Reporter's Diary

Press, 17 July 1980, Page 2

Reporter's Diary

No use crying . . .. TEARDROPS? Globules of oil? No. The two tearshaped drops in the picture are supposed to be drops of milk. They are the winning design in the $2OOO, New Zealand Dairy . Board’s symbol design competition . and will be adopted by the. board for .. use in overseas marketing as well as by the co-oper-ative dairy companies for use within New Zealand. In case you failed to pick ' it, the drops of milk are also supposed to represent the North and the South Island — that is why th'e “milk in. flow,” as. the Dairy Board calls it, does not flow straight down.

... over spilt milk THE Dairy Board has been giving away about 50.000 cartons of . its flavoured..

milk drink, Zap, which it sells in the Auckland afea. The cartons,. worth about $20,000, were given away to the Auckland Hospital Board and various charitable institutions last month because poor summer sales had meant that the unsold cartons would have exceeded ■ their sixmonth shelf life. Dear John THE POPULAR “Dear John” television commercial for BASF cassette tapes -has won a top award from the top international audio-visual festival. The “Dear John” com-, mercial —■ the one that shows the soldier getting a tape recording from his girlfriend, telling him that she has taken up with his., brother, and ends with the slogan, “Even, the bad times sound good” — won a Gold Lion Award at this year’s international Advertising Film Festival in, Cannes. It is the first time that a New Zealand commercial has. won such a high award at the festival. The commercial was directed by Tony Williams, of ..Tony Williams Productions, .from. a script by Roger Britteriden, of Whitaker Advertising, and was one of. about 1900 commercials entered' in the festival.'

Third encounter REPORTS of unidentified flying objects are gathering momentum. So far, we have mentioned two separate sightings of strange lights in the sky — one in the Lewis Pass anM one over Takaka Hill. Both were sighted last Tuesday night — one early in the e /ening of July 8 and the other very early in the morning of July 9. On July 9. too, an Air New Zealand pilot reported seeing strange lights flashing over Seatoun as he made his approach to Wellington Airport. It was at 7.15 p.m., he said yesterday, and he was at the controls of Flight 471 to Wellington. He saw a white flashing light and red lights over Seatoun and asked airport control if there was a plane flying in the area. But according to the airport there was not. “I have been a pilot for 20 years, and it’s the first time I have seen anything in the• sky I cannot explain,” he said. At the time, the plane was flying about 3000 feet, and he estimated . that the object was about 2000 feet, and was flying in the same direction as . the Air New Zealand flight. By the time he. turned in to approach the landing, however, it had gone. , Sharing NOT LONG ago, publicity was . given to a group of

businessmen selling shares in a large luxury house at Queenstown. Their scheme was founded on the idea that shareholders would be entitled to a certain number of days or weeks accommodation, depending on the value of their holdings. News of a similar sharing scheme, set up in Australia, has reached us. But this time, the shares cost $16,000 each and the property at stake is an extremely large and luxurious yacht. Sailsharing International, based at Geelong, Victoria, is building a 44m, three-masted staysail schooner, named Jabiru, and hopes to sell a total of 60 shares throughout the world including New Zealand. One $16,000 share entitles you to three months use a year of one of the yacht’s 16 luxury cabins, as well as its threq saloons, dining room, disco, spa pool, four-wheel drive vehicle and motorcycles for use when ashore, and facilities for water-ski-ing, scuba diving, and underwater viewing. What will they think of next? Shares in private jumbo jets? The way prices, of cars and houses are going, some people may have to start taking out shares in these to be able to afford transport and a home.