And that it is no longer the centre of town.

To me this is a small-minded comment.

Common sense shows that irrespective of from which direction the town is entered, that tower is in full view.

As a memorial and icon it is perfectly sited. Leave the clock tower alone.

After repeated requests to have the give way line markings at the intersection of Parker and Upper St replaced after the road was resurfaced over the old ones – at a very dangerous intersection already made worse by the loading and unloading of cars from trucks on this corner – l come home to find that this entire section of Parker St has been line marked...except for the give way markings at either end.

So l ask the ratepayers of Bega to please take extra care at this busy dangerous intersection as the lives of our community are at risk. Yes, that's the intersection where they just put in a wonderful new busy children's  playground.

Two, no three, of your stories in a recent Friday paper are prime examples of bureaucracy gone crazy.

First was your front page account of Kacey Weller’s difficulties in getting her street maintained by council for the past 12 years despite having a sick child and recurring damage to her vehicle.

Their excuse – it is Crown Land and council’s responsibility.

The Crown Lands Department says it is not a road construction authority and is not equipped to undertake such work, but that Crown Land can be transferred to council for major works.

I imagine Hood St, named by the council, is a public street and therefore able to be used by any member of the public (if it is navigable).

Why then should a landowner be expected to maintain it themselves?

Surely this is a case for a few elected councillors with a bit of common sense voting to override a bureaucratic decision of staff?

Maybe even seal the darned road to that council’s garbage contractor can traverse it.

The second was Neil Duncan’s letter about council’s double standards regarding tree removal.

We’ve all been aware iof council’s propensity for cutting down established, shade-giving gum trees in Littleton Gardens. We are told it’s due to danger posed to the public by dropping limbs.

But if a landowner wants to cut a tree on his own property, presumably with a building permit before it was purchased, in order to build a house and/or to safeguard humans, he is stymied at every turn. Council has to be consistent he is told. Why are so many of us collapsing with laughter?

Then the cute little tale on page six about trees needing to be trimmed at council’s depots at Bermagui and Eden because they are “impacting the performance of communication equipment”.

There you are Mr Duncan – just tell them you can’t get a signal on your mobile phone.

Wouldn’t it be great if we got to have a vote on which staff to elect in September.

One of the fears in Bombala regarding the shire amalgamations has been representation. That being the smallest shire it would become neglected.

Currently Bombala has about seven per cent of the new shire’s population and 33 per cent (4 of 12) of the district’s representatives.

This will be the balance until the new shire elections in September/October 2017.