REDCLIFE NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14215, 3 June 1910, Page 3

REDCLIFE NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)" . Farmers in Upper Waikakihi have got on well with the carting of their i last seasuo's grain. The crops were all j stacked and threshed in fino weather, ! and should furnish Jino samples of grain ; for milling purposes. Some rain would I now be welcomed to soften the ground , for plougliing operations. Mose of the ! fanners have sold off their lambs satis- ' j fuctorily, although, this season turnips : were not quite so plentiful as usual. ; The winter so far has been exception- | ally mild, stock therefore are all in lino | condition for the coming spring, j The neighbours and friends of Mr i and Mrs Andrew Geddes met at the i Stonewall ltun on the evening of the i May to bid them good-bye, and I wish them success in their removal I from amongst us to their new home cm j Allandalej i'airlie. In presenting Mr j Gedcles with a silver inkstand, Mrs i Geddes with a handsome teapot and | their little son with mementoes, on bc- ; halt of the company present.' Mr Wul- ; die said they would be much missed by [ their neighbours of Upp;r TVaikakahi. ! They took their departure with the j goodwill of all, »nd the people of Fair- ; lie \Yt.'ve to be congratulated in getting i among the in such energetic and hes- | pitable neighbours as Mr and Mrs An- | dreiv Geddes. I The proposed removal of the Ttedcliff School to a more central site than ' the present one caused some local excitement. There are numbers of fami- . lies of small ehildrrn at the "West End '.of the Redeliff, who will • be greatly benefited by the change. "\Yc \vished for a school nearer our doors, which the East-enders opp.-sed. The Edura- . tion Board then saw the sweet reasonI ableness of having the present school | removed a little nearer to the West i end.