Philanthropist Sir Mark Dunajtschik addressing Wellington City Council about a plan to buy the land underneath the Reading Cinema building. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
A company registered to property mogul Eyal Aharoni, who is behind some of the capital\u2019s largest earthquake-strengthening projects<\/a>, gave $10,000.<\/p>\n Another $10,000 came from developer Craig Walton and his family through his property business BBV Ltd.<\/p>\n A further $10,000 came from The Thorndon Group, owned by businessman Wayne Coffey, who also gave Chung $10,000.<\/p>\n Malcolm Gillies, another developer, gave $5000 through the company Gillies Group.<\/p>\n Another $5000 came through company EA Rate Ltd, owned by David Black.<\/p>\n NME Group Ltd, which describes itself as Wellington\u2019s largest electrical, mechanical and service solution providers, gave Better Wellington $5000.<\/p>\n A donation of $35,000 came from Tirohanga Ltd, a company which has been removed from the companies register, as well as $5000 from an organisation called The Houghton Limited, which does not appear on the register.<\/p>\n Only donations over a $1500 threshold must be declared under electoral rules.<\/p>\n Of the $157,000 declared, Better Wellington spent $95,995, largely on billboards, posters, and other advertising.<\/p>\n The group thinned throughout the campaign, with three candidates cutting ties<\/a> after Chung\u2019s email scandal. <\/p>\n Only Andrea Compton, who left the group, and Chung were elected to the council.<\/p>\n It was also criticised for its social media presence which saw attacks on rival candidates and left-wing councillors, including one post which labelled Councillor Rebecca Matthews a \u201cretard\u201d and \u201cgrift monkey\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selkirk, who won an Oscar for his editing of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,4057,9442,8834,116653,1738,114137,2199,10039,5205,50109,209,305,300,111,43,139,69,22393,54547,12860,1517,52],"class_list":["post-184576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-behind","tag-better","tag-big","tag-bigmoney","tag-campaign","tag-chungs","tag-city","tag-controversial","tag-council","tag-donors","tag-group","tag-have","tag-money","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ray","tag-reshape","tag-revealed","tag-reveals","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wellington businessman Eyal Aharoni gave $10,000 to the Better Wellington campaign through company PPG1 Limited. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n