Reporter’s diary

Press, 10 June 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Sir Peter Buck

READING about the theft of three feather cloaks and a greenstone patu from the Urenui tomb of the internationally famous Maori leader, Sir Peter Buck, reminded one reader of a photograph she had stored away in an album for years. It is of Sir Peter Buck holding a greenstone patu (possibly the one that was stolen), surrounded by three distinguished gentlemen,. all

wearing Maori cloaks. The photograph was taken in Honolulu, in 1927. outside Sir Peter Buck's house. Standing are (he late Dr J. B. Condliffe (a Christchurchborn economist who was at the time a research secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, in Honolulu, and who later wrote a biography of Sir Peter); a Mr Tennant, who was on the staff at the institute; and the late Mr J. E. Strachan, principal of Rangiora High School, who was visiting Sir Peter at the time. Sir Peter rose to eminence as a doctor, soldier, politician and scientist. and at the time of the photograph was a director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The picture was brought in by Mrs Dorothy Hawker, Mr Strachan's daughter, who says she was aged 12 when the photograph was taken. Afterwards, she and two other children worethe Maori

cloaks and had their pictures taken, too. Ministry A NATURALISATION ceremony on Tuesday evening, at which the Mayor (Mr Hamish Hay) officiated, was attended by the Very Rev. Maurice Goodall, the Dean of Christchurch, who was the guest speaker. Mr Hay read out a telegram from the. Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Highet). The telegram designated him Minister of Eternal Affairs by mistake. Mr Hay said he hoped the Minister was not trying to compete with the Dean for ministry of eternal life. High hopes AN OLD GIRL of St Cuthbert's College, a private school for girls in Auckland, received a letter from the college recently inviting her to become a member of the

new St Cuthbert’s College Foundation. When the school was founded in 1915, the letter said, one of its aims was to “provide a high standard of mind training." Former pupils who had received such training were well catered for at the end of the letter. In the space for them to write their names, old girls and other subscribers had the choice of Rev./Dr as well as the usual Mr, Mrs, Miss.

Popular address MANCHESTER Street, thanks to the Court Theatre's current sex comedy. "Scor-ing,”-has received more than its fair share of notoriety this month. "Scoring" is apparently set in a flat in upper Manchester Street--516 Manchester Street, to be precise. Anyone who has even ventured down the St Albans end of Manchester Street, however, will have been able to see for themselves that the street stops short of that number. One young man. who either saw the play or read the address in the “Diary" recently, was so impressed with the address that he gave it as his

own the other day—to the driver of a car with which his motor-cycle had just collided. The’ irate motorist later discovered that he had been duped.

Off again . . . CENTRAL city clock watchers, who have' lived for the day when the Government • Life digital clock would work again, must have looked out 'their office windows in despair yesterday afternoon. After being out' of action for six months, the clock was working on Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon, its four faces were dark again, but the failure should be only brief. A spokesman for the Government Life said yesterday that, although the mechanics of the clock had been replaced and repaired, some of the electrical contacts and relays were corroded and worn. An electrician had been called in to check them.