Sent today.......Here you are guys, don't even have to type anything, just copy and paste and send to...... campbelllive@tv3.co.nz

If we can get 50 then I think we might get some traction publically.

Copy and paste and send it in........simple.



Dear Campbell Live,

We have a situation where the Plumbers Board are causing huge increases to the cost of being a plumber, gasfitter or drainlayer, which is ultimately passed on to the customer.

This is not all, they do it corruptly and incompetently, and until recently under the guise of a charity, which they have spent, I think to date, $46 000.00 to fight through the courts with expensive lawyers to try and re-register as a charity. They also publically claimed that now the tax dodge of being a charity has been denied them, that they will have to charge us yet more. They have been shown to have over charged the industry in one period over $600 000.00….. outside of the law. The Office of the Auditor General’s damning report was referred to as “one man’s opinion that he was entitled to”, by the deputy Registrar…. and has since been ignored. Believe me when I say that this is just the tip of a very large grimy ice berg, never mind covering up the site of an explosion with a dodgy gas cert, that they claim not to have received….but there is a copy on their faulty electronic register, which even though it cost hundreds of $1000.00 to install….it carries a disclaimer stating that it isn’t reliable, again funded by the NZ public. They boast of a 100% conviction rate, which is a statistical impossibility, it is highly unlikely that every single person put in their kangaroo court can be guiltily.

All this is in the knowledge of the Building Minister (I have tried to tell him)…. who is a Director of a Heating and Ventilation company. Of note, you can not have any heating and ventilation without a building to put it in. Please see an open letter the Minister below this email.

They rent a mirrored skyscraper on the Terrace for $195 000.00 per year on a ten year lease, where as before it was run out of a town house, and a photocopier for $30 000.00 per year for a five year lease. All ultimately funded by the NZ public.

It costs about $4500.00 to get a licence and retrain to do a job we are already qualified to do, per licence per year. The biggest training provider, for this yearly “upskilling”, that offers a 50% discount to its own members for these courses……. have a 50% representation, of positions available to tradies, on the Plumber’s Board. This is against the best practice recommendations of the NZ Law Commission, which says an industry Board should be free of interest/industry groups because of impartiality.

In a time of the CHCH rebuild I ask you is this reasonable or even helpful….or even legal??

John, does any of this sit well with you?

Yours Sincerely Paul Gee, a honest tradesman who tried to avoid someone getting hurt by dodgy work and lost his home and business.

 

If you do send it to mr Campbell, just vote yes above and we can see how many go in....

 

Intergrated mate....if just 20 guys who ain't happy with these Muppet's, dodgy Muppet's at that....wrote in and got it on air, the public backlash would MAKE them take notice.....

We are getting to a point where the poor end, and perhaps the middle section of society too, can't afford a plumber, if these people became aware of the reasons for this they would get as vocal as, then the politicians would act because they only care about votes and the public's perception of their performance.

I am always told how rich I must be because I am a plumber......you guys can testify how true this is and how much actually goes in YOUR pocket. The ones making the most out of all this bullshit......is the ones responsible for it all......if the public knew this it would all over for them....as simple as.....

Behind closed doors and playing by their rules they are never going to loose, ever.........in public they would be ridiculed....AND THEY KNOW THIS.

I can just see John Campbell saying and the Board refused to comment.....to being called dodgy, corrupt and incompetent!!! Their silence would speak volumes..........

top man Robbo, thank you buddy

Cheers Rodza.....out in the open these clowns won't stand up to scrutiny.....biggest joke on the Terrace.

And to all those on the "poll", cheers.

Thank you Jax...

Thank you Wal