Reporter’s diary

Press, 9 May 1985, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Anchor puzzle

ANCIENT mariners and those with a keen interest in things maritime are being requested by the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve Board to solve this one-tonne puzzle. The big anchor reproduced here is of solid iron, 2.4 M long (Bft), with a square 14cm (s%in) shaft. The rounded stock (the bar through the shaft, at top) is also 2.4 m long, and the flukes at the base, 1.5 m (sft) apart. The anchor fouled a net of Mr Bob Brown, of Motueka, in 1979, while he was fishing off Shag Bay on the Abel Tasman National Park coastline. A diver sent to recover the net found the anchor and both were raised. To flush salt from the anchor it was left in the Motueka River for five years. It has now been raised and installed outside the entrance to the camp offices at Kaiteriteri Beach. Attached to it, when found was about 68m of heavy chain laid out towards Nelson City across Tasman Bay. On the shaft, very faintly, is the word “George” and possibly the number eight. Mr Bruce Rowling, the board’s chairman, seen here with the anchor, says obviously it came from a sailing ship; but when and from what ship remain a mystery. Avonside service K PARISHIONER of the Holy Trinity Church in Avonside has brought to our attention the topicality of a service being held at the church today to commemorate Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. The parishioner was most interested to note that the saint’s name combined two current issues, namely the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II and V

the ongoing A.N.Z.U.S. de- provide information about bate. Father Raymond Op- the background of the saint, penheim, the vicar of Avon- Saint Gregory was born in side, was initially puzzled 329 and died in 390. He read by our reference to the law at Athens and was later topicality of the commem- ordained by his father, who oration but was happy to also held the title of Bishop

of Nazianzus, after the town in northern central Turkey. Saint Gregory was against aryanism and was a preacher against heresy. Distracted

HARD on the heels of Mrs Ethel Sotheran’s letter to the editor on Tuesday about the traffic hazard created by the anti-abortion protesters at the corner of Montreal Street and Bealey Avenue comes an endorsement from a Christchurch cyclist. The young woman in question was cycling past Lyndhurst Home this week, a route not entirely unknown to her, and looking at the placards. She failed to see a parked car. Multicoloured bruises are evidence of her mishap. She hastens to add that concentration was not one of her high points that day. It was the same day that an iron “ate” a new silk dress that was to have been worn to a ball this week. Quick change THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Alcohol Liquor Advisory Council is to sponsor the New Zealand soccer team creates an interesting problem. The curtain raiser for the New Zealand—New Castle United game in Wellington on May 19 is between Christchurch United and Wellington Diamond United. While the New Zealand team is sponsored by A.L.A.C., Wellington Diamond United is sponsored by Dominion Breweries. One wonders whether spectators are to be treated to the sight of ground staff racing out at half-time to change the hoardings from signs advertising alcohol to signs advising moderation in alcohol.