Reporter’s diary

Press, 9 April 1987, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Crunch point

MAYBE Christchurch’s awful accident record is being unjustly visited upon Waimairi District’s green and pleasant land. The whole city has a reputation as the worst in the country for road accidents, but Waimairi has been running decidedly against this national trend. The number of injury accidents in the district has dropped 40 per cent over the last 14 years, a record that has prompted a glowing statement from the district chairman, Mrs Margaret Murray. She puts the improvement down to road marking and widening, intersection improvements, better street lighting, improved signposting and road surface treatments. Landmark

ACE SALES was looking

for something to make a new car sales yard in Moorhouse Avenue stand out among all the other car sales yards there, and hit upon the idea of mounting six old-style red phone boxes along the rooftop (pictured). The next stage is to mount one number from the firm’s telephone number on each of the boxes, a spokesman said. The boxes, bought locally, were in reasonably good shape for equipment that had been in harm’s way for so long. A Russian day THE DAY-IN-THE-LIFE series of photographic books, which have included books on New Zealand and Australia, will soon cover the Soviet Union. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the

Russian Revolution, the book will be published in November by Collins, simultaneously in Russia and the West. Each photographer across the vast land will have a guide, but all film will be taken out of the country — to Europe — for printing. The film will leave the Soviet Union unprocessed and unvetted, according to the publishers. Itchy name IT MAKES you wonder how many runners will have the courage to even try on one of their shoes. A sports footwear chain in France calls itself Athlete’s Foot. Stock response A COLLEAGUE reports that dinner-time conversa-

tion at his house recently got on to the subject ot birthdays, as it often does in houses with children. The oldest announced hers was on Easter Tuesday. Number two said his was only two days away from Queen’s Birthday. So number three, aged six, proudly claimed her birthday was on Cattle and All Calves Day. Wrightson-Dalgety’s calendar of Addington stock sales was responsible and not the Church. , Glowing A SOCCER club’s request to the Heathcote County Council for permission to put up floodlights for night practice had one councillor wondering about the cost. He suggested opting for a luminous ball might be cheaper.