Local and General.

Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 14 September 1938, Page 4

Local and General.

A Final Reminder A final reminder is given dancing enthusiasts of the fancy dress ball, arranged by the Pukekohe .Tunior National League, to be held in the Masonic hall tonight. A Correction. The reference attributed to Bro. Bolwell of Boskill in Monday’s, Times, “That Die legislation governing the Social Security Scheme would adversely affect the friendly societies and that members of the order of Druids would soon be paying their fees in at the post office,” was made by the president of number 23 district, Bro. Pavis, and not by Bro. Bolwell as stated in the report.

Promising Tennis Players

“In Miss Betty Potter you have a most promising junior player and one vlio will make her mark in the tennis world,” said the president of the 'uckland Lawn Tennis Association, Mr Spencer Lamb, at the annual meeting of the Franklin Association last evening yp. Lamb also referred to Frankli, ’ S performance in again winning the Spalding cup. “In Messrs K. Clark, .7. Aitkenhead, I. C. Bayly and R. bad(Ueton your association has some promising young players,” he added. Mr L.-imb also congratulatedJhe association on the work it was doing to foster the game of tennis in the district. Sovereigns Over £2. Sydney banks paid £2 is 4d for sovereigns on September 1. This is the highest price paid for the coin since May 10, 1935. In sympathy with the rising price of gold, sovereign quotations have been rising gradually for several months, although t'-ere are no indications yet that the record quotation of £2 3s made on March 7, 1935, will be reached. A thousand sovereigns were worth only £]oof) nine years ago. On the first of this month they could have been sold for nearly £2IOO in Australian money. Bull Realises 51 Guineas.

The Franklin' Jersey Breeders’ Club conducted its 19th annual bull sale at Fukekohe yesterday. . Out of a catalogue .of 131 hulls a number were withdrawn from sale, several passed ia and 98 sold at an average of just over 14 guineas. Top price was realised by Messrs J. H. Sherrard and Sons of Otaua, for the five-year-old 1-, ii, Brookfield’s Bonser Light, a show animal which had been exhibited five times for one championship, three firsts, one second and one third. This prize beast was purchased by Mr A. L. Jones of Pukelcawa for bi guineas. Bidding, which was very spirited at times, dragged somewhat toward the end of the sale when quite a number of yearling bulls were passed in. IWeasles in Hawke’s Bay.

Although the measles and influenza epidemic appears to be abating in the Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and districts, it is reported thhjt the epidemic is still being severely felt in the Central Hawke’s Bay area. The attendances of country schools in the district have been considerably affected, asNmany as 30 per cent of the children bei% absent from schools, while, among adults, the staffs of business concerns much depleted. There is at present a larger number of patients in the Waipukurau Hospital than at any time since the 1931 earthquake, while the number of patients in Pukeora Sanatorium is the largest since the /Great War period.