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Applicants for council houses with only a small number of points may soon find they have been allocated a new home.
The Housing Committee feel there are some people who have a claim to a house because they have been on the waiting list for a long time. The new category tenants are described as "long standing applicants."
Newark Town Council decided to adopt the two-stream policy of house allocation when they met on Monday night.
The points system of allocation will continue, and not more than one-fifth of all new permanent houses will be earmarked for allocation to long-standing cases.
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The 18th annual meeting of Newark Egg Packers Ltd. was held on Wednesday at 14 Millgate, Newark, when Mr W.T. Dyke, the chairman and managing director, reported: "Sales for the year amount to a total of £1,269,132, which is a new high figure for the company.
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A petition from 109 market traders and stallholders stating that they do not wish the cobbles to stay in the Market Place and would very much like to see them covered up was mentioned at Monday's meeting of the Town Council.
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When the Bishop of Grantham, the Rt. Rev. A. Otter, formerly Vicar of Lowdham, is inducted as incumbent of Stoke Rochford on Friday busloads of his former parishioners will attend the service.
The bishop preached his farewell sermon at Lowdham Church on Sunday night. Parishioners from Gunthorpe and Caythorpe were present at the service.
Southwell Minster Grammar School Speech Day headmaster Mr B.J. Rushby-Smith appealed at yesterday's speech day for support to help the school in its fight for recognition under the new educational act.
The prizes were presented by Alderman Matthew Holland, chairman of the county education committee.
The Bishop (Dr F.R. Barry), who presided, said one of the significant things of our time was the revival of interest in the concern for education in this country.
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Shoppers are not the only people who queue in Newark market. The local trade centre is so congested that the Corporation now has 93 would-be stallholders on the waiting list.
Salesmen travel regularly from as far afield as Leicester and Sheffield on the off-chance of securing a vacant pitch, but usually they are disappointed.
There are 134 tenants in the cobbled Newark square and demand is so great that it is impossible to give priority of space to local traders who would like a stall.
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A high standard of quality was to be found in the exhibits at the Newark and District Horticultural and Allotment Holders' autumn show, opened by the mayor, Coun. B.L. Maule, in the Town Hall on Saturday.
The show was primarily one of chrysanthemums, and the blooms made a fine array of natural beauty and colour.
It was no easy job for the judges, experienced as they were, to label one particular bloom among so many practically perfect specimens as the choicest and champion of them. This honour they fixed upon Mr L. Goodwin's Red Majestic.
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The work of adaptation of the house in Millgate as a British Red Cross Home for Old People is now in progress. It is hoped this information may relieve the minds of the many applicants who have been so long on the waiting list for the Home.
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The incumbents and churchwardens of both North and South Collingham cease to be the owners this month of the schools bequeathed to them.
Under the new Education Act the ownership of all schools no longer used as full-time church schools passes to the Diocesan Board of Finance. The schools must in future be rented for any parochial acitivites.
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Recruiting for the newly-formed Civil Defence Corps commences in Newark today. Enrolment will take place at the Municipal Offices in Baldertongate.
Both men and women are required as volunteers.
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Highlight of the annual dinner of Newark Bowling Club held in the Robin Hood Hotel on Monday, was the handing over to two Newark bowlers, Mr J. H. Smith and Mr E. Robb, of the Notts English Bowling Association's doubles trophy.
The president, Mr J.J. Donaghy, said that to win the trophy they had defeated a Nottingham pair 38-9.
Earl Haig's Poppy Day collection took place in Newark and the surrounding village on Saturday and the final figures show a total collection of £478.1s. The amount collected last year was £656.17s.10d.
This reduced collection is disappointing to all who worked so hard for the cause, particularly the ladies who stood in the pouring rain selling the poppies. The reduction in the amount collected is due solely to the atrocious weather because the collection from the firms is comparable with last year.
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Mr Sidney Shephard, MP for Newark, asked Mr A. Bevan, Minister of Health, if he was aware that children in Newark were waiting for periods of over nine months to have their tonsils removed and what steps he was going to take.
Mr Bevan's reply was: "Here, as elsewhere, tonsillectomies have been postponed while poliomyelitis is prevalent. They will be resumed when it is desirable to do so."
NB: Poliomyelitis - Infantile Paralysis.
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The first birthday party of the Newark branch of the Women's Gas Council was held in the Technical College yesterday week, when over 100 members and friends attended.
The mayor, Coun. B.L. Maule, and the mayoress were among the guests. Mrs D.M. Bowen presided and the Newark Women's Co-op Guild, Balderton WI, Farndon WI and the Business and Professional Women's Club were represented.
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There was one knock-out in the boxing contest between Farndon Boys' Club and the Rest of Notts, organised by the Newark branch of the RAFA in Ransome and Marles works canteen, Newark, on Saturday.
D. Stone of Farndon floored Salteil of Grantham Boys' Club in the second round. The verdicts of four of the evening's 11 fights went in favour of the Farndon boxers. Mr Gerry Fell of Farndon was the announcer.
So great was the queue for admission at the Sconce Hills fireworks display on Friday evening - at one time it stretched to Spring Gardens - that it became evident the pay boxes could not cope with all intending spectators in time for them to see the show.
The Mayor, Coun B. L. Maule gave permission for the gates to be thrown open.
The fireworks display, staged by Messrs Pain, included a number of set pieces: a walking monkey, two cats on a roof-top and the man on the trapeze.
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The village of Farnsfield has been provided with a magnificent new Youth Centre thanks to the interest of the Vicar of Farnsfield, the Rev A. M. Catley and the munificence of a Sheffield industrialist, Mr Stuart C. Goodwin, who lives at Hexgreave Park, Farnsfield,
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Fourteen miles from Newark on the main Gainsborough road is the quiet village of Newton-on-Trent.
Newton has a grey towered church, a post office, one shop and two public houses, but it is no ordinary village. Half a mile from the main street there is a nudist camp.
The camp was founded by a Newark engineer, seventy-two years old Mr J. P. Wilford of Harcourt Street, Newark.
