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It’s driving them mad By Roy Pilott
To the uninitiated, they are rocks compared to normal golf balls. We are talking about range balls – thousands of them are placed on tees on driving ranges around the country every day by club
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and social golfers aiming to improve their technique. They are good for practice, but no golfer worth his or her salt would want to play a round with them. Which is why Te Awamutu Golf Club manager Mary Wano is flummoxed. She estimates since the country emerged from Covid something in the region of 5000 range balls have been taken out of bounds by thieves. When no eagle eyed staff are on course, the burglars swoop and make off with every ball they can find. And par for the course, when thieves strike, good people lose out. Wano has closed the driving range – which is
usually open to the public – while a solution for the problem is sorted. She says it will have to reopen because it’s such a popular community asset – but having to order bucket loads of balls on a regular basis to make up
for the stolen ones is a gross inconvenience. Collections at the end of the range were being made three mornings a week – it’s likely the collection numbers will increase and be later in the day when the range opens again.
But seriously – at $8 for a bucket of 35-40 balls to practice with in your own time, you would go a fairway to get better value for money. It makes you wonder – who is the mystery handicapper?
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Krystle Boyle, Gerard Mooney and Brett Anderson toasted the end of six months of traffic cones in Ōhaupō last week. It was a challenge for retailers as a roading project continued, but Chris Gardner reports there is widespread appreciation for the final result. See his report on page 3 today.
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Council in chief talks By Roy Pilott
Waipā District Councillors appeared to be closer – if not close - to naming a successor for chief executive Garry Dyet this week. They were to meet at Karāpiro – after this edition went to press - to discuss the appointment of a new chief. Reasons for going behind closed doors to discuss the issue were listed as “to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations)” and to “protect the privacy of natural persons including that of a deceased natural person”. Dyet announced in November that he would stand down after 15 years in the role – having originally joined the council in 1980 - giving the council ample time for find a successor. The chief executive is the only position appointed by the elected council. He or she will walk into a council which, like most around the country, is confronted by significant cost challenges. Waipā has already bitten the bullet and shelved some major work – a $33 million museum plan was officially put on hold last month because of a “significant change” to the financial landscape. At the time Dyet reported “it is prudent for all project works to be paused, including the discharge of the Te Ara Wai governance committee”. But infrastructure work continues – businesses in Hautapu were given an update just last week on the extensive work being carried out on the district’s newest industrial hub.
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