Reporter’s diary

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33813, 9 April 1975, Page 3

Reporter’s diary

Missed again i A KIND of scatter-shot j technique for predicting ; train departure times let : the Railways- Department down badly last Sunday. A Christchurch man waiting at the Wairoa station for the train to Napier began to worry when his train failed to appear, so he compared tickets with other passengers waiting. The little station was closed, and he could not see the timetable through the window- — only the social club notice announcing ' the annual picnic. The five passengers on the platform found they had four different de1 parture times on their tickets — 11.05 a.m., IL 15 a.m., 11.20 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. They were all wrong; the train trundled in at 12.40 p.m. JI oil' now? EVERY six months or so a new drinking tad emerges. The latest news I from the lounge bars is I that a brown and white j concoction is being orderi gd by all the youngest ; drinkers. It is a mixture : of Kahlua and milk, Tia Maria and milk, or Creme de Cacao and milk. They call it Brown Cow. Dragonfly grounded VERY little escapes the ; eagle eyes of old aviators. One retired pilot, Mr Syd- ' ney Wiltshire, rang yester- : dav to say that the first ! aircraft used by East i Coast Airways, Ltd, for its j Gisborne to Napier run

was not a de Havilland 84 Dragonfly, as reported yesterday, but a de Havilland 84 Dragon. He flew with the airline in the late 19305. The only Dragonfly he remembers was the one which disappeared on a flight from Christchurch to South Westland some years ago. Keeping up A RACE has' started in Christchurch between Tolstoy and Television One. Inspired by the first episode of “War and Peace.” a Christchurch viewer has decided — at last — to start reading a threevolume edition of the novel which he has owned for 20 years. He finds that it has about 300 chapters. The television version has 20 episodes, so to keep up he will have to read 15 chapters a week. He has begun by reading the first seven chapters on the bus in the mornings, but even so he is still behind the 8.8. C. which started its television saga at chapter 9 of the book. Free, hair-do CHRISTCHURCH women know a bargain when they see' one. A hairdressing school, the International Institute of Hairdressing, had as many models as it needed in next to no time when it advertised in “The Press” yesterday for 30 women for its students to practice on. The school is having an advanced hairstyling seminar next week-end. and the models who entrust their hair to the hands of the -students will get a free haircut and blow-wave. “The models have to give us a free hand.” said Mr Grahame Davis, the school’s styling

director, “but the student has to do something that is suitable to the individual.” A cut and blow-wave would normally cost about 89.50.

raster extended JUST how fresh is fresh bread? That’s the question a Fendalton housewife has been pondering since she bought a wrapped, sliced loaf from her regular grocer on Monday, April 7. On the wrapper was a picture of a jovial friar and the words “Happy Easter Easter had ended a full week ago, so she is torn between two charitable views — either the bakers have been deep-freezing their loaves, or they cannot afford to waste their Easter wrappers. Just looking, thanks ONE of the hazards of running an art gallery is that someone may complain to the authorities that particular pictures are rude and should be decently overpainted with fig leaves or ordered to be removed. The Barry Lett Gallery in Auckland is one that has been raided by the police “acting on information received.” So it is no wonder that Mrs Joan Livingstone, of the Labyrinth Gallery in New Regent Street, positively trembled with fear when two uniformed policemen tramped solemnly up her stairs. On display were paintings and drawings by the Auckland artist BarryRead. some of them very anatomically explicit. But it was all right, they assured her. They were just looking for another constable. He'd got lost on the beat.