5 Jul 2024

Glorit makes headlines after transmission tower incident

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 5 July 2024

You'd probably never heard of the town of Glorit before some unscrewed nuts put it on the map. It all started two weeks ago when a Northland transmission tower toppled over after Omexon contractors cleaning the base removed too many nuts... causing its collapse, and cutting power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses. But before that... who had even heard of Glorit? RNZ's Leonard Powell got in the car and went to find what residents describe as a ' blink and miss it town'..