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With the announcement recently that the two 20-ton propellers of the wartime troopship, Dominion Monarch, are to be shipped back from Australia to England, comes the reminder that the only remaining relic of the ship will be the bell, which was donated by the Shaw Savill Company to the Riverdale School in 1963. The Dominion Monarch, scrapped in 1962, was the largest ship used regularly on the New Zealand to Britain run for many years. Here pupils Lynda Reid, Megan Jackson and Paige Campbell ring in the start of the 1972 school year.

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The famous East Coast carver, Mr Pine Taiapa of Tikitiki, died recently after a lengthy illness. Mr Taiapa, a prolific and meticulous craftsman, will be sadly missed by those who appreciated his work. Mr Taiapa is pictured here explaining details of some of the carvings and tukutuku work in Ruakapanga, the meeting-house on the Hauiti Marae at Tolaga Bay, a couple of years back.

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Pictured with her hostess, Mrs R. A. Frandi (left), is Dawn.Yow, a member of the Bathurst, Australia, Rural Youth Group, the equivalent of a combined Young Farmers' and Country Girls' Club in New Zealand. Dawn is on a three-month exchange visit to this country and will study different agricultural methods while moving about New Zealand. Dawn is holding her "country hat," on which she has pinned Australian State and World Club badges.