Reporter’s diary

Press, 29 April 1981, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Short, lived A BRIEF solution to the parking problem in front-of Warners bottle store Was soon discouraged recently by Ministry of Transport offices. The suggeted angle parking was short ’ lived.. Traffic officers made it clear that the leading zone designation on the parking area could not be mixed with angle parking. A whopper! GREEN-coloured chrysanthemums are unusual enough but" if they happen to be about 30cm in diameter they are extra special. Some of these large,, green blooms

will be put on show .in Christchurch on Saturday and Sunday at the Canterbury Horticultural Hall as part of the Chrysanthemum Convention. It will be the first time these blooms, imported from England, have been placed on show in Christchurch. The exhibitor, Mr Leo Clark, expects them to - be the largest blooms in the show. Vietnamese Vigil WEDNESDAY, April 30, 1975. On this day Saigon fell to invading North Vietnamese troops and changed, forever the lives of thousands of South ..Vietnamese now cut

off from their homeland. The six-year anniversary of the event will be remembered by the Christchurch Vietnamese community in a 48-hour vigil beginning at 8 p.m. tomorrow. The group will meet in the new Vietnamese centre at St Dominies hostel, Manchester Street. Well surveyed THREE men with a total of more than 110 years’ service between them with the Lands and Survey Department in Christchurch retired on the same day last week. Those -who hang up their T squares for the last time on Friday were Dale Maffey, John Fleming and Ted Hunt. The three have spent most of their working life with the Christchurch division of the department. The Surveyor - General, Mr lan Stirling, led a large group of past and present colleagues in a farewell for the trio whose retirements have left a big gap in the section over which they had control. Southern comfort HELP for Telethon 'Bl has already come from “our boys” at Scott Base, with a whipround at the mess bringing in $7O, to the Christchurch organisers. On the dates of the telethon, June 27 and 28, the round-the-clock radio station at McMurdo Sound (American Forces Antarctic Network) will also pitch in with a Telethon appeal — in 1979 a similar effort raised about $6OO from the men and women on the Ice. Trip highlight GRAHAM Condon has represented New Zealand on eight different sporting occasions for disabled athletes; None perhaps has given him such a special boost as his recent trip to Rome. There he met Pope John Paul during an audience held for the disabled athletes and helpers.

Graham Condon has his special reminder — a photograph of himself talking with the Pope.