Genuine representation?
I refer to a question asked recently as to the membership of the BVRRSA (MNW, 15/4) and my understanding is their rules require anyone who wishes to be a member to pay $1 and apply to join and after being accepted to pay $2 per year to become and remain a financial member.
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From my own experience, this has never happened.
At the incorporation of the organisation, several people paid their $1 (including myself) in cash and applied to join and nothing further occurred - no acceptance of membership, no receipt and no request for the annual contribution of $2 required to be a financial member.
I personally thought to have a genuine ratepayers association in the shire would be a great idea.
However, this organisation appears to be nothing more than a vehicle for John Richardson to express his own views and appear to be doing it on behalf of a Ratepayers Association, which in a normal situation would give him credibility.
Given the above facts I leave people to judge for themselves.
Robyn Savage
Merimbula
Lack of papers
I wish to lodge a complaint with Fairfax Media and express my disappointment in its decision to cut down on the number of the Bega District News papers supplied to my local Tathra Newsagency.
When I went (on Wednesday) to pick up a copy of the Tuesday edition last week there were none left in the shop.
I went again today (Friday) at 4.30pm to get the Friday edition and once again there were none left!.
When I asked why, it was explained to me that Fairfax made a decision to reduce the number of papers that the newsagency could have!
This is despite the fact the Tathra Newsagency has a history of selling more papers than Fairfax recently decided it could have!
As you may know, Tathra is at least a 20-minute drive from another newsagency.
This is very inconvenient not only for me and, I believe, for many other Tathra readers!
I have always relied on the Tathra Newsagency to have a copy of the Bega District News, especially at 4.30pm on a Friday evening!
So the decision made by Fairfax to cut supply is quite a shock.
I request that Fairfax revise their decision and supply a more realistic supply of the Bega District News to our newsagency in Tathra.
Helen Hallett
Tathra
Editor’s note: Thanks for your comments Helen. We have taken that up with our head office that coordinates supply. We have heard similar concerns from other towns and it is something we really hope to address. If anyone has similar experiences to Helen, please email me at ben.smyth@fairfaxmedia.com.au.
Lest we forget
At the start of the so-called Great War my uncle Jacques fell in the battle of Mamey-Lironville (September 1914); he was just 21.
His nine-year-old brother (my father) ran away to the north of France in search of his hero, but only reached Limoges before being returned safely home by the military police.
My grandmother never recovered from that terrible loss and died four years later.
Out of the 60 million soldiers who fought in that insane and senseless slaughter, nine million were killed and 20 million wounded.
The resulting economic and social dislocation laid the foundation for a new global conflict a mere 20 years later, as well as what were to be the 20th Century’s most barbaric regimes - German Nazism and Soviet Communism.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by the coalition of the willing without a UN mandate and subsequent retaliation by extreme Islamism, only shows how little we have learnt.
“Terrorism is the continuation of war by other means,” Patrick J. Buchanan
Bernard Lagarenne
Merimbula
Bemused responses
My wife and I were greatly bemused by the range of responses to the story about the unlicenced Bemboka driver in Tuesday’s BDN Best of the Web section.
While we truly hope that he is not “raped by the revenue hungry system”, as suggested by one reader, we both feel that having not paid for a licence for 60 years, he has certainly saved a large amount of money for the fine!
Hopefully, he might be given a “pensioners concession” when the penalty for his “incredible lack of conscience” is determined.
Ian Gordon
Wolumla