Reporter’s Diary

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33869, 14 June 1975, Page 3

Reporter’s Diary

Hearts and minds

THE FORMER Ghurka officer, Adrian Hayter, seems to have adopted some of the well-proven guerrilla tactics of North Vietnam's General Giap in planning his campaign to win the Tasman seat as an Independent candidate in

the General Election. General Giap’s basic plan was “Take the countryside, surround the cities.” Mr Hayter, announcing his campaign plan, indicates that he will do something, similar in his bid to unseat the Prime Minister (Mr Rowling). He has reconnoitred the whole electorate, and will establish bases in central areas each week and “work outwards locally.” He’s taking his message to small local hails, avoiding the “political ballyhoo” of larger places, “More patriotic sense emerges among

-neighbours,” he says in his advertisement.

Only play-acting

ELIZABETH TAYLOR has agreed to appear in a film with Richard Burton — but the estranged pair will not meet on the screen. Her part in the film, "Jackpot,” is to hand out an Oscar award to a famous actor, played by Richard Burton, but the actor does not show up for the ceremony, because he is in bed with a girl.

"Actually, it was Richard who arranged for Liz to take the part,” said the film’s director, Terence Young. “There’s no animosity between them. There will always be a place for her, as far as he is concerned.” Carden magic MORE about garlic; members of the Herb Society

have been advised by one of their experts to plant garlic on the shortest day and to harvest it on the longest day. In New Zealand that means the ideal planning time will be midday on June 22—our winter solstice. It will be ready to harvest at midnight on December 22. Fee plan net! THE United States, which has generously furnished the rest of the world with free meteorological information from its space satellites for the last 10 years, will soon draw up a scale of charges. The information charged for will be from two Landsat satellites in Earth orbit, which return television photographs and electronic information about many of the Earth’s resources. Any country that liked to build a ground-receiving station has been able to get the satellite’s information for nothing. The fee will be small enough so as not to

discourage use of the satellites, but large enough for the United Sttates to recover a significant amount of its investment. Copper pot? THE police must have sold out of marijuana. A notice advertising it for sale has disappeared from the Students Association noticeboard at Ham. The notice offered Panama Red (allegedly a more desirable grade than New Zealand Green) at $l5 an ounce, and gave the advice, “telephone 71-888, or apply corner Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace. Catching on? SO MANY old cars have been entered for the vintage and veteran car auction in Christchurch today that the venue has had to be switched from a used-car showroom to the vast King Edward Barracks. There were only a dozen entries when the catalogue was prepared, but the organisers expect to

have at least 50 by 11 a.m. today. Among the later entries is a 1938 supercharged; Graham, beautifully restored and capable of doing 110 miles an hour. It is described as having been the property of a Christchurch arms manufacturer. They have also had a telephone bid from New York for one of the cars. The prospective buyer read about the auction in a copy of “The Press,” carried there by an airline passenger. Outdated STATIONERY cupboards at the Armagh Street Post; Office need a good clean out. They are issuing two-year-old advice slips with the motor-vehicle relicensing, forms. The slips tell the: reader to check that they have nominated one of the insurance companies listed on the form for third-party; insurance. There are no insurance companies listed. That went out more than a year ago with the establishment of the Accident Com-| pensation Commission.