EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 9

EKETAHUNA

CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND TO BE OPENED' ON SATURDAY. (“Times-Age” Special.) The official opening of the Eketahuna Children’s Centennial Playground will be held in conjunction with the opening of the Eketahuna Swimming Club at the baths on Saturday next, at 2.45 p.m. The swimming sports will commence at 2 p.m. Farewell to Soldiers. The residents of Rongomai have decided to accord a fitting farewell to local residents who have joined the special military force and the first three of them who are on final leave are to be tendered a social in the Rongomai School on Wednesday, December 20. •The young men are Messrs O. Evans, I. Fulton and K. Gustofsen, and the warmth of feeling towards them will be in full evidence on this occasion. Flying-Officer Gray. It is interesting to note that FlyingOfficer Kenneth Gray, referred to recently in cable news as the “Gisborne Schoolmaster,” after his amazing feat of airmanship, was once a resident of Eketahuna. his father, Mr R. Leonard Gray being the first .engineer to the Tararua Power Board in Eketahuna. Flying-Officer Gray will be remembered as one of twins, small slim boys always dressed in light grey shirts and shorts. They attended the Eketahuna school and were so alike they could hardly be told apart.