canberrabirds

public conveniences

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Subject: public conveniences
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:03:05 +1000

A slightly longer walk – if it is longer – would be to the Causeway Hall, where the extra steps would be repaid by the privilege of using the original toilets (ca 1926) and quite likely the oldest public toilets in Canberra [see Canberra Times 22 May 2006 p12], although I do not wish to be taken as guaranteeing that the hall would be open at the relevant time.

 

As for the LBG survey, I did complete it but was frustrated by the absence of any ‘comments’ space on which I could make by complaint about the use of ‘foreshore’.  Even a non-pedant like myself who will, generously, allow use of the word to refer to other than the area between high and low water is entitled to complain about the mystery of (apparently government) ‘buildings on the foreshore’.  Have they all been reading the same real-estate gobbledygook?  Perhaps the Woden Centre is on the foreshore, whatever it is.   Having gone to the ‘feedback’ page to lodge my complaint, I returned to my survey to find it had, alas, disappeared.  No matter, there wasn’t much there by way of new ideas, although under ‘How should it be managed?’ I did offer ‘Not by a federal minister for whom running a local go-cart track would be way above the demonstrated level of competence’.   

 

 


From: Overs, Anthony (REPS) [
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:43 AM
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Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] public conveniences

 

I think the closest loos to Kellys are at the McDonalds in nearby Fyshwick.

 

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From: Barbara Allan [
Sent: Monday, 22 May 2006 9:54 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] public conveniences

 

Now no toilet humour from the usual suspects – this is a serious request. COG has been asked where the nearest public loos are, to Campbell Park and Kellys Swamp. Helpful suggestions, anyone? Barbara Allan, COG secretary

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