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Mrs Robyn Cox has returned to Gisborne as a member of the announcing staff of Station 2ZG. For the past three years she has been with 2ZC in Napier, and prior to this' was a television announcer in Australia.

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Rev and Mrs H. E. Harkness, and family Allan and Raema, have come to Gisborne from Masterton. Rev Harkness is minister at the Wesley Methodist Church in Gladstone Road.

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2ZG's new news reporter is Terry Currie, who came from Rotorua and Hamilton.

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Also on 2ZG news staff is Jennie Irvine, daughter of Dr and Mrs Barry Irvine, who has returned to the city after a year on the Auckland Star and two years with the Australian Women's Weekly. She commenced her journalistic career with the Gisborne Herald.

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Murray Clark (left) and Alan Scragg, of Gisborne and Tolaga Bay respectively, are leaving on a working holiday in Australia, and probably England.

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Peter and Jennifer O'Shaughnessy, and sons David (left) and Phillip, have come from Dunedin. Peter is security officer for the Bank of New South Wales.

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Glowing tributes which were paid to the late Mr H. B. Williams at the opening of the new library could not express the debt the city owes to this generous man and his family.

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An amenity of considerable value to the pedestrian community of Mangapapa is this footbridge Which was erected alongside the road bridge in upper Stout Street. Much used by both children and adults, this bridge on a busy street has eliminated a potentially dangerous traffic hazard.

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Gisborne is in danger of losing its only full-scale theatre, the Opera House. Owned by former Gisbornian Sir Robert Kerridge, it has run at a loss for many years, and is now on the market....but who wants to buy it? Understandably, no private entrepreneur would undertake such a commitment. The City Council has declined to purchase or lease the building. The interested societies do not have the available finance.

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The pine trees which grow on Kaiti Hill certainly add to its attractiveness.....when viewed from the city. But several of the more healthy members of the plantation have excelled themselves to the point where they now obstruct the view from the lookout. Visiting tourists, with their ever-present cameras, get a picture such as this to take home and show their friends. It is time an axe was taken to the taller offenders, to once again give our valuable tourists an unimpeded view.