"Not agitated but annoyed"

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 15, 3 September 1985, Page 3

"Not agitated but annoyed"

The Ohakune Borough Council is "not yet getting agitated but is slightly annoyed at the lack of any visible progress" in developing the Jubilee Park recreational facility, according to Mayor Bill Taylor. Plans for the Jubilee Park development include squash and tennis courts, an iceskating rink and a covered all-weather swimming pool

using the existing swimming baths as a starting point. This sporting and recreational complex will be sited next to another recreational facility — the Ohakune Bowling Club greens. An Auckland-based company was authorised by the Ohakune Borough Council to proceed with this development early in 1 984 but so far there is nothing to be seen. Even the swimming baths — which were expected to have been completed for the 1984-85 summer season — had to be operated by Council last summer. In reply to a question from Cr Bully Hays at last month's Council meeting

asking if the swimming baths would be open for the coming summer, he was informed that Council had been advised that the baths would be open by the beginning of December. It is understood that one of the principals of the Auckland-based company, Mr John St. Clair Brown, has recently been overseas looking at similar leisureland developments and facilities including the use of plastic ice for the skating rink.