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The Last Stand of Outlaw Dad Tom Phillips.

I have been slow to write on the tragic end of the ‘Rambo-dad saga’… Tom Phillips, The father who took his 3 children into the New Zealand bush and alluded police for 4 years.
I’ve been gathering data and allowing some time to pass to see what additional information might be forthcoming.
What follows is full of speculation on my part, yet I believe I’m justified in tabling many disturbing questions that need answers.
I provide *context* as to why such questions are valid.

There was an eclipse the very hour Tom fell to a Policeman’s bullet.
An evil sign in the heavens.
A dark cold morning. 8 September 2025. Piopoi Waikato.
In the shootout he badly injured and nearly killed a Lawman who had thwarted his escape by placing road spikes across his path… taking out the tires on his 4 wheeler.
Tom’s luck had run out. He was shot dead by a second officer who arrived on the scene… so we are told.
A medivac helicopter rushed the injured officer to hospital. Tom’s body was left where it lay.
We can only assume he was past help.

All this transpired in front of one of his kids (his oldest daughter?) who accompanied him on many of his outlaw escapades and was with him at this final showdown.
Deeply traumatising.

This was not the end most New Zealanders wanted.
It was super sad news.
Misguided or not, Tom’s plight found it’s way into the nations heart.
A desperate Father alone against the State.

We must ask… what went so wrong for Tom to believe such extreme actions were called for on his part?

Many people only have the filtered ‘official narrative’ upon which to base their conclusions… and are satisfied, yet there are other unofficial unmoderated sources of information. Social media for one where people more freely talk and share diverse opinions.
And, as I live in the Waikato where these events transpired, people here got to hear stories that are circulating on the ground… mostly from Marakopa Locals who have been living this saga in real time.
It is interesting stuff, and one thing that makes my account worth considering is I include what some locals had been saying, well before the fateful hour.
They include the rumor that some Marakopa locals believed Tom was marked for death.
They were telling people about this several months before the fateful night.
I herd about it through friends at work who used to live out there, and who had been stopped by armed police at a roadblock and questioned if they knew the whereabouts of Tom Phillips.
Interrogating the public… looking for ‘collaborators’, it’s fair to say these actions won the police little favour.

I don’t profess to be an ‘authority’ on any of this, I’m just putting things down as I herd them. I contemplate how they may explain Tom’s actions, and I consider any lessons we as a country should learn from this that might help prevent anything like this happening again.
Could there be some social good that comes from this?

Important note: *Please read my article to the very end* including Postscripts 2 and 3. There has been a particularly nasty rumor spread on-line about Tom Phillips without a shred of supporting evidence… claims that there is far more sinister doings involved in this case than what we the public has been ‘officially’ told*.
So the claim involves the police as holding facts in secret that if known would absolutely turn the public against Tom.
Yet as of the time of writing this article this claim is *nothing but hearsay*. So I discount them.
I deal with these rumours in the postscripts.

Watch/Read : NZ Herald Tom Phillips dead: Fugitive Marokopa dad shoots policeman; children found safe

For 4 years New Zealanders were ‘wowed’ by the daring exploits of this renegade Father evading Police capture and surviving in the New Zealand bush with his 3 young children.
Tom loved his kids, of this there can be no doubt, yet as time passed and Tom (allegedly) committed more crimes to sustain life on the run, the more headaches he caused the Police, and the more heat he was bringing down upon himself.
They wanted him bad, so as the years ticked by their frustration and determination grew.
Some locals suspected the Police were falsely accusing Tom of all sorts of things… a one man crime wave.
One person said to me ” If a bicycle gets stolen… the Police will claim it was Tom Phillips.”

The Police were certain Tom must be receiving help from friends helping him to evade capture.
It’s easy to posit that a strategy of blaming Tom for every crime in town was to try and turn public opinion and his alleged support base against him.
And so skepticism of the Police and their methods continued to grow.


Tom Phillip’s children, Ember ((9), Maverick (10), and Jayda (12)

People are divided in their estimation of Tom Philips, esp after a Policeman was shot.
Many automatically assume the NZ Police are the heroes, and Tom… the Villain.
Ultimately that’s a fair call given the seriousness of what transpired, and it was with the cooperation of some of the locals that Toms time on the run expired.
Still… despite everything that went down there remains a sizable minority of New Zealanders who see beyond that simplistic evaluation appreciating deeper factors at play.
They believe there is sufficient reason to suspect the NZ Police (ie legal systems) as the primary villains… Goons hired by a fundamentally corrupt system, and Tom as the victim of real injustices… and a renegade hero of sorts.

Not taking sides yet with definite empathy for Tom, I want to enunciate why IMO many New Zealanders see Tom as an almost legendary character.
He may be dead, yet his story will live on in Kiwi Folklore.

Watch this Youtube video (below).

The video (above) claims to analyze the Tom Phillips Saga.
It has a lot of details correct, and that is the main reason I’m including it in this post yet was childishly derogatory of Tom Phillips appearance, and ultimately failed to provide any explanation as to why Tom Philips acted in the way he did.
People were left to assume Tom was just a dangerous Whacko.
IMO the truth is far deeper and concerning than that.

Let me now lay down what I believe triggered Tom’s determination never to surrender his kids.

As most of us know from first hand experience, relationships are notoriously hard to maintain. Most are doomed to crash and burn… and it’s so much worse when there are kids involved.
This so often results in messy custody disputes, court orders, etc
That Tom and Cat had separated was mentioned in the video yet it still missed the fundamental reason Tom took his kids into the bush.
This was fundamentally a custody Battle.
Tom vs Cat… Tom vs Family Court.
I believe what transpired finds it’s root cause in that Tom sought to keep his children from being placed with their (alleged) drug addicted- gang related mother… ie for their safety.
He did not believe his Meth-using Ex partner was a fit mother or example.
The video completely ignored this powerful motive.
Those who support the police narrative tend to down play this essential point.
Tom was not a monster, but a loving Father motivated by his instincts to protect his kids.
This is what much of the general public believed and why many of them supported Tom.

