Times Gone By: Coffs Harbour Co-operative Steamship Company: Onwards and Upwards (Part 2) Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 8, 2024 BY JULY 1915 the company’s ship Belbowrie had become a favourite with locals for freight transport. This was confirmed in October with a shareholders meeting confirming company returns had grown over the first four months of operation to 12 ½ percent, equivalent to an increased profit of around £15 per
Letter to the Editor: What happened to in-person customer service? Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 8, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, I’M 77 years of age and a fully paid up member of the "old farts" club. But I wonder, are there many younger people out there who are constantly frustrated by the deplorable service you get from many organisations when you are trying to conduct the
OPINION: We don’t want nuclear reactors in our region Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 6, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, WHO gave Ted O'Brien, Opposition energy spokesman, permission to select former coal power station sites as "strong contenders to locate new small modular reactors"? (Daily Telegraph, February 27 and 29.) Did he ask the residents of the Hunter Valley or Lake Macquarie whether they want dangerous nuclear
Letter to the Editor: Have you been kind today? Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 6, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, ON 21 February, my elderly husband fell while using the escalator at Coffs Harbour Central. A number of total strangers were kind enough to come to help him. I would like to thank all those people for their kindness for helping a total stranger. In particular I
Letter to the Editor: Well done State Government Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 6, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, THE Jetty Foreshore would hardly be suitable for affordable low cost or high rise housing. Once again when the public have been invited to comment on this proposal the City of Coffs HarbourCouncil choose not to consider the wishes of the ratepayers. This is not an area suited
Letter to the Editor: What a waste! Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 6, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, I OFTEN walk my dog around the Jetty and every now and then tourists have stopped me to inquire about the beautiful well designed building opposite the South Solitary Island Lighthouse Optic. Well what can I say except I know it's there, still an empty space,
Letter to the Editor: Department of Planning gaslighting Coffs residents Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 5, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, THERE appears to be no end to the manner in which the Department of Planning will gaslight this community in relation to their plans for the Jetty Foreshores. In Budget Estimates in State Parliament on 20/2/24, the most senior bureaucrat of the Department, Kiersten Fishburn, in explaining
Letter to the Editor: What happened to in-person customer service? Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 1, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, I’M 77 years of age and a fully paid up member of the "old farts" club. But I wonder, are there many younger people out there who are constantly frustrated by the deplorable service you get from many organisations when you are trying to conduct the
Letter to the Editor: Taylor Swift mania impacting Aussie entertainers Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 1, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIAN families are going into debt spending thousands of dollars on Taylor Swift concert tickets, merchandise, accommodation, interstate flights, etc, which is already causing a major impact on attendance, ticket sales and concert cancellations for every other concert featuring local musicians! This will reverberate on
Letter to the Editor: Return the field to public use Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - March 1, 2024 DEAR News Of The Area, IN past times, Jetty High was known as ‘Jetty Jail’ - ugly buildings, concrete, no grass etc. Now, the State Government has taken a leaf out of the Department of Corrective Services’ prison farm manual and constructed a totally inappropriate and oppressive fence seemingly designed to keep