Thompson Memorials - A Registered Member Of The NZ Master Monumental Mason's Association

The New Zealand Master Monumental Masons Association is a professional network of individuals and businesses dedicated to furthering the memorial stonemasonry industry in New Zealand, increasing understanding in all matters relating to natural stone memorials and safeguarding the interests of the bereaved. They achieve their goals through the promotion of high standards of service and products, assuring clients who use members of the Association a wide choice of premium quality professional monumental masons.

 

Their core purpose is to promote the monumental stonemasonry industry of New Zealand and to increase awareness amongst the general public and local councils of their aims, skills, expertise and resources with regard to memorial stonemasonry, and their members are at the forefront of the drive to perpetuate the strong tradition and history of New Zealand monumental stonemasonry, which gives their work an unsurpassed pedigree.

Approximately one third of all New Zealand monumental stonemasonry businesses are members of the Association, and they currently deal with 75% of all monuments erected in New Zealand.

 

The Association was established in 1945 by a group of like-minded stone masons who felt the need to protect the public’s rights to honour the memories of loved ones with the erection of memorial headstones.Today Association members are drawn from all over New Zealand and currently represent 80% of the monumental masonry retail companies, as well as approximately one third of all businesses involved in the whole business sector.

Members are required to meet work experience and skill criteria which ensure a continuation of the high standards of workmanship to be seen in traditional monumental stonemasonry. Member companies are able use their knowledge of the by-laws for their local cemeteries to assist people in their choice of a memorial or cremation memorial suitable.

 

NZMMMA members work to the highest possible quality standards in the service they provide to clients and the stonemasonry work they undertake and install. To become members of the association they have been through a strict screening process to ensure they consistently achieve the required high standards and will be able to maintain the professional membership requirements of the Association. Their members are also able to work in conjunction with related services like Funeral Directors or Funeral Planning Services to ensure a seamless process in planning memorials for the client’s loved one. This gives the client greater assurance that matters will be dealt with smoothly, reducing the potential for stress associated with organising memorial requirements, thus enabling the bereaved to focus on beginning the grieving process for their loved one.

 

For further information on memorial headstones and Thompson Memorials please go to http://www.thompsonmemorials.co.nz .