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Breakfast in Perth 22 August 2017 Neil McCann <> Mon, Sep 4, 2017, 10:50 AM to Tom, Greg Tom, just a follow-up to our breakfast discussion last week in Perth. The tone of the meeting was such that my integrity and motives were in question by you and Greg Mitchell in regards to four particular situations. The takeover of the Manakau church. For your information the first suggestion that Manakau become a Roskill church began with Peter Staples not me. When asked by Peter who I thought could take it I suggested Rod Gibson. He called back and said they did not have the money and wanted to do something from NZ. I reluctantly suggested maybe Robbie could take it. Peter immediately replied 'that sounds like the best plan', and then he mentioned the idea of it becoming a Roskill church. This did not seem out of the question to me at the time, or that this would be something to get permission to do. It is a Newcastle church, not a Beechboro church, and Peter Staples and his pas