Ohakune lights priority

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 7, Issue 340, 19 June 1990, Page 9

Ohakune lights priority

Ohakune's street lighting needs have been on the backbumer too long, according to King Country Electric Power Board member Ian Strachan. He asked for action when the board was considering a report on new street lighting erected at National Park. The board was told only eight of nine standards were erected at National Park following representations by residents to Transit New Zealand.

Chief engineer Colin Martin said the board needs to impress on the public the fact that the KCEPB is only the contractor that erects street lighting. Transit New Zealand and the Ruapehu District Council are the organisations who decide when and where street lights should go. But Mr Strachan said Ohakune had been waiting for street lighting improvements for nine years and he believed the need was getting quite desperate.

He called on his colleagues to support an approach to Transit New Zealand to get some action. The board agreed that the general manager should provide a report on Ohakune's street lighting situation. Mr Strachan said it was quite ludicrous that a smaller place like Sanson should get extra street lighting because it was on the route to the skifields, when Ohakune itself could not.