[Mg-mmm] Mike Hawke RIP

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This from Peter Kerr in Oz:
 
 
Mike Hawke made a big contribution to MMM worldwide.  Take his  research 
and books for example.  The K3 Dossier update is still a  draft  in my drawer 
after legal action was threatened.  
He travelled to Australia many times, even with a colostomy bag, and we met 
 up in New Zealand too.  The last time was at Omaru where he bought some  
heavy items for my N as personal baggage (they were too heavy to post!). Pip  
flew over there just to collect similar stuff from packhorse Mike.  He  
always competed and I arranged for a MMM MG for him to use to enable that. He  
stayed with us all on each visit, and many did likewise at  Bradford-on-Avon.
I spoke with Ann by phone to give some support, as Mike never embraced  
email or computers  I always phoned him regularly,  I wondered if the  lack of 
computers was because he would have been swamped with queries from  around 
the world.  I did send email files to the club at Abingdon, and he  read them 
there.
He saved MG UK club with vigilant management when the club was under a dark 
 cloud.  He went in each day to keep the staff at the task.   This gave him 
some time for him to start his research there  too!
Just some random  thoughts at this time.
The funeral will not be this week due to Coronial matters.
I thought Mike was bullet proof after all he went through.
 
Cheers
 
Peter Kerr
MMM home centre rep Australasia