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Some First War Vets entertained by the younger members of the Nelson R.S.A. at a veterans' social recently: Perc Stewart, Hube Smith, Alf Weir, Bill Dallow and Wal Westley.

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Yep, you probably have seen this pic before, It was in issue No 71, but somewhere along the line we boobed badly in that issue. The gal's name is Betty Walsh, not Watson, as we had originally, and she's a dentist receptionist returned to work in Nelson.

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Mr T. A. Glendinning, who celebrated his 95th birthday at his home at 14 Alton Street. Mr Glendinning holds the unique record of 73 years' membership of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and in 1963 was awarded an honorary fellowship of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry - one of New Zealand's seven members.

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The Haase family has pure printer's ink running through their veins. We're sure of it. Noel and Stan Haase, between them, have been in the printing business for 86 years as members of the staff of Stiles and Co (Noel, 40 years, Stan 46). In Christchurch, a third brother, Cyril, is head linotype mechanic with "The Press", with whom he has served for about 40 years also. Both served their time in the industry, and today Noel is travelling for the firm and Stan is a guillotinist.

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The staff of Coles received a shock recently to learn that their general manager and director, "Chris" Christoffersen, was leaving the firm and was to establish his own soft furnishings store at Richmond. At a farewell by staff and management, Chris, left, was presented with a watch by managing director, Mr Lloyd Cole, and on behalf of the staff, Mr Ian Sharland also made presentations to him.