Reporter's Diary

Press, 28 February 1981, Page 2

Reporter's Diary

Odd props A DOCTOR’S couch, a rocking baby’s cot, and a portable ship’s wheel, preferably with a ship’s telegraph and bells inside — does anyone have these items lying around the house? If so. the Riccarton Players would like to hear from you. The players are putting on a production of Spike Milligan’s “The Bedsitting Room” but so far they have not been able to find this odd assortment of props. The play will run at the Wharenui School Hall from March 28 to April 4. If anyone can help please get in touch with Trudi Urlwin, telephone 891-209. Wind-blown

CANTERBURY’S infamous nor’wester has been cursed on many counts but- probably never for causing a clock to lose track of time — until now. The Centennial Clock

on Ivey Hall at Lincoln College has been several hours out several times during the ’ last two months. The clock mechanism and the power supply have both been checked but to no avail. The only answer anyone can come up with is that the north-westerly wind blows the clock hands round to the wrong time. Professor J. D. Stewart, the college principal, says that a cover might have to be put over the clock face if the problem persists. Just in time

CRICKET fans are eagerlj' looking forward to .the second test between New Zealand and India next week. However, the match might not have gone ahead .if the Christchurch City Council’s health and general committee had not been in a good mood the other day. The Victory Park Board, which admin-

isters the venue, waited until then to seek the traditional permission for that, and other sports fixtures to be held there.

Count down AS THE five-yearly census of populations and dwellings draws closer, this logo (pictured) will be seen more often. It was designed by Sharon Tongs, of Whakatane ’ High School, the winner of the Statistics Department’s junior art competition. It has been chosen as the official census log. The department’s director of information (Mr Julian Lermit) said that it reflected “each Individual’#.

responsibility to be involved with the census.”-Whip-round GENEROSITY abounded af a local mushroom factory yesterday. Employees took up a collection for a worker who had lost all his pay. The quick whipround produced enough money to make up the lost pay in full, but they did not stop there. The hat was then passed around for people stranded at. Christchurch Airport because of industrial action. About $7O was collected and they intended to buy some cases of fruit and fruit juice for the stranded. They were to hand over the contribution to some of those stranded at the airport last evening. Fairies strike FAIRIES are the latest workers to go out on strike or so the Post Office seems to think. A Christchurch man received a telegram from his son who is stranded in the North Island because of the Cook Strait ferry strike. It read: “Staying Benneydale until fairy strik# over.’’