Interesting comments from David Wickham (Philips Search & Rescue Trust)
Sponsors keep Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance helicopter... | Stuff.co.nz
If David Wickham was "nervous" about the outcome of their sponsorship negotiations, one has to wonder how all the Waikato based sponsors of their various Waikato based operations might feel about the potential of Philips resources covering Taranaki workload with funds that will have been donated for the purpose of coverage by their Rescue Helicopter operation in their own local areas.
...and who is the Air Rescue Group?
If the trust were to fold, Taranaki would get temporary crisis help from the Air Rescue Group, made up of eight rescue helicopter trusts including the TRHT.
ARG chairman Ross Black said the group would support the trust in any way it practically could, including providing temporary rescue helicopter coverage for the region.
"If it comes to that, which hopefully it won't, our members will provide coverage as best we are able in the short-term," he said. 
Rescue trust seeking solutions | Stuff.co.nz
If that happens, then clearly someone has some spare money, aircraft, crew and equipment to cover TRHT's SAR and EMS workload, but who will pay in the end? and what benefit will that be to the wider communities of Taranaki who still won't have any answers to "what went wrong", "where their money went" and “why they potentially stand to lose an asset they have well and truly paid for”. And all this at the hand of the current management of Taranaki's own Rescue Helicopter service.
It's a simple concept called 'Accountability'.
No matter what angle we look at this from, and regardless of the 'short-term fixes' on offer, the people of Taranaki absolutely deserve some honest answers to some serious questions about why TRHT is facing imminent failure. Surely it must be time TET, TSB and other major local and national community sponsors insisted on a public investigation of the financial and operational activities of TRHT, and demanded some changes to the management of this vital community asset before we see external operators come in to take what’s left away.