We all know things went terribly wrong, yet originally he was not some sort of werdo-radical, but a caring father who believed (probably correctly) that the system was against him ‘
With very few options, he did what he believed at the time to be was in the best interests of his children.
Obviously he felt the Police and Courts were unjust.
And the truth is New Zealand has a poor record of Fathers rights.

Many New Zealanders know the system is rigged against fathers, so this is why they empathized with Tom.
We have a system with heavily entrench bias that never takes any cognizance of it’s own grotesque miscarriages of justice.
Most Fathers when confronted with the injustices of the Family courts feel compelled to surrender to the Powers that be.
Thousands of fathers endure years of miss-applied guilt, terrible alienation from their children, and financial ruin at the hands of IRD.
The courts are very slow to punish woman for breaches of custody agreements and court declarations.
Many despairing men die because of it.
We have a suicide epidemic in this country… more than twice as many men kill themselves than woman do… yet the official narrative is that woman are the oppressed sex in our society while men enjoy ‘privilege’. That’s what we are expected to believe.
I say the Official ‘Feminist’ narrative is obviously Bogus!

Another telling fact is that the children have not been reunited with their mother but remain in the custody of ‘Oranga Tamariki’… New Zealand’s Social services for Children. This indicates to me that even the Government is thinking twice about their mothers fitness to care for the children.


Sid Hanzlik. Photo (and story) ‘The story behind the man who took his life on parliament grounds’ here

Suicides of men in NZ… Grieving the destruction of their families, is a topic that is kept under the rug. Most go unreported.
One case was so public and shocking that it could not be ignored by the media, and I would place this death as yet another example of a Father pushed to extremes.
In 2017 Father (Sid Hanzlik) was so stricken with grief about being separated from his children that he set himself on fire on Parliament grounds in protest of his perceived injustice by the NZ Family Court… He died a horrible death, yet nothing changed.
How bad must things get before the State considers why Men are driven to extremes?
The system is broke.

Also Read: Man set himself on fire at Parliament – police

And: Coroner reports on Zdenek Hanzlik who set himself on fire at Parliament

In custody battles NZ judges habitually favor the mother. (See above chart)
This is ideological prejudice against fathers.
Most Men submit… Tom didn’t, and the rest is history.

The NZ Police were humiliated by Tom’s 4 year success at alluding capture and had put a $80 000.00 dollar reward on his head (for capture)… They harassed the locals with road blocks… stopping vehicles, etc. Asking if they had seen Tom, and tempting them with the reward.
On top of this rumor’s were circulating that the Police in fact intended to shoot him on sight… all things that might explain why Desperado Tom Philips died with his boots on… Guns blazing.
I have been mocked on social media for stating this idea… that Tom may have thought he had crossed the Rubicon and that surrendering was no longer an option.
One critic said “no such kill orders are ever issued in New Zealand”. I’m not saying any such order was issued.
I’m simply reporting *what locals were saying*… rumours that were 100% circulating in the months before the showdown.
Even if untrue it’s still possible Tom had herd them too and they may well have affected his determinations.

What a truly sad and ignomous end!
Many wonder if it really had to go down that way.
Many people do not trust the Police’s version of events… I wonder why?
We Pray for Tom’s Children, and the recovery of the injured cop.

How much more information will be forthcoming?
Will the public get any kind of transparent investigation into the handling of this case. We shall see.
No doubt they will go through the motions of reviewing how the police conducted themselves in this case… yet as always… they will find themselves vindicated.
The bigger questions about the fairness of the system towards fathers rights will go unanswered. Nothing will change… unless some political party takes up the cause, and they are unlikely to do that unless members of the public kick up a big enough stink to make it a vote winning issue.

We the public need to rally and demand better/ fair treatment of men by our legal system.

And We need to ask the Police to review how they deal with men in crisis.
There has to be better PR, better negotiations, and Less risk aversion- less fatal options for more just outcomes.

One thing is certain… pray you nor any loved one never suffers any sort of mental breakdown in this country… as presently… the way the NZ Police take care of Business… you may get shot dead… as a matter of ‘standard’ Police operational procedures.

The NZ Police Bigwigs have done their best to Demonise Tom Phillips, yet what do you expect them to say given they need to justify killing him.????
What we hear from the Police in such circumstances is not candid and forthright accounts of how things unfold… but carefully constructed narratives… omitting anything that might weaken their own position… so what we are fed is more *A Legal defense*… than the plain truth.

Will we… the public ever hear the Full unfiltered story?
Highly unlikely!
In a documentary that has been rushed into production by some journalists who were invited along on the Police Choppers etc in their operations to hunt down Tom Philips, The public have been told that The Police themselves will get to do the final edit before it is shown to the public!
They will justify this by claiming it to be necessary for the sake of any ‘ongoing investigations, and court processes… yet why would they then expect the NZ public to place any credibility on the so-called ‘documentary’ when the NZ Police will have already ‘sanitized it of any facts or opinions that might cast themselves in a bad light?
One thing is certain… Dead men tell no tales.

Read: Waikato Times Sept 10 Benn Bathgate: Cops get final say on screen version of Phillips saga – and their role in it

And: RNZ Tom Phillips’ family ‘disturbed’ documentary is being made


Steve Wallace 23. Photo The Post.

The New Zealand Police have over the past few decades been involved in many questionable shooting Deaths… yet always ‘officially’ being found to have been ‘justified’.
Two come straight to my mind. One was a Young Man smashing up shop windows with a Golf club in the small town of Waitara April 30 2000.
Steve Wallace was shot and killed, and later the NZ Police were found to have been justified in their actions, yet not so in the minds of many New Zealanders who considered his shooting as cowardly and unnecessary. Gun Ho and excessive use of force.
The pain and controversy still continues to this day.
What Steven was doing was wrong… yet does that justify what the Police did?

