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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[Hilton]

Hilton, on the Kakahu river, in the county of Geraldine, is twenty-two miles north from Timaru, and eight miles from Temuka, with which it is connected by coach. The district is a farming one, and has limestone and pipe clay deposits. It lies in a north-easterly direction from Waitohi Flat. For the greater part it is fine, rich, open country, taken up by large and well managed farms. High and fertile downs separate it from the Waitohi Flat, but the whole district is in a thorough state of cultivation. It has a good public school, a store, and a blacksmith's shop. Extending from the head of Hilton, towards the mountains is Kakahu, a fine sheep country, with its lower portions under cultivation. Throughout the whole district there are well kept roads, some steep, but mostly of easy grades. Hilton has a daily mail service with Timaru, and there is a telephone bureau at the local post office.

Hilton School. This school was built in 1874, on a section of three acres of land, the gift of the late Mr. Ormsby and Messrs R. and J. Skinner. The building will accommodate one hundred children, and there is an average attendance of about fifty. Mr. A. E. Wray, the headmaster, is assisted by Miss Mary Wharton.