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The Guidhall Street School strike is now in its second week. Attendance figures yesterday showed that the number of strikers has dropped by one, from 39 to 38.
The strike, which began on Monday of last week, has been organised by parents living in the Hawtonville area who feel that their children have been directed to a school too far away from their homes.
They say the boys and girls have to cross dangerous main roads to reach their school in Guildhall Street.
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With the installation of new plant, Kelham Sugar Factory is prepared to play its full part in the new "beet campaign" which opens next month.
During the coming season the factory will employ 300 men to cope with the work and if necessary Irishmen will be brought to the factory to supplement the local labour force.
Kelham is the first factory in the country to install a high-speed centrifugal machine to carry out the final purifying process of drying and "curing" the sugar.
On August 3rd, Sir Alan Saunders, the Corporation's new chairman, took up his appointment, and it is hoped that he will visit the Kelham factory sometime during the campaign.
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Rugby posts will be erected on Ransome and Marles' Elm Avenue football ground in October, when Newark will be the venue for an inter-county Rugby match.
The match, between Warwickshire and the Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire XV, is the first inter-county Rugby game ever to be staged in Newark.
The game has been arranged for Thursday, October 13th, and Warwickshire Rugby Union officials have agreed that the encounter be played on a pitch 100 yards long. This is 10 yards shorter than the normal pitch.
Newark Rugby Club have formed a sub-committee to assist the Three Counties' officials with the staging of the game, which should prove a great attraction for sports fans in Newark.
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Mr Terence Longdon, the Newark actor, will be playing his most important West End date so far when he appears in "Treasure Hunt," a new comedy at the Apollo Theatre on September 14th.
There are some distinguished players in the cast including Miss Sybil Thorndike, Miss Marie Lohr, Mr Lewis Casson, Mr Alan Webb, Miss Irene Brown and Miss Sandra Dawn. The play, is directed by Mr John Gielgud.
The future of television in Newark is assured. Both yesterday and on Monday the test signal from Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham was received in the town on a standard receiver.
An Advertiser reporter saw Mr E.E. Butt of Messrs L.G. Lathbury, Newark radio dealers, yesterday, and later watched the signal appear on a television screen.
Although Newark is officially just outside the receiving range of the new station Mr Butt is now fully confident that the new station will be able to serve to Newark area.
For some months a number of television owners in the Newark district have been receiving programmes from the Alexandra Palace in London.
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A school where every pupil is a new boy or a new girl began its winter term at Newark on Monday. The pupils - 268 of them - are founder members of the Sconce Hills County Secondary School.
Although lessons have now begun, the official opening of the building will not take place until October 8th. Built in conjunction with the County Education Authority's Development Plan, the school will cost more than £120,000.
The school is being built in four phases. The completed project will include an assembly hall and stage, a dining hall, a library and a gymnasium. Four hundred and fifty pupils will then be accommodated.
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Thirty-nine Newark schoolchildren have been kept at home on strike by their parents in connection with the Guildhall Street School controversy.
The strike has been organised by parents living in the Hawtonville area, who feel that their children have been directed to the wrong school in that the distance to and from home involves the children crossing dangerous roads.
Mr George Seymour, a Newark dredgerman, was working with his crew on board their 70-year-old dredger on the Trent between Hoveringham and Caythorpe when they hauled up a 250lb bomb. The bomb was wedged in one of the dredging buckets.
Mr Seymour rowed across the river to the Hoveringham bank to inform the police. An officer, warrant officer and several men from the bomb disposal squad, went aboard the dredger to examine the missile.
As the nearest phone was at the Old Elm Tree Hotel, the officer went there to make his report. He met the landlord's son-in-law, Mr Charles Lawton, who had spent nine years in the RAF. Mr Lawton was a Flight Sergeant Fitter Armourer and was familiar with all types of British bombs. The bomb was declared harmless.
