Reporter’s Diary

Press, 7 July 1977, Page 2

Reporter’s Diary

Most sevens SOME readers will be celebrating all-the-sevens birthdays today. One with more sevens than most is Miss Elizabeth Sloss of Woodchester House, the Presbyterian Home. She is 77. Happy birthday. Party time “ALL THE sevens, 77’’ should do well at housie today. It is, of course, the seventh day of the seventh month of the sev-enty-seventh year of this century, and it will never come around again. During World War 11, writes Mr W. D. Dunkley of Riccarton, a group of New Zealand airmen in India celebrated a similar event with a party. It was April 4, 1944. They realised that they were on to a good thing, and had another party the next night, on the very reasonable grounds that April 5, 1944, would never occur again either. Celebrities

RADIO journalists do not normally get the same celebrity treatment as disc jockeys, but 3ZB journalists seem to be real crowd pleasers, at least among the younger set. More than 100 school children were milling about a bus below the station’s eighth floor office yesterday when they noticed a reporter peering out. They cheered, and the cheering continued as more reporters came to see what al! the fuss was about. The cheering hit a high spot when the chief reporter tossed down a paper dart.

and the regional news editor said he deserved a balcony from which to wave in style.

Berguater

AN ICEBERG may be towed to South Australia next year. An Adelaide chemical engineer, Mr Jonathon Job, hopes to interest the Saudi Arabian government in using South Australia as a testbed for the iceberg-towing scheme. He has just returned from Paris after talks with a Saudi Arabian prince and a French Government consulting group. “They are planning to tow an iceberg to the Persian Gulf next year as a pilot experiment." he said. But Mr Job believes he can convince the Saudi Arabians that it would be cheaper and easier to spend their oil dollars on towing one to Adelaide or Perth. j Took notice

SOME of the 35 consumer programmes screened on TVl’s “Today at One” programme through the year clearly had an impact on advertisers who use television, says the annual report of the Consumer Council. As a result of the programmes, advertising was withdrawn or modified on at least four occasions. “Commercial pressure was put on TVI to drop the weekly consumer reports,” says the report. “However, the only concession given was to transfer the consumer slot from Wednesdays to Mondavs, a day without advertising.”