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Retiring from the managership after 22 years with the Gisborne branch and 30 years with the firm is Mr A. W. Hoy of R. Hannah & Co. Presenting him with a silver tea service is the new manager Mr Roy Watt (left).

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Pictured in London are Gisbornites Keith and Wendy Hoy with Wendy's sister Janet Helens (left) feeding a few of the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Keith is working for a company of international accountants and Wendy is with a publishing firm.

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Mrs Jessie Parr, 53 Herbert Road, received from a friend in England (they are both members of the World Wide Stamp Club - if you are interested ring Mrs Parr 89-798) a special envelope commemorating the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. From the Post Office set up on the battlefield site came the letter with the set of stamps depicting the Bayeaux Tapestry. The whole tapestry is in the form of six 4d's, one 6d and one 1/3 stamps. Also in her possession Mrs Parr has a special envelope from her son Richard which is allowed only to crew members of the Endeavour.
This is the supply ship which makes regular trips to the Antarctic during the summer and the envelope is a real collectors' item.

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While more than 100 Gisborne Territorial Soldiers trudged laboriously around Waiouru last February taking part in Operation Southern Cross, a joint Army-Airforce exercise, another young Gisborne man was giving them the "bird" from within the relative comfort of a Vampire jet fighter.