At the base of this sundial are four weathered and difficult to read faces describing how a community felt about William Geddes.
This memorial is place here by friends and admirers of William Geddes, J.P.. Born Scotland 1851, Died Waimate 1932. He found joy in service!
“The foothills empurpled in gleaming,
Mt Studholme in sunset aglow,
Waimate my heart turns while roaming,
To the best little town that I know”.
After seventy years experience, and a tour of the world, Mr Geddes, acclaimed Waimate, as “the best little town that I know.”
While this sundial measure the flight of time, it recorded that William Geddes, J.P. served Waimate in very many ways through long years, and notably as chairman of the Waimate Hospital Committee for seventeen years, and as a member of the S.C. Hospital Board.