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■ Hardly a day/week goes buy without the sound of chainsaws and mulching machines destroying a huge number of perfectly healthy trees in our area of My Lofty, magnificent tall and healthy trees which surely should have been protected are being felled daily. Thank goodness the Boyce Gardens remain so that we can show our grandchildren some trees of yesteryear.

— ME, Mt Lofty Twmba

■ One of the four requirements to be Catholic is to accept all teachings for Catholics. Please don’t claim to be Catholic and to be voting yes to gay marriage. You can’t have it both ways. You do have free will but exercise it judiciously.

— TA, Tmba

■ Do your homework “before” you vote. Google “what has happened in Massachusetts since same-sex- marriage was legalised?”— GH, Gatton

■ All change has consequences. Social engineering and loss of democratic right to free speech one step closer to dictatorship with silencing of questioning or dissent.

— D, Tmba

■ “The Way We Were” 5/9 pictures an unnamed white building between the Memorial Hall and the Town Hall. It was the former Commonwealth Health Laboratory 54 3 Ruthven St. Before this photo was taken, a returned soldier Mr Lang and his wife conducted a newspaper and magazine kiosk on the footpath between the Memorial Hall and the CHL. It was a hexagonal wooden stand with push-out shades above the counters, which were shut overnight. In those days, the buses lined up in Herries St outside the Memorial Hall, and the people catching them home, were regular customers of the kiosk.

— FC, Twmba South