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Visitors to No.1, Parau Street, on a recent Saturday had to duck their heads coming up the drive. Reasons some other visitors had arrived first....a swarm of bees, pictured here hanging from the branch of a tree in the garden.

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By the look of this picture, it's not Mandalay, but out in Poverty Bay where the flying fishes play. This one landed aboard Mr Jim Phear's fishing boat off Tuamoto Island.

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Roses in Mrs J. F. Green's garden at 77 Harris Street have really been blooming recently. Mrs Green is pictured with two stalks of delicate pink Florabunda Betsy McCall roses each containing 40 blooms.

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Harris Street is not the only place where nature excels itself. Mr John Hyland, of Douglas Street, Wainui, has a tomato plant, which at the time of photography was seven feet high, and which, he now informs us, has reached the eight foot mark.

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Passers by at Makaraka may have noticed something unusual about the letter boxes outside Vally Jonasen's home. Wally, who is the president of the N.Z. Boxing Association, and the Gisborne and East Coast Rodeo Association, claims that he sent the boxes to an undisclosed sign-painter for labelling, and they were returned as pictured. A school teacher for fifteen years, he says that more than 200 people have phoned him, some asking if he is introducing a new spelling system.