GERALDINE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19093, 28 January 1932, Page 8

GERALDINE

GIRL GUIDE CAMP. "Visitor’s Day” At the Geraldine Girl Guide Company’s annual camp at Major P. H. Johnson’s Raincliff, proved a popular attraction when there were over 50 visitors from the surrounding district present during the afternoon. The camp was ideally situated at a spot which is the site of the old homestead and garden of the Raincliff estate. Surrounded by trees it was approached through a beautiful avenue of English and foreign trees. Seventeen girls were in the camp, in charge of Capta.'n M. M. Woolley and Lieutenant Mabel Ray (Geraldine) and Brown Owl Foster (Christchurch). The visitors who were entertained at afternoon tea by the Guides, spent a pleasant afternoon. The girls slept in two whares, and in addition two tents were erected, one of which was occupied by the officers. The efficiency and cleanliness of the camp aroused favourable comment. In addition to profiting by increased knowledge of various phases of Guide work, the girls had a delightful holiday, and it was a very reluctant party which broke camp on Wednesday. The Geraldine Girl Guide Committee expressed appreciation of the hospitality extended to the Guides by Major and Mrs Johnson, not only in providing the camp site, but in supplying meat and milk. NEW AGRICULTURAL COURSE. With the appointment of Mr R. A Sherwin B. Ag. of Lincoln Agricultural College as agricultural assistant to the the staff cf the Secondary Department of the Geraldine District High School, a new page has been turned in the. educational history of the district. Besides the academic course, which has hitherto been provided for prospective entrants to the learned professions, there will now be a general course for those who do not wish to enter a profession, and a special agricultural course for boys who wish to learn something of modern farming ! methods. Near the school are farms of ; various kinds which have been placed at the disposal of the boys for observational work under an expert instructor, and, as members of rn Agricultural Club, they wall be encouraged to be responsible at home for the management of a garden plot, and the rearing of some farm animal, to that conclusions may be drawn from different methods of farming. Boys will be taught the physiology of farm animals, dairy science, agriculture, botany, economics, and allied subjects with which all farmers are faced. It is hoped, also, to include the study of bees and poultry, especially for girls who live on farms. Boys who study the special agricultural course for four or five years wall receive an education that will fit them to become successful farm managers. Much work has been undertaken to prepare sports grounds and garden experimental plots, and to make the grounds attractive in anticipation of an influx of new pupils. Mr E. Cholerton, representing John R. Procter, Ltd., opticians, ChristJhurch, will be re-startlng nis visits tGeraldine during February