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Yellow Cabs golfing update
I’m sitting in front of the computer
the last Sunday before the
country votes; it’s cold, windy and
drizzling. The grass and weeds out
the front need to be cut but I would
bog the lawn mower.
How unusual for it to be raining.
Last year we all looked to the skies
telling Huey to send it down. Now
we are thinking it should ease a little
or just shift right above our big
two-thirds full dams only. There
are some golf courses that have
closed completely, Cranbourne
shut down the front nine late last
week for a couple of days.
Club Yellows player numbers
are down which makes it hard to
run certain, club trophy events.
There is Robbie looking out the
clubhouse windows to see who is
turning up willing to take on the wet
conditions and working out if he
has the numbers to have a comp.
There is not much that I can
say about golf except it is wet out
there but there is something that is
more important, there is only four
more sleeps before we jet off to
Cairns, lovely warm 28 degrees
Cairns for our Oz championships.
Twelve lovely warm days of golf,
sun, water, mud crabs and reef
fish. Hopefully we come back one
day before spring starts and the
weather Gods are kind to us.
So when I sit down this time next
month the Federal election will be
over and the State election is only
two months away. I will have the results
from Cairns and hopefully a
couple of photos from boring times
in Cairns.
So until next month,
Hacker D
Welcome to tomorrow
“WHY CAN’T YOU JUST TAKE A PENALTY
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?”
On 5 August, 20 Mitsubishi
i-MiEV were unloaded at Webb
Dock East. The plug-in Mitsubishi
i-MiEV will play a part in the
Victorian Government’s $5 million
electric vehicle trial, due to commence
later this year.
The Victorian Government is
currently working with the RACV
to find around 180 households interested
in taking part in an electric
vehicle trial. The successful
applicants will get an electric car
for three months.
This world-leading trial will create
real conditions by testing how
drivers, vehicles, plug-in charging
infrastructure and the electricity
network will interact in real-life
situations.
The five-year electric vehicle trial will help to find new ways of making electric cars more efficient and practical
for Victorian families and roads, and will include passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and electric twowheelers.
It is aimed to have around 180 charging points and 60 vehicles and expect these vehicles will rotate
between different households and fleets.
So far 76 submissions from suppliers wanting to participate in the trial as providers - include car manufacturers,
recharge infrastructure providers and electricity suppliers, distributors and retailers. D
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Taxi Talk - voice of the taxi industry SEPTEMBER 2010