‘Reporter's Diary

Press, 26 November 1980, Page 2

‘Reporter's Diary

Sudden defection LABOUR candidates for selection for the blueribbon Fendalton seat on Monday evening were told by the party’s general secretary (Mr J. A. Wybrow) that they could leave the room while other candidates were speaking, if they wanted to. But he emphasised that they should not go too far away — they ought to remain within hearing distance. In Auckland Central, he explained, he had told candidates the same thing, and one of them did leave the room. “But when the time came for him to speak, he couldn't be found anywhere,” Mr Wybrow said. “We never saw him again. But we did hear a rumour that he had gone to the Mana Motuhake Party.” Milkman’s recipe THE MILKMAN who delivers in the Avon Loop, is conducting his own milk-promotion campaign in a small way. He has sent to the “Loopie News” a recipe for a health loaf, which he says is his family’s favourite. The receipe, of course, uses lots of milk. As well as a pint of milk, it contains six Weetbix, 400 g of dried fruit, a teacup and a half of sugar, half a teaspoon of spice, and half a teaspoon of cinnamon. You soak all these ingredients overnight, the milkman advises, and the next day

you add three cups of self-raising flour, stir it all together, and bake it in two loaf tins for an hour at 350 degrees. Do-it-yourself A REFRESHING plug for getting on with things at a local level rather than waiting for decisions from Wellington earned a senior Government official prolonged applause at the crowded anti-power pylon meeting held in New Brighton on Monday evening. More than 500 at the meeting rejected proposals to build an overhead power line between Bromley and Marshland. Mr John Wendleton, an assistant Commissioner for the Environment, who had come from Wellington to address the meeting, was asked why an environmental impact' report had not been prepared on the proposals. In a stirring response, Mr Wendleton urged, the meeting to make up its own mind, rather than wait for decisions from Wellington. The meeting itself provided a much better forum than an environmental impact report, which would carry no weight, he said. “You should pick your own options." he told the. meeting. “You have the opportunity to have your views heard now. You have enough of Wellington running your affairs.” At this, the audience broke into prolonged applause.

Cards for Royalty APROPOS an article in “The Press” yesterday about Christmas cards produced and sold by voluntary organisations to boost their funds, a reader tells us that the Duchess of Kent bought Christmas cards from the Society for the Intellecutally Handicapped when she visited its Kilmarnock Street complex earlier this month The card-seller was Lenore McKinney, a trainee at the I.H.C. workshops, who featured in the “Diary” several months ago as having sold a record number of Christmas cards for her organisation. Bigger and better FOR THE first time in its 80-year history, the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind’s magazine, the “Chronicle,” is using big print. The bold, black letters will be easier to read for those partially sighted members of the foundation who read with the aid of magnifiers. One of the main reasons the magazine has switched to big print is the development of more sophisticated methods of magnification and the increasing use of these by the partially sighted. The October issue of the magazine, the first to use big print, is much thicker and has many more pages than earlier editions, but the content has not changed.' " ‘TdicatyPtiee