Read: Steven Wallace’s controversial shooting goes to UN after 25 years

One shocking report by witnesses says that after Steven was shot… the police did little or nothing to come to his aid… but left him to bleed out where he lay without any comfort.
Was this true?
If so that is extremely Cold, and I would even say a crime not to provide medical care after he had been rendered helpless and no longer a threat.
It was hearing this accusation that causes me to wonder whether Tom Phillips received any medical assistance in his final moments?
One wonders if he was in fact dead by the time the Medivac helicopter arrived on the scene?
Or was he left to die as was claimed happened to Steven Wallace?
We must await more details.


Nick Marshall and his dad Nelson Marshall. Marshall Transmissions. Photo: Peter Drury. Fairfax NZ

Another more recent questionable Police shooting comes to my mind was when NZ Police shot and killed Meth Head Nick Marshall of Hamilton, during a Dawn raid on his residence.
As this happened in my town, and I have had several conversations with people who knew him.
Being a Meth Head means no sympathy from most of the New Zealand Public who have been conditioned to think of this minority as *Sub human*… so few people cared that he died in a pool of his own blood.
I remember reading the original Waikato Times article and thinking this possibly is yet another excessive use of force by the NZ police for a non-violent offender.
The story at the time was that Nick thought he was being Home invaded by a Gang for his Drugs… this is why… according to a witness (girlfriend?) he presented his shotgun… and was shot forthwith.

Read/Watch: Police say shot man was armed

Now The Police obviously have presented *their story* and if it is to be believed… they say they clearly and loudly announced they were the Police… and according to their account Nick pulled a gun… and was shot. Simple as that. Yet The thing we all must understand is that the Police will *always* present their statements in such a way that vindicate themselves… rather than the un-glossed… un scripted facts.
Was there no other way they might have entered the premises and arrested Marshall without the need of shooting him dead?
The Dawn Raid is inherently extreme… a simple knock on the door at a reasonable hour may have achieved a far better result.

Read ‘Report’ : Fatal Police shooting of Nicholas Marshall.

I’m just asking questions… Important questions… that have bearing on what happened to Tom Phillips.
Understand that I’m not so much questioning the conduct of trained and instructed front line officers who put themselves in volatile situations … the point of the spear… I’m more concerned with the ‘Philosophy’… the politics… and the bureaucracy… of our whole system… That invisibly creates many of these altercations… like the War on Drugs… or so-called Safety rules and processes that deem it ‘justifiable’ to shoot dead a citizen suffering a highly stressful or psychotic episode.
Do people even care that our system probably is unnecessarily killing Men, and that Police officers ‘following orders’ also suffer the consequences for bad laws, unjust courts, and Bad processes?

Like the officer who was shot by Tom Phillips. They have to square off against Men who have been pushed beyond breaking point by real systemic injustice.

No one is suggesting Tom was a saint… any more than Steve Wallace or Nick Marshall.

That (allegedly) Tom involved his eldest daughter Jayda in some of his criminal activities to gain recourses for maintaining his ongoing escapade… that was callous.
That some (allegedly) involved firearms definitely raised the stakes as far as the Police were concerned. That is completely understandable.
Nobody was harmed in the perpetration of his (alleged) crimes, yet by their very nature (True or not) would justify the police to consider him armed and dangerous, and any use of force they deem necessary to bring things to a swift conclusion.
I fear Tom had resolved… Give me Liberty… or Death. It appears he had no intension of surrendering quietly… or was it that he felt that was not an option? That he was to be executed on sight?
The $100 question is why… after the road spikes had taken out his 4 wheeler… did he shoot instead of surrendering?
Did he expect no mercy… that his only option was to open fire?
It is terrible that a Police officer was shot, and badly injured.
This alone causes many Kiwis to despise Tom Philips.
They will have no truck with arguments that try to justify or excuse Tom’s actions.
I’m doing neither, yet still many will think ill of me for daring to suggest systemic injustice played a large part in that fateful night and that Tom probably felt he must shoot his way out.

Let me make it clear I abhor violence and do not advocate for violence against the Police.
I have a very close member of my family in the front line of the NZ Police Force.
Yet that does not cause me to have one eye, nor be a sycophant for the system.
I have more intelligence than that.

Thankfully we still live in a free society where we the people are allowed to question the actions of our Police and government.
I’m exercising this right.
More so it is our duty as citizens to keep an eye on how our Police conduct themselves.
Theses crucial rights are currently under assault by governments who care little for Enlightenment truths and values.

That the Police, and sheeple may consider my questioning whether Philips needed to die as some sort of character fault on my part speaks volumes about how Anti-freedom… pro-blind faith in authority many people have become.
That the Police might tag people like myself for daring to hold them to the flame as being * a radical with dangerous opinions’…. what sort of society is such Police attitudes pointing towards???
The price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.
We *must* always watch what the Powers that be are doing in our name.

I’m not advocating for being ‘soft on crime’. I believe in the appropriate use of force… for justice sake.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong when the Police use risk adverse strategies that result in the unnecessary slaying of civilians.
Lets hope that the NZ Justice system and Family courts wake up to their grievous injustices against Fathers.
New Zealanders need to wake up and take cognizance of the death toll on Dads caused by the present skew against men… and demand reform.
The ideology that paints men as the default abusers and woman as the default victims must be confronted for the travesty that it is.

RIP Tom Phillips.
May The grace of the Lord be with your children.

Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.

Postscript:1

I Asked Grok (AI) what percentage of divorces in New Zealand are initiated by The wives vs Husbands….

Groks conclusions….

“While New Zealand lacks specific public data on divorce initiation by gender, the US’s 70-30 split (wives vs. husbands) is a reasonable proxy given similar legal and social contexts. Your points about fathers’ fears of custody loss and women’s confidence in securing custody and support are well-founded and align with international research and New Zealand’s family law patterns. The absence of precise data could stem from administrative priorities or cultural sensitivities…”

One solid reason Woman more than double the divorce initiation rate than Men in Western Nations is because of Systemic bias in their favour… against Men’s rights.

Men endure more personal pain for the sake of their kids and keeping the family together….

