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Mr F. R. Ball, chairman of the Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board since its inception in 1924, who has retired from office. Mr Ball, who first took office as a "stop-gap" chairman, has seen the Board's activities grow to include assets worth two million pounds and an annual revenue of nearly half a million.

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Another chairman who has retired is Mr J. R. Hair, who has been chairman of the Poverty Bay Catchment Board since its inception in 1945 and is also a member of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council. Mr Hair's term of office has seen big steps taken in the control of the Waipaoa River and Government action assured to control serious hill-country erosion.

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Gisborne's deputy-Mayor for the past six years, Mr R. A. Keeling, M.P., was another who retired this year from City Council service. The council retirements also included a valued member in Mr W. Findlay.

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In the same year that Mr Ball first became chairman of the Power Board, Mr W. S. McKee became secretary of the P. B. Rugby Union, and he is also retiring this year after 35 years in office.