QC enters fight over rehab centre closure

Questions are being raised over the closure of the Laura Fergusson Trust Rehabilitation Centre - the only specialised facility of its kind for disabled people in Auckland. The Trust's board spent $670-thousand dollars of public money and donations on consultants, while it posted a million-dollar loss in 2019. Auckland company director Victoria Carter, whose niece spent three months at the Centre after a horse-riding accident, is querying that spending and has instructed a QC to seek information from the Trust board. But she says the inquiries have been met with stalling tactics and secrecy.