Vandalism? No - Safety chops

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 449, 18 August 1992, Page 5

Vandalism? No - Safety chops

By

Jan

Savell

Waiouru residents got a windfall last week with the chopping down of over 1300 power poles on the Desert Road. Trucks, trailers and four wheel drive vehicles could be seen collecting the abandoned poles and ferrying them back for firewood. The bounty was left by Powerlink. A team of five will eventually remove the disused poles all the way to Bunnythorpe. Three weeks after starting at Toknaanu the chainsawwielding team were heading south through Waiouru, leaving a trail of metre-high posts behind | them. "We hope to finish by Christmas but we will have to stop for a while now. When the ground is drier we'll come back and pull out the rest of the post" Mr Martin said. "Transpower wanted them out to stop any pos-

sible injury. The lines are no longer being used. We are recovering the wire, but the poles themselves are normally given to the landowner" said Ian Martin, manager for Powerlink. Correction The recent advertisement for Parklands Complex, in the issue of 4 August, contained an error. The name 'Te Turi o Murimotu' was spelt incorrectly, and the line representing Mt Ruapehu should have represented Te Turi o Murimotu, the mountain behind Karioi.