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The Northern Advocate - Kaeo Rugby Club is getting a whole lot of bricks thrown at it this week. Whangarei bricklayers are heading to Kaeo tomorrow to lay 2500 bricks on top of the foundations, ready for the clubrooms to be lowered from its stilts. The club has had a rough couple of years, with floods twice wrecking the clubrooms. After the second flood, members resolved to raise the clubrooms by two metres. The Kaeo community and people from all over the country have come together in support of the club, "sponsoring" bricks for the rebuild at $5 each. A Whangarei bricklayer and member of the Northland Masonry Trades Association, Geoff Nieuwelaar, said he was looking forward to making a difference for Kaeo by laying the bricks this week. "When we saw what had happened to them up here we wanted to lend a hand," he said. "So we rang up Robbie (the club captain) and said we'll come up if he shouts us lunch and a few beers afterwards." Mr Nieuwelaar said the 10 or so bricklayers had been lent a van by the Northland Rugby Union and should have most of the work - laying bricks donated by Stevensons - done in a day. Club captain Robbie Ball said things were looking up for the club after two hard years.
Northland builders and masonry workers have rallied round to help a Cambodian couple whose dream Whangarei home was left unfinished after problems with their builder. For two years Simon and Nancy Tan worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, saving up for the New Zealand dream - their own home on a piece of land just outside Whangarei. But now that dream is in tatters - with their house three-quarters built, the Tans have discovered their builder Grant "Tiny" Richards failed to get a building permit, or pass on money that was supposed to go to subcontractors. But today, members of the Northland branch of the Certified Builders Association and Northland Masonry Trades Association will be at the Crane Rd site, donating their time and skills to get the house finished. Northland Masonry Trades Association member Geoff Nieuwelaar said he and his colleagues were appalled when they read about the Tan's plight in the Northern Advocate and were determined to help. "It's not a good look for the industry when this sort of thing happens. So we are going to help them finish it." He said much of the materials had been donated by local building firms with the tradespeople giving their time for free.
Raising the Kaeo rugby club to prevent future flooding was the Northland Masonry Trades Association first community project.
Simon and Nancy Tans house was another community project the Northland bricklayers undertook. After being ripped off by a shady builder NMTA decided to help the Tans finish their dream house
