Helen Beazley, of Gosford, asks "what is more important, a NSW driver’s licence or a person’s body? I attended Services NSW to advise RMS of mum’s passing, so as to cancel her licence and registration, but was advised that the NSW Government Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages document 'Medical Certificate of Cause of Death' is not acceptable for the purpose of cancelling a NSW drivers licence. This document however is perfectly acceptable to permit a funeral to go ahead".

"I Googled the following question," reports Steve Barrett, of Glenbrook, "however I couldn’t find an answer – with regard to the promised Badgerys Creek airport, who the hell was Badgery?" We admit to having no idea, but this raises the wider question of what the airport should be called when it is eventually built. We could simply leave it as it is – Column 8 does like the notion of a departure board at Heathrow reading "Paris, Zurich, New York, Badergys Creek..."

"Queensland sure does seem to have the jump on tricky nag’s names," writes Shann O’Connell of Wallacia (Column 8, for some days), "with Pistol Knight also running up there some 10 or so years ago. Hic!" Meanwhile Tim Parker, of Balmain, adds that "the 'Cyclone' nickname remembered by Greg Rutter brings to mind a teacher at school known to all as 'Bradawl' – defined in the dictionary as 'a small boring tool'. Cruel, yes. But fair".

As always, a reader has the obvious solution: "Regarding the vexing matter of Lady/Mrs Macquarie’s Chair," suggests Tim Crawshaw, of Kenthurst (which is it to be?, Column 8, for a while now), "with his re-introduction of knighthoods, Tony Abbott could give Lachlan Macquarie a posthumous dubbing and solve the problem once and for all."

Still on names and places, where did the mysterious "Jane" in Lady Jane Beach come from (Column 8, Tuesday)? We have a theory to hand from Stewart Copper, of Maroubra. "The beach is, and was always, Lady Bay, but around the time that nude swimming started to become 'fashionable', the Rolling Stones released the song Lady Jane in 1966. It was played on the radio a lot, so everyone knew it. There was much reporting of nude swimming at that time, and of the beaches where this took place. The newspapers picked up on Lady Bay and for some reason mistakenly began calling it Lady Jane Beach, and it stuck."

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