Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 5, 6 January 1923, Page 6

The 'Christmas and Xew Year holidays have been absorbing people's attention for the past fortnight, but now that the races have all been won and lost the country visitors have mostly departed to resume piling up the national wealth in wool and butterfat, and the wife has been seen off to the seaside with the family, the workaday men of business are getting back into the collar. Next week the town will once again take off its coat and slip into the everyday routine of making things and money, buying and selling, and being industrious in all the other little ways and byways that ensures circulation in the coin "of the realm. On Monday the Auckland Stock Exchange reopens after a fortnight's vacation, and generally the markets and other business activities which have been disorganised by the holidays will return to normal next weeek. The Rev. T. Fielden-Taylor, the wellknown missioner of St. Peter's Church Wellington, who is at present eampin<* with 1.30 city boys, is keen upon securing about 20 acres of land in the Wairarapa to establish a farm on which to train some of the boys that pass through his j hands. *T believe." said the rev. gentleman, "that if such a farm were at mv disposal it would prove instrumental in reforming many a promising lad whom city life had caused to make a false step." Mr. Taylor said he had already unfolded his scheme to the Anglican 1 clergymen of the Wairarapa, who were I entirely sympathetic, but who had not yet been able to discover a land-owner magnanimous enough to pl-ce the proI posal on a promising footii» 1 i