Weekend Edition
Several contributions have been received via email the first from Rosemary Skinner regarding a competition in the local rag and the second from John Neve regarding Fraser Island dingoes.
I have been eagerly cutting out the little coupons in the Chron. that say “WE’LL PAY YOUR RATES!”. I thought we might be eating chicken instead of sausages through those months when we normally are flat broke because we paid the rates bill. Alas! Today I read the fine print. Someone at the Chron must think rates for our ordinary suburban block are still only $1000. The fine print says “The prize will not exceed $1,000.” My rates bill last year was just over $1700. So I guess this year it will be at least that again.
Damm it! Guess there’ll be sausages on the dinner table all too frequently again till we pay the $700 shortfall even if I win.
Could someone please update the Chron. on the reality of the rates bill.
I wonder, too, if all councillors realize how much we pay here in the Bay. If you know a councillor, will you mention it to them please. They may think harder before being inclined to increase it.
Hopeful Sausage
Rosemary Skinner
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I am dismayed at some of the comments people have recently
made about both the Dingos and Fraser Island itself.
Fraser Island is both a national park and a world heritage
designated area. All flora and fauna is so covered and belongs
where it is. Fraser Island was not created to rip a fast buck out
of unsuspecting tourists. That was man’s idea.
If we are fair dinkum, we remove the “fence”, restore the area,
cap the number of tourist aloud on the island at an one time.
Place a levy on all businesses on the island and use the money
to sustain the flora and fauna.
Suggested reading, Erskine Caldwell’s “God’s little acre”, in
essence it tells how, given time, man will stuff everything up.
Happy reading,
John A Neve
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Thank God for little blessings Rosemary. If you were living in Maryborough your rates would be at least 50% higher than they are in the Bay. A little prayer that all those Maryborough Councillors don’t convince the others that their way is the right way may be in order.
Speaking of rates, rumour has it that your water rates will be used today and tomorrow to paint a colossal Wide Bay Water logo on the spillway of the Lake Lenthall Dam. The new crest gate system of the dam will be publicly unveiled on Wednesday and the word around town is that Wide Bay Water is rushing to have the logo (which is over 50 metres long!) painted on the dam to show off to media crews mid-week. How much this is costing us as rate payers is unknown, but having someone paint a 50 metre logo on to a spillway surely isn’t cheap. Apparently a local business was awarded the contract at very short notice this morning and will be working non-stop to have it finished in time.
I suppose Wide Bay Water thinks it’s good to award such things on short notice to avoid possible public backlash that would otherwise stop such public fund wasting.
electric sheep my source at council says wide bay waster have terminated the project because of funding problems