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Mr G. A. Nicholls, Grant Road, was a recipient of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday honours list. Active in commercial and service aviation since the First World War, Mr Nicholls, who flew over France in that period, has also been prominent in the business community. He joined Ormonds Motors in 1928 and has been managing director of that firm for many years. He has also been a director of N.A.C. and is at present a member of the board of Air New Zealand. Among his other interests have been the Gisborne Rotary Club and the Gisborne Branch of the Travel and Holiday Association, in both of which he has been president.

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The Rotary oratory contest for girls was held recently. The winner was Janet Zame of St. Mary's College who gave an outstanding speech. The subject for the contest was "How can we as New Zealanders better equip ourselves to take a more active part in community service?" Mr A. H. De Costa, Rotary president, presents Janet with the cup. The other two contestants are Margaret Wilcox (centre) from Lytton High, and Lois Bur-borough from the Girls' High School.

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Mr W. Pauly and son Bill pictured on the grounds of their new home at Acton Stud. Mr Pauly, who has bought the homestead and 22 acres at Acton is also going into partnership with Messrs A. Neilson and S. Thorne in Lincoln House (formerly Almadale private hotel). The car in which they are loading boxes of wood is a Chevrolet Camaro, a pretty powerful sort of conveyance.

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Dr M. J. Hewitt presents Mr R. Gardner with a handsome smoker's stand as a token of appreciation from officials, members and friends of the Comet Swimming Club. Mr Gardner is retiring after six years as secretary of the club.

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Basil Davoren and his wife Margaret of 268 Whitaker Street. Basil has recently returned from Australia after winning B.A.L.M's travelling scholarship for 1968. Lasting four weeks, the scholarship enabled Basil to spend two weeks with the B.A.L.M. company touring their paint factories, laboratories and testing stations. The final two weeks were spent with two separate companies working on some of their painting contracts, concentrating on new advancements and specialty work.