Reporter’s diary

Press, 28 October 1982, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Fowl soup

TALES of mysterious turkey feet appearing on a Christchurch doorstep in the Diary yesterday have been • matched by another resident. She reports that she arrived home one evening last year and found the lounge floor strewn with fowls’ feet. The mess was cleaned up. Next day, more appeared. A contented cat was the main suspect and irate neighbours supplied more clues. A Chinese family, who had just moved into the street, were in the habit of drying boiled fowls’ feet on. their lawn before committing them to the soup pot. The delicacy was discovered by a happy cat who brought the feet into his owner’s lounge through the cat flap in the door.

Bogged down SEVEN toilet bowls and a

boy mannequin doll are needed by the Riccarton Players for their next production. Anyone able to assist should contact Trish Maloney, telephone 793-500. Black week

IT started with a small, unexpected fountain playing in the back yard. The plumber’s news that the entire water-main required replacement, at a cost of several hundred dollars, was not welcome. Work started. The next news that vital pipes could be reached only by concrete blocks being smashed out of the house wall with a pneumatic drill was even less welcome. Work continued.- News that the hot-water cylinder needed urgent surgery was most unwelcome. Work proceeded. The news that in the course of the work an electric switch had been wrecked and that a van had been

backed through the fence, was extremely unwelcome. The dishwasher failed, and dribbled weakly on to the kitchen floor. Then, when the owner rushed away from the scene to head (late) for work, the car leaned sadly in the garage with a flat tyre. The Christchurch homeowner was glad to see the end of last week, even when he discovered the rip in the side of his above-ground swimmingpool. He found it hard to understand why his workmates found some amusement. Overkill?

PEOPLE sploshing across Cathedral Square on Monday could have been forgiven for thinking the City Council parks and reserves department was being ove--zealous in watering the grass beside the Cathedral during such persistent rain. A mechanical fault caused the sprinklers to

work during the wet weather.

Wrecker rector THE REV. Max Williams, of Suffolk, England, is being tagged the “wrecker rector" after an incident involving his car which ended with three people needing medical treatment, two cars written off and a workshop badly damaged. It all began when Mr Williams called at a garage to get the oil in his car changed. When attempting to stop he muddled the brake and accelerator pedals and charged through the garaged One car fell off a ramp and a petrified customer and mechanics ran for cover as Mr Williams’s car careered on. It smashed into another car and buried itself in a work-bench. Now Mr Williams is facing the biggest bill ever for an oil change.

Wrong wave-length RADIO Hauraki had its nor-

mal pop music programme rudely interrupted on Tuesday by the most persistent of radar signals. Technicians soon discovered that the alarming buzz in Hauraki’s transmission was caused by the large radar grid on the Australian guided missile destroyer H.M.A.S. Hobart. Radio Hauraki immediately telephoned the Hobart, berthed only about 200 metres away, and asked that the radar be turned off. The ship obliged. Male aggressors MALES are definitely the molesters. An Australian survey showed that 25 per cent of the women in a large corporation under scrutiny claimed sexual harassment.' So did close to 5 per cent of the men — but most of the harassment came from other men. >