Power outages affect court, police station

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

There were two short power outages in Gisborne’s central business district yesterday morning.

Eastland Network’s Brent Stewart said an 11kV cable fault between the Plunket and library substations meant parts of the CBD were briefly without power.

About 400 connections were affected, including the courthouse and the police station.

The Gisborne Herald court reporter said proceedings were interrupted twice.

“The first time during a prosecutor’s opening address to a jury.”

Mr Stewart said the cause of the outages was being investigated.