GERALDINE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18627, 24 July 1930, Page 6

GERALDINE.

HALF-HOLIDAY TROUBLE. “It can’t go on much longer,” one Geraldine business man remarked to a “Herald” representative yesterday, when commenting on the large amount of business that the township was losing to Timaru on Thursday afternoons and Friday nights. There were now three buses operating daily between Geraldine and Timaru, he said, and on Friday last he estimated that over 120 Geraldine residents made the trip to Timaru. “It is bad for business,” he claimed. There was no real remedy, he thought, but if the business men in the town banded together and kept good stocks, and the weekly half-holiday was i brought in line with the larger centres, I he was sure they could do much to I preserve the quiet prosperity of Geraldine. GENERAL NEWS. Owing to Mayfield being unable to field a team, there will be no match for the Geraldine ladies’ hockey team to-day. FOOTBALL. At a meeting of the Geraldine Football Club on Tuesday night, Mr D. L. Hatton presided. A letter was received from the secretary of the Mackenzie Sub-Union stating that it would be pleased for its representative team to visit Geraldine on August 21st to play Geraldine district. They hoped that a return match would be possible also. I It was decided to endeavour to arrange a Shops v. Offices match as a curtain-raiser. ITINERANT TRADERS. Itinerant traders—both the type that carries its wares from door to door, and firms who open their shops for short period “bargain sales”—will meet with taxation in Geraldine in the future if the efforts of the Retail Committee of the Geraldine Town and District Association are successful. The Association will ask the Borough Council to pass a by-law similar to that in force in Milton, which provides for a license fee of £5 for any person or firm opening a shop for a short period, the license to be returnable in the event of the licensee carrying on the business within the Borough continuously for a period of six months. It is understood that business men in Methven, Fairlie, Temuka, Waimate, and Ashburton are pressing for a similar by-law. FOR THE ORPHANAGE. The Presbyterian Girls’ Senior Bible Class held a stall in Geraldine yesterday to raise funds in connection with the Timaru Orphanage. Quite a successful day was experienced. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. Residents and farmers in Geraldine district are working actively for the establishment of an agricultural school at Geraldine, similar to those at Feilding and Rangiora. ( Information received by the Geraldine Town and District Association in connection with the Feilding School, discloses that the Feilding school farm is fifty acres in extent, adjoining ten acres of playing fields. The area is used for maintaining live stock and for cropping. In addition the Feilding managers have acquired a long term lease of a farm, 178 acres in extent, \ situated about one mile from the , school. The land on tlTis property is ' second class—characteristic of a large area of land in the district—and is suitable for both cropping and grazing. This property is used in conjunction with the school farm for demonstrating the most suitable methods of crop production, pasture formation and management, animal husbandry, and for experiments on these lines; for maintaining purebred flocks of Southdown, Romney and Ryeland sheep, and a herd of Red Poll cattle; for providing data for investigating farm costing and economic factors in farm management, and for providing practical farm training to the young men of the North Island.

In addition to dealing with these classes of stock, and giving educational attention to pigs, bees and poultry, and animal husbandry generally, the School of course, teaches subjects such as English, mathematics and geography. There are two courses—the agricultural course and the usual academic course —and those contemplating entering any profession other than farming are catered for. The admission is free for holders of proficiency and competency, and those not entitled to free education are admitted on payment of fees determined by the board of managers. NONAGENARIAN PASSES. Another old resident of Geraldine passed away yesterday, in the person of the late Mr George Gale, in his SOth year. Mr Gale had been associated with the district for many years. GENERAL NEWS. The Geraldine golf links are closed Owing to their wet state. Cold overcast weather was experienced in Geraldine yesterday. The following will represent Union to play Fairlie on Thursday:—E. Turner, S. Butcher, P. McShane, J. Callanan, W. Angland, M. Broad. A. Vincent, E. Brown, A. McKay, W. Rule, and J. Webb. Emergency: J. Pugh. CARD MATCH. The following will represent Oddfellows against Raukapuka Gentlemen on Friday night at 7.30:—E. H. Turner, F. J. Wood, B. Hayward, R. Neutze, P. Bennett. L. Brenton, A. Hopping, B. Richardson, C. Arnst, S. Patrick, G. Johnson, Hy. Smith, P. Russell, A. Titheridge, E. Davie, P. Hewson, L. Henderson, K. Smith, G. Patrick, J. Sullivan. L. Bright, C. Stringer, Jim Waller, J. Waller. The following will represent Raukapuka “gentlemen”:—D. Burmester, H. Moss, L. P. Scott. W. Crotty, E. Baker, J. Lysaght, H. D. Neutze, L. Mitchell, J. Lysaght, C. Gimson, W. Rule. Geo. Watts, F. Cooling, A. Butcher, R. Tagg. J. Rule. J. Twiss, A Templar, J. Fraser, J. Slattery. A. South, P. Scott, H. Scott, Cis. Scott.

The Optical Specialist of John R. Procters, Ltd. (New Zealand’s leading opticians), Christchurch, will be visiting Geraldine on Wednesday, August 6th, and may be consulted on all defects of eyesight (glasses) at the Crown Hotel, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Appointments can now be made by ringing Mr Morris Williams. Chemist. ....