Competitors don't just spend money at the bowling club, most of the small business owners share in the spoils. The accommodation providers, the cafes and restaurants, and even the other licensed establishments.

Alas, all we have are some mounds of dirt, a big hole where our show greens used to be and no idea about when construction will commence on the new green.

It appears that a couple of self-centred hill dwellers have greater rights than the community as a whole. The neighbours don't like living near a bowling club. They must have been blinded by the beautiful view of the beach when they bought their house to notice us.

I'm sure we were already established when they decided to make the wonderful village of Tathra their home.

It appears that it is only the self-centred hill dwellers that are allowed to enjoy what Tathra has to offer. It's not the green that these whingers are even complaining about, yet their complaint is what's holding up any progress on our green. The complaint is that they don't like other people having a good time at the bowling club.

When will we get our bowling green back BVSC? See the complaint for what it is, self-centred, opinionated and frivolous.

Your editorial "Hyper hypocrisy of 'plastic-free' shopping" exposed the duplicity of the major supermarkets.

Plastic-wrapped collectable toys are just the tip of the plastic iceberg. The majority of our purchases are wrapped in at least one single-use plastic bag, if not many.

A kilo of pears comes in a single-use plastic tray, inside a single-use plastic bag. Single-use plastic bags are available for your tomatoes, zucchinis, potatoes etc.

This becomes more ridiculous when you purchase banana bread. Each slice is inside a single-use plastic bag. The slices are sitting in a single-use cardboard tray and the whole lot is wrapped in another plastic bag. You take home five slices of bread, six plastic bags and a cardboard tray.

It is nice to know the supermarkets had the environment uppermost in their thinking when they decided to charge customers for take-home plastic carry bags.

The Bega District News seems to have a rather strange approach to freedom of expression.

Having afforded Dr Mike Kelly front page status to spruik his views on "freedom of the press" on July 30, the BDN rejected my Letter to the Editor commenting on Dr Kelly's position, on the basis that "it was too long".

According to the BDN's automated Letters Editor, any contribution of more than 250 words is verboten and is automatically rejected. Hence my 400 word critique of Dr Kelly's self-serving piece of political propaganda stood untouched.

But of course, there are letters and there are letters, and the BDN's editorial policy is nothing if not selective.

For example, back on March 7 of this year, Mayor Kristy McBain was given sole use of the BDN's letters page to promote council's proposed sewage outfall pipeline in Merimbula/Pambula ... 700 words of propaganda ... no word limit there.

One of the reasons that the media has such a tough time enlisting public support when it comes under political attack is its readiness to operate to a double standard in the hope that nobody will notice.

Look at that ... only 200 words.