Norman Jones returns home

Press, 27 January 1987, Page 1

Norman Jones returns home

PA Dunedin With a triumphant wave and feeling “on top of the world,” the Invercargill member of Parliament, Mr Norman Jones, left Dunedin Hospital yesterday.

Mr Jones has been at the hospital since late November, undergoing a six-week course of radiotherapy for an inoperable brain tumour.

His wife Marjory, who has been staying in

Dunedin during his treatment, drove him home to Invercargill yesterday. “I’m fixed up now. I feel 100 per cent, much better than I have for months. I’m one of the success stories,” Mr Jones said as he left the hospital.

“We’ve just been looking at the latest scans and the tumour is less than half the size it was, it’s just shrivelled away.”

Mr Jones said he was keen to see out his term

in Parliament. He is determined to introduce a private member’s bill to repeal the Homosexual Law Reform Act. Another issue he is likely to get his teeth into is the sponsorship of the police. "I’m against it. People are entitled to police protection and I believe that in this country policing, education and medicine should all be free.” Mr S. N. Bishara, the head of the neurosurgery

department at Dunedin Hospital, said Mr Jones’s tumour had responded well to treatment and was “under good control.” He said it was inevitable the tumour would get out of control again one day.

“Although Mr Jones has responded better than we expected to treatment and there has been a considerable improvement, it is not a cure in the- sense that it is all finished with.”