WHAT’S ON

Press, 27 December 1979, Page 8

WHAT’S ON

THINGS TO DO Christchurch Cathedral in Cathedral Square—Open 9 a.m. to 5. p.m. 139 steps up the spire for view of city and mountains. New set of bells. Canoe hire — Antigua Boat Shed (near Christchurch Hospital). Popular way to see Botanic Gardens and Hagley Park for non-joggers. Hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hill walks—From the Sign of the Takahe, upper Cashmere Hill, to Scott Reserve. Slightly uphill but not too strenuous. Cashmere Hills /2T) bus. The Bridle Path Walk starts at Lyttelton from near the Road Tunnel entrance, and goes over the Port Hills to Heathcote Valley. Includes a steep climb. Lyttelton (28) bus.

Lyttelton Harbour — Launch leaves Lyttelton lor 15-minute trip to Diamond Harbour at regular intervals daily, returning immediately. On Saturday s it leaves Lyttelton at 6.30 a.m., 10.45 a.m., 12.10 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. On Sundays and public holidays it leaves at 11.25 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. Adults 55c one way. children 40c. Harbour cruises. 30 minutes, with commentary, leave Lyttelton at 2.50 p.m., seven days. Adults 51.20, children 80c. Launches can be hired for fishing trips, picnics, etc. Phone Lyttelton 8065 (business) or Diamond Harbour 783 i after hours). Lyttelton 128’ bus.

Christchurch Polytechnic — Memorial Hall, Moorhouse Avenue. Multi cultural fortnight from January 8-18, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. daily. Learn about the various cultures in New Zealand society. For the whole family. Free. January 8, Pacific Islands; 9, Vietnamese and Chinese; 10. Indian; 11, Chilean and Cambodian: 14, 15, 16, 17. Maori; .18, foods from all cultural groups. PLACES TO GO

Aquarium and Mini Z 00—153 Beach Road, North Beach. North Beach (19) bus. Tropical fish, crocodiles, black panthers, etc. Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days.

Cob Cottage — Main Sumner Road, just past Heathcote Bridge. Historic early settlers' hut. Sumner (3) bus. Provincial Council Chambers —Corner Durham and Armagh Streets, inner city. Stone chamber, open weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guided tours 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Orana Park — Only drivethrough lion, enclosure in New Zealand. Also tigers, camels, water buffalo, pelicans. Charges: $2 adults, $1 children, $5 family (maximum, two adults and three children). Open daily: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feeding times: 11.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. daily. 20 minutes from the square. Situated in Willows Road, which extends nfi Ilarewood Road. Phone 597-109. Midlands bus from Midlands Depot, 40 Lichfield Street, 1 p.m. daily. Queen Elizabeth II Park — Venue of the 1974 Commonwealth Games. Situated ar North New Brighton, North Beach (19) bus. Tours available. Open 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Sundays. Adults 50c, children 20c. Parties of 10 or more, 40c, 15c. Phone 886-079. Sign of the Takahe — Upper Cashmere Hill. “Gothic” stone building with sweeping view of Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps. Open daily. Town Hah — Kilmore Street. Phone 68-899. Visitors welcome, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. weekdays. Week-ends and public holidays, 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Frequent conducted tours. Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament — at the southern end of Barbadoes Street, in sight of the gasworks and Lancaster Park. With colonnades, galleries, Italian mosaic floor, tapestry and bronzes, it is one of the finest examples of Classic Revival architecture in Australasia. Open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. University of Canterbury — Visitors may inspect the modern buildings at the new campus between Ham and Clyde Roads. Riccarton <B> bus.

Willowbank Wildlife Reserve — 60 Husseys Road, off Gard-

ners Road, off Harewood Road. 15 minutes drive from the square. Llama, puma, highland cattle, Arapawa goats and sheep, geese, pheasants, Maori village. Feed the animals at 20c a bag. Picnic lunch by the river or at a table. Barbecue. Charges: $1.50 adults, 50c children. Group concessions. Open daily: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone 596-226. MUSEUMS Canterbury Museum —Rolleston Avenue at entrance to Botanic Gardens and adjacent to Robert McDougall Art Gallery. Features N.Z. birds, Christchurch street of last century. Hall of Antarctic Discovery, Hall of Oriental Art, Moa Hunter era of Maori culture. Planetarium open for screenings Sunday afternoon. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., Monday to Saturday; 2 p.m. to 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. Charges: $1.50 adults, $1 children. $5 family. Open daily. Trams operating 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 269 Bridle Path Road, Heathcote. Sumnei' (3) bus to Heathcote Bridge. Group bookings by arrangement. Phone 841-970. Yaldhurst Transport Museum — Opposite Yaldhurst Hotel, 12 minutes drive from the square. Open week-ends and holidays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Charges: Adults $1.50, children 50c. Phone 427-914. ART GALLERIES AND ART CENTRE Robert McDougall Art Gallery, behind Canterbury Museum — permanent collection of New Zealand paintings and pottery. Photographic

