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Arapiles new toilets vandalised 13-Apr-2012 At 5:21:27 PM kuu

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On 13/04/2012 STEALTH wrote:
>Was told by Acting Ranger in Charge of big piles of rock in the Wimmera,
>who told me what was reported to him by field staff.
>
Well, that's pretty definitive!

An unnamed Acting Ranger, in charge of big piles of crap somewhere in western Victoria.

Sorry STEALTH, I hadn't intended to question your reliability as a reporter in respect of this matter but it seems that both Dick Lodge (see post earlier in this thread) and I have a different recollection of events from that told to you by someone who recounted (to you) information told to them by yet another party. Chinese whispers?

I was there, staying in the North Campground, during the period these "incidents" took place and had a long conversation with Peter Hawker about the facility on the morning he subsequently "declared" them open. Another person in my group subsequently talked to Peter about the broken door latches. I don't believe that he (Peter) at that time expressed the belief that vandalism was the cause of failure.

The other assertion (in the original post) about toilet rolls being stuffed into the bowls of the new toilets is demonstrably questionable and consequently weakens the reliability of that post.