to every member of a New Zealand university council,
receiving this information is NOT a neutral "FYI" event.
What Receiving It Means Legally to Members of the Massey University Council
A Massey University Council member is
not
a passive figurehead. Or certainly they are not intended to be, and legally and statutorily expected
not to be.
Much as the institution's management might like them to be, and much as they might be in practice.
But legally speaking, they have very specific, undeniable legal and statutory responsibilities.
Under the
Education and Training Act 2020 and the Crown Entities Act 2004, these specific non-staff Massey University Council members (Davis, Rangi, Buckley, Brock, Ratcliffe, Davidson, Mateparae, Hauk-Willis)
hold personal fiduciary duties, and
responsibility for the ethics of the institution they govern.
They're legally required to ensure the institution
acts with integrity, manages risk appropriately, and
complies with its statutory obligations. They're required to act in the best interests of the institution — which, in this context,
means addressing documented systemic failures (as opposed to
protecting the individuals responsible for them) and not, among other acts, tolerating Massey’s Director of
Legal and Governance, Jodie Banner’s overtly and blatantly dishonest tactics (stay tuned for my upcoming article that will specifically dissect, including graphically, her appallingly dishonest May 13 OIA "response"), in her
Official Information Act and Privacy Act information request replies . . .
those she actually answers, that is.
Plausible deniability — the institutional fallback position of "we didn't know" — is no longer available to these eight individuals . . . about any part of this
very large, multi-faceted systemically
rot-ridden mosaic of
heinous events
at the "university" they
supposedly govern (including, notably, its
grossly unfit-for-purpose "veterinary school" teaching environment).
They were directly and personally served.
They now know - even
if the Dean and the Chancellor might have kept it - or the truthful and full details of the matter - from them prior.
The question that now attaches to each of them individually is:
What did they do about it? Or what WILL they do about it? Is their personal brand of loyalty one of
misguided bro-ship to the institution? Or will they be ethical, responsible and loyal to their
legal and directorial obligations, and thus to the public, the donors, the taxpayers,
and the clients . . . all of whom fund their directors' fees and the upkeep of the
hallowed halls
down which they proudly (without due cause, in my experience) strut.
The Eight Who Were Served
Alistair Davis ONZM — Chancellor, Massey University — served at Toyota New Zealand, 29 Roberts Line, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North.
Caren Rangi ONZM — Pro-Chancellor, Massey University — served at Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington.
Paul Brock — Council Member, Massey University — served at Chubb Life Insurance New Zealand, Level 24, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, Wellington.
Ross Buckley — Council Member, Massey University — served at ASB Bank, Level 2, ASB North Wharf, 12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland.
Jo Davidson — Council Member, Massey University — served at LandCorp Farming (Pāmu), Level 2, 15 Allen Street, Te Aro, Wellington.
Mark Ratcliffe — Council Member, Massey University — served at First Gas Topco, 42 Connett Road West, Bell Block, New Plymouth.
Sir Jerry Mateparae GNZM — Council Member, Massey University — served at Institute for Strategic Leadership, 2/8 Commerce Street, Auckland.
Angela Hauk-Willis — Council Member, Massey University — served at FireSuper Trustee Ltd, Level 2, 20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.
Each holds or has held a senior governance role in his or her own right.
Each understands what
fiduciary duty and
directorial obligations mean.
And each now holds personal knowledge of
what this investigation has documented . . . that the
Ministry of Primary Industries' Animal Welfare investigations team is active
. . . that the
Law Society complaint is under way against the Veterinary Council CEO (Iain McLachlan) for his collusion with Huxley to avert natural justice
. . . . that the
international accreditors having been formally notified by international tracked courier.
And oh, so much more. With oh, SO much more yet to come.
The public record is extensive,
growing, and will continue to grow even more expansively. (In other words, this case isn't going away, and neither am I . . . as I advised Huxley and his "proteges" way back on January 16 this year,
they can't wipe me out and they can't wait me out.
They really did kill the wrong woman's dog . . . All the
legal fees they've paid having me profiled and trawling through every article I publish would have been better employed profiling me
before they decided Harry was the ideal training tool and could be conveniently dispensed with afterwards . . . because an
investigative journalist probably shouldn't have been their first choice of pet owner for that purpose.)
What the Massey University Council members individually and collectively do — or don't do — with the
information now in their personal possession
will form part of what is becoming a very, very public record . . . and will soon grow exponentially over on the sister platform of this publication, the
International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE.org).
Waiting . . .
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NOTICE TO READERS:
In response to the rapidly expanding proportion of (a) international readers, and (b) readers coming exclusively to
The Customer & The Constituent for updates in the "Massey debacle", at some point soon and following the scheduled publication of several further core articles, we will look at moving this ongoing Massey expose series across fully to The International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE).
IIIVE.org is the sister platform borne out of the need to shine a strong and unyielding spotlight on the ethics - or in far too many instances, the appalling lack thereof - in the broader veterinary industry internationally . . . with a central focus remaining on Massey and its Veterinary "Teaching Hospital" as one of the spawning grounds of the very issues being seen throughout the broader sector globally.
