Am I alone in thinking that the days of the old style tradesperson who would take on anything big or small are dead and gone? Trying to get someone to do a small renovation job in your home is mission impossible, even from firms that tout themselves as ‘‘No job too big or small’’.
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Builders only seem to want to do jobs that involve long-term work in a new housing estate or unit development. Requests for quotes are sometimes simply ignored.
A call to a ‘‘24-hour’’ plumbing service is met with the news that they cannot come to an urgent job for at least a week. Can someone in the industry shed some light on this?
John Young, Balgownie
Private schools typically close for Christmas holidays at least a week before public schools. The state government enforces school zones outside private schools even though they are closed for school holidays.
It is little wonder that many motorists were caught by the ‘‘revenue trap’’ in December when drivers knew that the Illawarra Grammar private school and the adjacentCatholic private school were on holidays.
Most drivers comment that they have never seen a student of TIGS on the road outside the school.
The school has been provided with a drive-in area inside the school grounds, where parents pick up and drop off their children safely.
There is absolutely no need for a school zone on the main road outside TIGS school.
If the concern was genuinely about school children’s safety, the entrance on the main road would be closed and only a side entrance used, where there is a low volume of traffic travelling at much lower speeds.
In NSW speed cameras never were about road safety.
Allan Pryor, Figtree
The view of the sea and the grassy knoll on the hill at Gerringong will soon be gone due to unnecessary development.
This is the very last of a restful and peaceful view for children, locals and tourists. Children will no longer be able to play and look out for passing whales and eat their ice-creams.
This view is the last and only view of the beach and sea from the central CBD of Gerringong and if it goes, then why would people stop at Gerringong, unless you pay to visit the new restaurant that will soon be built there.
There is another alternative to this development that would have left the grassy area and put the development behind the existing one, but that has been ignored.
If you only do one thing worthwhile this year then protest, call and write to everyone you can. And if you feel like doing more, contact Kiama Council and say no, this cannot happen.
John Chambers, Gerringong
If Bill Shorten aspires to be the next Prime Minister of our country he will have to work on correcting his lazy pronunciation of ‘‘th’’.
I found when teaching children with this problem that a daily practising of ‘‘36thick and thin thistle sticks’’ was a great help in overcoming this lip laziness.
Ovverwise he will just present always as a union bovver boy when he continues to predict targets to be met by Two Fousand and firty.
And while he is at it, put the ‘‘l’’ in Austraya when he speaks of the land we love.
Margaret Wolfe, Thirroul
