Reporter’s Diary

Press, 6 September 1976, Page 2

Reporter’s Diary

Trip for trout SOUTH ISLAND fishermen are 18,000 trout better off today than they were at the beginning of the weekend. Wildlife Officers from the Internal Affairs Department in Rotorua loaded the fingerlings into a tanker on Friday night for delivery to South Island lakes. The trout arrived on the Rangatira on Saturday morning and were released into Lake Wanaka and the Waitaki Valley river system on Saturday evening. The Wildlife Division has been transporting trout fingerlings to the South Island for three years to supplement the output of South Island hatcheries. IFif/i Nordic runes? AN American-led team of engineers and scientists searching for the Loch Ness monster has found some ancient stone formations similar to Stonehenge in Lie loch. The formations could be the ceremonial stone circles or burial cairns associated with the early Celtic tribes and their priesthood, the Druids. However, divers found the formations so caked with mud that it was impossible to determine their true shape or nature, and the murkiness of the water made it impossible to photograph them. Amphibians THE DROUGHT over Western Europe has hit a British sex show in which water nymphs frolicked naked in a glass-sided swimming pool. The organisers of the show have been told to turn off the tap to conserve water. Now the

water-nymphs have become dry-land badminton players who have left all their clothes in the changing room. Helping hand THE Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) can expect some high-powered ‘stance soon if an advertisement in the public notices of “The Press" on Saturday bears ftuit. The advertisement, inserted by a Greymouth reader, called on the Christians of New Zealand to pray for Mr Muldoon as the country’s leader, “to govern wisely and well so that God may be glorified in this land.” The text quoted in the advertisement came from the first epistle to Timothy: “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty.” All’s gift NEARLY 10 years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People urged blacks not to patronise a number of Fort Gibson, Mississippi, businesses which, they claimed, had discriminatory hiring practices. The boycott brought about a coalition of 12 merchants whose necks had grown scarlet from watching sales plummet. The 12 brought suit against the N.A.A.C.P., and last month a white judge ordered the N.AA.C.P. to pay SI.2M in damages. Things looked dark for the civil-rights S until the heavyt boxing champion,

Muhammad Ali, agreed to give $lOO,OOO towards legal fees in an attempt to overturn the decision. The money will come from the champion’s purse in his fight next month against Ken Norton. Brief encounter THE MARRIAGE of Giuseppe Buonasena, aged 36, to Rosa Sbraglia, aged 33, did not survive the wedding feast before a quarrel broke out over who should pay the $3OO wedding bill. The couple’s guests crowded into a Naples restaurant after the ceremony, but at the end of the meal Rosa’s parents, shocked at the cost, refused to pay the bill. Rosa took their side and went off home with them, abandoning her husband. She has not returned. Short trip A BRITISH sleepwalker, Robert Davis, is recovering in hospital after falling 15m off the balcony of his Dartford holiday home, badly injuring his back and breaking his leg. “It ruined my holiday, but I guess I’m lucky," he said in hospital. Smokeless gone STUDENTS at Victoria University of Wellington have been so concerned about their yellowing union buildings that they have decided to ban cigarette smoking in all public areas. According to the student association vicepresident: “We were concerned about people smoking in the cafe, the health factor, and the damage smoke has done to the walls, staining them a dirty yellow.” He said the ban applied only to cigarettes as just a handful of students smoked pipes and cigars.