Reporter’s diary

Press, 18 September 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Round table WHICHEVER team wins the Ranfurly Shield match .at Athletic Park today, there will be time for Wellington or Canterbury wounds to heal before the mayors of the two cities meet on October 11, when, no doubt, one will offer condolences to the other. This could be described as a night of knights, because Sir Hamish Hay will open a book-launching at the Dux-de-Lux restaurant of “Eating Houses in Canterbury," in which the illustrations are ft the work of the Mayor of Wellington, Sir Michael Fowler. The author is Pauline Clayton. The Clay-ton-Fowler combination has already produced “The Eating Houses of Wellington.” The new book, a coffee table

type, is like the first in that it .is not simply a glossary for gluttons — it records, in word and illustration, the history of many notable dining establishments. Law lessons INFORMING New Zealanders about international humanitarian law is one of the basic objectives of the New Zealand Red Cross Society. “Not only is this important in terms of spreading knowledge about the principles on which Red Cross is founded, it is also a duty under the Geneva Conventions Act, 1958, which charges the Government with this' task," says a society brochure. The society has prepared nine educational units, designed by. a

teacher to fit- into the Form I-IV social studies syllabus, which illustrate international humanitarian law by detailing the ideals, principles, and relief actions of Red Cross. Publication of the units is expensive. One title, “The Ethiopian Highlanders," has been completed and distributed to Form I ' class teachers throughout the country, at an approximate cost of $25 a unit. Several other titles remain to be produced.” Arms and the woman “IT'S getting so bad these days that you have to take precautions when you take your dog for a walk." said an elderly woman in Cambridge Terrace this week when

asked why she was carrying the metal pole from her sun umbrella. Some dogs in the area, she said, even those on a leash, had been attacked by rogue canines. Although the authorities were investigating, she felt she had to protect her 13-year-old collie. Before she selected the metal , pole, her choice of weapon had been a pruning saw. Take your choice “THE TIMES" diarist. PHS, has been collecting lively menus from his readers. Among the offerings have been: Flesh Fruit; Hambarg Stake and Manned Frog Oil (Japan); Harlotte Russe (Nairobi); Fre Aire Soup, Lost Weight Fish, and Fish House Wives (Luanda);

Chicken Gutlet and Pouched Eggs (Katmandu); Saucy Lady’s Thigh Meat Balls (southern Anatolia); and from Bangkok, Holy Basil in the Whore's Deuvre' Priorities A NOTICE outside a restaurant in a Czechoslovak holft day resort reads: "Please do not insult our waiters. They are harder to get than customers.” Lower away “I AM sure I know what he means." says Peterborough, the “Daily Telegraph” columnist, “but it still looked odd to see a Bristol funeral director advertising ‘special rates for Old Age Pensioners'.”