SHADES OF PINK

Press, 1 February 1986, Page 18

SHADES OF PINK

By

WHIM WHAM

Pieces of the Pink and White Terraces, the vanished geological wonder, have turned up in a Hamilton home ... Dr Gordon Leary, the DSIR chemist heading the quest to recreate the terraces, says the fragments may be exactly what scientists are looking for ... possible to recreate them as a tourist magnet... to find out what coloured the terraces pink.—News Nature the old Master built The Terraces, Inferior Artists painted Them (in Oils) and framed Them (in Gilt) TUI Nature, finding her Creation tainted, Blew it up and burled the Bits in SUt One terrifying Night, Leaving us our Pictures of the Scenery, Pink Icing, Pavlova White, The surrounding Greenery — What an Oil Painting they made! Like the one on my Father’s study Wall, Not much prized, I think — A poor Daub didn’t capture the Shade Of Nature’s own exquisite Pink, More like Toothpaste, or Raspberryade, Not the true Tint at all! A hundred Years on, with the Aid Of Chemistry, the DSIR, Will Nature replace the unique Masterpiece She smashed in a fit of Pique Of Divine Dissatisfaction With People who, being what They are, Took it for a Tourist Attraction? Will a Dose of Dr Leary’s Pink Medicine, his hopeful Theories, Encourage HER, The supreme .Artificer, Jin ,the desired chemico-geothermal Action? f *; ■ net mmkM