Recently engaged couple Dot Pumipi and former MP Shane Jones at their party in Kerikeri. Photo / Jason Oxenham
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- Up to 40 diplomats made the trek last night to the annual party of fellow diplomat Shane Jones and his fiancé Dot Pumipi in Kerikeri - but they almost didn't make it.
Up to 40 diplomats from Wellington and Canberra made the trek last night to the annual party of
fellow diplomat Shane Jones and his fiancé Dot Pumipi in Kerikeri - but they almost didn't make it.
It is understood the diplomats' plans were put on ice a few days ago because of incorrect speculation that at the party, Jones would announce his intentions to join New Zealand First after his term as a roving Pacific Ambassador ends in May.
But it was never Jones' intention to make any announcement while he is still a diplomat.
Jones said the party had become something of an institution around Waitangi.
"It has got a particular piquancy this year because it is a happy couple recently engaged - domestically that is," Jones told the Herald on Sunday last night.
