Rangitikei bungying given OK
Bungying off the 42 metre high Omatane Road Bridge near Utiku has been given the okay by the Rangitikei County Council. In reaching their decision to allow Rangitikei River Adventures to operate a bungy jumping service off the bridge, the council expressed reservations. Councillors wondered about the safety of the sport, but decided those reservations were not the concern of the council. The jumping platform would be under the bridge, and a ladder would be fitted to allow jumpers to climb back up.
Kazuya chose to visit New Zealand because he had heard about the country's natural beauty and said he was not disappointed with what he had found. Kazuya is an economics student at Kyoto University and his family live in Uenoshi where his father is president of an office equipment supply
company. His town is where the first Ninja, or Japanese spy, came from. It is also the home of some of Japan's famous samurai and poets. Asked if he had been worked hard during his stay he complimented his hosts by saying "mother (Sharon Reed) works very hard - I don't."
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 299, 11 August 1989, Page 5
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