Reporter’s diary

Press, 17 January 1989, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Very punny

HAIRDRESSERS don’t have a monopoly on puns and quaint names. Fish ’n’ Cheeps, in Riccarton Road, has attracted many a second glance. In Linwood Avenue there is a beauty shop called Room for Improvement. Canterbury Bells is the name of a florist’s shop in Colombo Street; with the addition of an e before the s it could also be a beauty shop name. Museum status Part of the White House in Washington D.C. now ranks as a museum. The

American Association of Museums, whose 2300 member institutions include art museums, zoos and historic homes, said the White House had met “the highest standards of management and operations” to qualify for accreditation. The museum areas of the Executive mansion consist mainly of the ground-floor state rooms, the diplomatic reception room and other areas. Sensoring SINGAPORE has nobbled its first female despoiler (to put it politely) of lifts and fined her $7OO. Fastidious about the condition of lifts in the upmarket tourist hotels, the authorities are clamping down on this odious practice, encountered the world over. How? By installing urine sensors that slam on the brakes, between floors.

Steeling

themselves

PART of an education course, available to inmates of Efferham prison, the Netherlands, teaches the construction of steel cell doors.

TAe difference DURING the summer holidays, many New Zealanders forsake the challenge of concrete jungles for rigours of a different sort — going from

A to B over walks, tracks and routes. But what is

the difference between these pathways? The answer could save your life. The Department of Conservation and the Forest Service define them this way: a walk is a wellformed and suitable stroll

for the average family group with no need for

special footwear or equipment; a track is a welldefined trail for people of average physical fitness; a route is lightly marked and should only be used by well-equipped and experienced trampers.

— Jenny Setchell