Reporter’s diary

Press, 16 July 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Down in the depths THE CLYDE dam project may be proceeding as planned, but it. means there is no need for the Lowburn Ferry Hotel in Central Otago to change the sign (pictured) whichhas amused passers-by and clients for some time. Thief at the gate THE CANTERBURY Bowling Club, in Gracefield Avenue, will celebrate its centenary next year. On its seventy-fifth anniversary, in 1958, a plaque was put on the front gate to commemorate the occasion. Now the plaque has been stolen. It is 45.8 cm by 30.5 cm in specially cast metal, with silver-plated enamel‘ lettering. A spokes-. man for the club said yesterday that he thought it was “the last thing anyone would go for.” He felt it had no •value to anyone except the club members, and he was hopeful it would be returned. All together now TWO AUSTRALIANS, in Christchurch for a conference, startled a couple, of local people by expressing delight with the “Govern-ment-operated communal eating houses.’’ The Christchurch men elicited from the Australians the information that they had recently ;begn at Mt Cook and Te Anau. They were .referring to the T.H.C. hotels there. ; Words and music “AT-, THE risk of sounding pedantic,” writes “Fouler,” “I must express concern at the perpetual misused of ‘in con-., cert’ by advertisers of pop '.. soloists, when they really mean .‘on stage’,..or ‘live.’ Tn

concert’ means in unison, or together. We reached a new low when the advance agent of a duo advertised the performers ‘together in concert.’ Surely, one at least of the pair is. entitled to redundnancy payment.” ■ Dial 0 for murder EITHER THE hard-Juck story or-. the serve-you-right story of the week has emerged from deepest Fendalton, where a hard-up university student clambered out of bed and found his parents had left the radio on a Radio New Zealand commercial network station. “Don’t want to, listen to that,” he muttered, and twiddled the dial round to a private station we shall not name. So, of course, which station ■ rang the Fendalton number, seeking the. answer to the size of its Cash Connection call (almost $400)? No prizes will be awarded for answers to this one, so no need to make a call to us. ‘ Taking iteasy GIRLS AT a co-ed school in England have welcomed a decision to reintroduce uniforms there as what one pupil, aged 16, termed “a welcome relief from feminine competition.” Parents voted overwhelmingly to reintroduce uniforms, abandoned 10 years ago at Garth Hill Comprehensive. 'in Berkshire. Only 13 couples, -out of 1140, voted against bringing back uniforms. Girls at the school said there was a daily competition among their peers to see how many outfits could, be worn in a week, and those who could not afford to keep up with the pace went for-the punk and scruffy look.