“It’s a fair dinkum, proper kitchen built from scratch, it’s not a flat pack,” construction teacher Vaughan Wakefield said. 

“So in the day and age of flat packs from IKEA and Bunnings this has been done the old fashioned way, teaching them the proper way to build a kitchen.” 

Mr Wakefield said the furniture making students initially built coffee tables as their project and had finished these early. So Tafe approached the Mount Isa Fish Stocking Group to see if the hatchery needed further work. 

Last year construction students helped build the hatchery as their project.

The group’s secretary George Fortune said the contributions made by Tafe students had been “enormous.” 

“Our members are mostly full time workers who don’t have the time to do these types of projects so we appreciate the quality work the students do.”