qualified privilege; all were rejected by the court, which found in Jones favour. Templeton v Jones became an important precedent in defamation law. 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, with the whole incident recorded on tape. Jones was convicted of four charges of assault and fined $1,000. Jones asked the judge if he could pay $2,000 to do it again. Jones 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, Jones 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. In 2018 Jones sued filmmaker Renae Maihi for defamation after she presented a petition to NZ Parliament calling for his knighthood to be revoked. The petition had garnered more than 90,000 signatures but was not accepted for consideration. The petition objected to comments Jones had written for the National Business Review. In one of Jones' newspaper columns, Jones suggested that the country's national holiday Waitangi Day, should be replaced by a Maori Gratitude Day, a suggestion he claimed was satirical. The defamation trial began in February 2020 and was due to last 2 weeks. Ultimately, Jones withdrew the case after five days. Honours Jones was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to business management and the community. Bibliography Novels The Permit (1984) Full Circle (2000) Ogg (2002) True Facts (2003) Degrees for Everyone (2004) Four Comic Novellas (2020) Essay collections Wimp Walloping (1989) Prancing Pavonine Charlatans (1990) Punch Lines (1991) A Year of It (1992) Wowser Whacking (1993) No Punches Pulled The Best of Bob Jones (2014) Non fiction New Zealand's Boxing Yearbook (1972 and 1973) Jones on Property (1977) New Zealand the Way I Want It (1978) Travelling (1980) Letters (1982) '80s Letters (1990) Prosperity Denied (1996) Memories of Muldoon (1997) My Property World (2005) Jones on Management (2007) Fighting Talk: Boxing and the Modern Lexicon (2013) References External links Bob Jones, centre, in 1979 (photo) Robt. Jones Holdings Ltd website Random House author profile 1939 births Living people