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Mr Noel Jones, O.B.E. Mr Jones has been connected with many social and charitable organisations in Nelson, including Scouts (25 years), Nelson Crippled Children Association (since 1960), Nelson advisory committee for the blind (since 1963), Rotary, Suter Art Society, Nelson sub-branch of the War Amputees' Association and several others. He served overseas in the Second World War and was wounded and invalided home as a war amputee in 1941.

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Mr Frederick James Cullen, B.E.M., 25 Atawhai Drive, has spent 71 of his 88 years as a regular visitor to Ngawhatu and Nelson Public Hospitals. He was secretary of the Nelson Painters' Union for 30 years and is a life member of the union.

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Mr Zina Gay, B.E.M., 66 St. Vincent Street, is well known throughout Nelson and New Zealand for her services to indoor basketball and to the Y.M.C.A. She has been president of the New Zealand Women's Indoor Basketball Association for 23 of the 24 years it has existed. She has also been actively associated with marching, gymnastics and other sports.

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Making his first visit to the province since he left Nelson in 1940 is Alan ("Bunny") Mitchell, who brought his wife, Dorothy, and children Jill and Margaret with him from Adelaide for the visit. Mr Mitchell attended Nelson College from 1930 to 1936. His father, Frank Mitchell, was a former town clerk of Nelson. He is now the director of Student Union Services at Flinders University, South Australia.

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Chief Fire Officer "Hec" Oliver, Queen's Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service. Mr Oliver has been Chief Fire Officer at Nelson since 1961, having joined the brigade's permanent staff in 1939. He is president of the United Fire Brigade's Association and past president and secretary of the Provincial Association.

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Miss Jennifer Carpenter, a daughter of Mr and Mrs C. L. Carpenter, 135 Washington Road, who is leaving New Zealand on an overseas tour shortly. Jennifer was a buyer in Wellington for Lever Bros. She's just turned 21.