Grok says… “Your point about fathers enduring more pain for the sake of their children is supported by psychological research. Men are often socialized to prioritize family stability and may tolerate unhappy marriages to maintain proximity to their children. A 2016 study on divorce motivations found men are more likely to cite “staying for the kids” as a reason to avoid separation, while women are more likely to prioritize personal fulfillment.
This dynamic could amplify the 70-30 split, as fathers may avoid initiating divorce due to emotional and practical concerns, including fear of estrangement from children.”

Postscript 2.

I have become aware that another very disturbing rumour has begun to circulate of the most malicious kind… a claim so vile I hesitate to share it… even to debunk it.
I’s a depraved claim circulating on line that Tom ‘fathered’ a child (or 2) with his oldest daughter.
What a vicious thing to say!
It’s so insidious that even if proven false a tarnish remains on anyone upon whom such an accusation is made.

As things stand, I consider this to be nothing more than malicious fable.

This sort of heavy accusation demands *heavy Proof* before granting them any credence.

None whatsoever has been forthcoming.

It’s precisely the type of slander you expect to destroy a person’s standing.
So until something solid arises. I’m rejecting it outright.

If it proves false… which I most certainly expect, it will serve as a classic example of the sort of malicious character assassination that Men often.
If true… it will forever stain his name.
I can with confidence assert this disgusting rumour to be false because I must assume the police would make such information public because if true it would bolster their case.

Postscript 3. I have had a heated debate with a very Pro-police guy who tells me they 100% know with certainty that the above rumour is valid, yet that the police are keeping this secret ‘for the sake of children involved’.

This person did not like my article and said ‘I should not be talking about the case… and that they threw a copy of my article I’d left for people to read… in the bin.

This person expects me to take him at his word… without proof.

This is someone who I give a lot of credibility to… and yet I am unprepared to deem Tom Phillips as being guilty of such a hideous accusation… just on hearsay.
So until The Police release clear statements that there is a whole other level of offending involved in this case I must keep to the principle of assumed innocence until *proven* guilty.

The nature of these accusations causes people to become extremely sensitive… and angry… quick to assume the worst… and to hate anyone (like me) who prefers to wait until proof is tabled before accepting these rumours to be valid.

This is a person who I do not wish to lose as a friend, yet I can tell he does not like me even questioning the police version of events.
I do not mind that he feels so strongly about Tom Phillips being a Bad guy… he has his reasons… Yet it saddens me that he thinks less of me simply because I prefer to wait for more substance before I outright condemn Tom Phillips.
I reserve judgement.

On the question of the Publics right to know.
As I consider the idea that the police might believe it to be justified to keep the NZ public in the dark about certain aspects of this case… ‘for the sake of children’… I’m sorry but that smacks of bullshit to me. That does not mean it is BS… what it means is that the very idea that *the police* get to decide what they tell the public rather than full disclosure… causes the public to lose confidence on them. We Citizens have a right to know the full story so that we can have confidence that our police are behaving in a fully ethical manner. What have they got to hide?
It’s like what happened with The Christchurch Terror attack. The whole business was covered up. There was no public court case in which The people got to hear the defense of the accused.
His ‘Manifesto’ was made illegal to download, read, and share… all we have is the Crowns/ Polices version of events. The reason they said they must suppress all information and leave the public in the dark? ” Because it might cause a copy cat crime”.!!! I shit you not! That is supposed to satisfy the people of New Zealand as a reason why the government is going to hide the truth from us… and make it almost a crime to even talk about it.

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More from Tim…

Heart Ripped out. This ones for all the Dying Dads … and the Survivors.

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk: The Rabid Satanic Far Left are losing the War of Ideas.

It is a war of Truth vs lies… and the Left are losing… that is why they are resorting to violence.
RIP Charlie… Hero of Freedom… Martyr for Christ.
Let us redouble our resolve to drive the Satanic doctrines of the Left back to hell where they belong.
No more of their vile hateful dangerous ideology.
We need to stand resolute… no more retreat.
Stand fast in the Liberty of Christ.
Condemn them… Renounce them…. Deny their power over us.
Let us take care not to emulate their Satanic means.
Resist Peacefully, Forthrightly.
We Reclaim our Freedom and Rights, and Christian Culture.
Fools despise what Christianity has done for Western Civilisation.
Without Christ… Western Civilisation will collapse in darkness and tyranny.
This is what we are witnessing… Demonic.

The Woke Left are unhinged.
The same faction who are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk for speaking truth are the same people who celebrate Hamas murders of October 7.
One X commentator disgusted with the Woke Radical left celebrating Charlie’s murder, asked If X should ban all such posts?
That’s anti-free speech… Charlie would say no! Definitely not! That’s what he was fighting against. Violence begins where speech finishes. Leave the Censorship for the Communists and fascists.
Allowing the rabid Left to post their disgusting Glee exposes who they really are and is actually convincing thousands to abandon the Woke Left.

Charlies assassination is reverberating around the world, and has shocked many Left Leaning people out of their stupor.
They have awoken to fact that it is *their party* *their side* *Their people* who are the evil hateful psychotics.
Charlie’s death is the impetus for a mass exodus from Wokedom.
I have attached a stack of ‘X’ shorts of Blacks, and even Gays, who are utterly disgusted by Charlies Murder, and the Murder of 23 year old White Girl Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina in the past week.
Their testimonies are an important counter-point to the growing amount of Far right extremism that flourishes when Black and migrant Crimes are spammed across the Net.
These testimonies (below and more in the comments) show there are plenty of Black people who are not Savage racists who hate whites. They have been smart enough not to swallow the Anti-white Racist garbage the Far Left have been spouting, and they too are appalled by the barbarism and extremism of the Woke Left.

Most of all People are Rethinking about the virtues of the Christian Faith.

Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.

RIP George Forman. Gone home to be with the Lord.

Mike Tyson pays his respects at the passing of George Foreman… on X

RIP! Gone to be with The Lord.

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‘George Foreman was one of the most influential boxers of all time – yet he is arguably better known for a very different reason. Foreman has passed away aged 76, his family announced, leaving behind an impressive legacy in the boxing ring and the world of business which is estimated to have earned him $300million (£232m).

