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20 December 1920 - 14 October 2007
Dr Griff Jones was born in Auckland and attended Auckland Grammar School, where in 1938 he was a prefect, a member of the Cricket First XI, and captain of the Hockey First XI.
[Image omitted. See PDF]At Auckland University College he graduated BSc, majoring in physics, in which subject he won a Senior Scholarship. During his final year (1941) he also did a radio training course. He then joined the RNZAF, and was posted to the Radar Installation Facility in Wellington. The war over, he decided to do medicine and graduated from the Otago Medical School in 1951.
Dr Jones worked as an RMO in Auckland and Cornwall Hospitals, spent a year in Te Kuiti in a rural practice, and a further year in Thames...