Sir Bob Jones
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Some respondents have accused me of hypocrisy when I asked commentators to cut out gratuitous abuse, mostly aimed at the PM, but also other politicians.

The hypocrisy they point to was my description of Trump as a “grotesque, psychopathic, ignorant, lying megalomaniac.”

Those words are not abusive, indeed given the overwhelming evidence they could be described as a diplomatic understatement. Every one of those adjectives is well proven.

Also, others asked what ever happened to the wooden building?

As I stressed at the time, its wooden component was confined to key structural aspects, specifically floors and columns.

That said delays not of our making constantly affected it but over the next few weeks the wooden columns will emerge over the existing scaffolding and protective covering at about the 9th floor current level.

It’s due to be formally opened in early April next year.

Sir Robert ‘Bob’ Jones — now New Zealand’s largest private office building owner in Wellington and Auckland, and with substantial holdings in Sydney and Glasgow, totalling in excess of two billion...