NEW BUILDING BUSINESS PODCAST SERIES

Looking to start or grow a business? The new Methven Caroma Short Podcast Series Building Business covers pitfalls to avoid, tips on how to win and grow, and health and safety. Darryl McDonald, Roger Panton, and Bruce Turfrey, who have combined industry experience of 140+ years, share what they’ve learnt.

Catch the podcasts at https://open.spotify.com/ show/5VACYqXqIMeyyjYlK2DlWy

The new guidelines, which are supported by Workforce Development Councils Waihanga Ara Rau and Hanga-Aro-Rau, provide a baseline for expected behaviour in our industries to make sure there’s a workplace culture where everyone feels welcome. According to the guidelines, keeping it decent means:

Being our best

Calling it out

Bringing out the great in others

High five the good stuff.

With information for both employers and employees, the guidelines lay out what a safe and respectful workplace looks like, and where to get hold of support and resources.

Download the Keep it Decent guidelines and a workplace poster at www.tradecareers.co/guidelines

Graham McPhail of Marley

NZ competed at the New Zealand Masters Track & Field Championships in December 2022, striking Gold in the 60m sprint, Silver in the shotput and Bronze in the discus! Previously a top-level Rugby and Sevens player/coach, Graham is Marley NZ’s Lower North Island Territory Manager.

Meanwhile, Dux Industries’ Auckland and Northland Territory Manager Byron Jollivet—top order batsman and part time off-spin bowler—was preparing for retirement from premier cricket but has been selected for the Over 40s New Zealand A-squad to play in two games against Australia in Christchurch this February. These will be two of the first official international over-40s matches in the world.

Congratulations Graham and Byron!

Methven and Caroma’s annual CARC event was held in the Bay of Islands in late 2021, with members competing in a series of challenges to raise money for their 2022 chosen charity, Child Cancer. “In true CARC tradition, members demonstrated comradery, charity and competitive spirit to raise $55,000 for Child Cancer,” they say. This photo shows CARC representatives proudly presenting Child Cancer CEO Monica Briggs and Fund Raising and Growth Manager Chris Key with the donation. Peter Allan, a Scottish plumber, came across a message in a 135-year-old whisky bottle in the exact spot where he was cutting a hole in the floor of a house to find pipework when replacing an old radiator. The homeowner waited until her two children got home to open the note inside, written by the two men who had laid the original floor and dated 6 October 1887. It read: “James Ritchie and John Grieve laid this floor but didn’t drink the whisky. Whoever finds this bottle may think our dust is blowing along the road.” According to BBC Scotland, the family had plans to put another bottle in the same spot, with a transcript of the original note plus a new message of their own.

Florida homeowner Shaina Day was reunited with her lost engagement ring after 21 years when her in-laws decided to have their toilet replaced as part of some home improvements, reports news.com.au. The plumber found the ring lodged inside their toilet bowl and the couple gave it a good clean up before gift-wrapping it as a surprise present for a tearful Shaina on Christmas Day. Apparently, she and husband Nick had searched high and low for the ring when it was lost, even going through their own home’s septic tank, before giving up and replacing it with another.