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Mrs N. Gordon, 113 Stanley Road, sent us this picture of Captain A. G. Robinson, well-known Gisborne water-front personality, who will celebrate his 95th birthday next July, with young Phillip Hobbs, and his pony Betsy. A real old lady, Betsy was bora in the Shetland Islands, and was brought to New Zealand after a stay in Australia.

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We received this picture of Hori Karaka Tamihana (of Roving Hori fame) with the accompanying note, headed "Won't Stop Working". Writes Hori: "The former Hauiti (Tolaga Bay) resident who celebrated his 63rd birthday in March is now employed by the N.Z. Electricity department in Wellington, as camp sergeant-horticulturist-camera-man, with his wife, Mrs Puawai (Rosie) Tamihana as camp cook's assistant. Hori, who prior to leaving Hauiti in January 1963. was a monthly contributor to "Photo News" (Hori's Page) and the Gisborne Herald (Hauiti Newsletter), hopes to visit the Middle East in the near future:"

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From Mrs B. A. Tasker, 150 Birrell Street, is this snap of a young man with a big appetite.

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Mrs Manu Collier, Tokomaru Bay, sent us these three pictures of sets of twins from her district. The twins are, at left and centre: Vivienne and David Short, formerly of Waiotaapi Station and now of Papatoetoe, Auckland, and Helena and Johnny Ahuriri, Toa Street, Tokomaru, who are descendants of Barnet Burns Rutherford, the first white settler to set foot on Tokomaru Bay soil. At right are Gregory and Anthony Thomas.