It's smaller than the theatre in Griffith, which seats 520; Leeton seats 800 and even Narrandera seats 700.

Built in 1963, our theatre only seats 488 people.

How large was the Rock at the Races – about 3000?

And now this news of the Beach Boys being cancelled due to rain, although the expected heatwave was still a serious expectation.

Honestly, I realise the theatre is a beautiful building and holds a very important place in Wagga history, but if we want artists from our capital cities to be paid, and if we want international artists to come out of the capital cities, we need a larger attendance capacity.

But more important is to get everybody into air conditioning, especially the children.

Of course, the alternative is for attendees to pay more at the door to see bigger acts.  

If that is going to happen anyway, then let’s start considering using the money to build our bigger venue instead of staying small-minded.  

We are more likely to see Adele and Guns ‘N' Roses visit locally in comfortable surroundings than if we keep hosting these large events at the mercy of the outside elements.

With Wagga growing above 50,000 people, I think we seriously need to start thinking outside of that tiny box.

THERE are so many road accidents daily on our roads.

Are they all results from drivers only? No.

We share the road with motorbikes and pushbikes.

We have footpaths for our safety and designated crossings to cross safely.

If a car is driving along, doing the limit, on a two-lane road at night and one of us decides to cross lanes and is hit, why is it the driver’s fault automatically?

Surely we should be at fault also for taking a risk and crossing when unsafe?

Have you ever been driving and people walking don’t look, cross the road and expect us to come to a complete stop in the middle of the road and wait for them? Is that considerate?  

This also heightens the risk of other cars stopping suddenly.

For us to take one less step and stop surely is less effort than expecting a car to brake and come to a complete stop, then continue.

RAY Goodlass (DA, February 7, “Ray’s Reasoning”), ever heard of the expression the pot calling the kettle black? 

It applies to you. 

In your column, you gleefully report Malcolm Turnbull is not telling the truth about his conversation with Donald Trump, that it was a failure and that it ended abruptly after 25 minutes instead of the scheduled hour. 

The truth is it was not a failure and was not abruptly ended at all.

This shows again you cannot trust all that journalists say or write, even if it’s on the front page of the Washington Post, nor what your write in your column.

Concerning energy production, it is dangerous and irresponsible for any government to put all their eggs in one basket by largely depending on renewable energy. 

The sun doesn’t always shine nor does the wind always blow.

It’s common sense to depend on a mix of energy. It is a proven fact that coal can be burnt far cleaner than ever before. 

You may contradict “clean coal” but that doesn’t take away the fact that burning of coal is now far more efficient than in the past.