Power outages affect more than 200 properties in Whanganui region

Powerco is investigating the cause of the outage at Kaitoke. Photo / File

More than 200 properties in the Whanganui region were without power on Wednesday morning.

Just before 6.30am 199 properties at Kaitoke lost power. All power was restored by 8.42am on Wednesday. Powerco said an investigation into the cause is continuing but it was very windy at the time of the outage.

In Hunterville 47 properties remain without power on Wednesday afternoon. Power was lost at 5.28pm on Tuesday, affecting 180 customers, after strong winds blew tree debris into lines and damaged a power pole near Te Houhou Rd off State Highway 1. Power was restored to 133 customers by 8.15pm on Tuesday, with the remaining 47 customers expected to have their power back on by 6pm on Wednesday.

This comes after 1165 properties in Springvale lost power on Tuesday morning when high wind damaged a piece of equipment near Mosston Rd.

The equipment was replaced and power restored; 810 customers had their power back on by 8.27am, and the remaining customers by 2.23pm, Powerco said.