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"Welt, this will be the last time I'll need these, "says Harry Mather who retired recently after 19 years with the Post Office. Harry, a very popular staff member, was a lube operator and also did a great deal of driving for visiting ministerial personnel. Governor Generals and Prime Ministers - they were all the same to Harry when he was behind the wheel. "Just sit there, chaps - I'll get us there." And he did too. The grease guns, and the boys in the Post Office workshops, will miss you Harry

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New senior overseer at the Post Office workshop is Ted Read who, with his wife and one son (two other children are grown up), came here from Dunedin. Ted's keen on the outdoors - hunting and fishing

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The Bishop of Nelson, the Rt Rev. P. E. Sutton (near right) made a hurried visit of all the parishes in his diocese in a light plane recently. He met parish leaders to discuss arrangements for Thanksgiving Day. With him were Mr E. Compton (rear right), managing director of Compton Associates of Australia, which directed the thanksgiving programme, Rev. Michael Smart (near left) and the pilot, Mr Godfrey Thomas, a Nelson Aero Club instructor

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The Karamea Tavern was recently taken over by the Johnson brothers, Bevan and Glenny, who are also building a motel on a section behind the tavern. Having a quiet session in the tavern are Bevan, well-known Karamea personality (the "Mayor"of Little Wanganui) Elystan Jenkins, tavern manager Zane Douglas (a former publican of the Royal Hotel in Nelson), and Glenny. Glenny was the pilot of a Piper Cub which more recently crashed near Karamea. He was unhurt