---
category: "City"
tags:
  - Place
  - NewZealand
  - SouthCanterbury
  - RCHorsch
aliases:
  - Hadlow
summary: "Rural settlement just west of Timaru in South Canterbury, New Zealand, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch lived as Dr Stanley Stokowski until March 1984."
location: "Hadlow, Canterbury, New Zealand"
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---

Hadlow is a rural settlement near [[Timaru]] in South Canterbury, [[New Zealand]].

### The Stokowski Affair

The American known as Dr Stanley Stokowski, a director of the ethanol plant of [[Chemical Technology Limited]] at Clandeboye, lived at Hadlow until mid-March 1984, when he left the country on a stolen passport.[^1] In the weeks that followed, police searched properties at Clandeboye and Hadlow.[^2] The man was the fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]].

### Footnotes

[^1]: "Police look for U.S. chemist," *The Press* (Christchurch), June 6, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840606.2.48
[^2]: "Police seek wife, child," *The Press* (Christchurch), June 13, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840613.2.7