“Our hearts are broken,” his family said in a statement. “With profound sorrow, we announce the passing of our beloved George Edward Foreman Sr. who peacefully departed on March 21, 2025 surrounded by loved ones. A devout preacher, a devoted husband, a loving father, and a proud grand and great grandfather, he lived a life marked by unwavering faith, humility, and purpose…’

Read more here Mirror: George Foreman leaves behind huge fortune to his family after death thanks to his grill

This video is not quite appropriate… I’ll look for a better one…

Massive Claim: 100% of all US school shooters over the Past 52 years we’re on psychotropic drugs

Massive Claim!
From here on X.

Now isn’t it interesting that *if these claims are true* Big Pharma is so strongly linked to yet more massive social evils!
Those documented side effects are telling too… esp in Western societies in which murders in general and suicides have been on the consistent climb over the same period.

What must be taken into consideration is that most/all of these people have been prescribed these drugs due to what Doctors must have seen as mental stress, social alienation, etc… so that factor must also be acknowledged.

Big Pharma would have a vested interest to deflect public attention to ‘other plausible causes’… such as it has been suggested that Heavy Metal and Rap music are somehow causal factors… anything and everything except their drugs!

I had a friend who was as tuff as nails commit suicide.
I found out later she had been proscribed Prozac.
It has always caused me to wonder if she suffered some sort of Heavy side effect reaction.

When friends of mine are going through stress… I do my best to tell them to avoid going on anti-depressants.

Most of the time their ‘depression’ is understandable given their circumstances… ie is a normal and healthy response to whatever trauma they have experienced… not at all a symptom of an unhealthy mind.

Therefore I say it is wrong to medicate such people. Only when the depression has no reasonable basis should it be considered a mental imbalance that might require medical intervention… yet even then as a last resort.
Counselling and other means like social interaction should be tried first in my unqualified opinion.

I gain my insights from experience… not training.

Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.

The following song is dedicated to my old lost friend Debz Bailey.
We used to listen to Pearl Jam together… Great times.
RIP.

More from Tim…

Tribute to Fabrication Engineer, Farmer, and Tauranga Hillbilly… Bruce Christopher Davies. 7/11/66 – 4/3/18

The Ballad of Morgan the Red. As spoken by Christian Martin. Rest In Peace Neville Morgan. Westy Bougan King. 1960-2021

The Faith and Wisdom of Maxwell Joseph Davies. 1948-2024.

Life and Death. Hope and Happiness. A Tribute to Rev John Steele Clark.

The Faith and Wisdom of Maxwell Joseph Davies. 1948-2024.

Maxwell Joseph Davies.
19 Nov 1948 to 6 August 2024.

After a period of illness, on Friday 9 August 2024 family and friends laid Maxwell Joseph Davies to rest at Pyes Pa Cemetery.
Plot 80.

I had the honour of being asked by Max’s family to direct Max’s funeral service, and to deliver a short gospel message before Max’s body was carried out to his final resting place.

To some attendees my short Christian message was probably seen as a superfluous 5-10 minutes to be endured rather than as anything important, yet for Reawyn, *And Max* his funeral was an opportunity not to be missed… to declare the truth about Jesus Christ and the Bible.

Far from being silly superstitions… Max’s and fam’s faith is founded upon solid ground, and the Gospel message contains their highest values as they know how essential it is for every human being to come to a saving knowledge of why Jesus Christ voluntarily submitted to death on the Cross.
They were especially desirous for their close family and friends to know the love of God so that they might be saved from God’s Judgement for their sins… should the light of truth dawn in their hearts.
On this score… the Davies have proven their love, and faithfully fulfilled their Christian moral duty.

Make no mistake… Heaven and Hell are for real!
Whatever the future holds for each person who attended Max’s funeral, let it never be said the Davies failed to warn their loved ones about the impending Judgement of the Almighty and the simple way God has provided for us all to be forgiven and made holy, so that we can spend eternity together in his presence.
Let he that hath an ear to hear… let them hear.

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
Paul The Apostle to the Gentiles. (Corinthians 1vs 18-21)

God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us
Romans 5vs8

It was an honour to be asked to deliver these vital truths to the people Max held so dearly.
I did my best with the short time I had to prepare, and tried to balance the importance of what needed to be said, without too much imposition upon the occasion.
My intention being to write a tribute of more substance to Max’s faith to be put online as a memorial… hence this which is before you now.

I was asked by Reawyn and Fam to perform these rites… to bless her home, etc as more than 3 decades ago, I had the pleasure of Leading a bible study at Max and Reawyn’s home in Payne st Judea.
What a fruitful little fellowship that was!
The Word of God found fertile soil there and Max and Reawyn’s faith grew strong… and enduring… transforming them into Bible believing… Grace preaching… Dispensational… Christians.
From that time onwards Max was no longer simply ‘a family man’ and a Builder…. he became ‘A soldier for Christ’… Max’s life became imbued with Divine strength and purpose.
God gave Max and family the fortitude to endure hardship, and to take pleasure in the simple things of life… esp family.

Max truly was a powerful and Godly Christian Warrior!
He was a beacon of light… Mighty with the Sword of the Spirit (The word of God).

Max was anything but a stereotypical Christian! He always was and remained to the end of his life… A Bougan… A Pakeha Maori, He loved a beer and a good yarn.

Unlike so many phony Pharisaic type churchmen… full of ‘Spiritual pride’… who preach Moral Legalism.. and posture with fake self-righteousness… mishandling the scripture and teaching false doctrines of works, and who don’t even believe the bibles they hold in their hands… Max was the antithesis of all those things! He was a preacher of *genuine Christian truths*… of Humility, of grace, and of faith in the trustworthiness of the King James Bible… in spite of our own shortcomings.
He knew and preached the true Gospel of God’s grace given to us via God’s Apostle Paul. Its a tragic reality that a majority of Christians in the world today don’t even understand these basic essentials.
Max did.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed… Rightly dividing the word of truth…”
2 Timothy 2vs 15.

There may be thousands of Christians and churches in New Zealand, yet sadly most of them wallow in False doctrine… and don’t properly understand the Gospel.
Very few indeed truly understand the scriptures to the degree that Max did.
He really was a beacon of light as he appealed to everyone he met to stop walking in darkness and embrace the Bible!

