The debt relates to a personal guarantee he made over the lease of one of the failed chain’s stores.
Waterstone Insolvency directors proposed as alternative liquidators to Calibre Partners duo, with a meeting set for next Thursday.
Jane Wrightson has delivered her final policy review, with recommendations targeting parental leave and temporary visa holders.
The Kiwi ed-tech company was valued at more than US$175 million last August.
A drop in critical mineral prices and weakened share prices of its listed peers are behind the move.
But the market regulator is talking up year-on-year ‘tangible differences’ in its latest annual report and Ease of Doing Business survey.
World’s second-largest shipper is reviewing its service to the South Island’s main ocean gateway, as worker tensions come to a head.
There have also been 25 redundancies in a year of a ‘significant amount of activity and changes’.
Government cuts funding for non-commercial services.
Liquidators had Rickhil Prakash’s property investment company assets frozen earlier this year.