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The reply to my letter see below....



29 March 2022

Paul Gee
By email: pgee3366@gmail.com

Tēnā koe Mr Gee

Email and Official Information Act request

Thank you for your letter to the Board dated 8 February 2022. Your letter and the documents accompanying it were considered by the Board at its meeting on 22 March 2022.

We acknowledge that this matter has caused you distress and we understand from your correspondence that this matter has been difficult for you.
 
The matters you raise in your email have been the subject of extensive correspondence between the Board and yourself for a number of years now. The Board acknowledges that you remain dissatisfied with the responses you have had however there is nothing new that the Board can tell you about these matters.

With regard to your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), following consideration the Board has concluded that there is no information covered by your request which has not already been provided to you in response to previous OIA requests you have made. This includes information provided in response to requests about the charges laid in respect of the explosion of the fish and chip shop on Milton Street, requests for correspondence with the Department of Labour relating to the explosion and subsequent investigation, a number of requests about the person who made the complaint to the Board about the explosion, a number of requests about the certification and audit processes used by the Board for gasfitting work around the time of
the explosion, and a number of requests for information concerning John Darnley in relation to the explosion.

As there has been no new information gathered by the Board in relation to the Milton Street explosion in 2009 since these previous responses, there is no further information the Board can provide to you about this matter.

The Board regrets that this matter continues to cause you and your wife distress. If you are dissatisfied with the Board’s response in relation to your OIA request, you can raise it with the Office of the Ombudsman. Information on how to do so is available on the Ombudsman’s website at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz

Thank you for your letter.
Nāku noa, nā

Aleyna Hall

Chief Executive/Registrar

Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board
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Fellow Practitioners Update / Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 407 Dated 18 March 2022
« Last post by Plumber on March 28, 2022, 02:59:26 PM »
Thanks Wal. Missed the newsletter.  What needs to be done to get the PGDB to engage?
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Fellow Practitioners Update / Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 407 Dated 18 March 2022
« Last post by Macmole on March 23, 2022, 07:21:13 PM »
It nice to see the newsletter back
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Fellow Practitioners Update / Fellow Practitioner Issue 407 Dated 18 March 2022
« Last post by Wal on March 18, 2022, 07:07:34 AM »
Hello everyone.  It's been a long time since we put out a News Letter but when nothing is happening and the powers to be aren't engaging with the industry, as they are required to do, then there is no use banging our heads against a brick wall. There is a lot that needs to be done and we need fresh blood and perspectives to get what is due to us as practitioners. Have a read and contact us if you are interested. 
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Fellow Practitioners Update / Re: What has happened to the fellow practitioners update
« Last post by Plumber on February 28, 2022, 07:31:27 PM »
Agree. I will follow with Wall
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Fellow Practitioners Update / What has happened to the fellow practitioners update
« Last post by Macmole on February 28, 2022, 01:35:07 PM »
Have you given up on the fellow practitioners news letter?

Thanks
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Fellow Practitioners Update / Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 236 Dated 12 December 2014
« Last post by Badger on February 08, 2022, 10:14:23 AM »
OPEN LETTER...Where is the accountability?

Paul Gee <pgee3366@gmail.com>
Attachments
10:10 (0 minutes ago)
to registrar, Wal

Dear Registrar and PGDB,

Please see attached 2 documents to support this email.
Personal statement I wrote in 2017 ( if there anything out of date please let me know so I can update my files)
Report written by industry stalwart Wal Gordon.
Wal's report shows 9 people of interest that were ignored and to the best of my knowledge never pursued. Done while I was made the scapegoat with my wife and family traumatised.

My Wife is still deeply concerned by the relevance of child sexual abuse case notes sent to our home, just before we were forced to sell that home. My Wife then had to live in a caravan with my young sons for a whole winter, while I was forced to work away to stay financially afloat...for many years. The site of the caravan had no potable water or functioning toilet. She had to empty the cassette toilet and collect drinking water at the local i-site. All done in front of the public that we previously served with a successful plumbing and gas business.

By way of an OIA please can you tell me if anyone has been held accountable for the near fatal explosion that happened at the chip-shop in Nelson, the explosion that I had spent 6 years previously warning it could happen if circumstances didn't change, i.e. addressing dodgy incomplete gas certs covering dangerous work.

Also if no one has been held accountable, please explain why not. I have a wealth of ignored evidence if required. The ongoing effect on my life is an everyday struggle. I did nothing wrong and only acted with the best of intentions.

It is my intention to ask these questions every time there is a change of guard at the PGDB.

I ask you, as part of a perpetual board, are you happy to inherit this state of affairs? Are you happy to join your predecessors? I believe there will come a day when we will finally have someone with the CORRECT moral compass and integrity to address this, I hope you are this group of people. I will persist until I find these people.

Please table both these documents at the next PGDB meeting.

Please keep all correspondence in writing, preferably by email.

FYI, I will be posting this on the Plumber's Forum, where there have been more than 150 thousand "reads" concerning this thread, this email and your answer will be open to the industry.

Yours with integrity
Paul Gee
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Dodgy Plumbing or Great Plumbing / Re: Do you think this could take off?
« Last post by Plumber on December 12, 2021, 09:56:58 PM »
whatever it was seems link is broken now.
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Q & A - Baths and Showers / Re: Shower lining
« Last post by Plumber on September 06, 2021, 01:35:03 PM »
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Q & A - Baths and Showers / Shower lining
« Last post by CharlesK on September 02, 2021, 12:06:58 AM »
Hi, our 60's house has a built-in shower, concrete walk-in floor and is lined with Seratone which hangs down about 15mm and is proud of the wall so makes a good drip edge. This was all fitted 6 years ago by a local builder but the lower edge of it is all now rotting. Another builder has been to look and suggested that we just reline it but use some stuff called 'showerline' which is faced with aluminium. The shower is 1200 x 900 and three sides are clad, the fourth is open with curtains. Now, the question is that this second builder has quoted us $4000-5000 to remove and reline and we wondered if this is a sensible figure? Also, is the suggestion of this new material a good one? What is the inside part of it made of? ie is it the same as seratone? Views would be appreciated.
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