Reporter’s diary

Press, 25 June 1983, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Colourful letters A CHRISTCHURCH woman, Daphne Crampton, has taken the initiative in designing a series of brightly coloured pictoiial aerogrammes in order to promote tourism in Canterbury..' Miss Crampton, who is a nurse at Sunnyside Hospital, got the idea for designing the aerogrammes when friends were travelling overseas. When they asked for pictures of Canterbury scenes, she says she found that there were very few available among touristbrochures on New Zea»d.

“The tour people appear to believe that Canterbury has nothing to offer the tourist and I thought it might be time to show them that we have something bright and beautiful,” she says. She also sees the project as her contribution to fight unemployment. Miss Crampton spent nearly a year collecting photographs, deciding on designs and arranging to have the four aerogrammes printed. She says she selected pictures depicting the different , Canterbury landscapes, tourist attractions within Christchurch and within a day’s journey

of the city, the seasons, and the province’s primary industry, sheepfarming. The aerogrammes, which sell at 50 cents each, come in blue, yellow orange and green. They have photographs of Ferrymead, Hagley Park, Victoria Square, pastoral scenes, skiers, Lyttelton Harbour and Mount Cook. The words “welcome” are written on them in languages such as German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Maori, Samoan and even in Arabic ton has distributed the aerogramme, which have Post Office Aproval for internal

and overseas posting, to only a few outlets so far, but she plans to distribute them more widely next month. Although they cost more than she would like, she says most people are delighted with them. Keen player LAST MONDAY’S item about the problems a musician had bringing his cello to New Zealand reminded a Christchurch reader of her meeting with a devoted cellist in India. Alison Moses was astonished to meet a member of a symphony orchestra from Mexico City who was travelling with his cello in tow. Miss Moses says that travelling on an Indian bus means dashing with a crowd of other people and flinging yourself on to the steps during a split-second stop. Journeying by train may mean sitting on the roof, lying in an aisle or in the luggage rack. “To accomplish these feats with cello in tow rendered us speechless with amazement,” she says. On the razzle JOMO, a beautiful black labrador dog which lives in Fendalton, is still suffering from a very hard night “on the town” this week. A caller, who walks Jomo regularly, tells us that he disappeared overnight, causing his family a great deal of anxiety. He was found the next afternoon — sound asleep in the bar of the Redwood Hotel. Pointed A STAFF member at “The Press” found the inscription on a birthday card for a three-year-old amusing, although it seems more appropriate for an adult. “Now that you are three years old, know what you get do do? You get to hold three fingers up instead fc of only two.” a