FUN AND GAMES

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33443, 26 January 1974, Page 2

FUN AND GAMES

(From staff reporters and N.Z.P.A.)

[Demand, to be met j Plumbers will work over 'the Week-end at Queen 'Elizabeth II Park to double the number of women’s toilets. The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr N. G. Pickering) said last evening: "We have run into difficulties. Something had to be done urgently, so I have authorised the work.” Long queues formed at the women’s toilets at the Bank of New Zealand pre-Games meeting, and again on Thursday. Men have not had the same waiting time. Most of them are used to queueing at Lancaster Park, and they have a quicker change-over rate. Duty shifts A new part of Games organisation has come into I force. Members of the organising committee will work 24-hour shifts for the 10 days ;of competition to deal with ! any problems. Games officials, the police, the fire bri;gade. and the team managejments will be able to contact the duty officer at any time during the 24 hours. At the I end of each shift the duty ofjficer will report to the incomling official and to the chairman (Mr R. S. Scott).

Flipping girls

■ Fears that the bucket seats at Queen Elizabeth II Park will live up to their description when it rains are groundless. A team of schoolgirls has been engaged to go all the way around the athletic stadium flipping up the seats after each performance. Cheap beep

Many thousands of dollars have been spent on the Games, but one of the keyitems at the shooting cost only a matter of cents. When the referee at the skeet shooting wants to signal to the competitors, the scoreboard, and the crowd that a shooter has scored a miss, he raises in the air a simple bicycle tooter horn and gives a quick beep. I

Shocking story lire atmosphere at Queen Elizabeth II Park yesterday was electric — but not because of the events in the arena. A small boy sitting with his grandfather in the plastic seats of the grandstands soon discovered the principle of static electricity. By squirming in his seat, his pullover generated the electricity which he mischiev[ously “discharged” by touch-j ing his grandfather, giving aj small, but noticeable, electric shock. His grandfather also tried. A good deal of wriggling in the plastic seat and he was fully charged. But where? Who? Perhaps the young handholding couple who jumped noticeably in the seats while their neighbours — a small boy and his equally mischievous grandfather — dissolved into giggles, will read this. And understand. Quieter quarters ■ The noise level in the i Games village is now a definite improvement, the chairman of the organising committee (Mr R. S. Scott) said. There had been complaints about the amount of noise in both men’s and women’s quarters.