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Christmas is coming! In the mad dash to the end of the year, don't forget to plan ways you can recharge your batteries ready for 2022
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Christmas is coming! In the mad dash to the end of the year, don't forget to plan ways you can recharge your batteries ready for 2022
Wellbeing Guy Kereama Carmody takes time to kōrero about positive ways to move forward after what's been a challenging time for most New Zealanders.
With his family glued to screens, Kereama Carmody wasn't surprised to hear Radio NZ say that New Zealand has broken its record for internet use.
'I had the best intentions of completing my first ever Dry July. But I have to admit I've had a bit of a fail!' writes Wellbeing Guy Kereama Carmody
It's Men's Health Week. Kerema Carmody wonders why so many men maintain and check their cars regularly, "with more care than we might give ourselves."
Masterlink / Master Plumbers' resident wellbeing coach, Kereama Carmody, provides some tips to keep active and eat healthy during the colder months.
We believe the Apprenticeship Boost could make a permanent difference to the number of trainees in the system, and we support the initiative 100%.
Ollie was just 19 when he started working at Clyne and Bennie as a Masterlink plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying apprentice in 2019.
Matt is in the first year of his Masterlink plumbing and drainlaying apprenticeship, hosted by Hunter Plumbing and Drainage - a company carrying out residential and commercial projects throughout Marlborough.
Vinny is in the final year of his Masterlink plumbing and gasfitting apprenticeship. He originally came to EG Glennie and Co as a casual labourer, but his hard work and reliability led them to offer him an apprenticeship.
New technologies and processes mean plumbing is no longer all about getting your hands dirty. It is highly skilled, varied, profitable and rewarding.
Queenstown-based Alan Wharton, aged 34, is in the fourth and final year of his plumbing and gasfitting apprenticeship, hosted by Flints Plumbing and Drainage.
Christchurch-based plumbing apprentice Darren Mills has won a Plumbing World Scholarship at the national New Zealand Plumbing awards, held online on Tuesday 19 May.
It’s smiles all round in Kaitaia as Masterlink host Jack Rogers and his apprentice George Steed both win national awards at the 2020 New Zealand Plumbing Awards.
By working at his local Mico branch in Albany, Breyton Lenee has gained good knowledge of plumbing products and their uses—giving him a head start for entering a plumbing apprenticeship.