Reporter’s diary

Press, 31 January 1984, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Tucker time MR TERRY PAYNE, of Bryndwr, has his golden labradors well trained. Each time he goes to the supermarket, Goldie and the pup, Tiger, carry home their tins of dog food in their mouths. Goldie has his own big tin and Tiger carries a little tin, Mr Payne got both dogs from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals. Goldie is eight years old and Tiger is three months old. Praise indeed THE CHAIRMAN of the Heathcote County Council, Mr Oscar Alpers, had some tough moments during the public meeting held on Sunday evening to debate the

possible purchase of Bowenvale Valley for a public reserve. The discussion was heated at times, and on several occasions, residents took the opportunity to chide the council. However, one ratepayer was in no doubt that Heathcote was the best local authority in Christchurch. It not only had the cheapest rates, but haft a chairman with a smile was even more

beautiful than the Mona Lisa, he told the crowd. Wedding hitches .. AT A RECENT wedding in Christchurch, the bride and groom arranged for a page boy to carry the two rings to the altar on a cushion. The boy’s mother, fearful that he would disrupt the ceremony by letting the rings fall off, carefully stitched them to the cushion. Unfortunately, she forgot to supply the means to cut them off and ho-one in the wedding party knew what to do. The vicar was forced to appeal to the wedding guests for help and the rings were hacked off the cushion with a nail file. . . . and woes MEANWHILE, another couple who married in a ceremony at Temuka had an unexpected end to the wedding night because of an oversight in planning. After their service and reception, they drove to Timaru to spend their first married night in a hotel. When they arrived, in the early hours of the morning, they had found that they had forgotten the key to their room. They searched around the hotel in vain for a night watchman or someone to let them in. In the end, they had to drive back to Temuka to spend the night at the bride’s mother’s home. Devilish plot RICCARTON Players plans to launch into a world of demons and devils in April with a production of “The Devils” by John Whiting. The play is based on the book by Aldous Huxley, “The Eievils of Loudon,” which tells the celebrated story of the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the French town Loudon during the reign of Louis XIII. Auditions for parts in the production will be held at the Mill Theatre, telephone 384-699, this weekend. It is the second time auditions have been held, since the first auditions did not find a suitable middleaged man to take the lead role of the unpopular pifest, Grondier.