Wednesday, 18 July 2018 11:05

New leaders for Rural Contractors NZ

Written by Rural News Group

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Incoming RCNZ president David Kean.

The new presidential team leading Rural Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ) says the organisation plays an invaluable role educating and up-skilling contractors and promoting their interests.

At its annual conference in Masterton last month, the RCNZ board elected Southland contractor David Kean to be its new president and Waikato contractor Helen Slattery as its new vice-president.

Kean has been on the RCNZ board since 2009 and served as vice-president for the past five years.

Slattery has been on the board for six years and serves on a number of the RCNZ’s subcommittees including health and safety, training and biosecurity.

Both are second-generation contractors. In 2003, Kean took over the sheep dipping and weed spraying business his father Leo started in 1966. In 2016, his two sons, Jarrod and Nicol, joined him in the business.

Helen and her husband Roger Slattery now run the Matamata contracting business that Roger’s father and uncle started in the mid-1950s.

The Slatterys also operate a collection service and compacting unit for Plasback, which recycles waste silage film throughout NZ.

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