Christchurch First To Offer A Better View – 1905
When Waimate born George Edgar Sevicke Jones returned to Canterbury to live in 1905, he had his eyes set firmly on his future career as an Optician in Christchurch. He opened his first office on Hereford Street. From proud settler stock, Jones’ parents had arrived aboard the ‘Strathallan’, Timaru’s first immigrant ship in 1859. As …
