The course is on Crown land but the club is unlikely to renew the lease because of falling player-numbers and instead would do a deal to join with Wentworth Golf Club which has to replace its fire-destroyed club house.

The council bought land off the distributor road near Ophir Road for the proposed new sporting complex but is now looking at the Bloomfield site adjacent to Jack Brabham Park if the golf clubs merge.

The complex on the golf course or Jack Brabham Park would include an AFL, cricket and multipurpose oval, an athletic field and track with covered tiered seating and a main rugby union/league field with a 1500-seat grandstand and seating mounds to cater for 8500 spectators.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian promised the funding in this year's state election campaign if the Nationals candidate was elected but when that didn't happen she later agreed to honour the grant. Orange City Council will do the detailed plans to give the government for approval for the complex to be built.

The government didn't put a time limit on the funding or nominate where the complex should be built.

It would be far better on the golf course site if Ex-Services' leaves rather than out in the boondocks off the distributor road.

The greater Brabham Park would then become one of the best sporting venues in country NSW.

Drivers like to see where they're going at night but those blue-white headlights are an unwanted safety risk dazzling other road users. They're a total pain and so are the drivers who hoon around town as well as on the open road leaving them on high beam. You can't see a thing when a car fitted with these searchlights blinds you for the rest of the night.

You also have to contend with being dazzled by the lights in your rear view mirrors when an arrogant driver is sitting on your tail on high beam. In fact some of the blue-white lights are so bright they don't have to be on low beam to blind you and they're standard equipment on those new SUV tanks.

Others are fitted after-market and they're probably the biggest problem yet apparently are OK otherwise the cops would be handing out tickets left right and centre to Orange drivers, who seem to love them.

They fall roughly into three groups: high intensity discharge, aftermarket HID conversions and halogen lamps that have had some types of aftermarket globes installed.

Sometimes they're called xenon or bi-xenon lamps. But how the work experience people at the Roads and Maritime Services allows them we'll never know.

The experts say you should replace headlight bulbs with the same type used by the manufacturer unless a qualified mechanic confirms an upgrade is safe because brighter bulbs can melt wiring due to the excess current draw. And why is it legal to use high beam in town anyway?

Can anyone explain why we're asked at checkouts whether we want the receipt? It's not only in the supermarkets but petrol stations as well. Is it to save them paper or to stop you from checking the totals? It's just another one of those screwy little things that happen in Orange.