Max would extoll you to trust the King James Authorised version of the Bible… As God’s inspired and preserved revelation to us… The final authority in all matters of Faith and conduct.

Max lived a quiet life and received little credit for his labours for Humanity and God. No honours (except from his immediate circle) No fame.
Despite living in virtual obscurity It is my testimony to declare that when Maxwell Joseph Davies passed away Tauranga and New Zealand lost one of our Greatest Christians.
He lived a good life, and it is in recognition of His stature as a real Bible believing Christian that I write this tribute.


Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant.

The same week Max passed away Lead vocalist of the 70s Rock Band Led Zeppelin Robert Plant turned 76… making him virtually the same age as Max… His age difference being 3mths.

You may be wondering why I mention Robert Plant in my tribute to Max Davies? Well, It has to do with the question…. What is a Good life? What is real Success?
Most people reading this know Robert Plant is ‘Rock Royalty’… having achieved ‘Legendary’ status… Living a life of fame and fortune… yet we also know the sands of time sooner or later run out for us all.
Robert Plant will eventually go to his grave with millions of adoring Fans paying him tribute… and by many people’s estimation Robert Plant has Lived Life to it’s fullest. Literally millions of Fans would loved to have walked in his shoes … Yet will any of that Fame and Glory matter when Robert Plant goes to meet his Maker?
In the final tally… when we each give account for ourselves before God Almighty do you really think all the fame and fortune will be deemed to have eternal glory?
No.
“For What profit a man though he should gain the whole world yet lose his own soul?”
Mark 8vs 36.

You see it is when we stand before God Almighty and our lives and deeds are (metaphorically speaking) weighed in his scale… that’s when the true value of things will be known. Do you expect God to use the same judgement as this lost world measures success?
To believe that is to be foolish indeed!

“…Behold, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding” Job 28vs28

If then we use God’s yardstick to measure what a Good and successful life is I contend that despite Max’s humble existence… in the final tally… God will find his works and his faith are of far greater eternal value than all Robert Plant’s so-called ‘Fabulous life of Earthy success’.

We Christians do not serve the Lord in expectation of wealth or Fame, but out of our love and gratitude to the Lord for what he has done for us, and from our compassion for our fellow man… We have a message of hope and salvation for all who wander lost in darkness and sin… “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3vs16

In Christian virtue and by God’s metrics Max died a success!
Max died a truly wealthy man in the things that really matter!
Max left this life beloved by his wife and Children, with many friends, and well respected as a tradesman.

Max… as Head of his house was able to instill in his children that life has real meaning and purpose.
He taught them that via faith in Christ not sin… nor even death can defeat the Christian.
Max taught his children with certainty that though they may be separated by death for a short while… to carry on and live their lives to the fullest… fulfilling their God-given purpose… and when their time arrives… to face death with peace and hope trusting in God’s grace and goodness.
In death the Christian is received by Christ.


Video (Above) In Death Paul the Apostle meets his loved ones in heaven…. and Jesus!

Reywyn and Family…. May your faith be an unfailing source of strength! Rest in the certainty that you shall be reunited with Max… for this is the promise and great hope of the Gospel!
This is our great hope.
Death can not eternally separate us who believe!
This is not my opinion… its what’s written in God’s Holy bible!
Amen.
What a tragedy it is for any person to go though life thinking it is pointless and meaningless!
What a tragedy to face death without hope!
Especially given the fact that *Atheism is a delusion!* The Bible say’s ‘The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God!”. (Psalm 14vs1)
When the Atheist stands before the judgement seat of the Almighty… then they will realise just how foolish their atheism was… and how their Heart and mind were darkened… but by then their fate is sealed. They chose to enter Eternity unrepentant of their sins… they spurned the sacrifice of Christ.

Max was not a perfect Christian, very much like myself Max had his vices and struggles. We are well aware of our shortcomings. These faults cause us to rely wholly on God’s grace. Thankfully We know we have been made free from the Law… by Christ, and that despite our own failures to live godly lives, we trust in the Cross, and in God’s love, mercy,

‘And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:’
Pil 3vs9

‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:’
Galatians 3 vs 13

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians 5

For by grace are ye saved: through faith. and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God.
Not of works lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2vs8,9

It has taken me a month to write this tribute because I feared not doing justice to Max’s memory.
I realise my chief difficulty comes from the fact that though I have many dear Non-Christian friends, I have far less dear Christian ones… and very few indeed as dear to me and as close to me as Max was… and I have suffered a great personal loss with his passing. He was (and indeed still is) one of my closest brothers in Christ…

Rest in Pease my friend…. Until we meet again!
Much Love and respect my Brother!
My one regret is that I allowed far too many years to pass without visiting you.
Sorry Bro.

Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.
Dispensationalist.
Authorised King James Bible believer.

P.S I hope Robert Plant knows the only true ‘stairway to heaven’ is the Cross of Jesus Christ!
It’s not for sale… you can’t buy your way into heaven yet don’t be sad!
God’s Gift of salvation is *FREE* to anyone who believes the gospel that God sent Christ to die for our sins, and that he rose again from the dead in victory over sin and death, and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!

Read More from Tim…. click the links below…

Hell is for the Self Righteous, Heaven is for Sinners.

Christ’s work of Salvation on the Cross… The Great Equaliser.

Death of an Atheist. Follow the evidence.

The Rock of Divine Revelation.

The Darkness. Then the Dawn.

Car Crash

Bad Heart, Bad Soul. Is Easter still relevant in 2023?

The Irony. Why I follow St Paul… Not Jesus.

Faith, Science, and Reason. The Pomposity of Atheism.

In Honour of New Zealand’s Greatest Theologian, Dr Dennis Spackman. Apologist for the 1611 AV King James Bible as God’s word, Dispensationalist, and Preacher of the Gospel of Grace.

