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November 29, 1956

Some 100 dancers attended the first Chaffblowers Ball organised by South Notts Young Farmers' Clubs on Friday in the British Legion Hall at Radcliffe.
Mr Michael Heafford (25) of Newgate Farm, Bingham, won the handsome harvester competition.

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The old people's welfare section of the WVS hopes to start a meals on wheels service in Newark.
It will take hot main meals to housebound and frail invalid old people and those temporarily incapacitated by illness.

Asked to subsidise the service so that the meals could be sold for not more than a shilling, the town council has agreed to do so for an experimental period of a year, provided the total cost of the subsidy does not exceed £150.

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A gift of £1,000 from Sir Stuart Goodwin, president of Newark and District Agricultural Society, was reported at a meeting of the show council.
The secretary, Alderman H. J. Crocker, informed the members he had received a letter from Sir Stuart in which he offered £1,000 for improving facilities on the showground for next year's show.
 

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November 21, 1956

Petrol rationing from December 17 was announced last night - but it has already come to Newark. Hard hit by supply cuts because of its unique position at the junction of two trunk roads, Newark has already met 'No Petrol' notices.

But all garages are making special efforts to keep their regular customers supplied. "The difficulty is that in a place like Newark we get so many catch customers who come in and ask for huge supplies," said one director. "We try to give them a drop to get to the next place but some are stopping at pretty well every place on the road."

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The housing committee of Newark Town Council is expected to propose a sweeping rents plan which will mean big increases in the weekly payment by many tenants. But where the increases are biggest - up to about 15s a week - the council will cushion the blow.

It will arrange, it is understood, for the increases to be applied bit by bit, year by year. It may be several years before the tenants worst affected are paying the whole of the new rent. Generally those paying the lower rents at present face the biggest increases.

 

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November 14, 1956

In a weekend of world crisis Newarkers gave even more generously for their Haig Fund poppies this year. This year £669 8s 4d was raised from the sale of poppies in Newark and district.

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Part of the equipment of the now closed Barnby Road Hospital is to continue in hospital use in Newark.
A x-ray screen set which enables a doctor to see inside a patient without waiting for plates to be developed has been transferred to the chest clinic at Hawtonville Hospital.

Newark Hospital Committee was informed yesterday that the conversion of 38 London Road into two flats for doctors would be completed in the spring and that the understaffed children's ward at the General Hospital would be able to function normally from Monday when Sister Sheila Smith takes up her new duties.

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Newark borough is still ahead of all other councils in Nottinghamshire as a house-building authority. But latest Government figures indicate that its record has been achieved partly at the expense of private building.

Proportionately fewer private-enterprise houses have been built in Newark than anywhere else in Nottinghamshire. In contrast the three rural districts surrounding the borough have all encouraged private building to a remarkable extent.
 

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November 7, 1956

A closely fought battle between four noted riders - altogether there were 22 entries - was the chief feature of Newark Motor Cycle and Light Car Club's first sporting trial of the new season in Cafferata's pits on Sunday.

By a very narrow margin victory went to B. D. Codd who, riding a 197cc James, lost the highly creditable figure of only 23 marks in completing the eight circuits of the course.

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The first £1 premium bond to be sold at Southwell Post Office went to one of Southwell's oldest residents, Miss Harriett Maria Welch of Nottingham Road, who will be 94 on December 7.

Standing at the counter Miss Welch filled in her own application form with a pen lent to her by the acting postmaster, Mr S. Reid.

Saturday was the busiest day in Newark postal area of the sale of premium bonds. Sales that day amounted to £1,722. By yesterday more than £5,000-worth had been sold.

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The last patient in Barnby Road Hospital, Newark, will leave today and the hospital will close. It is expected that the hospital will be offered for sale by the Ministry of Health.

The Sheffield Regional Hospital Board decided six months ago to close Barnby Road Hospital because it was too small nowadays to function as an economic unit.