Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 5, 2007 18:37:20 GMT 12
An all new article on the Ohakea musuem which basically says nothing new. Gap filler in the columns I suspect.
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4084466a20381.html
Ohakea centre will take time
By LAURA RICHARDS - Rangitikei Mail | Tuesday, 5 June 2007
A new regional visitors' centre for Ohakea may take a step closer this month when the paperwork for setting up a trust board to run it is completed. But there's a warning that it could still be some time before the new centre becomes a reality.
Destination Manawatu chief executive officer Kathy Gibson said exactly what the centre will contain won't be decided for some time.
The visitors' information centre is intended to replace the Ohakea Wing Museum which closed on May 13. The closure was to have happened a month earlier, shortly before Anzac Day, but was deferred once the news of the closure became public, leading to a public outcry.
On the last day the museum was open, Ohakea base commander, Group Captain Shaun Clarke said no one was more passionate about the history of the RNZAF than the Air Force.
He said a new trust board to run the centre would be made up of representatives from Rangitikei, Manawatu and Wanganui district councils, Palmerston North City Council, Vision Manawatu, Destination Manawatu and Friends of the Museum and Ohakea Air Force base. The National Air Force Museum trust board would also send a representative to give advice.
Grp Capt Clarke said he appreciated the push from the communities and acknowledged it.
Last week he said the concept the steering committee was working on was a "strong business idea, with a first-hand view of what is happening on the air base".
He said where the centre will be located has yet to be discussed.
"It will have to be handy," he said.
He said those on the steering committee had a buoyant attitude and shared a vision for the future. Friends of the Museum spokesman Chris Torr said he looked forward to the paperwork for the new trust to be completed so the communities involved had ownership.
Mr Torr warned that progress would be slow, members of the steering committee had been working diligently.
"This is a huge step forward," he said.
But he recognised there were still people angry about the closure.
"I expect people to express (their concern) and continue to do so until they see the visitors' centre on the ground."
On the day of the closure. Peter Adamson, the chairman of the trust board which oversaw the running of the museum at Wigram and the Ohakea Wing Museum, said the trust lost $980,000 in operational costs between 1993 and 2007.
That meant the trust board had to do more fundraising to expand Wigram Museum, a facility he called "a proper museum".
www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4084466a20381.html
Ohakea centre will take time
By LAURA RICHARDS - Rangitikei Mail | Tuesday, 5 June 2007
A new regional visitors' centre for Ohakea may take a step closer this month when the paperwork for setting up a trust board to run it is completed. But there's a warning that it could still be some time before the new centre becomes a reality.
Destination Manawatu chief executive officer Kathy Gibson said exactly what the centre will contain won't be decided for some time.
The visitors' information centre is intended to replace the Ohakea Wing Museum which closed on May 13. The closure was to have happened a month earlier, shortly before Anzac Day, but was deferred once the news of the closure became public, leading to a public outcry.
On the last day the museum was open, Ohakea base commander, Group Captain Shaun Clarke said no one was more passionate about the history of the RNZAF than the Air Force.
He said a new trust board to run the centre would be made up of representatives from Rangitikei, Manawatu and Wanganui district councils, Palmerston North City Council, Vision Manawatu, Destination Manawatu and Friends of the Museum and Ohakea Air Force base. The National Air Force Museum trust board would also send a representative to give advice.
Grp Capt Clarke said he appreciated the push from the communities and acknowledged it.
Last week he said the concept the steering committee was working on was a "strong business idea, with a first-hand view of what is happening on the air base".
He said where the centre will be located has yet to be discussed.
"It will have to be handy," he said.
He said those on the steering committee had a buoyant attitude and shared a vision for the future. Friends of the Museum spokesman Chris Torr said he looked forward to the paperwork for the new trust to be completed so the communities involved had ownership.
Mr Torr warned that progress would be slow, members of the steering committee had been working diligently.
"This is a huge step forward," he said.
But he recognised there were still people angry about the closure.
"I expect people to express (their concern) and continue to do so until they see the visitors' centre on the ground."
On the day of the closure. Peter Adamson, the chairman of the trust board which oversaw the running of the museum at Wigram and the Ohakea Wing Museum, said the trust lost $980,000 in operational costs between 1993 and 2007.
That meant the trust board had to do more fundraising to expand Wigram Museum, a facility he called "a proper museum".
