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Mr and Mrs E. W. Dyer of 21 Derby Street this year celebrated 68 years of married life. This surely must be some sort of record. Mr Dyer, now 96, and Mrs Dyer, 89, were married at Barry in South Wales in 1906 and one week later they sailed for New Zealand. After living in Auckland for a few years the couple moved to the Waikato where Mr Dyer was an engineer with the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company for 35 years. He retired to Pukekohe in 1946 and shortly after that the couple came to Gisboene where they built their house in Derby Street and have lived ever since. Mr and Mrs Dyer have two sons (Doug, Gisborne, and Walter, Wellington), nine grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren.
Mr and Mrs Dyer with some of their congratulatory telegrams — from the Prime Minister, the Governor-General and the Queen.

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Former Gisborne girl Nancy Rutherford (left), and Judy McLean of Hamilton have come to Gisborne to run the "House of Eve." They obviously have no weight problems but are qualified in their field to help those who have. Aspiring "Adams," however, need not waste their time knocking on the door as the establishment is for females only!

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Dr Robin Briant has received her doctorate of medicine degree at Otago and becomes one of the select group of women to have the qualification in New Zealand Dr Briant qualified in 1965, spent three years on the Auckland Hospital staff, then undertook postgraduate clinical and research studies in London. Dr Briant is the daughter of Mr and Mrs S. D. Briant, Patutahi.