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Born 24 November 1939 (age 84) ( 1939-11-24 ) New Zealand Known for Property investor, author and former politician Education Victoria University of Wellington Books My Property World, Fighting Talk: Boxing a, Jones on Management, No Punches Pulled: T, Who Says So?!: A Biblical Vi | ||
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Prophetic revelations 2014 2060 prophet bob jones 100 year prophecy
Sir Robert Edward Jones (born 24 November 1939), known as Sir Bob Jones, is a property investor, author and former politician in New Zealand.
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- Biography
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Bob jones 2012 shepherd s rod full prophecy
Biography
Jones was born in 1939; he is (by 15 years) the older brother of prizewinning author Lloyd Jones.
Growing up in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae, Jones attended Naenae College and then Victoria University of Wellington. While a student, he earned a "blue" in boxing and contributed to a boxing column in the university's newspaper Salient. He remained a fan of boxing and sometimes commented on TV on big matches.
Jones earned his wealth through investments in commercial property via his company Robt. Jones Holdings Ltd, and was worth $550 million according to the 2013 NBR rich list, and $600 million a year later.
He formed the short-lived libertarian New Zealand Party in 1983, just before Robert Muldoon's snap 1984 election. Jones explicitly stated his disgust that the supposedly pro-free-enterprise New Zealand National Party had implemented socialist policies like price and wage freezes, and a top tax rate of 66%. His party acted as a spoiler, helping to deliver the government to the New Zealand Labour Party. Then the party implemented free market reforms under Finance Minister Roger Douglas (hence Rogernomics). When the election was over, Jones disbanded the party, seeing that Labour had implemented many of his policies. He and Muldoon had a legal feud, where Muldoon unsuccessfully sued Jones for defamation. But Jones had great respect for Muldoon in other areas. Jones even chaired the farewell dinner on the occasion of Muldoon's retirement from Parliament.
In 1985, Jones was located by reporters in a helicopter while out fishing in a remote valley in Taupo. Jones, incensed at the intrusion when the helicopter landed on the adjacent bank, famously punched TVNZ reporter Rod Vaughan on the nose, with the whole incident recorded on tape.
He attempted to remove the Fijian Embassy from one of his properties during the time of the 1987 Fijian Coup and succeeded two years later.
In 2015, he was removed from an Air New Zealand flight by security staff for failing to follow crew instructions. Jones' company subsequently bought a jet for Jones and other company executives to use for NZ travel.
Jones is alleged to shun recent technology; he reportedly hand-writes all of his books by choice, and has been cited in The Sunday Star-Times as refusing to own a mobile phone. The Sunday Star-Times published a subsequent report on 22 October 2006, however, in which he denied elements of the previous week's report and said that he had no aversion to modern technology.
Honours
Jones was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to business management and the community.