Doomsday-ready: Dick Smith's 12 years' worth of batteries
![Doomsday-ready: Dick Smith's 12 years' worth of batteries](http://media.apn.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201637/SCCZEN_A_080116NZHNRDICKSMITH1_70x70.jpg?media_subtype_id=16|caption=Court hearings into the collapse of Dick Smith have begun. Photo / Nick Reed)
Twelve years worth of batteries.
On 15 October 2015, nearly three months before Dick Smith collapsed with $400 million in debt, company secretary David Cooke sent an email to chief executive Nick Abboud ...