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Mr Cyril Mackley, who has retired as head of the stock department of Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Company.
Mr Mackley has been associated with stock sales for 39 years and was an employee of the Sheepfarmers for 37 years.
Tributes to his long service were paid recently at a gathering of farmers and representatives of stock firms when he was presented with a travelling rug and an electric blanket.

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Mr A. J. H. Kirkham, Clifford St., who is not seeking re–election as Waiapu representative on the Poverty Bay Electric–Power Board.

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The Rev. W. McSkimming, of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Kaiti, & Mrs McSkimming. Mr McSkimming will leave Gisborne next February to take up an appointment at St. Andrew's, Suva. He has served in this district for over 10 years.
Mr Kirkham's ambition––to see power lines extended as far as Te Puia –– was fulfilled during his term of office.
He is a Justice of the Peace and former president of the South African War Veterans' Association.

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Mr Sid Mann, manager of the Tokomaru Bay branch of the Bank of N.Z., who has left to take up a post as manager of the Labasa branch, Fiji.
Before his appointment to Tokomaru Bay in 1950 he was accountant in Wairoa.

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Mr Robert Houston, Napier baritone, who will represent Hawke's Bay–East Coast in the final of the Mobilsong contest.
He is the son of Mrs G. Houston (formerly Miss Higgins) a member of a pioneer Gisborne and Ormond Family.