Reporter’s diary

Press, 21 October 1983, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Frustrating

CHRISTCHURCH Post Office box-holders are having trouble trying to read a notice of Post Office hours over Labour Day week-end. The type-written notice has been stuck to an electroni-cally-controlled sliding door so when the reader steps up to the notice the door opens, sliding behind a glass wall. When the reader moves over to the wall, the door closes again. Bad luck

A TASMANIAN Liberal backbencher, Mr Bruce Goodluck, has joined the blue rinse set by accident. The colourful member of Parliament has been the subject of more than his fair shire of jokes and he told reporters that his new hair-do came about by courtesy of his teen-age daughter who was interested in hairdressing. She told him her friends thought he was looking “old and sgru|£r”

and convinced him to let her put a rinse through his hair on the understanding that it would wash out. It did not and he has been forced to sport it for the last two weeks.' Family affair MISSIONARY work is becoming a tradition in the Thomson family, of Hals-, well. Peter, aged 19, is the third member of the family to undertake the mission in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Two brothers, David, aged 24, and Kevin, aged 21, have completed missions in the Philippines and Perth, respectively. Peter will spend 18 months doing his work in Auckland from December after completing a two-week induction course at Hamilton. Another brother, Frank, aged 16, is nearing his seminary graduation — a church programme for secondary school pupils — and hopes to follow in his brothers’

footsteps. With three more younger frothers in the family, missionary work looks set to be a truly family affair. Wounded in action AN OLD CANNON from a 24-gun Swedish warship takes pride of place at the Canterbury Museum among a number of items from Stockholm’s Wasa Museum. It was successfully fired at the exhibition’s opening last week, but a similar occasion in Sweden some time ago did not go so well. A senior member of a foreign delegation was to fire the cannon by stepping on a button, which in turn activated a detonator in the cannon’s charge. However, the button had been mistakenly connected to a spare detonator left lying on the floor and when the official stood on it, it blew, off the leg of his lt is true, says a Canterbwy Museum source.

Top teams

PEOPLE in Dallas, Texas, say the reason there is a hole in the roof of the Dallas Cowboys’ Stadium is for God to watch his football team play. Sport, especially the American brand of football, is very popular in Texas, and often 15,000 people will attend a rural high school game. Souvenir fines? HIGH-SPIRITED teen-age cyclists in Wanganui for the World Junior Cycling Championships might take home some unwanted souvenirs. Although there had been reports of cyclists riding the wrong way down one-way streets, riding on the footpath, and playing frisbee while riding their bikes, the Ministry of Transport said officers had not been aware of any infringements so far. However, they warned that" any cyclists caught breaking the law would be dealt vjith in the normal way. \