Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 269, 14 October 1902, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

On Saturday old residents looking east along Queen

OLD IDENTITIES.

Street felt vaguely that something about the town waschanged;

what, they could not imagine for a moment. Then it dawned upon them that the row of bluegums on the old site of Potter’s Hotel had been felled. These old identities formed part of a long line which formed one side of the street, running from the east end of Queen Street to Mrs Greason’s house, broken only by the shop of Mr I. Evans and a baker’s shop then standing on the corner of the section where Mr H. Wilson s blacksmith shop is built. Gradually the progress of the town warranted new buildings, and the other sections on the northern side of the street were occupied with the fine brick shops to be seen today. The present gums were the last of their line, and now they in turn have to give way to newer things. Truly the old order changeth, and few would recognise the Waimate of to-day, with its rapidly lessening number of vacant sections, in the old scattered bush township, with acre upon acre of yellow broom growing in its very heart.