RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

FOLLOW THE LEADER

It is not long, now, before people all over the province will be completing their plans to come to Christchurch for the third Rugby test between the Lions and New Zealand, and some of them may be comparative strangers to the swirl of city traffic. This is not the time or the place to provide a street map, with comments, or to point out some of the more obvious snares, such as the danger of circling roundabouts endlessly and being late for the match. But it would be wise to have some firm knowledge of the direction in which Lancaster Park

stands from the point of entry to the city limits. Otherwise some stranger may suffer. An earlier match of the tour, on the West Coast, provided just such an occurrence. From the vicinity of Greymouth, for the match at Westport, came a prominent sporting gentleman with a car-load of would-be spectators. He was a prominent sporting gentleman, but not in Rugby football. But he was as well aware, as most Coasters are, of the importance of lending support to such great occasions, so off he set, tickets in wallet, to drive

to Westport, with his load of friends. The traffic was rather heavy, but it was as well, he thought, as he motored along, that it was. because he was uncertain of the direction to the ground and it suited him very well to be led there. The stream of traffic went steadily ahead; when it turned right, he went with it. When it veered left, he was in there doing his stuff. It stopped, ultimately, in a large open area. But it was not a park for cars. Neither he, nor his friends, were really properly dressed for the funeral.