Winston Peters' lawyer Brian Henry, left, is a founding director of New Zealand Future Forest Products. Company appoints additional directorsToday, Future Forest Products said it did not make a formal application to the One Billion Trees fund. The sole shareholder of Future Forest Products is Kinleith Continuation LP, a limited partnership of which David Henry is the public partner. In its statement, Future Forest Products said it was "entirely financed by private equity" via Kinleith Continuation but would always be majority New Zealand-owned. National Party regional development spokesman Chris Bishop has called for the auditor-general to investigate Future Forest Products' dealings with the Provincial Growth Fund.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 18, 2019 03:33 UTC