EKETAHUNA NOTES.
(from Oar Own Correspondent.)
Eketahuna, Juno 6. The beautiful weather of last week ohanged on Friday night to intense cold, aocompanied at intervals wish a high wind and heavy showers of rain, which have continued ever since. The snow lying on the hills is as low 1 as we lwd it all last winter, and the general opinion is that we are going ' to have a very severe winter, Our township, which lias been at a standstill for some time past, seems to have taken a fresh lease of life, and we hear on all sides that things are brightening. The fine, large, commodious blacksmith and wheelwright's shop erected by Mr' T. 0. Williams for Messrs Kibblewhite and Dowdswell is now almost completed and is expeoted to be open to-morrow for business. Mr Jones has also hud one of his houses removed out to the street and is having extensive alterations and additions made to it. The building will .be in future used as a shop. Mr Aulin has removed to his new store, so altogether business seeds to be looking up in every Way, We only want a bank here now to make things go, This is a great drawback to the township, If the business people and settlers would only unite together I am sure enough support would be forthcoming!) fully repay a banking institution opening a branch! here, As it is at present wo are put to the inconvenience of going to Mas terton for anything; we want done . through the bank. Besides being > expensive, a half day at least is lost,
which is not alwajs convenient, The talk of the township at present is the forthcoming'Me Club's Ball, this being the Ball of the season. Every eOort is being put forth to make it as successful as the last. The
ladies especially are using every effort to make the tefreshment department a'success. I might here mention to the benefit of intending visitors from
Masterton that a train leaves Masterton at 5.80 p.m. on Friday evening for Eketahuna, leaving again at ( a.m. on Saturday morning. MiBS Batt, for over eighteen montbi
mistress in the public school here, left on Friday for a better position in the Hawke's Bay district. She was a general favourite amongst the children,, and will be greatly missed. Miss Batt's many friends here will wish her every success in her new home. Miss Wright, who has been appointed to succeed Miss Batt, arrived on Saturday, and will begin her new duties to-day. A meeting of Ohnroh office-bearers and Sunday School Teachers was held in the Ohnroh on Thursday evening last, when it was decided, owing to the increase in the attendance at the services and especially the growing demands of the Sunday School, to obtain a price for the extension of the Church by twelve feet,
A number of football enthusiasts
journeyed from here on Saturday to witness the second Cup match of the season played between Tutaekera' and Pahiatua; on the former's ground at Hawera, The game, which was played in very unpleasant weather, was ultimately won by Pahiatua by eight points to nil, A great number of accidents have occurred here lately. In some cases the poor unfortunates are put to a lot of needless pain and'trouble for the want of proper medical attention. Only on Friday last Mr B. Morris, of Parkville, met with a very unpleasant accident through his horse treading on his foot and crushing it badly and breaking one or two bones. He had to drive to Masterton before being properly attended to. A meeting was supposed to be called for one night last week to see what steps should bo taken to procure a a doctor, but oa it was not advertised I am afraid very low knew about it, and only three persons turned up, I for one did not know till the following day. I think as it is a matter which concerns the puhlio in general a good meeting would have been held if the thing had been made publicly known, I hope this matter will again be taken up, and instead of being confined to a certain section of the community, the whole public will be made aware that such a meeting is to be held.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4132, 7 June 1892, Page 2
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716EKETAHUNA NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4132, 7 June 1892, Page 2
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