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Industrial suburb five kilometres north of central Timaru, where the fugitive R.C. Horsch ran a mail-order computer software exchange as Dr Stanley Stokowski. | Washdyke, Timaru, New Zealand | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-23 |
Washdyke is an "industrial suburb 5 km north of Timaru's city centre" in South Canterbury, New Zealand. "Its first industry was a boiling-down works, opened in 1869. Its industries today include a substantial brewery." The Washdyke Lagoon lies to the east; because the coastline changed after Timaru's port was built, it is much smaller than it once was.1
The Stokowski Affair
The American known as Dr Stanley Stokowski, a director of Chemical Technology Limited, "also ran a computer software exchange at Washdyke," The Press reported in June 1984.2 He sold the mail-order business to a Timaru man before he left, and mail was forwarded to a Christchurch box number that proved to be bogus.3 He was the fugitive R.C. Horsch.
Footnotes
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Wilson, John. "South Canterbury places: Timaru," Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, February 28, 2007, updated August 17, 2015. http://web.archive.org/web/20260208224555/https://teara.govt.nz/en/south-canterbury-places/page-6 ↩︎
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"Police look for U.S. chemist," The Press (Christchurch), June 6, 1984 (Press Association, Timaru). https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840606.2.48 ↩︎
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"Where has 'Dr Stokowski' gone?," The Press (Christchurch), June 9, 1984. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840609.2.9 ↩︎