A union leader has called on Aurora chief executive Grady Cameron to ''man up'' and take responsibility for the number of compromised poles in Dunedin and Central Otago. E tu (formerly Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union) industry co-ordinator Joe Gallagher yesterday praised Aurora's $30.25 million programme to replace close to 3000 power poles in little over a year. "It's good to see that common sense has prevailed for the sake of the workforce and the community,'' Mr Gallagher said. He called on Mr Cameron to ''man up'' and take responsibility for letting the network get into the state it was now. After the programme announced yesterday was completed it would continue ''scheduled pole replacement work'' in line with the age of the network.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 01, 2016 18:47 UTC