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Mr H. H. Salmon, 76 Stout Street, is retiring as manager " and secretary of the Gisborne Gas Co. Mr Salmon, who has been with the company for 37 years, is retiring for reasons of health. The Gas Company, incidentally, is the oldest company actually registered in Gisborne which is still in business.

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Thirteen-year-old Judith Clarke has been officially advised that her handicap has been reduced to minus 1. She is the youngest player in the world with a minus handicap. Judith has progressed so well in croquet that a reduction was inevitable. Continual winning performances at national level since only last November, when her handicap was three, have brought about this honourable distinction.

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Mrs Shane Benge, 54 Fergusson Drive, is the lucky winner of $1000, She put a cross in the right place-in a spot-the-ball competition organised by the N.Z. Hockey Association and won for herself a thousand dollars. Mrs Benge, with sons Simon and Paul (right). looks forward to receiving her prizemoney, particularly as the boys think she might be able to do something with it to alleviate the summer heat.

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Back in Gisborne recently were Doug and Charleen Liddell, formerly of Belgium Terrace, and at present of Sydney. They are actually pictured at the Sydney airport farewelling theirson Colin, who has just transferred to Hong Kong for his carpet manufacturing company, Jeldi Ltd. He will occupy a supervisory position up there for the next two years. Next is Chris-teen, who is getting engaged later this year. She is a typist/clerk in a real estate office. And then there is Glenda, who leaves soon for Greece, where ' she is going on a working holiday. She has been taking tuition in the Greek language for some time. Doug, who is a building supervisor, and Charleen expect to take off on a working holiday around Australia' themselves at the end of this year, and after that propose returning to New Zealand.