Philip Saul was born in Chester in the UK. In 1964, he joined the Merseyside shipping company Blue Funnel Line as a catering boy and spent most of the next decade at sea in the Bri...view morePhilip Saul was born in Chester in the UK. In 1964, he joined the Merseyside shipping company Blue Funnel Line as a catering boy and spent most of the next decade at sea in the British Merchant Navy. He jumped ship in New Zealand and spent two years working in the freezing industry under an assumed name before being arrested, fined and deported.
He emigrated to New Zealand in 1978 with his wife and daughter, working in the hospitality industry and eventually beginning a 40-year association with Clubs New Zealand, thirty-three of which were spent as General Manager of the Howick Club Inc.
Philip is now retired and lives with his wife in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.view less