General News
3 February, 2025
Readers write in on hospitality and duck hunting
Hospitality above and beyond Sir, At the end of October last year my sister, father and myself were holidaying in Inglewood and Bendigo. We stayed at the Inglewood Motel with our hosts Pauline and Jerry. My dad unfortunately got sick while we were...
Hospitality aboveand beyond
Sir, At the end of October last year my sister, father and myself were holidaying in Inglewood and Bendigo.
We stayed at the Inglewood Motel with our hosts Pauline and Jerry.
My dad unfortunately got sick while we were staying there with gastro and as he was 92 we had to call an ambulance for him, he was so sick and ended up in hospital for five days.
We were only booked into the motel for two nights but ended up staying the five nights with these lovely people, as you might expect both my sister and I also contracted the gastro and unfortunately we also shared with Jerry.
These lovely people looked after us amazingly well. They offered to go into town for us to get us anything we needed, they cleaned up the mess my dad left when he was sick, no complaints for them about what they had to do, because our holiday was ruined they only charged us a token amount to stay the whole time with them.
Just generally the beds were wonderfully comfortable including the pillows. The rooms are lovely and clean.
We cannot thank these lovely people enough..
I feel that anyone coming to Inglewood or indeed anywhere in this region could do no better than staying at the Inglewood motel.
Debra Peake
Modbury, SA
Why talk uphunter numbers?
Sir, I’m not a local but I visited Boort last year and spent tourist dollars there, buying gifts at the newsagent and enjoying refreshments at the cafe. In a former life, I was a maths teacher.
Mr Simon Toop from the Game Management Authority (GMA) is wrong to suggest there were “more active hunters” during the 2024 duck season (Region in top 5 duck spots, Loddon Herald January 23).
The GMA has been publishing the number of active hunters every year since 2017.
Last year there were only 12,937, the lowest to date (apart from Covid years).
And why talk up the surge in duck numbers pre-season, when the UNSW survey across the eastern states shows duck numbers had crashed by October 2024? Strange that GMA is keeping mum about that.
Joan Reilly
Surrey Hills