Reporter’s diary

Press, 11 October 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Golden ‘boys’

HOCKEY could well dominate discussions at the Redcliffs School’s seventy-fifth Jubilee celebrations to be held at the school over Labour Day week-end. Writing in a historical magazine produced for the celebrations, John Christensen noted: "Such was hockey’s dominance at the school over other winter sports in the 1950 s and 60s that during lunchtime and breaks virtually every boy big enough to hold a stick was involved in the congested proceedings on the hockey field, with the teams containing upwards of 30 players per side.” Several Redcliffs pupils went on to represent New Zealand at the sport, including Chris Ineson, Kevin Keirnan, Bruce Judge, Roger McHarg, Charlie Pragnell, Tony Ineson, Alan Chesney and John Christensen. The latter three were members of the New Zealand XI which won the gold medal at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Down to earth RURAL concerns were to the fore as the Wairewa County Council considered an invitation from the Canterbury Promotion Council to become financial supporters of the “Let’s Keep Canterbury-

Growing” campaign. "They didn't mention irrigation which is r one of the things that is making Canterbury grow at the moment,” the county chairman. Mr W. J. Thompson said after the Promotion Council’s letter had been read to council members. "I would rather put the $250 into a fence.” Cr J. D. R. White said. Help sought A GROUP of Christchurch disabled persons aje $3OO short of setting up a weaving business as part of the Christchurch City Council’s nursery factory project. The aspiring weavers, from the Disabled Person's Resource Centre in Worcester Street, have been given material to start their business, and have obtained the services bf experienced able-bodied weavers. They have also been offered a" loom for the reasonable, price of $5OO, but have managed to raise only $2OO towards it. If they can raise the balance of the money, or get • an even cheaper loom, they hope to eventually build the business into a viable venture using as many as five looms. Mower hunters NEW YORK State’s EnergyResearch and Development Authority is looking for an

underwater lawn mower. They need it to harvest seaweed, being grown to clean the water around it and to provide methane gas. Posy day

A TOUCH of brightness will be added to the dinner tables of 768 Christchurch people tomorrow. It is “Posy Day”— the day when every recipient of “meals on wheels” is given a posy of flowers by the Red Cross volunteers who provide the service. -

Late funeral A GRAVE in the cemetery in Middlebury. Vermont, belongs to a child who died 3375 years before Christopher Columbus discovered America. A local collector, Henry Sheldon, bought the embalmed corpse of two-year-old Egyptian prince Amun-Her-Khepesh-Ef from a New York dealer in 1886. The prince, son of King Sen Woset 111, died in 1883 B.C. In 1945, long after Sheldon's death, the mummy was found in the attic of the museum he founded and the museum chairman, George Mead, decided to give the little prince a Christian burial. He cremated the mummy in a neighbour’s furnace and interred the ashes in his own family plot, complete with headstone.