Silverstream is a small township in the Fairlie riding of the Mackenzie county, distant seven miles from Fairlie, on the main road to Tekapo and Mount Cook. There is a small hotel to provide for the wants of travellers, but no church or store. A public school, with post and telephone office at the schoolmaster's residence, provides for the needs of settlers in these respects, and religious services are held in the school. The population of Silverstream was ninety-eight at the census of March, 1901.

The Silverstream Public School was established in 1884. It is of wood and iron, on concrete foundations, and contains a class room and a porch. Fifty children can be accommodated; there are forty-three on the roll, and the average attendance is thirty-six. The land attached is ten acres in extent, half of which was presented by Messrs Kemble and Buchanan, of the Three Springs estate.

Mr. George Merritt Pilkington. Master of Silverstream School, was born near Chicago, United States of America, in 1868. He was brought to the colony as a child by his parents, and had the charge of a small school at Rakaia for eleven years prior to his appointment to Silverstream in 1902. Mr. Pilkington was married, in 1893, to a daughter of Mr. Charles Hadfield, of Christchurch, and has three sons.

Adamson, Alexander, Farmer, Glencoe Farm, Silverstream. Mr. Adamson was born in 1872, at Washdyke, near Timaru, and attended school at Albury and Fairlie. He was brought up to farming, and for eleven years worked on the Allandale station. He then took up 277 acres of leasehold land at Albury, and worked it as a sheep and agricultural farm. In 1900 Mr. Adamson leased his present farm of 322 acres, upon which he runs a flock of 300 sheep and also crops about 100 acres. At one time he owned a butchery business at Fairlie in conjunction with his brother-in-law, Mr. Milne, but abandoned it after eighteen months. He has been a member of the Fairlie Oddfellows' Lodge since 1888, and is also a member of the Farmers' Union, and the Mackenzie Agricultural Society. Mr. Adamson was married, in 1898, to a daughter of Mr. James Milne, of Albury, and has one son and one daughter.

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Mr. and Mrs A. Adamson.