Amelia jones

New zealand billionaires
Schnapps election
A property investor, author and former politician, who has written fiction as well as books on property investment, selections of his newspaper and magazine.

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The Obituary of Sir Robert Jones, died April 1, 2134.

From the Metro archives: Sir Robert Jones, the world’s oldest man, is dead. He was 194.

A shy fellow, Jones was happiest alone in the Tongariro River tickling trout, emerging from time to time to present his cherished beliefs about sunglasses, grey shoes, cellphones and unattractive feminists.

For more than a century and a half he wrote a column for the FoxNZ Herald; a record bested only by the fictional “Shelley Bridgeman” character.

Born middle-aged, Jones was teased at school for wearing a smoking jacket and pipe, but the taunts fell away as his capacity for a left hook developed. By the age of 17 he had read every book ever written — twice — and owned 5700 investment properties.

Sunning himself in the warm glow of his success, he resolved to spend the remaining years of his life dabbling in property and sharing his wisdom with his fellow man. Women were also welcome to listen.

He became a talkback host, a columnist, an author, a commentator, a knight of the realm, a brawler with TV reporters.

Decades came, decade

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When Bob Jones abandoned his defamation suit against filmmaker Renae Maihi last month, it seemed as if he’d had the last word.

The Wellington property developer launched defamation proceedings after Renae started a petition calling for his knighthood to be revoked, following a column in which Jones had written that Waitangi Day should be replaced with “Maori Gratitude Day”. The column was published in the National Business Review (NBR) on February 2, 2018.

The case was heard in the Wellington High Court, but, five days into the 10-day trial, Jones dropped the suit, saying the “parties may never agree on what is acceptable humour”, and that it was “sensible to put an end to proceedings” as “no malice was intended by either”.

However, in a subsequent interview on TVNZ’s Q + A, on March 8, Jones said he hadn’t wanted to drop the case, although he wouldn’t say why he’d done so (perhaps the very real possibility of losing to a Māori woman?). He cited a “confidential agreement” — Renae has since said there was no such agreement — and continued to insist that the pet

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Bob Jones is not just a racist. He’s also a coward

This week I watched a man shoot himself in the foot so many times I was amazed he could walk out of the courtroom. Here’s my honestly held opinion.

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The high-profile case of Robert E Jones suing Renae Maihi for defamation after she called a column he wrote racist came to an end this morning, when lawyers acting for Jones announced the case would be withdrawn.

Having witnessed the cross-examination of Jones, I wasn’t in the least bit surprised that his legal team might be looking for an exit.

What I heard was a man who loves the sounds of his own voice. A man who says he reads a lot but evidently knows fuck all about Māori culture and history. At one point he said he reads for six hours a day, including eight newspapers, and owns 600 books on Māori history. Any amateur New Zealand history enthusiast would assume that includes the usual suspects: Ranginui Walker, Claudia Orange, Moan