Reporter’s diary

Press, 22 June 1984, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Flying pizzas TWELVE “custom-made” pizzas, specially ordered from Spagalimi’s Italian Pizza Restaurant in Colombo Street by Americans at McMurdo Station, will wing their way to the Antarctic tomorrow. “We wanted to send them free, but the people at Harewood insisted on giving us a Government cheque,” said Mr Jim Lysaght, a co-owner of the restaurant, which is a popular haunt of American servicemen stationed in Christchurch. The order from the Antarctic was quite specific. “They wanted the real American pizzas — plenty of mushrooms and pepperoni,” said Mr Lysaght. Getting the uncooked pizzas to the Antarctic has proved to be something of a logistics exercise. They had to be delivered to the airport by 2 p.m. yesterday to catch the next flight south this afternoon. Dead giveaway A HALF-EATEN chocolate bar at the scene of the crime has led the police to the fair assumption that children were responsible for the burglary of the “tuck shop” at the Westland High School in Hokitika last week-end. It is not known whether the culprits took anything with them, or just gorged themselves, Billy Bunter-fashion, at the scene. They gained entry by breaking a padlock. Bus fares

A FEW inconsiderate bususers continue to try the patience of drivers and hold up fellow passengers by tendering ridiculously large amounts of money for small fares. An example was the woman jjith a shopping

trolley who boarded the Rangiora bus at Redwood yesterday and paid the the 40-cent trip to the Northland shopping centre with a $2O note. Deerstalkers’ meeting HUNTERS, shooters, conservationists, wildlife photographers, writers, gamemanagers and representatives of the firearms and outdoor recreation trade from throughout New Zealand will gather in Oamaru next month for the toy-

sixth annual conference of the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association. Reports will cover such areas of concern to the association as wapiti, whitetail, and sambar deer relocation. One paper will outline research by the association into illegal helicopter hunting, and its effect on recreational hunting. Firearm importers and dealers, and retailers of outdoor equipment will show their wares. There .will also be a big auction of firearms and outdoor equipment in the Brydone Hotel, Oamaru, at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, July 7.

No deterrent “YOUR BASIC white-collar executive who makes a decision to dump toxic chemicals believes that a fine is simply the cost of doing business. We have to make jail the cost of doing such business.” — Ira Reiner, the city attorney for Los Angeles, writing in “Chemical Business.” Payment canned HUMOUR is not dead in the pathology department at Christchurch Hospital Mr

Michael Dalziel, the manager of Singing Telegrams, Ltd, was on his way there to sing a birthday greeting to a staff member on Wednesday morning when his car ran out of petrol in Lincoln Road. He rang the department to apologise for the delay, and duly sang the telegram at 3 p.m. that afternoon. The performance was to have been free because of the postponement, but the pathology department staff insisted on paying Mr Dalziel — with an empty petrol-can. -PETER COMEjR