: By Laura Mills – Greymouth Star – 15/06/2022 Westland Milk Products has resumed milk collection from Gloriavale’s Lake Haupiri farms, after the Christian community was granted an interim court injunction to prevent the dairy company from withdrawing. Cannan Farming Ltd says it has received ‘role model’ status in past audits…
: RNZ – Newstalk ZB – Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive – 15/06/2022 Gloriavale has sought an interim injunction to force Westland Dairy to continue collecting its milk. Westland suspended collection after Gloriavale was found to have been in breach of labour laws, including child labour. The injunction would force Westland to…
: By Amanda Cropp – Stuff – 15/06/2022 The Gloriavale Christian community has sought a High Court injunction forcing Westland Dairy Company to continue collecting milk from its three farms. The legal action comes less than a week after Westland Dairy Company, announced it would cease taking Gloriavale milk from June…
: RNZ – 15/06/2022 Gloriavale has sought a High Court injunction forcing Westland Milk to continue collecting milk from the community’s dairy farms. Westland Milk announced it would stop collecting milk from the the reclusive West Coast Christian sect’s farms after the Employment Court ruled members of the community who worked…
: By Laura Mills – Greymouth Star – 14/06/2022 Gloriavale says it is working on getting its unprecedented recent apology to those who have left the Lake Haupiri community. The Gloriavale Christian Community leadership issued the public apology on May 27. However, some leavers are asking why is was not sent…
: 1News – Breakfast – 13/06/2022 A Gloriavale leaver says greater agency involvement is needed to ensure there is meaningful change within the tight knit, secretive West Coast community. Gloriavale has come under fire in recent years amid allegations of serious misconduct, including – but not limited to – labour exploitation…
: By Ryan Boswell – 1News – 13/06/2022 Gloriavale’s leadership is rewriting a controversial document that gives husbands complete control over their wives. TVNZ’s Sunday programme has highlighted the pledge members make when they join the West Coast commune, which includes losing the right to say “no” to sex in marriage.…
: 1News – Sunday – Leaving Gloriavale Leaving Gloriavale means leaving your home, your family, maybe everything you’ve ever known. Then heading, with little or no money, into a world you’ve been told is damned. But sometimes you have no choice, because you’ve started questioning the leaders. The tight-knit, secretive Christian…
: By John Campbell – 1News – 12/06/2022 At the end of May, we went to Gloriavale. TVNZ’s Sunday programme had been shooting in Timaru… and on a blue, blue day, we drove north through Geraldine, then Windwhistle (whose name I wanted to use), stopping for a pie at Darfield… and…
: By Laura Mills – Greymouth Star – 09/06/2022 Westland Milk Products announced today it will suspend milk collection from Gloriavale-owned dairy farmers from June 13. In a short statement on behalf of chief executive Richard Wyeth, Chinese-owned Westland Milk said it advised Gloriavale yesterday that it would suspend collection from…