Reporter's Diary

Press, 9 April 1980, Page 2

Reporter's Diary

capped will open in the Christchurch Building Centre in mid-June, and the design at left — incorporating the letters, A.1.C.D., in the shape of a person sitting in a wheelchair — will be used to identify it. Money for the establishment of the centre has come from a $lOO,OOO grant from the 1978 Telethon appeal for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Miss Joan Davidson, formerly chief occupational therapist for the North Canterbury Hospital Board, will be assisted • by, Miss Angela Hill, who designed the centre’s symbol, in setting up the unit. Its

main aim is to make life easier for handicapped people and their supporters. to promote community interest and education on handicaps, and to show different types of .aids for sale and testing. Locked out THROUGHOUT the day yesterday, many people were to be seen pounding on the doors of the Municipal Electricity Department’s offices in Manchester Street. They wanted to pay their power bills, believe it or not. But the doors were locked. Only those people with cheques and envelopes were able to leave their contributions by posting them through the letter box in the door. Late in the afternoon, a big pool of cheques and accounts

could be seen lying on the floor inside the front entrance. The M.E.D. office staff had a day off yesterday, and so did City Council staff.

Like a Trojan? A READER has put forward suggestions for a suitable phrase to convey the meaning of “took it like a man” that could equally be applied to women. ’ In Monday’s “Diary” an item quoting the university of Canterbury “Chronicle” told how a young woman had been described as “taking it like a man” when she had to receive some bad news. “How about ‘she took it like a Trojan,’ which, with its connotations of the heroism of the Trojan women would be apt, ” our leader suggests. “And

‘taking it like a trouper’ would be fairly unisexual too.”

]Vo more issues

PENCRAFT, a monthly magazine for writers which was started in : Auckland nine months ago by Mrs Jean Drew, will have to cease publication. Mrs Drew, the editor, said yesterday that the magazine had run out of money and she would notify the 312 .subscribers in the next’few days that there would be no more issues. “We did not get the response we thought we would get, and the subscriptions were not enough to cover costs,” she said. Her decision comes only days after she sent letters to newspapers to publicise Pencraft’s sec-

ond poetry contest, which was to have been on the subject of beauty. The results of the magazine’s last short story competition were to have been published in the next issue, but this would not now be possible, Mrs Drew said. But the winners would still receive their prizes. Conserving fuel AN ADELAIDE brewery has pioneered the use of solar energy in the beer pasteurisation process, reports the latest edition of Lion Breweries’ “Brew News” magazine. However, the report says, “the use of solar energy is to conserve fuel, and not to give the beer an improved, all-over tan.”