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Donna Fergus-son and Judy Grealish spent the six-week holiday period as Shell Courtesy Girls. They went round town during the morning, feeding expired meters for holiday makers. In the afternoons they helped out at Shell service stations, and also visited the camping grounds, welcoming visitors and distributing tourist maps of the city and surrounding areas.

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Mr John Carron was back in Gisborne recently after spending the past 40 years of his life in Australia, For most of that time he has been engaged in the transport business but, for the past 12 months, he has been opal mining at Lightning Ridge, the only place in the world where the rare black opal is sometimes found. Mr Carron is originally from Otoko and prior to 1930 was the Poverty Bay high jump champion.

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This 1905 Rolls Royce, believed to be the only one left in the world, belongs to Mr Adam Dick, Kilmarnock, Scotland. This paper cutting comes from Mrs M. Morton, Ormond Road, who is Mr Dick's sister-in-law. Mr Dick and his wife (the former Bessie Miller of Gisborne) visited Gisborne three years ago, after 40 years in the British Isles. Mr Dick is holding an exact replica of his car, which is perfect in every detail and made in plastic by a Japanese company. What puzzles Mr Dick is, that if his car is the only one left in the world, how did the Japanese come to make such a perfect model because, as far as Mr Dick knows, the Rolls Royce people have not supplied them with any specifications!