Out and about

Press, 2 January 1979, Page 8

Out and about

THINGS TO DO B'cycle hire — Cycle Trading Co copier of Manchester and Armagh Streets. $2 a dax plus $5 bond. Phone 63-760 (business hours) Canoe hire — Antigua Boat Shed <nea r Public Hospital». Popular wav to see Gardens and Hagley Park for nonjoggers. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hill walks — From tlie Sign of the Takahe to Scott Reserve, slightly uphill but not too strenuous. Bridle Path Walk starts at Lyttelton, near Road Tunnel entrance, and over Port Hills to Heathcote Valley. Lyttelton Harbour — Launch leaves Lyttelton regularly each week-day and Saturdays for Diamond Harbour, with harbour cruises at 2.50 p.m On Sundays, launch leaves for Diamond Harbour at 11.25 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.. harbour cruise at 2.50 p.m. The trip from Lyttelton to Diamond Haibuui takes 15 minutes. Launches can also be chartered (phone Lyttelton 8368. business hours; Diamond Harbour 783. after hours). PLACES TO GO Aquarium and Mini Zoo — 155 Beach Road. North Beach. Tropical fish, crocodiles, etc. Op* n: 10 a m. tn 5 p m.. 7 days. Con Cottage — Main Sumner Road, just past Heathcote Bridge Historic early settleis’ hUt. provincial Council Chambers — Corner Durham and Armagh Streets Stone chamber, open week-days 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; guided tours 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each Sunday. Orana Park — Only drivethrough lion enclosure in New Zealand Also tigers, camels, water buffalo. pelicans. Charges: ?2 adults. S] children, 85 family concession imaxinitim. two adults and three children). Open daily: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feeding times: week days. 2.30 p.m.; week-ends, 11.30 a.m and 2.30 p.m. Phone 597109 Queen Elizabeth 11 Park — Venue of the 19"4 Commonwealth Games. Situated at horth Neu Brighton iNo. 19

bus from Cathedral Square). Tours available. Open 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., Monday to Saturday; ID a.m to 4.30 p.m.. Sundays Adults 50c, children 20c. Parties ot 10 or more: adults 40c children 15c. Phone 886-079. Sign of the Takahe — Upper Cashmere Hill. Impressive stone building in Gothic style with sweeping view of Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps. Open daily. Town Hail — Kilmore Street; phone 68-899. Visitors welcome, 9 am. io 5.30 p.m.. week-days. Saturdays Sundays, and Public holidays. 1 p.m to 5.30 p.m. Frequent conducted tours Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament — at the southern encl of Barbadops Street, in sight of the gasworks and Lancaster Park. With colonnades, galleries. Italian mosaic Hoor. tapestry and btonz.es, it is one of the finest examples of Classic Revival architecture in Australia or New Zealand. O» en 8 a.m to 8 p.m. University of Canterbury — Visitors may inspect the modern buildings at the new campus at Creyke Road. Ham. Willnwbank Wildlife Reserxe — 60 Husseys Road. Open daily, 10 a.m to 6 p.m Phone 596-226. MUSEUMS Canterbury Museum — RolIcston Avenue at entrance to Botanic Gerdens and adjacent to Robert McDougall Ari Gallery. Features VZ. birds, Christchurch street of last century, Hall of Antarctic Discoven. Hail of Oiienta) Art, Moa Hunter era of Maori cultuie Planetarium open for screenings Sunda\ afternoons. Hours: 10 a.m. 4.30 p.m.. Mondav to Saturday; 2 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.. Sunday Phone 68-379. Ferrymead Museum — Technological museum in process of development. Displays of tramcars. fire engines, stationary engines and horse-drawn vehicles. Open daily. Trains operating 1.30 p.m to 5 p.m. weekends Group hookings by arrangement t phone 841-9701. 269 Bridle Path Road Heath-

