Spencer Patrick Jones was born in 1956 and grew up on a farm in Te Awamutu, New Zealand.
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Spencer Patrick Jones (born 1956) is a guitar player and singer-songwriter from Te Awamutu, New Zealand.
Te Awamutu means "The river cut short", as it was at the end of the navigable section of the Mangapiko Stream.
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The town is on gently undulating land close to the banks of a tributary of the Waipa River.
The Waipa Pre-Season Tournament was the third and last in the 2009 pre-season, held from 20–22 March at the Te AwamutuEvents Centre.
After finishing college he returned to live in Te Awamutu and joined the Waikato Rowing Club, based at Lake Karapiro.
Numerous schools use Kia kaha as, or as part of, their mottoes, including Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay (Whakatangata kia kaha); Tikipunga High School, Whangarei (Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui); Golden Bay High School, Takaka (Ake ake kia kaha); Rotorua Intermediate School, Rotorua (Kia kaha, kia maia); and Rosehill Intermediate School, Papakura (Whaia kia kaha) and Te Awamutu Te Awamutu College and Kingwood Park High school (Kia Kaha).