Reporter’s diary

Press, 8 October 1988, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Pocketed! CONGRATULATIONS to Mr Ray Holman, who was in Christchurch this week representing the Hamilton Cosmopolitan Club at the national 8-ball pool championships, held at the Richmond Workingmen’s Club. We do not know how he fared at pool, but he spent his Wednesday rest day at the Windsor Golf Club, where his attention to detail paid off. Finding no five iron in his hired set of clubs, he went back to get one and proceeded to use it to sink a hole in one. This, on his first golf shot in a year. The feat was witnessed by — lucky for some — 13 people. Sixty-five years ... THE Templeton Scout Group must be among the oldest in New Zealand. Its 65th anniversary celebrations are on November 20.

All of the former members who could be located have been invited, but the reunion committee is getting nervous at the lack of response so far — six replies, with applications closing on Friday. An adults’ get-together on November 19 might have to be cancelled. All those eligible and interested, please contact the committee, at 12 Kirk Road, Templeton. ... of Service STILL on the subject of scouts, this week has been the New Zealand Scout Association’s Community Service Week. Not a highprofile event, but individual groups of scouts, cubs and so on have been quietly beavering away at their own projects. For example, about 20 cubs of the Bryndwr Scout Group spent Wednesday evening making pikelets, then

went round the corner to give their wares to the residents of St Winifred’s Private Hospital. ■ Flood concert YES, folks, even parents will be welcome at the West Coast Flood Relief charity concert, which starts at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Carlton Hotel. An entertainment area will be set aside for children so adults can go and play. Organisers have announced plans for a similar concert, raising funds for victims of the Greymouth flood, in Nelson on October 23. Further shows are planned for Auckland and Wellington, and Greymouth itself. Anyone for tea? STUDENTS and alcohol are a controversial mixture, not just in Christchurch, where Canterbury University students re-

portedly disgraced themselves and scandalised tourists at an outdoor drinking session on Tuesday. Boston students returning for the start of the new academic year recently, were dismayed by a new city law banning alcohol at parties in campus dormitories. The Boston Licensing Board blamed “out of control beer blasts that attract hundreds of minors.” One indignant freshman insisted, “They can’t stop it. You come to college to learn and drink.” Down the river? A HEATHCOTE County Council spraying crew was seen on Thursday, apparently expressing an opinion about the localbody amalgamation scheme announced on Tuesday. A large sign on the front of the tractor read, simply, “SOLD.” —Nigel Malthus