Dim view of VIP
Having just read "An end to those 'dark az' nights" (Northland Age, July 16) I write in an emotional state bordering on apoplexy. Your paper reports that the Far North District Council's "general manager infrastructure and asset management" - with a name like that it must be a very important position, commanding I hope an appropriately very important salary - "thanks those responsible for bringing Kaitaia's lighting issues to the council's attention".
Does this very important person never go out at night? I was in Kaitaia on a Friday night about a month ago. I commented to the not very important people I was with, that there must be a power cut of some sort, it seemed so dark. The same very important person then goes on to advise us that "in the midterm, the council planned to undertake a district-wide review of lighting. Where lighting was required, a business case would be submitted to the New Zealand Transport Agency to subsidise design and installation".
"Dependent on the outcome of the review and subsequent application to the NZTA, work will be prioritised and programmed for completion over a number of years."
Surely we are talking of posts with lamps on them - hence the name "lamp posts". Mangonui Lions could come over one Saturday morning and do the job.
