THIS week’s Royal Bathurst Show should once again be a highlight of our social calendar.
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Excellent forward planning will have the showground packed with a great array of exhibits and attractions and I think the show organisers have done great credit to themselves.
The many volunteers who help to put the show together deserve praise as most of them toil in the background.
Land of plenty
LAST week’s Schute Bell auction of a 557 acre grazing block four kilometres south of Perthville has set a new benchmark for land in the area.
Two near neighbours paid $1.62 million for the land that has practically no building structures but has long frontage to the main Bathurst/Rockley road.
The local buyers were school mates in Bathurst and will own a large portion each.
Note the rules
SUPERFINE wool producers will have noted the change of rules that has occurred for inclusion in the Zegna Champion fleece competition. Producers who use pain relief for mulesing are now eligible to enter fleeces, having been excluded for some years.
We all realise that TriSolfen is a really effective product and that many producers returned to a light mules after reluctantly ceasing the process for a season or two.
Local knowledge
WHEN I attended my first Rural Lands Protection Board meeting at the Havannah Street office on November 8, 2002, the OJD control issue was still red hot and needed a calming approach.
The only members of staff on board from that day who are still in action today are Neville Collins, Paul Medway and yours truly.
Fast forward to the current situation where 90pc of ratepayers are not eligible to vote for board members of their choice.
My belief has always been that the greatest asset of rural boards and county councils is local knowledge of staff and decision makers.
Ratepayers should always be able to elect their councillors and boards as their representatives should be those they know and trust.
Laugh lines
FATHER had been transferred to a new parish and the ladies had arranged a special high tea as a send-off for him.
The leading lady told him: “We’ll really miss you, Father. No matter who the Bishop sends, he’ll never be as good as you.”
Father was flattered but assured her that the new pastor would be capable and caring.
“Oh no,” said the lady. “It’s always the same; we’ve had five pastors here in my time, and each one is worse than the one before him”.
