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May 28, 1958

This Advertiser newsphoto records a moment of history as Newark's first woman Mayor, Mrs K.A. Quibell, installs her successor, councillor Miss D.V.A. Baker, watched by the Town Clerk, Mr J.H.M. Greaves.

Workers at Ransome and Marles attending their Sports and Social Club gala day at Elm Avenue, Newark, on Whit Monday had a musical accompaniment to their afternoon's pleasure. But it was not their own work's band. They were booked a year ago to play at Alton Towers.

Providing the music on Monday was a military band - the band of the South Notts Hussars Yeomanry.
But the military musicians were just two features of the crowded programme of entertainment for young and old alike.

Newark district breeders scored many successes at the 11th annual Woodhall Spa Agricultural Show on Monday, and several animals that began their season by winning at Newark Show repeated their successes.

In the British Friesian classes, J. Hollingworth and Sons, of Coddington, won the breed championship with the cow, Terling Total Eclipse, and collected nine other awards winning three of the six classes. They tied with Lincoln Co-operative Society for the challenge cup for the most points in agricultural classes.

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May 7, 1958

Concern about the way children under school age are allowed by their parents to play in the streets on Newark's new housing estates was expressed by Mr T.W. Chesmond, a bus driver, at Monday's meeting of Newark road safety committee.

"It is the moral obligation of parents to see that their children have somewhere to play in their own gardens," said Mr Chesmond.
"They find use of their gardens for growing flowers, and I think they should make some provision for a play space so that the children are not thrown on the streets."

Mr A.S. Otter offered to raise the matter at a meeting of local school teachers with a view to reaching parents through parent teacher associations.

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After 13 years of work, the Gunthorpe village hall committee will see the culmination of its efforts when a new £3,729 hall is officially opened.

The site for the hall, in Davids Lane, was purchased in 1948. It includes nearly six acres of playing field space. Building of the hall itself - the first public meeting place Gunthorpe has ever had apart from a schoolroom - began six years ago.

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Forty two objections have been lodged about footpaths in the Southwell area, says the annual report of the Nottinghamshire Footpath Preservation Society.

The Southwell rural district has the highest footpath mileage of any of the seven areas into which the county is divided. Its 617 footpaths measure a total of 335 miles.