A repost and update of this old article from 2017. The video was censored from NZ television.

“Also disturbing are the birth defects documented by a local midwife, and the fact that Ivon Watkins Dow continued to manufacture 2-4-5-T in New Zealand until 1987, making us the last country in the world to manufacture the dangerous substance.”
The Green Party NZ

“Outbreaks of rare diseases and tumours are appearing in clusters around New Zealand, close to chemical factories. Why doesn’t the Government want to investigate? Simon Jones discovers what the authorities don’t want you to know…“

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Dioxin is featuring right now with the train spill in the US and the town of Palestine in Ohio. It has all the appearances of cover up of course. Listen to this young woman speaking out on that. (Isn’t it curious that these folks were supplied with a free digital health tracking device a week prior to the spill?)

I’ve also added an article on Dioxin from NZ’s Dr Sam Bailey.

Here is a link to our original article:
CENSORED FROM NZ TELEVISION – IVON WATKINS DOW’S RELEASE OF DEADLY 245T FROM 1962-81 IN NEW PLYMOUTH

(Note: alternative video link here)

In preparing this I spent some considerable hours finding a copy of the doco and one that would allow me to upload to an alternative platform. Also to locate the original info as most of the links were either faulty (wrong info) or dead. It’s advisable now to keep entire copies of material rather than just links. If you have related info now missing from the article do please let me know in comments or via the contact form. Be sure to read to the end, there’s interesting NZ info now also deleted from the net. EWR

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Additional Historical Info:
This piece copied from disarmsecure.org back in 2013 is now absent from the net. The new website (if you follow the source link at the end) does not appear to have the original pdf I’ve quoted from. Hopefully it can still be located …. somewhere. Let me know if you have a link. There are some unfinished sentences unfortunately but you will get the gist of the information which concerns the alleged production of Agent Orange at the New Plymouth plant …. EWR ….

“In November 1990 NZ undertook a ‘national trial inspection’ to determine the feasibility of a small country inspecting a chemical plant to verify non-production of CW agents and compliance with a CWC. The mock inspection was carried out at the Ivon Watkins-Dow (now Dow-Elanco) herbicide plant suspected of producing defoliant for the Vietnam war in 1967. The ‘inspection’ was said to be successful in that the ‘inspectors’ were able to satisfy themselves that no CWE agents were being produced.

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Ironically this inspection took place within a few months of the Select Committee announcing that it was unable to determine whether military defoliant production had taken place at that very same plant in the ’60s. The trial inspection report was presented to the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva in February 1991 by the NZ permanent representative to the CD. In the course of his speech the representative, a professional diplomat, made the following astonishing Statement New Zealand does not have, and has never had chemical weapons. We do not allow chemical weapons to be stationed on our territory.

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More untruths could hardly be squeezed into two such small sentences. New Zealand does have chemical weapons – on board RNZN ships, if nowhere else. New Zealand has had chemical weapons – in both World Wars. New Zealand has taken no steps to prevent stationing of CW agents, and the NZ Nuclear Free Zone, disarmament and Arms Control Act makes no reference to CW at all. There is no agreement with the US to prevent it bringing chemical weapons into its Deepfreeze base at Christchurch airport, and New Zealand has relinquished any inspection rights over those facilities

New Zealand and the CWC

New Zealand is now a signatory to the CWC, one of several arms control agreements which New Zealand is realistically capable of violating. New Zealand has both owned  and used chemical weapons of the sort soon to be banned by the CWC, as summarized below, and for all we know could still ageing stocks of such weapons in the future. The facts about the history of New Zealand’s ownership and use of chemical weapons are still not clear. However research undertaken in the NZ National Archives over the past 12 months `and already summarized in this report

discloses the following CWC-relevant activities as a minimum:

1 New Zealand forces used chemical weapons in Belgium and France during World War I on about the same scale, relatively speaking, as did British forces, and about as indiscriminately. Toxic phosgene and non-toxic tear gas seem to have been the main agents used. In at least one instance NZ artillery seems to have bombarded a town  containing civilians.

2 New Zealand apparently first became interested in acquiring its own reserve stocks of gas shell about the time the Geneva Protocol on gas warfare was signed in 1925. Whether such stocks were then actually acquired I

3 New Zealand actively supported retention of the ‘right’ of chemical retaliation when the question of banning CW entirely was raised at the 1932 Disarmament Conference.

4 During World War 2 New Zealand was involved in research, development and production of CW weaponry.

5 During World War II New Zealand acquired a considerable quantity of chemical weapons. Some may have accompanied the 3rd Division to the Pacific. The main stockpile was stored at Belmont between 1942 and 1946, and included l 12770 rounds of 25-pounder mustard shell 15 300 gas bombs for’4.2-inch mortar.

6 The ultimate fate of this CW arsenal is not clear. Some may have been transferred to US forces, in the Pacific. In 1946 some 1500 tons of 25 pounder shells and 20 tons of  mortar bombs were dumped off Cape Palliser. This would be equal to about 135 000 shells and 2200 gas bombs. A further 200 tons were dumped in Hauraki Gulf. Other gas munitions may have been dumped as late as 1957.

7 RNZN ships apparently continue to carry tear gas munitions for riot control operations ‘in aid of the civil power’. A cursory examination of the text of the CWC indicates that the following obligations are possibly pertinent with respect to New Zealand, given that New Zealand has been involved in CW and preparations for CW to at least the extent described above.

Pasted from <http://www.disarmsecure.org/A%20History%20of%20New%20Zealand%20Chemical%20Warfare.pdf>

Note: interesting info and feedback also on the Paritutu site at the image credit link below.

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