EKETAHUNA
COLD WEATHER STOCK MAY SUFFER. (“Times-Age” Special.) Cold, wet weather, typical of midwinter, has been experienced in Eketahuna during the past two days, and stock in exposed areas are suffering considerable discomfort. It is feared that if the present meteorological conditions continue much longer there will be a considerable number of deaths among weak sheep. Roads and Footpaths. The operations of the borough staff in repairing those streets requiring attention have resulted in a considerable improvement in their appearance. The council has a good staff thoroughly experienced in road and footpath work and generally speaking the streets of the Borough compare favourably with those in other centres. The Dairy Season. The end of the dairy season is in sight and generally speaking there has been little to complain of. Many farmers consider it to have been one of the best years experienced' for some time. Farmers who have had their herds tested are, of course, reaping the greatest benefit because of the elimination of the “robber” and the "boarder” cow from their herds. Sport in the District. Sport in the district will be practically “dead” this season owing to so many of the young men being in the military forces. On present appearances it will be some time before Eketahuna will take its stand again among the chief sports bodies of the Wairarapa. The days when Eketahuna football and cricket teams were equal to any in the Wairarapa appear to have gone. No longer are Eketahuna cricket and football teams to be seen competing with the best in the Wairarapa and Forty Mile Bush. Local sports, however, are not downhearted, but are looking forward to the day when Eketahuna will have a cricket eleven equal to the best in the Wairarapa, as was the case away back in 1004-5 when Eketahuna tied with Carlton B for the Wairarapa senior championship; and when Eketahuna could give the Albion football seniors, of Masterton, which contained in its ranks All Blacks Joe O'Leary, Charlie Gillespie and Edgar Wrigley, the “fright of their lives” in the Wairarapa Thursday Rugby Union’s competitions some 38 years ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 7
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352EKETAHUNA Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 7
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