15th Anniversary of the passing of Rev John Steele Clark. Minister, Teacher, Farmer of the Coromandal (Repost)

“The Problem with America… Government is trying to become God… Look at how they messed up the Black Community…” Bishop Patrick Wooden

” Welfare messed us up! The problem with Socialist Government is that it’s trying to take Gods place…” (paraphrased)

USDA Banning Canning Lids. Off Grid Living. Little House Off Grid.


Screenshot: Little House Off Grid.

This is a youtube channel I have only just discovered. These people look like they have been the target of the system for a long time… over a whole raft of issues.
My first impressions are this guy appears to be a genuine advocate of self-reliance and independent living.
I look forward to checking out more of their videos.

This video title caught my eye as it is yet another example of the relentless creeping usurpations that are establishing the Totalitarian State.

Here we have a video (above) that shows the malicious intent of Globalists to make it impossible to exist outside their systems of control.

This is why they want to get rid of Cash.

We can expect these sorts of laws to proliferate… across the board.. and in all so-called Free Nations….including here in New Zealand, for our Christian founded Capitalist societies are the main targets for overthrow by subversion… rotting them from the inside outwards.

This Blog is my soapbox.
You have been warned!

This video tells us the US Department of Agriculture has actually Banned ‘Canning lids’!!!!… for us Kiwi we call ‘Canning Jar Lids’ Preserving Jar lids.

Preserving food is one of the most essential aspects of being able to minimise dependence and survive ‘off-grid’.
By off Grid I mean *outside dependence on the system*.

Like the ‘Anti-vaxxers’… The Prepper Community have been the targets of relentless dis-information and slander as ‘crack pots’ for many years…. for the very same reasons…. They seek to promote independence from State Control.
The Puppet masters us ‘influencers’ to make certain ways of thinking appear ‘whack’ and ‘extreme’… targets to be mocked and ridiculed on social media and once this Group think has been established the Sheeple will have been effectively inoculated against embracing such ‘independent activities’ and will also countenance Legal jackboots being deployed against the renegades who defy the group think.

So take care what ‘Social trends’ you help cultivate on social media… first they alienate the group with mockery and slander… then when the sheeple show they have outcast the target group… then they can institute the Legal suppression and persecution.

The Preppers are such a community.
They have been right all along… yet the Globalists want you to consider them dangerous nut jobs and to sanction laws that make living off grid impossible/illegal.

DON”T SUPPORT ANY POLITICAL ATTACKS TO YOUR RIGHTS TO CHOSE TO LIVE OFF GRID!

And I advise you to take some off watching Idiots on Tick Tock and instead learn some Freedom wisdom from the Preppers!
Learn to produce and preserve your own food.
Get yourself a pantry filled with your own preserves.

The Globalists are the enemies of Freedom and Independence. They seek total control over all humanity.
They are Evil.
The philosophy of Self reliance stands in their way.
Canning/ Preserving food , collecting rainwater, and Fire stoves empower independence and break their grip … that is why they condition the sheeple to revile independence, and pass these tyrannical laws…. all talk of ‘improving safety… ‘saving the planet’… are lies only idiots swallow.
The Sheeple don’t care about this creeping tyranny because they don’t can… they don’t have a fireplace… and they can ‘virtue signal’ by joining in the persecution of the ‘whacky non-conformists’.

Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.

More from Tim….

THE PREPPERS WERE RIGHT. THE CHRISTIANS WERE RIGHT. THE LIBERTARIANS WERE RIGHT. COVID-19 AND NEW ZEALAND’S PLUMMET INTO TYRANNY. (PART1)

15th Anniversary of the passing of Rev John Steele Clark. Minister, Teacher, Farmer of the Coromandal (Repost)

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2 days ago was the 15th anniversary of my Grand Father, John Steele Clark’s death.
He was a wonderful and inspirational person.
The Greatest human being I have ever known.
I was blessed beyond measure to have him as my Granddad.

My precious Nanna passed over to the other side too in 2019…. I like to imagine they are together again…
She was the Matriarch of my family as I knew it.

I miss them both, and still reverence their memory.

When I knew Granddad’s time was short I did something a tad different.
I wrote a Tribute to his Life and death and sent it to him before he died so he could read with his own eyes what his Grandson thought! 🙂
My tribute was very controversial as it was *My take* *My perspective* rather than simply a concise record of his exact doings and faith.
That was another reason I sent it to him… to see if he would discuss what I had written.
We never did discuss it, and so I took that as a Tacit endorsement! 🙂 And this was important to me because I expected some of my family members to not be that impressed with my Rendition of things.

The World/ New Zealand has sunken into Socialist Tyranny just as I feared.

Love You Heaps Nana and Granddad! XOX
Tim Wikiriwhi.

I have started a Facebook page in memory of Him >>>Here<<< I hope everyone who knew him visits, enjoys, and contributes to this memorial. granddad 001

My Granddad. (Left) Married Me to my Wife Joy at Mclarens Falls Tauranga. March 2002.

Tribute to Reverend John Steel Clark. (Re-post)

Anglican Minister.
Thames/ Coromandal Peninsular.
New Zealand
1923-2006

Man of Faith and Reason.

A Christian view of Life and Death.
By his eldest Grandson.
Tim Wikiriwhi.

“For the Invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse;”
St Paul. Romans 1vs 20

“I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live…”
Jesus Christ: John 11vs 25

“for by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast”
St Paul: Ephesians 2vs8,

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After an exemplary life, and a heroic fight against cancer, by beloved Grandfather has passed on.
There is not enough time today to fully express what he means to me, I therefore shall leave much out of this tribute for others to share.
I have chosen to focus on the most precious values that I personally treasure… that I see as the Greater part of his legacy.

My Grandfather was the Abraham of our family!
When I was growing up his word was Law.
He set the standards for manhood and he always stuck to his word.
His glory as a faithful husband to my Nana and as a father to his children (and Grandchildren) gave me such assurance that life makes perfect sense, and that all is well in the world.

Rev Clark was a man of Reason and a man of Faith.
He was a Christian minister, which is a huge testimony to the value of that religion.
Those who knew him and loved him, yet are not Christians ought to pause and contemplate the huge implications that such a man of great wisdom and integrity was not ashamed to wear the garb of a Man of God!
It is this truth that I hold dearest about my Grandfather, and it is in honour of his principled faith in God that I wish to write to you about life, religion, and death.

