a lifelong interest in firearms, recalled seeing the guns buried in the tip, and covered over. A Vietnam War veteran and military collector, several years ago he paid to fly from North Queensland to show Council representatives where he believed the burial site was. The Australian War Memorial in Canberra and the Australian Army Reserve acknowledged the significance of Ballina's trophy guns, therefore I objected to a Council description as of 'alleged heritage value'. The exceptional regional historian Annette Potts, who died last week, stated in her recent submission about the Draft LEP, that the listing of the trophy guns burial site in 'archaeological sites' was puzzling. She wrote, "Surely the views of the ratepayers are relevant regarding what has priority." In her last heritage report to the Richmond River Historical Society she wrote, "How can the Ballina tip be an archaeological site?" Offers have been made by concerned citizens to run metal detectors over the former tip, even to carry out excavations without charge. The Army Reserve has trophy guns at its Sydney Museum and could be interested in obtaining the Ballina relics, I was told. In less than three years commemorations will mark the beginning of World War I, also known as The Great War and the War to End All Wars. In seven years from this week, on November 11, 2018, the end of that horrendous conflict will be celebrated. Overseas, in former battle zones, such as France and Belgium, relics of those who died in atrocious