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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 789110" data-attributes="member: 1125">I'm interested Harry Makaka Jones. Freelance Journalist Smart Hero.The man known as Harry Makaka Jones is a quite remarkable fellow who was born in New Zealand on 2 March 1917. Where his Welsh-born father Mr Harry Jones was the Post Master in a small rural community from which came Harry Makaka's mother Tira (a halfcast native) who died when Harry Makaka was about 6.It was at the age of 11 Harry and his father emmigrated to England where Mr Jones sen got a job working as a technician for the BBC. It was from this that Harry the younger gained a fascination with electronics and radio broadcasting in particular. It is said that young Harry would often visit his father at work, listen to the broadcasts in various languages (including French, German , Japanese and Arabic) Harry should remarkable talent in this area and soon was able to converse in all four languages as well as his native Maori and English. It is also suggested that Harry the younger was instrumental in development of Short Wave broadcasting which the BBC introduced in 1932- although no official evidence exists to support this claim.  What is known is that Harry Makaka was a friendly but tenacious young man ewith a great facination for life in general. He possessed a keen intellect and a gift for languages. He was tall and handsome and had the good build and health of his polynesian forebears. it was not long after his 17th birthday that Harry was employed by the BBC in its foreign language broadcasting service and in this capacity he did some work with <a href="http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/wake.html" target="_blank">Nancy Wake</a>  a journalist based in Paris.After hostilities broke out Harry did spend sometime in the British military mainly as a radio operator and worked closely with the New Zealand Maori Battalion even developing a Maori language based code for communications to the New Zealand troops. However Harry was wounded early in the campaign and thus was returned to Britain to recuperate it is at this point that he was recruited ...- from the Biography of Harry Makaka JonesStr 10 Con 12 Dex 12 Int 16 Wis 16 Cha 12HP 13 BAb Melee +0 range +1 Def 11 Fort 1 Ref 1 Wil 4 AP 5 Rep+1 Wealth 5 Al: Loyalty, Justice, LibertyOccupation: Military Talents: LinguistFeats: Simple Weapons, Alertness, Builder, Personal Firearms Proficiency (occ bonus)Skills 48pts ((rank+mod)Communications (Radio) 7 (4+3), Craft (electronics) 7 (4+3), Decipher Script 7 (4+3), Disable Device 6 (3+3), Forgery 5 (2+3), Investigate 5 (2+3), Knowledge (technology) 4 (1+3), Listen 6 (2+3+1*) Move Silently5 (4+1),  Navigate 6 (3+3), Profession (Journalism) 4 (1+3), , Repair (electronics) 7 (4+3), Research 5 (2+3), Search 5 (2+3), Survival 4 (1+3) Demolitions 3 (0+3), Language Maori (Native), EnglishRead/Write Language 3 (Arabic, Japanese, English)Speak Language 4 (Japanese, German, French, Arabic)</blockquote>

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