Yaldhural Transport Mnseuin — Opposite Yaldhurst Hotel. Phone 427-914. Open week-ends and holidays. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ART GALLERIES AND ART CENTRE Robert McDougall Art Gallery — pei manent collection of New Zealand Australian and Euiopean paintings. Also photographs b\ Glen .Jowitt “Race Meetings in New Zealand.” until January 8. and Jeffrey Hairis' paintings, 1969-1978, until January 19. Situated in Botanic Gardens behind Canterbury Museum. Hours: weekdays and Saturdays. 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Phone 791-660. ext. 695. Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery. 66 Gloucester Street — Permanent collection of New Zealand and overseas art. Also Buck Nin paintings, until Januarx la; annual summer exhibition and sale of paintings by members of the gal’ery, until December 31. Hours: Monday to Friday, 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; Satuiday and Sunday. 2 p.m. ’o 4.30 D.m. Phone 67-261. Art Centre of Christchurch — Old University, Worcester Stieet. Houses various cultural and social welfare groups. Open daily. Phone 60-989. Artists’ Quarter, coiner of Montreal Street and Oxford Terrace Working demonstra

lions of crafts. Pots by Ann and John Crawford, John Madden and Denys Hadfield on sale. Also weaving, jewellery, leathercraft, carved wooden wear, and pottery figures of old tramps and old ladies by Joy Swafford. Shop open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. week-days; 10 a.m, to 8 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Phone 794-079. LIBRARIES Canterbury Public Library — Main Librarx. open .10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 9.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.. Saturday. Children’s library also open Saturday morning, but to 9 p.m. on Friday only. Library open for reading only on long week-ends and- public holidays. Phone 796-911 PARKS, GARDENS AND RESERVES Botanic Gardens — Established 1863; 30 ’ hectares. Entrance Rolleston Avenue, near Canterbury Museum. Hours: 7 a.m. to sunset. Hagley Park — 148.40 hectares. Many lovely river walks. Deans’ Bush and Homestead — Beautiful examples of native bush; entrance Kauri Street, Riccarton Historic first homestead on the plains, built by the Deans brothers in 1843. Millbrook Reserve — Noted for displays of azaleas and rhododendrons (adjoins Hagley Park) Mona Vale — Reserve and reception centre. 800 metres from city centre Lakelets, fountains, and exotic trees surround “Elizabethan” mansion. Open daily, 8 a.m. to 6.30 pm. Victoria Park — Cashmere Hills. A half-mile walk from the Sign of the Takahe. BEACHES Christchurch has a number of easily accessible beaches which are sale for swimming— North Beach. 10km east (No. 19 bus); South Brighton. 10km east (No. 55 bus); Sumner, 11 kin south-east (No. 3 bus): Waimairi. 10km north-east (No. 19 bus); New Brighton, 8 km east (No. 5 bus).

Lyttelton Harbour beaches — Corsair Bay, Governor's Bay, Charteris Bay. Diamond Harbour, Pureau. SWIMMING POOLS Centennial — Entrance from Armagh Street, Phone 68-917. Hours: Monday to Thursday. 7 a.m. to 5.45 p.m.; 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 12 noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday and public holidays. 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m. Queen Elizabeth II Park — Travis Road, North New Brighton. Phone 886-079. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 7 a m. to 8.30 p.m.: Sunday and public holidays, 10 a.m, to 5.45 p.m. Jellie Park Lido — Ham Road. Burnside. Phone 518-774. Hours: Monday Wednesday, Friday, 10 a m. to 8 p.in.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 12.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. New Year’s Day. Sunday hours Waltham Park Udo — Cornel of Wilsons Road and Waltham Road. Waltham. Phone 60-725. Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m to 8.30 p.m.; Friday. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday. 1 p.m to 4.45 p.m. Sockburn Park Pool — Main South Road, Sockburn. Phone 41-334. Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday. 1 p.m. to 5 um. Halsweli Swimming Centre — Halswell Road, vicinitv of Halsweli Tavern. Phone 22-8198. Hours: Same as Sockburn Park Pool. Wharenui Coronation — Elizabeth Street, Riccarton. Phone 486-488 Hours: Monday to Friday, 12 noon to J. 30 p.m. (adults) 3.15 p.m. to 5 p.m. (open). 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday, school holidays, 10 a.m. to 12 noon; 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Woolston Park—-Ferry Road. Woolston Phone 893-720. Hours: Monday to Saturday. 12 p.m. to 4.30 p in. and 6.30 p.m. Io 8.30 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m Closed New Year’s D:h