Reporter’s diary

Press, 30 September 1983, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Appeal

THE ANGLICAN Cathedral of St Nicholas in Newcastle upon Tyne has invited New Zealanders to help the churchr which is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary, to raise £500,000 to improve the Cathedral building. The parish has raised £300,000 of the money but suggests that because of links with Tyneside many New Zealanders would like to help. The fund-raising letter is signed by a duke, a lord mayor and a knight as patrons for the appeal. The committee in England has even set up a Christchurch accountants’ office, Lawrence, Anderson, Buddle, as a collection point for New Zealand donations. In camera THE PHOTOGRAPH of Christchurch in Tuesday’s Diary was most likely taken by James Martin, an amateur photographer who worked as a mapmaker for the Lands and Survey Department in the 19205. Mr Martin’s son, Charles Martin, says his father occasionally manipulated the negatives of his photographs to create pictures like the one printed. He used a

camera with the glass plates. Mr Martin would soak the glass until the negative was soft enough to move around. He then created “earthquake” damage and developed the negative normally. Surface mail A CHRISTCHURCH man received a letter this week from British Columbia. The address,-24 Rosebery Street, was right but the letter was intended not for Christchurch, New Zealand, but Belfast, Northern Ireland. The letter was originally posted on September 18 and reposted in Christchurch yesterday. Mrs B. Boyd, of Rosebery Street, Belfast, should get her letter — if a little late. No charge IF YOUR car breaks down in Dade County, Florida, it may be fixed by Kaptain Kendall. The kaptain, who wears a mask, purple hood, green leotards and a canary yellow cape, is sponsored by a local car dealer and radio station. He does not charge for the service and never reveals his identity. Would you?

Dutch celebration THE New Zealand Dutch community will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the arrival of a group of immigrants on a KLM Airlines flight as part of the 1953 International London to Christchurch Air Race. The celebrations at Riccarton Park on October 8 have been sponsored by the airline. About 700 people of Dutph ancestry, particularly those who travelled to this country in 1953, will attend the gathering. Activities will include a church service, dance, a performance by the Neerlandia Choir and the final of the national Tulip Queen contest. The Dutch ambassador to New Zealand, Baron Robert van der Feltz, and the Mayor of Christchurch, Sir Hamish Hay, will be guests at the celebrations. Up in the air A NEW ZEALAND Forest Service study has shown that the airship would be the most effective way of moving logs from exotic forests in the Marlborough Sounds. The cost of shifting about 1.2 million tonnes of logs would work out to $5 a cubic metre by airship, $8 by rorji and $8.50 by sea.