EKETAHUNA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 4 July 1906, Page 6

EKETAHUNA NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent). EKETAHUNA, Tuesday. A meeting of those interested in forming Eketahun into a borough is to be leid to-mnrrow Wednesday) evening. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., is to be present. At the monthly meeting of the Eketahuna School Committee it was unanimously decided to join the Wairarapa Sobool Committees Association, and Messrs A. Magnuson andß. G. Vile were appointed delegates. An application from Mr G. R. Irvine, of Masterton, for the use of a room in wbioh to hold weekly drawing classes was granted. Grand [reparations are being made for the military ball to be held at Eketahuna on Thursday, and it is fully expected that there will be a record attendance. The weather of late has been very wet, and tnere are no indications of any obange. Tbe Parkvilie streets, where improvements are being oarried out, are in a very bad state, and remind one of twenty years ago, when ic is recorded that whole teams were seen to disappear in the mud. There is some talk of the Eketahuna Sobool Committee applying to the Education Department to have a High Sobool established here. Eketahuna, being the central township in the Forty-Mile Bush, is juat the plaoe, so the agitators aver, for such a school.