our abbie catches out penguin by ryan evans
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8/9/2019 Our Abbie catches out Penguin By RYAN EVANS
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Our Abbie catches out Penguin
Eagle-eyed:TaranakiDailyNews gardeningcolumnistAbbie Juryand a gardeningbook shesaysappearsto containplagiarisedcopy.Photo: CAMERON BURNEL
ublisher recallsooks afteragiarism fears
RYAN [email protected]
There are sufficientinstances ofunacknowledgedquotes to make mebreathe the dreadedword: plagiarism.
ABBIEJURY
TARANAKI gardening guruuncovered another case of al-ed plagiarism involving a
ok released by publishinguse Penguin Books.
he accusations against The NZ Fruit Garden, written by
ly Cameron, have caused Pen-n to recall the book, whichs released on Monday.he book contains many sen-ces and passages which seem
have been taken, in some casesrd for word, from various
bsites including Wikipedia.enguin came in for scrutiny
t last year, after the book Theowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaeras found to contain unacknowl-
ged copy which appeared tome from other authors work.
his afternoon Penguin gen-l manager publicity andmotions Sandra Lees said
okshops were being asked tourn all copies of the book.Penguin is taking these
egations very seriously, shed.At the same time Penguin isering a detailed review to de-
mine whether there is anystance to the allegations.Th e r ev ie w w il l r e ve al
ether the suggestions are ac-ate and what further actionl be taken.
Ms Cameron, the author of amber of gardening and cooko ks w ho h as b ee n a f oo d
ter, stylist and editor in bothw Zealand and Britain, could
be contacted for comment.he allegedly plagiarised work
The Tui NZ Fruit Garden wasked up by Taranaki Daily
ws gardening writer Abbiery and her husband, inter-io na l ly r e no wn ed p l an t
breeder and gardener Mark Jury,while reviewing a copy of thebook.
Curious over what appeared tobe inaccurate information, Mrs
Jury began hunting online toprove she was correct but insteadstumbled on passages of workshe had already read in the book.
In her Taranaki Daily Newscolumn, Mrs Jury points out sev-
eral examples of plagiarisedwork including: Cameron: There is an old
adage that an apricot tree willnot grow far from the mother
tree. Wikipedia: There is an old
adage that an apricot tree willnot grow far from the mothertree.
When the Taranaki Daily Newsbegan looking further, numeroussentences of apparently plagiar-ised work were found.
There are sufficient instancesof unacknowledged quotes tomake me breathe the dreadedword: plagiarism, Mrs Jurywrites in her column.
She told the Taranaki DailyNews she believed it was anexample of putting a book to-gether quickly to meet a market.
There were so many caseswhere we had to ask questionsand we just thought this iscrazy.
I was thinking thats reallyodd advice for New Zealand.There were so many anomaliesin it, that s when I started totrack her information sourcesand thats when I started think-
ing the copy was really familiar.Ive read that before. Camerondidnt go very far. For me it wasa straight click through, just likeshe must have done. Who writesa book from Wikipedia?
Ms Lees said the onus lay withthe author to supply the pub-lisher with a text which is freefrom any copyright restriction.
The formal contract betweenpublisher and author specifically
requires this, she said.Penguin sincerely apologises
for any inconvenience this mayhave caused.
Abbies review: page 11
Family of stabbing victim hail courts guilty verdict
Fabian Niwa Peri Niwa
E Niwa family say they finallyve justice for their youngester New Plymouth Black Powermbers were last night foundlty of killing Peri Niwa.Its justice. Its a closure fortoday. Its been a massive,ssive loss, his oldest brother
bian said.eri Niwa who was 31 when hed, had been the much-loved
aby of a family of nine.he family was not looking fordeath penalty and there was
hatred, he said.Its like a disease once you
rt hating.
Mr Niwa was stabbed to deathat the back of a house while flee-ing from Black Power memberswho had turned up armed at aNew Plymouth party.
D ur in g t he t ri al , i t w asrevealed how jealously the BlackPower gang defended its turfagainst the rival Mongrel Mob.
The dead man was not a gangmember, but had the misfortuneto work for a team of scaffoldersrun by an out-of-town MongrelMob member.
The High Court jury in NewPlymouth returned its verdictabout 6pm last night after 112days deliberation.
Matiu Pahau, 22, was foundguilty of Mr Niwas murder. The
other three accused, MahanaEdmonds, 39, Rangi Rick Brown,40, and Adrian Tony Fenton, 27,were found guilty of being par-ties to the manslaughter of MrNiwa at 1A Squire Pl on Novem-ber 15, 2008.
Pahau admitted to stabbing MrNiwa but had given evidence in
the witness box during the 212-week trial to tell the jury he didso in self-defence and by acci-dent.
All four accused were foundguilty of the commission of acrime with a firearm.
Fenton, who was the only oneof the four to plead not guilty tobeing part of an organised crimi-nal group on the night, was foundguilty of the gang-associationcharge.
Outside court, Fabian Niwasaid their family strongly disap-proved of gangs.
It was really hard for us.What came out in court blew usaway.
We are not the type of family
to have anything to do with allthat gang stuff.
His 71-year-old mother hadattended every court day, holdinga photo of Peri in her arms. Shehad left the court rather thanhear Pahau s apology for hersons death.
She is struggling. It has beenreal hard for her. He was herbaby.
The police and the anonymouswitnesses who were prepared togive evidence were unsungheroes, he said.
Of the hundreds of kids at theparty that night only a few cameforward to give their evidence,Fabian and his wife, CarolynNiwa, said.
We are so grateful that ahandful got up and they wantedto make a change. We know howhard it was on them in a BlackPower town.
These idiots that didn t, Ih op e they have a niceChristmas.
Peri is buried on the familymarae at Kairau. Fabian said thefamily was now planning anunveiling of his headstone,which was postponed while theywent through the extended courtprocess over the last 18 months.
Crown prosecutor CherieClarke said last night that theverdicts were the result of thediligence of the New Plymouthpolice, of the courage of the for-
mer Black Power sergeant-at-arms, Ricky Riccardo Murraywho had given evidence for thCrown.
Ms Clarke also praised theextreme courage of the anony-mous witnesses and the courorders that allowed them to givevidence in a way that let themfeel secure.
The public could have confi-dence in providing informatioto the police about serious crime,Ms Clarke said.
After the jurys verdicts, Jus-tice Raynor Asher QC, of Auck-land, thanked the jury for theirservice. The judge convicted thefour men and remanded them forsentencing on August 16.