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Mr Ken O'Connell, a long serving member of the Cook Hospital staff, is shown with his menu kept from the day of the Cook Hospital Board's Coronation Day Dinner of 1952! The special thing about this souvenir is that it now has the signature of five Governors-General on it. Mr O'Connell has the autographs of Governors-General Norrie, Cobham, Fergusson, Porritt and, with the recent Vice-Regal visit, that of Sir Denis Blundell.

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Off to England for a working holiday is Jenny Thomson, daughter of Mr and Mrs W. G. Thomson, Fitzherbert Street. Jenny, who has been teaching at Tolaga Bay, flew out from Auckland on March 10 and expects to be away about a year.

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Songbird Melody Sherwood has returned to Canberra, Australia, to resume cabaret and night-club work there. Melody, who was one of the resident vocalists at the Sandown Hotel for the past few months, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs H. S. Sherwood, Wainui Beach. (Lloyd Cornish).

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Mr and Mrs George Allen, Fergusson Drive, recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a family dinner at the Sandown Hotel. Included in the party were their daughters, sons-in-law and a family friend. From left, back and front, Mr and Mrs Allen, Mrs Dorothy West, daughter Lois, Vernon and Ruth Cook, and Rod and Aerial Clague.