TELEVISION TOWER
No Climbing Allowed A notice forbidding climbing on the new 400 ft television tower on Sugarloaf Hill will confront visitors to the site this week-end. Visitors’ cars will also not be allowed to proceed beyond the public car park, about 200 yards up the access road. Cases of people climbing up the tower were reported last week-end, when there was also much congestion of vehicles parked right beneath the tower. As Sugarloaf Hill was a public reserve, people could not be prevented from walking over it, and up to the new television station, said Mr R. G. Tulloch, regional engineer of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, yesterday. But vehicles would not be allowed to proceed beyond the public car park, he said. A gate erected across the access road beyond the car-park would bar progress. A notice would also be erected “with the correct legal wording” forbidding people to climb on the tower, Mr Tulloch said.
There was a permanent security patrol on duty at the station in the evenings and at the week-ends to enforce these new measures, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 20
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