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With their luggage labelled "Switzerland" and spiked climbing footwear in their equipment, a party of Newark and Collingham Girl Guide Officers and Rangers left Newark Eastern Railway Station yesterday on the first overseas holiday organised by Newark and District Girl Guides Association.
Their destination is Wilderswil, an Alpine village in the Bernese Oberland, where they will spend eight days during which they hope to pay a visit to the International Guides' Chalet at Adelboden. Miss M.T. Nicholson, of Collingham, captain of the 3rd Newark Rangers, is in charge of the party of eight.
The Newark Preparatory School, Highfields, has been granted by the Ministry of Education the status of a school recognised as fully efficient. Thus the first milestone in the history of the school has been reached.
The school was founded early in 1945 as an Independent primary school by a group of parents who felt the need for such a school in Newark to fill the gap caused by the closing of the kindergarten department of the Newark High School.
After much searching, temporary accommodation was secured but such was the interest shown in the school that by September 1945 more suitable premises had to be sought. The estate of Highfields was acquired after release by the military.
The remarkable growth of the 'Red and Grey' school can be seen from the fact that in March 1945 there were 20 children while at the end of last term, four years later, that number has increased to 130.
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A crowd of over 6,000 attended at the first of a series of annual sports meetings and carnival band contests on Walesby Lane Sports Ground, Ollerton, on Saturday.
The bands paraded round the streets of Ollerton. Those taking part were Newark Cameronian Juveniles, Ilson Middies and Derby Serenaders. They were accompanied on their parade by the beauty queen of the Newark Division and her retinue in an open top car. She was a Bilsthorpe mother, Mrs Dorothy Morley, and her six-year-old daughter Wendy was one of the train bearers.
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Newark is the first stopping place of Mr and Mrs W.F. Paul, of Sydney, Australia, in their trip around the world. They have come here to stay for a while with Mrs J.W. Draper, their niece and her husband, of Charles Street. It is the first time they have returned to this country in 42 years.
Since arriving in Newark, on Saturday week, they have heard a great deal concerning the food parcels which Australians send to this country for aged and needy people and have met many of those who have already received some of these much appreciated gifts. Moreover they have had the opportunity of learning about the work of the W.V.S. in distributing the parcels.
The Scouts and Senior Scouts of the 5th Newark Group held their annual summer camp during the Newark holiday week at Auchengillan, the Glasgow Boy Scouts Association camp site in Stirlingshire. The Newark boys received a wonderful welcome from the camp warden and the Scottish Scouts, and took part in several camp fire sing-songs.
On the Monday the troop went by bus to Rowardennan, from where they climbed the summit of Ben Lomond. They returned down Loch Lomond by steamer to Balloch, where the bus was waiting to take them back to camp. At a highland gathering at Luss, near Loch Lomond, the Scouts saw highland games, bagpipe competitions and highland dancing.
The campers returned home on Sunday after an enjoyable week and very proud of the excellent camp report they received from the visiting commissioner.
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A silver mine is being worked at Hawton in connection with the church. This is the result of a suggestion made by Mrs C.E. Parlby, who opened the church garden fete.
She offered to each child a silver shilling, with which they were to buy something to make something with, sell it and so make the money multiply in aid of the church heating funds.
There were numerous competitions, bowling for a pig and a produce stall, all of which were well patronised. Later there was a dance in the village hall.
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In view of the difficulties of this dry summer, there was no complaint about the standard of the exhibits at the Southwell and District Produce Association's flower show, held at Trebeck Hall on Bank Holiday Monday.
The flowers in competition were a lovely sight to behold, and the general display was heightened by the fine display at one end of the hall made by Mr H. Stone, which, arranged at short notice, was a credit to him.
There were the usual outdoor attractions on Lowe's Wong, which included a gymnastic display, a boxing exhibition and a weight-lifting demonstration.
There were children's sports, and an excellent programme of music was discoursed by the Southwell Brass Band under Mr G. Hempsall.
