Australia Australia - Marion Barter, 51, missing after trip to UK, June 1997 #11

[hoodunnit]

ABN Lookup

Search name:
Robert Gordon Walker
Postcode 2478 (Ballina postcode)

I'd forgotten about this. I looked up ABN's for the W's last week, but couldn't actually turn up any listings anywhere for any of the business names. Hmmm
When did DdH's parents pass away?

 

[mishy66]

ABN Lookup

Search name:
Robert Gordon Walker
Postcode 2478 (Ballina postcode)

yep.

If you look a little further it lists a bunch of 'brochure services'... ( remind you of someone?)

 

[mishy66]

I'd forgotten about this. I looked up ABN's for the W's last week, but couldn't actually turn up any listings anywhere for any of the business names. Hmmm
When did DdH's parents pass away?

1988 and 1987

 

[BonnieB]

I'm curious about what business he may have been conducting on Norfolk Island back in the mid-sixties

 

[hoodunnit]

Cheers @mishy66
So active from 2002; whoever took out the ABN was not RGW

 

[mishy66]

Interesting to see they've been to New Zealand, in light of @gymtonic's recent post re NZ. I hadn't thought about RB venturing over there, but maybe so. Interesting.

Yes. Like the butcher traveling so much. There are more I just have to find them again.
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Interesting birthdate...

 

[mishy66]

I just wanted to point out that the title "company Director " isn't necessarily some one really wealthy , even though it is a form of wealth creation by millions of people ....

A friend of mine for example received a payout re thalidomide . His father who was a publican at the time sent up a family trust like company by buying industrial sheds and his son was considered a Director .
It built his deserved windfall into wealth for his health for life .

I am more referring to the fact that travel costs money and with so much of it going on within the W family, including all the years up until recently, a 'cafe' in the 1960s doesn't cut it for me.

Most of the cards related to this story show "company director" - is all I mean

 

[Liselle]

1988 and 1987

(Hope this isn't breaking rules. Moderator delete if necessary.) Rob Walker Family Trust set up 2 months ago (14/1/2022) in Skenners Head, approx. 5kms north of Ballina. Interesting names, place and timeframe.

 

[gymtonic]

Yes. Like the butcher traveling so much. There are more I just have to find them again.
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Interesting birthdate...

There's a reason that the expression "across the ditch" (or across the dutch if you are a Kiwi! sorry @KiwiNZ) was coined. Travel and migration between NZ and Oz in the late 1960s and 1970s was exploding and required little paperwork and provided many reciprocal arrangements (work, social security etc). I wouldn't be surprised if this butcher wasn't the only one travelling frequently at this time. Is this the suspected MJR? I thought he was discussed and ruled out? I remember, along with another WS member, commenting that anyone who writes Kiwi on a border control card has an antipodean sense of humour and disdain!

EDIT: Found it! Australia - Marion Barter, 51, missing after trip to UK, June 1997 #10

 

[Estelle]

Yes

i ruled this one out as he has an English wife FER. Who travelled with him

He also came on a holiday here for 18 days only.

 

[gymtonic]

I'm curious about what business he may have been conducting on Norfolk Island back in the mid-sixties

Tax Haven take your pick

 

[MrsWattle]

Name search.
Michael John Reid

ABN Lookup

Take your pick plenty of business registrations in different locations.

 

[Estelle]

Yes. Like the butcher traveling so much. There are more I just have to find them again.
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Interesting birthdate...

He had been in Australia for 18 months and is now divorced.

 

[Estelle]

I am more referring to the fact that travel costs money and with so much of it going on within the W family, including all the years up until recently, a 'cafe' in the 1960s doesn't cut it for me.

Most of the cards related to this story show "company director" - is all I mean

On one of those trips he simply took the family to New Zealand for two weeks perhaps in the school holidays.

 

[mishy66]

(Hope this isn't breaking rules. Moderator delete if necessary.) Rob Walker Family Trust set up 2 months ago (14/1/2022) in Skenners Head, approx. 5kms north of Ballina. Interesting names, place and timeframe.

That is interesting!

 

[Estelle]

I am more referring to the fact that travel costs money and with so much of it going on within the W family, including all the years up until recently, a 'cafe' in the 1960s doesn't cut it for me.

Most of the cards related to this story show "company director" - is all I mean

You can be a non-working director as an investor in several companies.

 

[Estelle]

(Hope this isn't breaking rules. Moderator delete if necessary.) Rob Walker Family Trust set up 2 months ago (14/1/2022) in Skenners Head, approx. 5kms north of Ballina. Interesting names, place and timeframe.

Very interesting!

 

[gymtonic]

Thanks Gymtonic, another puzzle solved, indebted

it was a hunch but it turns out to be the case because it is on the NAA document View digital copy
NAA p16 as RA 10.1 form with the number A189573

 

[Estelle]

Tax Haven take your pick

Often people who were not born on Norfolk Island owned accommodation.

 

[centred]

I am more referring to the fact that travel costs money and with so much of it going on within the W family, including all the years up until recently, a 'cafe' in the 1960s doesn't cut it for me.

Most of the cards related to this story show "company director" - is all I mean

Yeah i knew what you meant but I wasn't never certain just a cafe was a fact for it to be enough to travel etc besides one cafe can be a franchise for example , the idea from a cafe only came about by him mentioning he worked at their cafe I didn't really ever take that to mean that was all they did or owned or why they traveled a lot and owned exclusive addresses , As far as I know we don't know what and how they gained their wealth or why they have a business or investments or directorships , That was my point as well , as it is quite common , unless you already know they are crooks or something untoward ?
All I know for sure is that Rb and DdH were left in the will .