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Going down is going up

YOU state in your article of June 17, 2023 Vincent’s underground power bill will now be up to $9,000. 

Last time (a few years back) it started at $8,000. Then it went to $8,500. Then it went up to $10,500.  When ratepayers objected, the council dropped the idea. Will the council give a firm guarantee on the final price?

I note former Councillor Dudley Maier is a strong advocate. Ask if his house will be included and will he willingly pay whatever the price will be. Also ask all the councillors the same question.

Payment for physical structures is a government responsibility – hospitals, schools, roads, dams, energy supply. The public pays the cost of receiving the services – NOT the cost of construction. Maybe an issue for the Ombudsman.

Roy Gilbert

Piddling trifles

REGARDING recent letters to the editor describing your food reviewer’s weather appraisal and its reference to God’s zipper, I want to say how fresh and lively Stephen’s opening was and that he fed his kids well. 

I read a woman cancelled her subscription because of your scurrilous blasphemy and I say good riddance – who needs hypocritical churchgoers like that. 

They say ‘the rain gods wept’ but in this case I am sure their laughter was thunderous.

Peter Jeffery OAM
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