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Press, 22 February 1977, Page 2

On the trail HORDES of camouflaged and heavily armed housewives will be taking to the jungles of the back garden if the advice of a parish magazine seen yesterday is taken literally. In a hints-for-the-home section, it extolled the virtues of whole-strawberry jam as a way of making use of bountiful home - garden crops, and advised: “The berries should be picked while they are still firm, and care should be taken not to bruise them during preparation. Strawberries need to be stalked very carefully . . .” Laughing THE ROBBER wore a grin, but the tellers did not. During a carnival at St Gallen, Switzerland, a man wearing a mask of a laughing clown strolled into a

savings bank and robbed it of 200,000 Swiss francs (about $NZ84,413), holding tellers at bay with a pistol. He strolled out again, mingled with other masked revellers in the street, and got away. Herself

LIFESIZE wax models of the Queen, both clad and unclad, have gone on sale in London, but not to any old commoner. Gems Wax Models, of Kensington, is mass-producing the models for use in this year’s Jubilee celebrations. They are for sale only to organisations which will use them for the purpose intended, such as focal points in local exhibitions to mark the 25th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the Throne. Fully dressed, with tiara, they cost SNZI924; uncostumed. SNZ7O2.