exhibition of gallery visitors during ’79, taken by gallery exhibition — the history of glass from 1 B.C. until present nay, from, public and private New Zealand collections; until January 31. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the New Plymouth artist, Den Driver; until January 6. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., Monday to Friday 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. weekends. Open New 'S ear’s Day. Phone 791-660, ext. 696.

Canterbury Society of Arti Gallery, 66 Gloucester Street — closed until January 7. From January 7. an exhibtion of works by South Island artists, paintings, with some woven wall hangings. AH for saie. From January 23 to February 10, exhibition of paintings by Canterbury artist, Max Podstolski. From January 24 to February 8, paintings by Claire Riley; also exhibition of paintings by Westland artists. From January 24 to February 10. photographic printmakers’ exhibition. Hours: January 7 to 20, 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily; from January 21, Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.; week-ends. 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Phone 67-261.

Arts Centre — Old University, Worcester Street. Houses various cultural and social welfare groups, including the Court Theatre. Open daily. Phone 60-989.

Artists’ Quarter — corner of Montreal Street and Oxford Terrace. Sale of New Zealand

craftwork, all hand made, including pottery, leatherwork, woodwork, weaving. Demonstrations of Jead-light glassmaking. Denys Hadfield pottery exhibition. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a m. to 8 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Phone 794-079.

CITY LIBRARY Main Library — Cambridge Terrace. Open 10 am. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday. Children's library, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturdaj. Reading only, Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. New Zealand room closed at weekends. Phone 796-914. 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 1 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. Riccarton (8) bus to Rimu Street. Millbrook Reserve — Noted for displays of azaleas and rhododendrons (adjoins Hagley Park). Mona Vale — Reserve and reception centre, 800 metres from city centre, Fendalton Road. Lakelets, fountains and exotic trees surround “Elizabethan” mansion. Open daily, 8 a.m. to 6.30 pm. Fendalton (9> bus. Victoria Park — Cashmere Hills. A hall'-mile walk from the Sign of the Takahe. Cashmere Hills i2T; bus. BEACHES Christchurch has a number of easily accessible beaches which are safe for swimming — North Beach. 10km east (No. 19 bus); South Brighton, 10km east (No. 5S bus); Sumner, 11km south-east (No. 3 bus); Waimairi, 10km north-east (No. 19 bus); New Brighton, Bkm east iNo. 5 bus). Lyttelton Harbour beaches — Corsair Bay, Governor's Bay, Charteris Bay, Diamond Harbour. Purau.

SWIMMING POOLS Centennial — Entrance from Armagh Street. Phone 68-917. Hours: Monday to Thursday. 6.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.; Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 12 noon to 6 pm.; Sunday and publie holidays, 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m. Queen Elizabeth n Park — Travis Road, North New Brighton. Burwood (19B) or North Beach (19) buses. Phone 886-079. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 7 am. to 8.45 p.m.; Sunday and public holidays, 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. Jellio Park Lido — Ilam Road. Burnside FendaltonWithels Road <9W) bus. Phone 518-774. Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10 a m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday and public holidays, 12.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Wharenui Coronation — Elizabeth Street. Riccarton. Wharenui <2s* bus. Phone 486-488. Hours: Monday Io Friday, 5.15 p.m. to 5 p.m , 7 pm. to 8.30 p.m.; week-end, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sockburn Park — Main South Road, Sockburn. Hornby tSH) bus. Phone 41-334. Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p m., 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a m. to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m to 5 pm Halswell Swimming Centre — Halswell Road, vicinity of Halswell Tavern. Midlands bus from Midlands depot in Liehfield Street, except at weekends. Phone 228-198 Hours: Mondav to Friday, 12 noon to 5.30 p m. (no evening session ; Saturday, 10 a.m to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 pm. Waltham Park Lido — Corner of Wilsons Road and Waitham. Road. St Martins (12) bus. Phone 60-725. Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10 am. to 8.30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 pm; Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m. Woolston Park Ferry Road, Woolston. Sumner <3), Woolston |3W> or Mount Pleasant <23) buses. Phone 893-720. Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10 a m. to 12 noon. 1 pm. to 4.30 p.m., 6.30 to 8 30 pm.