Reporter’s diary

Press, 24 June 1985, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Bugged A SHORT-LIVED advertising hoarding in Denver, Colorado seemed to raise the hackles on someone. Either that, or it failed to sell the pest control product. The message was a twist on the old “For the man who has everything ...” line. A Christchurch man’s friend took a photo of the new campaign, then found it gone when he came back to get a colour shot. It had been replaced by a liquor advertisement. A warning SEXUAL harassment is no

laughing matter, but a man in Portland, Oregon, has sent a Christchurch friend a reproduction of a poster that is being circulated and enjoyed in offices of that Pacific North-west state. Although the message is ambiguous, and can be read from either a woman’s or man’s angle, it comes down strongest on the side of women. On the top is a smiling, have-a-nice-day face. The message below is simple: “Sexual harassment will not be reported. However, it will be graded.” Bob's diary A CANADIAN professor of geography is trying to trace the papers of his uncle, who died in Auckland in 1966. His uncle, Bob Young, kept a diary of his experiences with Rear-Admiral Byrd during the mid-1980s Antarctic expedition. He had served in the Royal Navy before arriving in New Zealand in 1920, and was working on the Arapuni dam in 1933 when he was asked to serve with Byrd’s second expedition to the Deep South in 1933. He was back in this country 433 days after he left, and settled in the Auckland area in late 1935. Professor Bruce Young thinks the diary may still be in this country, perhaps in a private h^’ — His search took hirr Indiana recently, where lie interviewed Dr Alton Lindsey, aged 78, who was a scientist with the 1933-35 expedition. Professor Young

would be delighted to hear from anyone who knew Bob Young or shared his Antarctic experiences. Bob’s nephew can be reached at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Oney's place THE LAST caretaker and host at the old Acheron Accommodation House was Oney Tozier, who was buried in the Hanmer Springs cemetery. A recent story about the high country way station said that Mr Tozier’s name was Ernie. His friends and relatives know it started as Oney, and Oney it stayed. The essentials A MAN who has been wallowing in nostalgia as he watches the old and not always good programmes being screened by Television New Zealand to mark its twenty-fifth. anniversary said that sentiments expressed by one song, the “Rawhide” theme, had an enduring relevance. While Clint Eastwood had gone from being “Aw shucks” sidekick Rowdy ’Yates to a Magnum-toting cop, the Frankie Laine song’s sentiments about life’s essentials had not changed. At the end of the trail, there would be everything a man was missin’ — “Good vittles, love and kissins’.” The party line SOVIET Union ideologists have looked with scorn A; Western music and

its ability to corrupt Russian youth. Now things seem to be changing. The Communist Party newspaper, “Pravda,” reports that ultra-modern discotheques with videos and soft drinks could play a big part in entertaining, and even educating, young people. It is time to move from restrictive measures to positive help for those who like to gyrate to the latest rock music. A popular Leningrad disco with videos and modern lighting gadgets should be a model for other clubs. Discos could help organise the time of young people, and “should become a transmitter of culture,” the paper says. Are you there? DO ANY of the 120 Kellys in the Christchurch City telephone listings have a forbear named Leo Kelly who came to the city in the late 1800 s or early 1900 s? Leo married Kitty, and they had at least one child, a daughter named Rona, who would have been born about 1915. Photographs taken between 1945 and 1950 show Leo and Kitty with Rona’s oldest boy, John. Other children were Paul and Elizabeth. An Englishwoman, Mrs Dorothy Ward, is looking for her Kelly ancestors. She lives in Longfield, Dartford, and we can give you further details if you can help her. Take me, please BRITISH archives found recently show that German airmen wandered round the English countryside during the Battle of Britain, doing their best to be arrested. A Home Guard letter to soldiers reminds them of their obligations toward stray Germans. “After all the trouble they take to come over and bail out, it is not right to anyone to totally disregard them,” says the letter. “One airman, after two failures, had to ask the way to the police station in the hope ting taken there.”