Barbara Clark, working hard to create a park complete with a public toilet.
The urgent need for a comfort stop between Whangarei and Kawakawa has led to an online drive to raise money for a dunny.
Once the funds are in, a more solid facility will be installed than the three previous toilets that have graced the wedge-shaped reserve on the corner of
Callaghan Rd and State Highway1.
None of those withstood the forces of nature - human or otherwise. One blew over and fell apart, one was vandalised beyond repair and the third was stolen.
Once $20,000 is raised, the new toilets will be a permanent structure, says Barbara Clark, of the Maromaku Reserves Board Park Committee.
The Bay of Islands-Whangaroa Community Board has granted $5000 towards the cost of what will be the only roadside public facility between Whangarei and Kawakawa. But progress on "the big picture" has been stymied by the latest portaloo's disappearance: workers cannot be brought in from training or other work schemes to do the hard yards because there is no toilet there.
