EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

OBITUARY MR ANDREW MORRIS. ("Times-Age” Special.) The death occurred at the residence of his sister, Mrs T. C. Denne, Waipukurau, on Sunday of Mr Andrew Morris, son of the late Mr J. Morris and Mrs A. Morris, of Eketahuna. The late Mr Morris, who has been in an indifferent state of health for a considerable time, was aged 53 years. The funeral took place in Waipukurau today. Personal Items. Mrs M. A. Felling is at present visiting Masterton. Mr and Mrs A. H. Wright are visitors to Lower Hutt. Mr and’Mrs Colin Dumbleton are the guests of the latter's parents, Mr and Mrs S. E. Warner, Hamua.; Aircraftsman C. H. Wilton, of Wigram Aerodrome, is on a visit to relatives in Eketahuna. Miss Phyllis Evans, Christchurch, is visiting her aunt, Mrs W. Evans. i Mr and Mrs L. Brown and and family, High Street, are spending a holiday at Gisborne. Miss G. Hooper (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs F. Hooper. Messrs H. Price and F. Hooper. Parkville, were visitors to Wellington for the Nev/ Year. Corporal B. Brown (Wellington) is visiting Eketahuna. Mrs Goggin, Senr., has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs Cole, Featherston. Miss R. Mitchell has returned to Eketahuna from a visit to Wellington. Miss N. McKittrick is the guest of Miss M. Ross, Rongokokako. Mr Pat. Monaghan, Newman, is confined to his room through illness. Miss A. Monaghan is paying a visit to relatives at Newman. Mr and Mrs W. Watts and Miss T. Watts spent the New Year holidays at Castlepoint. Misses Molly and Pat. O'Donnell, who spent the holidays with their mother, Mrs W. O’Donnell, Parkville, returned to Wairoa on Saturday. They were accompanied by Miss Esther O'Donnell who will stay with them for a few days. A CLOSE ASSOCIATION EKETAHUNA AND MASTERTON. THE OLD COACHING DAYS. There is a very close association between Eketahuna and Masterton. In the old coaching days the only means of contact with the part of the province south of Eketahuna was through Masterton per medium of coaches, the carriers of goods and the timber waggons, and ■ occasional buggy or horse trips. Forty to fifty years ago many former residents of Masterton took up their abode in Eketahuna and since then others have found in Eketahuna the ideal residential or business area. Bobby Dickson, who has been chiefly responsible for having made the W.F.C.A. there one of the most progressive and successful business houses in the Wellington province; Walter Hornblow, a popular bookseller, Simon O'Regan, one of the stalwarts of public life in Masterton in years gone by, Bert Pickering, a pillar in Fire Brigade circles in Masterton many years ago, and the genial Harry Greathead, to name but a few. An All Round Sportsman. Bill Iggulden, one of the finest all round sportsman the Wairarapa or Forty Mile Bush has seen, at one time resided in Eketahuna—over 40 years ago when he had a carrying business there. Bill is just on 80 years of age now and lives in Masterton. Son of one of the pioneer settlers of Port Nicholson, who was a well known draper in the early days, Bill was engaged as a carrier in Masterton, leaving to open a business in 1893 at Eketahuna. One of the original members of the Red Star Football Club’s senior team fifty years ago, Bill played many times for Wairarapa and holds a record in that he was over 42 years of age when he last played for Wairarapa. Very few players in the Dominion can claim such a distinction —Jim Moffitt (Wellington), Ned Hughes (Southland) and Ike Jenkins (Southland) being probably the nearest to that record. Bill was a good all round cricketer and at one time played for the Masterton Club and the Wairarapa, and was also a clever boxer as was his son Monty (also a noted Wairarapa footballer) and another son who lost his life in the Great War. Bill who has lived in Masterton for many years now, can sing a song as well today as he could fifty odd years ago when he was always eagerly sought i after to contribute items at football “smoke-ohs,” theatrical society entertainments and concerts. Warm Welcome Always Awaiting. Visitors to Eketahuna today are given as warm a welcome by the worthy Mayor (Mr W. Simpson) and the citizens generally as was the case in that period when Messrs Alex Anderson, Thomas Bayliss, Thomas Lewis, Frank Felling, Edward Richard Kibblewhite (a member of an old Masterton family), William M. Wilson, T. W. Sparks, Sim Marenzi, Francis Turnor, Walter Steer. James Jones, C. Reeve, Hugh Andrew Kelso. Ernest C. Bremmuhl and Dr Murray Aynsley, were well known residents of the town. A daughter of Mr Bremmuhl, a Mrs Burton, lived in Masterton for many years prior to leaving some months ago to reside in Wanganui. Mr Bremmuhl was well known in Masterton where members of his family lived from time to time. In his day he kept a restaurant in Eketahuna and was a baker and grocer. There were two other bakers in Eketahuna then. George Peterson, and Thomas Gilman Hunter, the latter a brother of the late Mr Peter Hunter, for a long period of years a baker in Masterton, and a daughter of whom, Mrs R. W. Ferris. ' still lives in Masterton.