Reporter’s diary

Press, 20 January 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

All forgiven? THE WORLD moves on, so they say, and just how far it moves is well illustrated in one Christchurch shop which sells plastic model aircraft kitsets. Among these is a finely detailed scale model — right down to the name on the nose ~ of the American 829 bomber called Enola Gay, which Colonel Paul Tibbets named after his mother before he flew it from Tinian in .the Marianas to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The'kitset is made in Japan by Hasegawa — presumably for export only? Tapestries

CHRISTCHURCH has shown the most’ interest of any centre 'in the Henry Moore tapestries exhibition which has another five days to go at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, said the gallery director. Mr, John Coley.

More than 5000 people have seen the wall-sized tapestries in five weeks, which is a greater . actual figure than the Dunedin total, and, per capita, is better than Auckland’s attendance record. The English tapestries were created by artists using Moore’s paintings as their subject.

Boats wanted AVON LOOP neighbourhood organisers want a lot more decorated floating objects for their river procession during the “river carnival” on Saturday, January 30. Anything that floats will be a starter, from bathtubs to pieces of polystyrene to rafts — anything! It should be a spectacular event. Artisans

TWO GENERATIONS of the Dunn family have worked as stone carvers on the

Christchurch Cathedral. Mr Cecil Dunn, aged 76, believes that his grandfather, Mr John Dunn, did much of the carving on a main feature of the Cathedral — the big rose window which stood out in the photograph with yesterday’s diary. John Dunn came to New Zealand in 1872, having worked on the Bristol Cathedral, and Mr Cecil Dunn believes, that yesterday’s photograph of a group of stonemasons in the .’halfbuilt Christchurch Cathedral was taken about 1878 — not 1870. Scaffolding was not then what it is today, and John Dunn and a fellow stonemason ’ were magnanimously granted the rest of the day off when a howling nor-wester brought their work platform crashing down. However, John Dunn survived to be a bellringer at the grand opening of the Cathedral in 1881. His grandson, Cecil Dunn, ■■ who has

worked as a stonemason in England and Australia, carried on the family association with the Cathedral when he carved the stone tablet to mark its centenary last year. 25 years on ONE MAN with a special nostalgic interest in the flagraising ceremony at Scott Base today, will be a Post Office lineman, Mr Ramon Tito. Mr Tito is the former New Zealand Navy man who first raised the New Zealand flag at Scott Base 25 years ago today. He left the Navy in the 19605, and now works as a lineman at Rotorua. University student, Kathleen Smith, aged 18 will be watched by the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) and several hundred guests when she hoists the flag today to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Scott Base.

Pardon me... THE BURPS of cattle could be changing the world’s climate, new research has found. A Melbourne scientist and three American researchers reported recently the first evidence of a global increase in levels of methane gas in the atmosphere. Dr Paul Fraser, a Melbourne scientist who specialises in atmospheric physics, believes that cattle are possibly the most important source of this increase. They produce methane in digesting grass and burped it up, he said. Methane, like carbon dioxide, traps heat reflected from the earth’s surface in what is called the “greenhouse effect.” Dr Fraser said that cattle numbers had almost doubled from 680 million before the Second World War, to 1210 million in 1979. It was not known whether their table manners, had deteriorated as well.