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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 15

The Mayor, Mr. John ,Jackson, received advice to-day that; the executive council of llio Pufilic Service Association had elected him, by unanimous vote, to life membership of the association. Mr. Jackson, while a member of the Public Service, took a prominent part in the executive work of association branches, and was president of the Gisborne branch up to the year of his retirement.

j Great public interest was, displayed in f lie visit to New Plymouth of the Shaw, iSnvill and Albion Company's steamer Akaroa. From the moment of the one day (Sunday) the vessel was open ior public inspection, hundreds of people swarmed every part of the Akaroa, and from 1 o’clock onward there was never a moment when there was less than 1000 eager sighseers on board, and hundreds more awaiting admission. It is estimated that during the day over 10,000 people visited the ship. Perhaps one of the strangest aspects of all was the fact that to many of the 600 back- | country people, grown-ups included, ! who came from Taumarunui by excursion train, it was their first sight, not only of a large ship, but of the sea jtself.