Reporter’s diary

Press, 14 November 1981, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Wrong roots

MENTAL and physical relaxation are frowned upon by a northern Ne\v South Wales Presbyterian Church, at least in one form. Church leaders have banned yoga classes from the church hall because the relaxation method has its origins in Hinduism. Classes will be expelled from the hall in Kempsey since it is a consecrated building, and churchmen felt it was inappropriate for yoga classes to be using it. Rocky road

IN THE old days, the Ball Hut Road offered a bump and grind ride for bus passengers. It was rock and roll all the way up the moraine, no matter how much the driver nursed his vehicle along to avoid broken springs, cracked differentials

and the like. So passengers were always taken aback when they heard the name of one driver. He was Charlie Golightly. Christmas giving AN AUCKLAND man has a Christmas gift idea he thinks might catch on and benefit needy organisations. Mr Denver Frater plans to give all the money he would have used to buy presents to the Auckland Sheltered Workshop and Training Centre, and he wants his relatives and friends to give money to their choice of a needy group instead of giving sometning to him. Not only is a worthy cause benefited, but “it solves the difficult problem of searching for suitable presents for those who already seem to have everything,” Mr Frater says. A donation of $350 can benefit the giver

in another way — it will attract a direct rebate of $175 off income tax. People can give each other gifts at other traditional times of year, such as birthdays and anniversaries, he says. Christmas should be- a time of thinking of others outside the close circle of family and friends. The Islamic way PAKISTAN has declared most of the country’s wild animals off-limits to hunters for three years to see if a ban on the hunting, trapping and exporting of four-legged animal.; will halt the country’s wildlife decline, which started in the 1950 s when laws made it easier for people to own firearms. But the ban will not extend to the wild boar, which destroys food crops and is so abhorred by the country's Muslims

that the othodox will not even mention its name. Hello THE NINTH annual World Hello Day is coming on November 21. so brush up on your best greeting manner. Two American brothers started off the new day, and have been promoting it ever since. They sent off 6500 letters this year, to all countries on Earth, telling everyone how to participate, and they like to get letters in return to see how the thing is catching on. They see it as a chance, if only for one day. for everyone, everywhere to promote world peace. This is how you do it: on World Hellow Day, a Saturday, simply greet 10 people you have never spoken to before, and be prepared to duck if they take it wrong.