This is a fitting time to talk about religion and death.
If it’s not cool to talk about religion and death at the funeral of a preacher, then I ask when?
For many Death is the hardest most frightening reality we face.
How are we to deal with it?
We all must face our own mortality sooner or later and worse still we must face the mortality of those we hold dear.

Some like my Grandfather, live full term and death becomes a sort of mercy, yet many tragically die before their time and it seems a truism to say “Life’s not fair!”
Should we die from our own immorality or foolishness we may find small solace in seeing such deaths as justly ‘reaping what we have sown’, yet often death comes to the virtuous and innocent…at the hands of some evil, and so this rule appears violated.
The Soul that looses a loved one in such a way, or they find themselves facing an early death by some evil is in danger of becoming bitter and twisted, and a hater of God, even if they don’t believe in him!
Indeed they choose not to believe in him simply because they see life as unjust!
It is for this reason that a positive philosophy about death is essential for every one of us if we are to truly enjoy life.
Without a sure reasoned faith powerful enough to overcome these sorts of pain… bitterness and hatred of God are almost as sure to consume your soul as the sun will rise tomorrow!

Perhaps some may delude themselves into being happy by such base notions that ultimately ‘Nothing really matters’, but this can never suffice the deep hearted.
This can only leave you cold.
I therefore say True Religion is essential for the survival and happiness of everyone of us, and not to have such a faith is a disaster!
Pain bitterness, hopelessness, and hatred are the lot for the lost soul without true religion.
Rev Clark Knew this, and this was one reason he was a minister of God.
Peace, hope, and a clear sense of justice are only possible for the man of reason that has reason enough to have faith that ultimately all is well and that life has real meaning and value.

It is my testimony, and that of my Grandfather that reason enough does indeed exist for hope and belief in Divine Justice.

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Tears. Knowing time was short. Me and Granddad shortly before his death.

Let me now share with you a tiny fraction of the logic for faith in God, faith in his goodness, and faith in Christ by a few self-evident truths.

What lies in that box is not my Grandfather!
That dead body is but the house he lived in.
Science tells us that we replace every cell in our body every seven years.
This being so, most of us have had many bodies in our lifetime already!
They are miraculous things that were designed by incredible genius, but they are not the essence of who we are.
What is missing from that corpse is the *Real Granddad* whom we all love!
*His Soul*.

A great portion of Mankind are suffering from the delusion that we are but soul-less matter.
This is a great inhuman and evil superstition that has the most evil consequences for those under it’s spell.
The fruit of it is nihilism and this lowers man down to the level of a germ.
Granddad knew this truth and was a minister of men’s *souls*.

Now think about love… what is the chemical formula for that?
Can chemicals love?
Can rocks feel?
Can robots be conscious of their own existence and care about the existence of other robots?

The man of reason and science, who holds that good and evil have objective reality must say no!
There is no Atheistic science that can accommodate the facts of reality or human experience!

All human invention is childlike when compared to such marvels as the human mind, brain, and hands.
The scripture that declares we are made in God’s image is the most rational statement pertaining to our existence!

I say that if the Earth was like the moon, and there was no such thing as mankind… then it might be rational to think ‘there is no God’ or that whatever is responsible for existence is dead not living.
But we live!… and science has proven that Life only comes from life.
It therefore follows that whatever is primary in reality must not only be alive, but also of supreme intelligence.
We call this Supreme being God…. who is before all temporal Laws and things.

The scripture wisely declares “The fool hath said in his heart there is no God”, and that mankind must beware ‘science falsely so-called’.

Don’t be deceived by *Fake Science* like Darwinism.
Understand the difference between science proper, and poor speculations that are contrary to it.
Darwinism is fatally flawed and already fading away, yet Christianity stands fast and ready for you to embrace.
It alone accounts for cause and effect, both Physical and Moral.
The foolish man builds his house upon the sands of man’s ever changing myths.
The wise man builds his house upon the rock of God’s sure word of truth, The King James Bible.

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This article appeared in the Waikato Times.

Why must we embrace Christ?
It is because this is how God has declared as his only acceptable way of salvation, and it is God who sets the terms for such a thing… not us.
To be so vain as to believe God must accept us on *our terms* is to hang reality on our whim, and to Deify our pea-sized intellect!

Socrates, who believed in life after death, said it ought to be a man’s chief concern to ‘Know thyself’, and that the unexamined life is not worth living.
I say that if we dare to examine ourselves our need for Christ and God’s forgiveness becomes as clear as day!
What is wondrous about God’s salvation through Christ is that he has managed to satisfy both Justice and Mercy, and to reveal his loving grace towards us.
He has achieved this by giving us freewill, and the liberty to choose to or reject him.
For us to choose Christ we must recognize we are sinful and lost.
Do not hide behind such foolish cliché, as ‘Religion is the cause of all mankind’s woes… such as war.”
Sin and Evil are the cause of these and knowing this ought to convince us all of the need for salvation and God’s government!
The good news is “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Salvation is a free Gift!
The Bible says Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Rev Clark believed in God and was a minister of this truth.

Was he an irrational superstitious Fool?
No!
He was a man of Reason and a true Humanitarian.
This is what Christianity is all about!
I don’t ask you to become a pew warmer.
I implore you all to ask Christ to be your savior!

Let us maintain our faith in justice in the face of every hardship.
Let us play the hand we have been dealt with dignity to the very end.
Let us love one another and cherish every moment we have!

I thank God for my Grandfather and trust his soul is now in a much better place.
And I expect to see him again!

Thank you Granddad for everything.
You are an inspiration to us all.
Amen.

I cannot finish without giving recognition to my Nana who is the best wife any man could have.
Thank you Nana for loving and caring for my Granddad.
We all love you so much!

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness: but unto us which are saved: it is the power of God”
St Paul. 1 Corinthians 1vs18.

Contact Tim: 078498323ah, twikiriwhi@yahoo.co.nz

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