SANNATON AND STUDHOLME JUNCTION.
(BY OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
* > The capital season with its periodical rains hat been most favourable for the farmer, and the crops -in this locality will compare favourably vrith any in N£w Zealand. The Government Poultry Expert, Mrlfcyde, paid a visit to Willow Iknk a few days «tgo. I understand he was highly impressed vrith the surroundings and seemed to favour the idea of miking this one of the Government poultry farms. We wish the proprietor) Mr Keilly, every success in hm desire to have Willow Bank the Government poultry farm of Canterbury, and hope that its claims will meet with favourable Consideration from the Government. A very enjoyable social took place at Studholme on Wednesday evening last. Th« attendance was not large, being chiefly the residents in the immediate neighbourhood. The dance was very enjoyable, with songs at intervals. The vocalists were Misses Williams, Kilgour, and Messrs Clark*, Costello, Card, and Cleave. Mr Cleave made an efficient M.C. The Hannaton school closes lot its holidays on Thursday, 22nd. Tho attendance, like the neighbouring schools, has been very poor. In all probability the truant officer will have ample field fof his work on the schools re-opening. With the exception of a few garden prizes, no prizes are to be awarded this year.
Every part of postage-stamp making is done by hand. The designs ai'e engraved on steel, two hundred stamps on a single plate. These plates are inked by two menj and are then printed by a giil and a man on a large handpress. They are dried as fast as printed, and then gummed with a starch paste made from potatoes. This paste is dried by placing the sheets in a steam-fanning machine, and then the stamps are subjected to a pressure of two thousand tons in a hydraulic press. Next the sheets are cut so that each one contains one hundred stamps, after which the paper between the stamps is perforated, and after being pressed the sheets are filed away. If a single stamp is injured the whole sheet is burned »
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 31, 24 December 1898, Page 4
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346SANNATON AND STUDHOLME JUNCTION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 31, 24 December 1898, Page 4
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