About UsThe Auckland Master Plumbers, Gasfitters & Drainlayers Association was the first Plumbing Association to be incorporated in New Zealand. The year of incorporation was always throught to be 1894 but recent research into the archives has found that the Associaton may have been established some eight years prior. The following is an extract from the website http://www.nzetc.org/ Auckland Master Plumbers' Association: This body was established in 1886. Mr. E. Lonergan is president; Mr. A. G. Blakey, vice-president; Mr. C. Peace, secretary; and Mr. B. Schenk, treasurer. There is also an emergency committe consisting of Messers D. Doul, C. A. P. Annett, and F. Hitchcock. The objectives of the society are to improve matters affecting the trade in general, to obtain first-class workmanship, and to discuss topics referring to any branches of the trade. The association also arranges matters between masters and employees, and the members have agitated for the formation of a technical school. During the typhoid fever scare a few years ago, the association approached to City Council, with a view to establishing a sanitary system. The objectives of the inaugral Auckland Master Plumbers' Association to improve the trade and protect the health of our nation are still as relevant today as they were all those years ago and are at the very heart of our Association. |
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