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Three members of the Stoke Ladies' Bowling Club were among 13 Nelson district women bowlers who successfully sat examinations for national umpires' badges. They are seen here receiving their badges from Mrs Molly Glasgow, president of the umpires association, while Mrs Maude Freeman, secretary of the association (right) looks on. The three successful candidates were Mesdames Ada McGowan, Rhoda Gough and club president Myra Gough.

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Florence and Charles Horncastle, 190 Milton Street, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last month. They were florists in Nelson for 35 years and pioneered the "tele-flower" business in the city.

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When Keith St. George retired from the position of manager of the U.F.S. Dispensary in Nelson at the end of last month, he not only ended a 34-years service to the community as a chemist, but he broke a family association with the pharmaceutical world that reached back 129 years. His great-grandfather, George Hanbury Faraday St. George, a doctor, landed from the Amelia Thompson in Taranaki on September 3, 1841. The New Zealand Pharmaceutical Board lists him as New Zealand's first chemist for he combined pharmacy with his medical practice. His oldest son, Leonard, was chemist at Greytown and Masterton for his lifetime and his oldest son, Louis, was Otaki's well-known chemist for many years. At the moment there are no close relatives to carry on the family tradition. Keith's place, as manager of the societies' dispensary, has been taken by Allan Taylor