RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 23

RANDOM REMINDER

One has only to read the estate agents’ advertisements to remember that Fendalton is still one of the most desirable (their language) suburbs of Christchurch. So when a young Christchurch man recently had his house built near Memorial avenue, he told his friends, when they asked, that he was living in Fendalton. This pronouncement was questioned by an in-law. The new owner pointed out that his street was served by the Fendalton

bus. She thought that actually the district would be lower Harewood. He mentioned that they were within half a mile of the Fendalton Post Office. She wondered—thinking perhaps that the young man might be giving himself air—if the district was not perhaps northern Selwyn. He parried this blow by reminding her that the Fendalton kindergarten was but 100 yards away. But she won. She took the trouble to telephone the Post Office, and it

gave her the ammunition for a final, fatal broadside. The house was, she said, in the upper Riccarton postal district, just a few yards inside the Riccarton electoral boundary. So now, as he takes his children to the Fendalton kindergarten, or catches the Fendalton bus to work, or buys his stamps at the Fendalton post office, he wonders if the Electoral Boundaries Commission is contemplating any changes. She is, after all, an in-law.