Wellington Registered Master Builders Association:
• Les Hall Builders Ltd has been a member of the WRMBA for 54 years
• Executive committee: 25 years • President • Apprenticeship committee
• Father Christmas at children’s Christmas parties (once his children were older)
• Annual Ball organiser, assisted by hand picked helpers (the workers)
• Wairarapa Master Builders exchange — barn dances and horse and cart functions
• Registered Master Builders Federation conference organiser (while president or past president)
• Established Registered Master Builders Building Centre in Jervois Quay. Built with voluntary labour, it displayed manufacturers’ and suppliers’ goods
• Industry trips organiser • WRMBA squash competition organiser
• As president he was first to employ a female secretary (Jacqui Beder) in a “man’s industry”, a move that generated a great deal of controversy but that also gained support
• Purchased the Wellington Registered Master Builders piano for $25 as it was unable to be moved at the time after a function
• Master Build Guarantee inspector Wellington Polytechnic:
• Carpentry tutor
• Organised the technical training institute reunion — a seated dinner for 200 people and cocktail party for 1000 people
