Business View Oceania | December 2019

71 72 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA DECEMBER 2019 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA DECEMBER 2019 Medent Medical Medent Medical are Proud to work along side The Napier District Masonic Trust Suppliers of medical products Ph 0800 263 3368 Contact us for all your Medical Equipment & consumable needs THE NAP I ER DI STR I CT MASONI C TRUST BVO: How does the Trust support the local community? Taylor: “The trust has a lot of interaction with the community in a number of ways. We offer scholarships every year to secondary school students who are going away for tertiary education. While we are looking for some educational excellence, we are also looking to help people of lesser means who may not have the same ability to pay or go to university. The scholarships are worth $5,000 each, paid over three years. Every year, we also sponsor a child from Wairoa College to go to Outward Bound as part of a leadership training program. And we’re pretty active in the community, particularly in sponsoring and assisting organisations that struggle to get funding from other sources.” “We also engage local companies. Our architectural draftsman, Chris Layton, has done a lot of work for the Trust and we turn to him for drawing and design work whenever we’re doing new development. Recently, we built a very high- end kitchen and dining room and we used Aitken Construction which is a Napier company – they were absolutely fantastic to work with and we look to use them when we move forward. Probably even with the building of these residential units. We’ve been very lucky to develop relationships with local companies over a number of years, so they provide an outstanding service to us. When you’ve got over 140 units and things go wrong – maintenance things, some of which need doing immediately – guys like Laser Plumbing & Electrical respond almost immediately and get the job done.” BVO: Are there any new initiatives planned for the near-term future? Taylor: “We are very interested in green initiatives, particularly environmental issues around the building of the new units. There are members of the Trust board who are very keen for us to try and incorporate solar power options. Another thing we will be looking at, because of Hawke’s Bay’s climate and at times there are water conservation Taradale Village Dining Taradale Village Taradale Village