Reporter’s diary
THE next wave in the television revolution will be shown off in the Triangle Centre this week. A fivemetre dish will be set up in the City Mall to receive television signals direct from a satellite. They will be shown on TV sets in Noel Leeming’s shop in the centre. Mr Leeming has just returned from the United States, where he saw a lot of such dishes, and he is convinced they will become just as popular here. The one he will use is made in
New Zealand by Satellite TV Systems. It can receive two Australian and six American stations when it is fully set up. The one to be demonstrated this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will pick up only the two Australian broadcasts. At $14,000 the dishes are probably beyond the pockets of most viewers, but Mr Leeming says ■ that in the United States many hotels and motels are using them. Another problem is that the Government’s rules and
regulations have not kept up with the technology. The Post Office says that the regulations make it illegal to be in unlicensed possession of an apparatus able to receive transmissions outside the normal broadcast band. Iron man? HAS a bizarre new form of jogging developed in South Canterbury? Travellers on a lonely stretch of highway between Rangitata and Orari on Sunday had their attention distracted by an athletic-looking man in a red track suit bounding southward along the main railway line, taking care to step on each sleeper. There were no alarm bells ringing, so presumably New Zealand Railways was not trying a few twist of the famous race last century between a locomotive and a horse — a race between a New Zealand goods train and a man. Who knows? “Cow-catchers” may become “jogger-catch-ers,” and great sleepersteppers may be exhibited at Ferrymead. Nickname THE British Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, has acquired a new nickname. After a slip by a 8.8. C. commentator, she is now known far and wide as Mrs Finchley, the name of her north London constituency. The suburb of Finchley is full of upper-middle-class Tory ladies with insistent voices, rather like the Prime Minister herself, and the London newspapers think the name might stick. In the past she has been known as Tina, because of
her catch-phrase, “there is no alternative,” and Heather, pesumably because of the prim bossiness that name seems to imply. But a favourite was coined by a nameless senior civil servant. After he had received a ferocious carpeting from Mrs Thatcher in her first months in office, he dubbed her Attila the Hen. Imperialism MR MULDOON may not see eye-to-eye with the new Australian Government, but Australian journalists are not averse to appropriating the choicest parts of New Zealand as part of their own. In a recent issue, the “Australasian Post,” the Melbourne-based pictures magazine, ran a full-page story with picture about the Earnslaw, the scenic steamer on Lake Wakatipu. It was printed under the logo, “That’s Australia all over.” High price THE English, as everyone knows, are mad about dogs. Barking mad, you might say. The price of their devotion was recently revealed in “The Times,” which noted that dogs in London deposit 66 tons of faeces on the streets of London each day. No wonder Bazza MacKenzie could scarcely find a bare piece of footpath to stand on. There is no equivalent statistic for Christchurch, although from the fact that there are 15,500 licensed dogs in Christchurch city and an estimated 2000 or so unlicensed you can make your own calculation.
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