Reporter’s diary

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Cabbage-patch kidding I ■ (the stock market garden that appeared overnight on the Dominion building site in Cathedral iSqtiare? Ten days after ipeirig planted, the [ eigjit :catibages are flourishing, ; untouched by human! hand or Government [officials. [Their survival t^; thanks] mainly to [the : man ; who, having placed [them there, waters them every second night. This poses a problem; the instigator is going away for three weejcs holiday and the plants will die unless ! watered. J Could someone look after [them, please?! [ He] suggests that all users of the Square, interested [in [ promoting, vegetation [there, could pitch in .and help until he gets back % o!r until the cabbages ape removed. L! I: j 11. I ! Medium the message SENDERS ] of greeting cards : for ; all occasions

may not need: [to bother when New Zealand Post releases I the ndxt set lof 40-cent [postage stamps. The stamps carry five different messages: good luck, happy birthday, congratulations, get! well, and keeping in toufh, which might make any [card [inside the! envelope somewhat redundant. The stamps, ; which I [will [ be issued on May [lB] will be sold in booklets of| five. Yesterpaddling DOWN in the deep south of Invercargill; [a reader has been pondering a photograph : that was taken, she thinks, on the Avon River,[about 1910. Other than [ that, Kirs Booth knows[ nothing and would welcome information about the identity of the worpen [or the date when it| was taken. Mrs Booth may be contacted through us. [ : ; Culture carrot ANNUA - meetings [are unpopular. So the Canterbury branch [of the Opera L. : l‘ J

Society deserves credit for an innovative ploy to entice! members to the A.G.M. this evening on the fourth! floor of the English Department of the Uni- [ versity of Canterbury.! After the bread-and-butter ! business is over, those [ preserit will be rewarded with a videotape showing of the Australian Opera 1986 production of Donizetti’s. “Lucia di Lammer- ] moor,’] with Joan Suther- !! land in [the title role. It is, they hasten to add, in Italian, but with English subtitles. Smooth talk

BODY, builders and marijuana smokers could be candidates for baldness, claims a Sydney nonmedical specialist in hair and scalp diseases. David Sallinger, director of theInternational Association of Trichologists, says he has treated a number of body ] builders suffering severe] hair thinning. Amino acids, taken by many body builders to boost growth, possibly are to blame! he says. “There is

definitely something body j builders are doing \yhich is causing their hair] to fall but.” Mr Salinget; says heavy mar juana use also can cause hair! loss, pos] sibly [because of the drug’s effect on thle liver. U t [ ■ I :[!■[; Friendly appeal “PROGRESS,”! the maga- ! zine [cbverihg the develop/! ment [of the I Parkroyal ' Hotel, [Christchurch, mentions! the aspect of ChpsU church thaf it is highlighting in advertisements | for ’ the hotel-tpwn hall complex.! Attractions named are .the At'on! Rivef, [the Chridtchurcjh Englishness, its fjatness (for eaise of getting around; you understand), biCycles, pdrks, punting, and the beauty of the changing seasons. [The least] obvious] of dhristchurch’s ! attractions J on the list is "frieridliness — genuine, not [contrived.” ; Thinking of some shop ; assistants land others d[eal- [ ing \yith the public, ejven ! a sipidgen; olj contrived friendliness would be an improvement. H ' '