At 10am on May 11, the sound of a reversing beeper alerted me to the fact that, after many months of emails and phone calls from residents, Port Macquarie Hastings Council were finally repairing the pavement failure on the Ruins Way, between Coucal Close and Major Innes Road. The passage of trucks and buses had [...]
As a senior citizen I well remember when the National Highway was the New England Highway with 80/20 funding from Federal Govt. and NSW Govt. Mark Vaile changed the Pacific Highway to the National Highway (with same funding) because it carried more interstate traffic than the New England. Rob Oakeshott is incorrect in referring to [...]
It’s amazing how quickly the misinformation emanating daily from talk-back radio, and sections of the print media, clouds the memories of those who consider this to be intelligent discourse. For example take Don Campbell’s letter (“List of complaints”, Independent May 3). I have heard Ray Hadley repeat all of the criticisms of the Gillard government [...]
This is a story about drinking, about pubs, and about common-sense. I grew up in a suburb of London which was ‘Gas Works’ working class, and where there was a pub on nearly every corner. I and my mates played ‘skiffle’ back in the days of Lonnie Donegan, in many of these pubs. Most pubs [...]
How much longer can the labor independent for Lyne, Mr Rob Oakeshott continue to support the seemingly inept Gillard Labor government. Since the 2010 election the Gillard Government has lurched from crisis to crisis, to say the least their record is cause for concern:- (1) The rorts and waste of the Building the Education Revolution [...]
In a recent letter, A/Professor Wendell Evans from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, applauds the introduction of water fluoridation to Port Macquarie. Professor Evans cites two studies which would encourage many readers to accept his erroneous assertions that water fluoridation is “entirely safe and cost-effectiveâ€, and also offers substantial oral health benefits for [...]
The recent letter concerning the accumulation of rubbish at the SE corner of Horton and Clarence St cannot go unchallenged. If the rubbish is such a concern to you then don’t waste your time writing 600 word letters to a newspaper complaining about it. Why stand there taking photos of it? CLEAN IT UP!!! You [...]
Well Graham Devanny (PMI 28 April 2012), if Bob Brown and Tim Flannery have any other agenda besides the obvious political and media driven avenues we know them for, careers that are dedicated to looking into our futures as opposed to certain people wallets, I’d like you to tell us about it. Does Mr. Brown [...]
In the letters to the editor last week there were two letters about fluoride and I am sure that to most of your readers it was very confusing. Usually when you get strong opinions on any subject especially when the opinions are from experts both sides of the argument are correct. How can that be, [...]
Recently I was in Port to visit friends, enjoy the area and to take photos of the Pioneer Walk where an ancestor’s name appears. I was dismayed to see a ramp that had been built into the “Food for Less†building desecrates the memory of those who helped build this city. Some names have actually [...]
