OUR VIEW
Waimarino Community Board chairman.Colin Webb wheeled out that old gem of "setting a dangerous precedent" at last week's community board meeting when discussing the Wanganui Rugby Union's application for $10,500 for rebuilding the showers at Spriggins Park. And we agree with him. If you take the rationale to its logical extreme, the Ruapehu District Council should help fund the provision of showers at every club in the Wanganui union. Then they could start on all the other codes such as league, soccer, hockey, netball, badminton, cricket — the list goes on. Right to the extreme of the six Ruapehu blokes who regularly travel to Wanganui to windsurf on the estuary. Perhaps Ruapehu could chip in $1400 ($240 a head) towards showers on the river bank as the councils at present only provide the odd floating thing in the river for sailors to dodge, while the windsurfers provide local people with lots of entertainment, both drama and comedy! We say the whole idea is silly.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 581, 11 April 1995, Page 4
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165OUR VIEW Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 581, 11 April 1995, Page 4
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