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December 27, 1905

The distribution of prizes for the Newark Company of Volunteers took place on Thursday night at Colour Sergeant Brownlow’s Duke of Cumberland Inn, the Drill Hall bring used for an auction sale the same evening.

There was a large attendance of non-commissioned officers and privates to chose their prizes.

Lieutenant Heron said that the Commanding Officer (Lieutenant-colonel G. S. Foljambe) wanted to know the number of men likely to be willing and able to go to camp for a fortnight next year.

Any man who would stay in a camp a fortnight would receive a sum to be fixed definitely later on, probably not less than £1; it might be more but not less.

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The inmates at the Union House and Infirmary Bowbridge Road celebrated the festival of Christmas in befitting manner on Christmas Day.

Quite gay and bright was the appearance of the wards and amply repaid the staff for the great trouble they had been at in their embellishment.

Festoons of flowers and foliage stretched from side to side of the wards and appropriate use of holly and berries was made at various prominent points.

There happens to be among the inmates a broken-down scenic artist and writer and his undoubted skill with the brush was largely laid under contribution.