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Work started last week on the new five storey Government Life Insurance Building on the corner of Grey Street and Gladstone Road. The first job undertaken was the construction of heavy frames to support the contractors' huts above the street...a sight unseen in Gisborne before. Such was the curiosity of passers-by that the building foreman, Stuart Boyle, attached a sign to the end frame. Could also be a sly dig at our weather this "Summer".

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Engagement. The engagement has been announced of Elizabeth Sheila Jex-Blake, younger daughter of Mrs F. A. Jex-Blake, Gisborne, and Mr L. Jex-Blake, to Christopher Eadie, son of Mr and Mrs J. D. Eadie, Park Mount, North Wolverhampton, England.

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Mr Len Williamson (left), the teams manager for the Gisborne Amateur Roller Skating Club, indicates a point of interest on the map of Poverty Bay on the Kaiti Hill lookout to the four world champion German skaters who visited Gisborne recently.

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An item on the programme in which the German visitors appeared, was a spectacular jump on skates through a five foot high flaming hoop by two Gisborne boys, John Roberts (pictured) and Garth Easton. The visitors were amazed by the act, saying that it was the first time they had seen such an exhibition.