Reporter’s diary

Press, 3 December 1987, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Flower power FOR the next three years the president of the International Chrysanthemum Council will be Mr Leo Clark, of Christchurch. Mr Clark was elected last month when representatives of the seven member countries (Canada, United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and perhaps unexpectedly, India) met in Tokyo. The aim of the council is to promote good will, fellowship and friendship between chrysanthemum growers of the world. (And if it helps people learn how to spell the wretched word, that is also an achievement.. .) Although he does some judging, and mainly specialises in blooms the size of substantial dinner plates, Mr Clark has for the last 50 years been a highly successful competitor at shows, and a commercial grower for both mail order and cut flowers. He has now retired to nurture a mininursery in a glasshouse at home.

Veni, video, vici A. reader has discovered the ultimate in Golden Age discounts. Showing of XXXX rated videos (R 18 at the Cupid Lounge in Christchurch are being advertised with offers of reduced price for senior citizens and beneficiaries.

She’ll be right BLUSTERY nor’west winds on Saturday tipped a rental truck on its side near Culverden. The driver was unharmed. But as he stood forlornly eyeing the truck that contained his worldly goods lying on the roadside he began to worry about how to right the thing. Then a coal truck from the West Coast hove into view. The driver stopped, got out, sanguinely surveyed the problem. With a wry, “Thought you’d have a look at the bottom, huh?” hitched it to his truck, towed it upright, checked water and petrol levels, and cheerily drove off. I.T.M.A. AN article in yesterday’s paper about personalised car number plates reminded a reader of those held by a star of radio, the British comedian Tommy Handley, during the last war. His read: “RAD 10." Ripping yarn A seamy side of the law added variety to proceedings at the northern arterial planning tribunal in No. 3 court last week. As the learned counsel making final submissions for the Waimairi County Council leaned forward to glance at his notes, the stitching in the rear of his trousers relinquished their

hold with an alarming crackling and popping sound. Finally, members of the public were treated

to a rare example of a solicitor literally sitting on his briefs. —Jenny Feltham