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PORN KING SOUNDS OFF OVER FLIERS: Jonathan How and Lee Matthews The Manawatu Standard 27 April 2010
Commercial rivalries boiled over outside the Erotica Expo at the weekend, as porn king Steve Crow and a Palmerston North sex shop owner clashed over the handing out of fliers. The R18 Shop owner Gordon Arcus was giving out fliers about his shop outside the Convention Centre-held expo at 1pm yesterday, when Mr Crow and two staff members approached him. [Read more…]
Palmerston North Mayor Jono Naylor ordered the billboard outside the Erotica Lifestyles Expo held at the Palmerston North Convention Centre (23-25 April) to be removed after a complainant pointed out to him that the IMAGE on the billboard had previously been deemed “offensive and inappropriate for display on outdoor media, such as billboards” in a 2005 decision issued by the Advertising Standards Authority. [Read more…]
A hardcore porn company Z4K74D (In Liq) – formerly called Vixen Direct Ltd and directed by NZ “Porn King” Steve Crow owed unsecured creditors $262,528 and the IRD $163,550 when put into liquidation on 27 May 2009. It has been unable to pay unsecured creditor Checketts McKay Law of Cromwell (Alan Bevin McKay of 35 The Mall, Cromwell 9342) for legal sevices rendered. The law firm was listed by the Liquidators, Chartered Accountants Meltzer Mason Heath, as one of 50 odd unsecured creditors who would receive nothing from the failed porn company. Mr Alan McKay is currently the Attorney who acts for San Antonio Texas-based company director John M. Carr whose companies are the subject of ongoing investigations by the National Enforcement Unit (N.E.U.) of the NZ Companies Office. John Malcolm Carr (see photo links below) co-directs porn companies Eden Digital Ltd and CVC Group Ltd with Steve Crow. Among his many colourful business interests Crow owns 50% of the shares in 435 Devon Limited that owns the former troubled RSA Clubrooms in New Plymouth.
Photo 1: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg
Photo 2: http://www.bankler.com/AboutUs/JohnMCarr/tabid/130/Default.aspx
Photo 3: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmalcolmcarr
The Last Post has sounded for the battle-scarred New Plymouth RSA club.
The Taranaki Daily News (Wed.10 Feb) has reported that RSA club members are “agreed that what had started the friction [that had led to the closure of the clubrooms] was Steve Crow’s role as a pornographer and his intentions to advertise erotica on a billboard at the RSA site.”
“Under orders from its national executive, the debt-plagued club which has proudly served old soldiers and their families for more than 90 years ceased trading at midnight on Monday.
It now looks extremely unlikely the Devon St East clubrooms will re-open – and already, fellow chartered club the New Plymouth Club has taken over, offering all 1000 RSA members full access to its Gill St premises.”
For more on the damaging impact of porn see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3309941/Last-post-for-the-RSA
On Sunday 31 January 2010, the directors of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Limited issued 149,900 shares to porn mother company – CVC Group Limited – which already owned it. The CVC Group now owns all 150,000 shares. “Porn King” Steve Crow and John M Carr (see photo links) are directors of both companies.
Photo 1: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg
Photo 2: http://www.bankler.com/AboutUs/JohnMCarr/tabid/130/Default.aspx
Photo 3: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmalcolmcarr
They have not supplied to the Registrar of Companies a share issue certificate signed by both directors of Eden Digital. It certainly does not appear on the Companies Office website as of 19 February 2009. The Companies Act 1993 states:
