‘One-ton Joe’ cuts weight by half
PA Wellington Remember one-ton Joe Emery, the 224 kg Marsden Point crane driver who used to eat 32 pies a day to quell his appetite? Well, according to the Marsden Refinery Constructors Employees’ newsletter, Mr Emery now weighs 108 kg and itends to marry his diet consultant, Mrs Faye Roberts, in November. He hopes to reach his target weight of 95kg in time for his wedding in Rotorua. Mr Emery sought help after a fellow crane driver on the expansion project persuaded him to try the ultra diet product Mrs Roberts sells. The couple were engaged in October. It will be the first marriage for Mr Emery, who is 44. He said he expected to be off Mrs Roberts’s special diet food in May. “If I start putting on weight I will just go back on the diet again,” he said. An earlier edition of the newsletter said Mr Emery’s mates had changed his nickname from “one-ton” to “half-ton.”
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Press, 18 April 1985, Page 6
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