Recently a friend left the Kmart/Coles car park  for a brief walk with her baby, returning to the centre to do her weekly grocery shop. When she re-entered the car park she was approached by a parking officer who aggressively and repeatedly told her she had ‘broken the law’ by not being inside the centre at all times her car was parked there. She escaped the confrontation feeling shaken.

Additionally I yesterday observed a lady asking centre staff whether parking was now paid parking. They said it was free three-hour parking. She was confused as she had received an $80 parking ticket after popping over to the adjacent Chemist Warehouse to fill a prescription before shopping at Kmart.

She had noticed the parking officer watching her, but thought nothing of it. I have not even seen such heavy-handed tactics used in large mainland shopping centres.

Surely in the spirit of our friendly city, Kmart/Coles would want to inform their long-standing customers of this change rather than resorting to harassment and stalking. Is this where Launceston is headed?

Dee Marsh, Launceston.

Got to love and lament them with their ideologies and insight. They grow up with internet plus all the technology their suffering parents can afford.

They are permitted to interrupt adults while talking because it is the new way of the future. They can argue and cheek their peers because they have rights.

If they do not achieve what they desire, there are institutions out there that can heal all. When in later life experiences, having their own sweet offspring – things go pear shape, it is their first option to seek help with the parents they resented from the start.

When their love lives do not pan out, they look to the people that gave them life. But what’s so sad in today’s family life is that if the penny has turned, they have no time for the older and wiser people that tried to help them. We became the stupid, inane and annoying family member.

I hope the penny turns at some stage and they get to understand, this world is here to learn as a youth, not to teach as an adult. Their time will come as it has mine.

Felicity O'Neill, Westbury.

WHEN purchasing fruit one of the annoying bugbears are the little labels one finds on the fruit in supermarkets. Nearly every piece is adorned with a little round plastic label.  

I cannot think what purpose they serve as the labels merely indicate some trade name rather than a use-by date or place of origin. They are most annoying as one scrapes them off or ignores them and they end up in the compost bin.

But these labels have a continuing life, as with all plastics they do not disintegrate, but are there to be, unintentionally, consumed by animals or fish to long-term dire consequences. Just adding to our world’s mammoth pollution problem.

I notice that not all fruit is so adorned, which suggests that maybe all fruit should be free of these little labels. I ask state environment ministers to address this needless stickers-gone-mad situation.

Dick James, Launceston.

THERE have been repeated ill informed public comments in The Examiner and on social media about the relocation of the National Automobile Museum of Tasmania to the new building being constructed in Lindsay Street.

The comment that we will be adjacent to a cement factory is totally incorrect.

We will be near a concrete batching plant where the cement component is introduced in a sealed environment, where watering negates the potential for dust off the aggregate.

A great number of vehicles have parked next to the plant in its previous location, much closer and without reported damage.

Anyone with an interest in the relocation of the museum would note the new building is anything but a tin shed in itself is a closed environment.

The additional car movements to Lindsay Street caused by the relocation are insignificant as our daily visitation is approximately 65 people, which equates to possibly 40 cars per day.

Yes, our present location adjacent to the City Park is great but equally important is the new park being constructed just across the road.

The great foot bridge leading to the museum area, the proposed rowing centre and the new street will be running alongside our new building.

To refer to this area of Launceston as “the Swamp” and the “Sewer” indicated decades old thinking and has no validity to today’s situation and more importantly the future of this area.

It is unfortunate that the good name of the museum, hard won over many years by staff and volunteers is being used in an attempt to devalue the good work done by the aldermen and staff of the Launceston City Council.

Should anyone wish to view the plans or discuss our relocation please contact the museum, I would be happy to meet you.

Harry Williscroft, Director, National Automobile Museum of Tasmania.