Reporter's Diary

Press, 9 November 1978, Page 2

Reporter's Diary

Yokes no joke

ADVERTISEMENTS in “The Press” recently offering egg yolk? for sale have brought several queries from readers. What do they do with the whites? they have wanted to know. The answer should be obvious to any New Zealander — the white have gone into pavlovas. Cowles Pavlova Kitchens have set up in business in Christchurch recently, hence the sudden glut of egg yolks in the city. The pavlovas are sold to hotels and caterers, and the company has already established kitchens at Dunedin and Wellington. The egg yolks sell for 80c a litre (about 50 yolks) and are apparently likely to be snapped up by

other catering firms making sponges and other conyolks. Warmer than norm WHEN TWO advertisements were submitted to the “New Zealand Herald” this week bearing the name and telephone number of Mr Luke Warm, members of the staff thought someone was playing a practical joke. But they were wrong. Mr Warm, a car salesman at Henderson, is very real and not at all troubled about his name. In fact, he insists he is really quite hot stuff. Standing? COULD “The Press” be conniving with the policitians in a dastardly plot to pull the legs of the voters? asks a Darfield reader. His query relates to an advertisement in “The Press” on Saturday and again yesterday which said: “Election of one milking shed.”

Electioneering THOSE who object to the mass media election propaganda assailing us from all sides should thank their lucky stars that they do not” live in Brazil. Next week, Brazil’s 44 million voters go to the polls and for the last two months the country’s hundreds of radio stations and televison channels have been broadcasting two

hours of propaganda daily. But it is a curious form of propaganda — there must be no political promises, no criticism of the present Government, and no emotive images. Apparently, the more sensitive candw dates, embarrassed by the mass turning off of radios during political broadcasts, have announced they will waive free air time when such vital matters as football matches are on. Taxi commuters have complained that while speeding along, drivers seem more concerned with tuning their radios to avoid the election propaganda rather than turning their steering wheels to avoid oncoming traffic. Reduced

WHETHER it is a sign of the times will remain conjecture until after the General Election, writes one reader, “but in one leading Christchurch bookshop, 'Muldoon,’ by one, Robert Muldoon, has been marked down from $8.95 to $3.95.”

inother door

THE SPATE of items in the “Diary” recently about apt and unusual names on convenient hotel doors has prompted a Sumner man to tell us of yet another door suitably labelled. It was on the West Coast, about 20 years ago, he says, when there had been a small discovery of uranium in the Buller Gorge. “Westport suffered a short uranium boom, and the town went crazy,” he says. In the Black and White Hotel there, he re-

ports, the gentlemen’s ports, the gentlemen’s door was renamed “Urinium.” Locked in

SUSAN YOUNG, the first woman to finish in the 100 km road race last week-end, came close to not finishing the race at all. She and several companions were running through Lyttelton when she saw a convenient service station and decided to take a comfort stop. Her companions waited for her

. . . and waited . . . and waited. Then they heard a faint cry from the side of the service station. “Help,” she was calling. They ran round the side and found that the proprietor had decided to lock up, not knowing there was anyone out the back, and she had been locked inside the high, iron-barred gates. Her companions helped her clamber over the top and she continued on her way —to the finish.

Political punning PUNS have become popular in the political propa-

ganda being paraded in Christchurch at present. In the Avon electorate — where the sitting member is Labour’s Mrs Mary Batchelor — Mr Tom George, the National candidate, who is 43 and single, has the slogan: “If you must have a bachelor for Avon, why not me?” And in the Fendalton electorate, the Labour candidate, Mr David Close, has the slogan: “Fendalton will be close.” —Felicity Price