A comfort
JUST a quick note to thank the Herald for putting out the call for a rocker/recliner chair for my mum Shirley.
We can’t believe how generous the community has been with offers of accommodation, storage and even money. Betta Boxes Recycling didn’t hesitate to donate storage boxes, which we were willing to pay for. As you can appreciate, 42 years of “things” runs to a few boxes.
Lees Transport in Kwinana also didn’t hesitate to pick up a sea container and deliver it to wherever we wanted, to store what we have managed to salvage from the house.
This was also done at no cost to us. Neighbours worked alongside family to get everything out of what was left of the house. A huge thank you to them also.
You can’t predict Mother Nature but so many positives have come out of this. Most of all, knowing there are still many people in our community who are willing to help others when things get tough. It’s a very comforting thought for all.
Kerry Halton, Shirley Nicholas &
Noel Nicholas
Hamilton Hill (for now)
Wrong way
MY condolences to the passengers and crew of MH17 and their families and friends. Well done to the Malaysian group led by their PM who has managed to get the bodies and black boxes. Meanwhile our number one diplomat has flown in the opposite direction, threatened Russia and had a meeting with a group with a reputation for all talk and no action. Not good enough.
Michael Mann
Solomon St, Fremantle
Dignity or war
I AM a sixth generation Australian, my paternal grandfather fought in the French trenches in WWI, my maternal grandfather fought with the 39th Battalion on the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea in WWII.
If the Russians dont treat the dead with dignity and ensure safe passage for an international inquiry into the tradgey over Crimea, then I unequivocally support the Australian government and all its allies declaring war on these bastards.
Sharon Collins
Curedale St, Beaconsfield
Rail against the bypass
DARYL BINNING (Herald letters, July 19, 2014) seems surprised the same people who supported the deletion of the bypass also want to save the Beeliar wetlands and, again, save the amenity of those who would be affected by the increased traffic that he refers to.
He wants to raise the dead and restore the bypass plan from an ancient era. But why stop there? Why not go back a smidgen further to the planner’s original proposal of putting a bridge across the Swan river from Nedlands.
That way the traffic could avoid all the southern suburbs (Fremantle, Winthrop, Melville, etc). This does not make sense, nor does resurrecting the Fremantle bypass—the issue remains. Yes, Daryl Binning, rail is the answer, as is the development of a new port facility in the southern industrial area where rail to road can link to the freeway and roe highway and improve amenity and save the wetlands.
Jim Meckelburg
Davies St, Beaconsfield
Shame on you kite-surfer!
OVER the past several weeks I’ve been walking my dog along the pathway along Burke Drive that runs directly next to the marine park on weekends.
There has been a kite surfer regularly running down the river’s edge through the marine park and then going on into deep waters. Most kite surfers don’t go into the marine park but this one clearly doesn’t care and I’m afraid he will encourage others into the fragile area.
The park is a sad remnant of what it once was when hundreds of thousands of wading birds came in the summer. What remains needs our protection. This guy knows he is in a marine reserve. He has a light green and white kite with touches of pink and dark blue. Shame on you kite surfer!
AM Collins
Holman St, Melville
Very sensible
MAY I add my support to Daryl Binning’s very sensible letter (Herald, July 19, 2014).
One look at the map shows the so-called Fremantle Bypass across the Stirling Bridge is the only rational long-term solution to the manifest present and future traffic problems for South Perth.
I agree with Daryl it was no more than short-term political interests that scuppered this obvious plan, and it should be reinstated before it is too late. The other proposals are flawed, unrealistic, and indeed “tortuous”.
Bob White
Hampton Rd, Fremantle
One rule for all
BEING a past motorcyclist, I had a numberplate on the back, with the front plate fixed longways to the front mudguard of my bike.
Someone over the years has had the front plate removed, with the argument that if you hit someone, the front plate will injure them more. I cannot see any reason for not having the front plate fixed crossways on the bike, under the headlight.
One rule for all road users.
Frank Granger
Melville Bch Rd, Applecross