Reporter’s diary

Press, 2 May 1981, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Tell us THE TELETHON ’Bl organiser in Christchurch, Mr Craig Hutchison, is shown with the well-labelled car which is one of seven lent throughout the country by Todd Motors for the period leading up to the 24-hour event on June 27 and 28. In the small towns and country areas of Canterbury Craig Hutchison will • use the vehicle to help drum up support for Telethon and bring Telethon personalities to various events in the Christchurch transmission studio being set up in the Town Hall on the big weekend. Goodbye JUDGE SULLIVAN told two young men in the District Court at Greymouth last week that “the statement read out by the senior traffic sergeant (Mr R. J. Gilshnan) reads like a script from ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’ so P is goodbye to. your licences.” He was fining the two men $5OO each on charges of dangerous driving and he

disqualified them from driving for 12 months. Signs of the times LAST EVENING’S big march against the Springbok tour led during the week to the common question, “Are you marching?” One senior member of a large local company turned up at work yesterday with his contribution on a card around his neck with the text reading Tm not marching,” to avoid further inquiries. Meanwhile there was a poor response to a call yesterday for people to register their anti-tour feelings by driving cars with their park lights on. About the ' only group seen with lights on were some cyclists. Kitchenperson A BUTLER would be nice but one is hardly within the social or price range of the average Briton (or New Zealander for that matter). But a survey this week showed that in 50 per cent of British homes there ,is a man in the kitchen. Half of Britain’s married men do the dishes and almost one-third cook

dinner regularly. It is not that husbands are fed with their wives’ efforts, the survey said. Many men experience gourmet cooking on business trips and holidays overseas, and jtake it up as a hobbv. Banned IF MEANT to destroy the spirit of last evening s antiSpringbok tour march then the theft of a huge banner at the University of Canterbury failed. The banner, which cost about $BO and read "Rugby Yes, Racism No,” was hung last week-end between the University Arts Library building and the University Registry. On Sunday’ night it was torn down and stolen. A new banner was placed and has been taken down each night. The theft, termed by University of Canterbury Students’ Association president, Ms Katrina Amos, as 'a ‘‘provocative act of violence,” has been reported to the police; the theft did little to quell enthusiastic support for last evening’s march by students. Pampered pigeon SNOWY, a racing pigeon owned by a mess barman at Linton Army Camp, Mr T. Lynn, has had his share of hospitality from the Royal New Zealand Navy — but it was not enough to hold him. Snowy was one of a flock of pigeons battling a storm over Cook Strait last month in a race from Blenheim to Palmerston North. He flopped exhausted to the deck of H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki. He was nursed back to full health by the crew en route to Australia. But 65 kilometres out of Sydney, Snowy deserted. The five-month-old pigeon still has a remote chance to return home if the delights of Sydney pall, but he first has to find Taranaki’s sister frigate H.M.N.Z.S. Waikato which is now berthed there.