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And even more stitches went into this double bedspread knitted by Mrs C. Furlan, 28 Norman Road. It is knitted from cotton yarn in a primrose shade. With a fringe imported from Australia, the bedspread took three months to knit, and comprises 258 small squares which make up into a pattern containing 80 larger squares. Mrs Furlan has already made six of the spreads but says this is the last.

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Photographed halfway through the demolition period, the old Gisborne D. B. Hotel on the corner of Childers Road and Lowe Street is now no more. Until some time in the future, the site will serve as a car park.

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These members of the Te Karaka St John Ambulance group came to town, and the Cook Hospital in particular, on a familiarisation tour recently. They went around the hospital and were shown what happens to patients after they leave the St John people and enter the hospital. Sister Rapley explains the blood transfusion procedure to, from left, Mesdames V. Mackie, J. French, C. Te Paiho, L. Baty, M. Sage, A. Kemp, M. Madden and M. Cranswick.