LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

GAMBLING

SO Anna AND her team bowed down to the gambling industry. Some call it the racing industry, but without gambling there would be no racing industry. So it’s more important for more families to suffer the scourge of gambling than to supply $180,000 for the children’s agriculture program. JEFF JOHNSON, Toowoomba

CASH FOR CONTAINERS

I HEARD a talkback interview on

November 1.

Interviewee claimed that under the Queensland’s new “Containers for Change Scheme” his group would receive a cash increase compared to previously declining cash per volume return for “eligible” containers his group collected.

Thought: already noted, “eligible” sounded like soft sell euphemism for “conditions apply” (an indication one should read the “small print”).

10.30am: Accompanied “She who must be obeyed” (Shwmbod. If PM can be Scomo why not?) to supermarket for groceries.

“Look at that!” said Shwmbod, directing my attention to the price (90c) per bottle of diet tonic water. For months prior to Octobrer 31, the RRP had been 75c per bottle.

Thought: Yeh, they (?) said there would be a price increase in commodities marketed in “eligible” containers to generate “change” in exchange for returned containers.

Given, that over an extended period the estimated number of “eligible” units will number in the millions (one million times five cents equals $50,000), who receives the consumers’ of “eligible” containers contents extra contribution at the cash register? (If a consumer claims 10c “change” an extra 5c per unit.)

11.30 am: Purchased Subways for lunch and returned home to type this letter.

JOHN LARKIN, Toowoomba

PRIORITIES

ABOUT 14 million children are starving to death in Yemen and the Australian media seems to care more about what style of outfit Meghan Markle is wearing.

I think it’s about time the media got its priorities right.

DAVE FREDERICKS, Tooowoomba

SAD CLOSURE

THE Settlers’ Inn is going to close its doors. How sad for this iconic watering hole.

I am hoping that our city council will have the wisdom and take the initiative to rule that the iconic building’s exterior is to remain as is.

The Settler’s Inn has been a landmark, a meeting place, a local point of our town for a long, long time.

The name and image is indicative of our heritage and should be placed on Toowoomba’s historical list – to remind everyone what we were in our pioneering years gone by.

Toowoomba has lost too many of its historic buildings to make way for modern structures. We need to retain our pioneering heritage because that is what we were – pioneers and settlers.

The building must stay, and stay as it is.

JNETTE HARVEY, Rangeville

PRICE RISE

YESTERDAY buying a carton of Carlton mid cans I watched the staff at Woolworths bottle shop in Highfields increase the price from $44.00 to $47 (which I paid).

There seems to be no point in saving cans or bottles if you have the pay for the first and retailers put the price up.

We might as well chuck them in the street in protest. Being November 1, they wasted no time.

DENNIS VAN DEHOEF, Kleinton