Tournament proves a success
THE Leeton and District Bowling Club held a successful mixed pairs tournament on August 6.
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There were many visitors from other clubs that thoroughly enjoyed their day.
The success of this tournament was due in great part to our generous sponsors.
The committee would like to take this opportunity to thank Eurell’s of Leeton, Tim Barnes Communications, Lillypilly Estate Winery and Brad’s Mensland.
Hilary Chambers
On behalf of the tournament committee
Tape could reduce accidents
INSTALLING reflective tape on trucks to improve their visibility could reduce some types of accidents between trucks and cars by up to 44 percent.
The Australia Tracking Association (ATA) has released its updated technical advisory procedure on heavy vehicle visibility, which includes guidance on best practice for placing and applying retroreflective tape to trucks.
The advisory procedure was developed by the ATA’s Industry Technical Council.
Without high visibility markings the risk of an accident between a truck and a car is 30 times greater.
A truck with outline reflective markings can be recognised much earlier, allowing more time for drivers to manoeuvre safely.
In both the United States and Europe, the installation of retroreflective tape has resulted in major reductions in accidents, including side and rear impacts and reducing accidents in poor lighting conditions.
With about 30 percent of Australian multi vehicle crashes occurring at dusk and overnight when traffic is lightest but visibility is critical, retroreflective tape on trucks is a vital safety issue.
The updated advisory procedure includes extensive technical advice on the placement of contour markings with retroreflective tape, key material and dimensional requirements, cost estimates and applicability to vehicle types.
The Technical Advisory Procedure makes it clear that US style red/white block stripe markings are not legal in Australia.
The document also provided specific advice on application for different truck types.
The ATA’s updated technical advisory procedure provides in-depth guidance on key dimensional requirements and the placement of either full, partial, or stripe markings.
As illustrated in the application examples, this demonstrates that installation of retroreflective tape is possible across the wide variety of trucks that are on our roads.
This is the latest in the ATA’s series of technical advisory procedures.
Chris Loose
Senior engineering adviser
Australian Trucking Association
Control ducks now
NSW Department of Primary Industries’ (DPI) game licensing unit advises Riverina rice growers to remain vigilant and continue to monitor wild duck presence in their crops this spring.
This year wild ducks are predicted to breed in quite large numbers and we expect they will be ready to fly during rice sowing.
To help growers protect their crops I encourage them to take advantage of the DPI streamlined licensing system by ticking the opt-in box on their rice seed order form to obtain a native game bird management licence and a quota allocation.
Patrick O’Brien
Senior native game bird management officer
NSW DPI
Yay or nay
Yay: Thank you fo returning my three bank books to Beyond Bank when inadvertently left at the Leeton Post Office. Courteous and prompt kindness is much appreciated.