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Reports about the Perth telecom New Tel (This Paper, Tuesday) say it has a
major problem in having enough cash to survive this quarter its preliminary
annual results released in September showed its cash reserves were down to
$4.4million in 2001-2002, a fall of $18million from the previous year. But have
no fear, the company is busily remedying its lack of cash. City businessman
Grahame Rex has received from New Tel, his provider, a sharply worded Notice of
Intention to Disconnect, printed in striking red and black, threatening that it
would ``immediately disconnect all services" and institute ``legal recovery
action" for his unpaid bill. He has paid the overdue amount 1¢ by posting a
2¢ coin. The bill, of course, cost New Tel 45¢ to send.
The Reserve Bank is talking about cuts in interest rates. Not too much of a
cut, asks Daniel Mellish, of Pyrmont. He recently moved after 18 months in a
flat, and got back from the Department of Fair Trading the $1120 bond he'd
lodged when he moved in. Oh yes, and plus the interest it earned 51¢. ``That's
less than 0.05 of 1 per cent."
Buy washed potatoes or brushed, to conserve water (Column 8, Tuesday)?
Matthew Matejka, now living in water-logged London, says it's obvious: ``Buy the
washed potatoes, as the farmer, washing thousands together, would have used
proportionately a lot less water than a householder washing one brushed
potato."
``The recently renovated Franklins supermarket at Yass," says Paul
Wilkinson, of that town, ``now stocks some new products aimed at eradicating
Yass's little-known social problem. Its floor plan shows aisle three as holding
Incesticides."
Almost comatose nearing Sydney, after a 23-hour flight from Venice, Rome and
Bangkok, Arlys Baker, of Tea Gardens, suddenly became wide awake when the head
purser on her Thai Airways flight came on the PA.``He said that on arrival,
passengers had two domestic services they could use Qantas or Ansett. Surely, I
thought, something good has happened in my month away, surely, Ansett has
staggered back on its feet to give the country something to cheer about.Alas
no."
``It was interesting," says John McGruther, of Bellevue Hill, ``to read an
apology in an issue of Lawyer's Weekly: ... the eight centre pages of last
week's issue ... included a special report on document management. Due to a
technical error in the folding process, the pages of the feature appeared in the
wrong sequence. Off to a flying start there!"
A puzzling error. Tim Channon, of Warriewood, found on the website of the
American Broadcasting Company, a Reuters report of the kerfuffle in Kirribilli
early on Monday when police chased some suspected housebreakers into the grounds
of Admiralty House and Prime Minister John Howard's adjoining residence at
Kiribati House. Kiribati? Why would we name a house after one of the world's
tiniest republics? Perhaps Reuters couldn't spell Kibbiril ... Killabirrli ...
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