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Five members of the Gisborne Sheep-farmers Mercantile Co. Ltd. who together have 204 years' service to the company. From left: Messrs Lyndsay Margoliouth (38 years), John Trafford (40 years), Frank Beer (43 years), Eric Knox (42 years) and Cecil Cunningham (41 years). The picture was taken on the occasion of Mr Beer's farewell from the company. (K.K.K.)

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Mrs Gwen Bradley, Aberdeen Road, retired from the High Schools Board of Governors after nine years' service. However, Mrs Bradley has given, in all, 25 years to schools in Gisborne, serving on various committees and school associations, and her experience in school matters will be much missed.

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Graeme Clarke, son of Mr and Mrs Rua Clarke, 17 Asquith Street, is certainly seeing something of the world. On a working holiday, he has so far been to Australia, Portuguese Timor, Java, Sumatra, South Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Okinawa, South Korea and Japan. From Yokohama he sailed to the East Russian port of Nahodka then took the Trans-Siberian railway to Moscow. After Moscow Graeme went to Leningrad then on to London where he worked for six months. After going to the Commonwealth Games Graeme is now touring tne Continent. He intends to be back in London for Christmas.

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Sponsored by Gisborne Rotary, David Main, 108 Russell Street, is attending a course at Outward Bound. David, who is 19, has worked for the Post Office for the past three years.

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Rotary members concerned were on hand to meet exchange student Alice Gies at the airport when she arrived from her home town of Souderton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Fifteen-year-old Alice will attend Lytton High for one year, but each term will be spent with a different host Rotary family. From left: Rotary District Governor Ian Drabble, who was also on a visit to Gisborne, past president G. A. Nicholls, Mrs Leigh Humphrey, past president John Nicholls, Alice Gies, first term host A. J. Humphrey, and president J. C. Corson.