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The season of ploughing matches is upon us once again. It began locally on Saturday with the Collingham Farmers' Club's 99th match and horticultural show at Dale Field. The overnight rain was a good thing for the ploughmen as a better furrow could be turned.
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Mr Arthur Banks, the Newark-born dress designer, revisited his home town on Saturday, when he gave dress shows at the Technical College in the afternoon and evening. Three London mannequins accompanied him and modelled the dresses from his collection.
The most popular creation of the evening was suitable for a younger person and had a black gros grain full-length skirt with pale blue chiffon top, the shoulder line being finished with black ribbon velvet and pink roses.
The mayor, Mr Bernard Maule, said the evening had been educational and he assured Mr Banks that Newark was proud to claim as a son one who had reached the top of his profession.
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A delegation of German journalists have been in Newark over the weekend studying the people of a typical English country town at work and play.
On their arrival in Newark on Friday the six Germans were taken to their billets in the town and then conducted to the Hawtonville Junior and Mixed School and the County Technical College. In the evening they attended a meeting of the Professional and Business Women's Club at the college.
Saturday morning they spent looking round the town and the market; and the last hour before lunch they were shown Newark hospital, where they were greeted by the Matron, Miss Beamish. On Monday they watched work on this week's issue of the Advertiser.
The Notts Farm Institute at Brackenhurst, Southwell, was opened on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of farmers and other people. The institute occupies 267 acres, and Nottinghamshire County Council hopes in due course to enlarge the area to 400 acres.
The opening ceremony was performed by Mr G.A. Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture.
The institute will commence its one-year course in the practice and theory of agriculture next month. There will be 36 resident students from all parts of the country as well as Nottinghamshire men, including a number of farmer's sons.
The main subjects will be animal husbandry, crop husbandry and scientific subjects such as botany, biology and veterinary science.
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The large congregation at Newark Parish Church for the Battle of Britain memorial service on Sunday morning heard an exceptional sermon from the Rev F.S. Temple.
Mr Temple said that the Battle of Britain was one of the great turning points in Britain's history. But, like so many other great battles, the turning point was defensive. Today creative acts were needed to win the peace.
Before the service in church, the Mayor, Councillor B.L. Maule, attended a short service at the War Memorial.
Some 80 members of the RAF Association were present with a unit from the Syerston RAF station and members of Newark's ATC squadron. Wreaths were laid by the units on parade and by the mayor. Afterwards, buglers of the British Legion sounded the Last Post.
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"I suppose in no other place was the influence of Mrs Darwin felt more than here in this lively little parish church which she loved and cared for," said the Archdeacon of Newark, the Ven F.H. West in his address at the dedication of a Lady Altar in memory of Mrs Mary Dorothea Darwin in the church of All Saints, Elston, yesterday week. Mrs Darwin, formerly of Elston Hall, died in 1947.
The altar was subscribed for by Elston and other Diocesan branches of the Mothers Union, of which Mrs Darwin was diocesan president from 1919 to 1934, and by private donors.
During the next three weeks there is little prospect of the present acute milk shortage being relieved in the Newark district. No school milk was available for local children on Monday, and there is every possibility that school supplies may be cut again in the next few weeks.
Newark retailers state that it is impossible to maintain the individual adult ration of 21/2 pints a week, while Newark Co-operative Society, which normally can call on a weekly reserve of 6,700 gallons, is depending on day-to-day supplies.
Larger families, the schools, the cafes and works canteens must expect smaller than usual deliveries until the end of September.
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With the news that the end of this year is the probable start date for the production of electricity at Staythorpe Power Station, people at Newark and Southwell are saying: "How will Staythorpe affect us?"
A spokesman of the East Midland Electricity Division tells the Advertiser that for a start employment will be found for about 250 persons. Then gradually, as work on the construction of the second and third generating sets proceeds, that figure will rise to 600.
Already Newark Town Council have agreed to erect 100 council houses for Staythorpe employees, while over at Southwell RDC plans for additional housing schemes to meet their need are being prepared and already provision has been made for the erection of 60 houses in the Southwell area.
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The King has approved the appointment of the Rev Anthony Otter, Vicar of Lowdham and Gunthorpe, and honorary canon of Southwell Cathedral, to the Suffragan Bishopric of Grantham in succession to the late Rt Rev Algernon Augustus Markham.
Canon Otter has been at Lowdham since 1931. Until a few years ago he was chaplain of Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution.
Old Magnusian friends of Ronald Chalk, formerly of Long Bennington, will be interested to learn that he is now a film actor and takes the title role in the Gaumont-British documentary, David Livingstone. Mr Chalk was chosen for the part because of his striking resemblance to the explorer.
After leaving the Magnus School, he joined the regular army and during the war served as a major in the Royal Tank Regiment, winning the Military Cross in the Royal Tank Regiment. After leaving the Army he became transport manager in Africa for Gaumont-British, also taking part in crowd scenes.
He is 33 years of age, married and has a son and daughter. His mother, Mrs Chalk, of Church Street Long Bennington, has received copies of Johannesburg papers illustrating the production of the film.
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Although nine exchanges in the Newark postal area are now automatic, it is not expected that subscribers in Newark itself will be able to dial their calls until the latter part of the 1950s.
The luxury of a dial telephone and an automatic exchange have been made available to the country districts first because it has been found easier to convert the smaller exchanges.
To townspeople it may seem odd that small villages like East Stoke and Caunton are already automatic while Newark retains the old system of obtaining calls, but a Nottingham Post Office official explains that the plant needed for the change-over has a high exportable value. A site for a Newark exchange has been secured in Lombard Street.
Long Bennington is the latest village to have an automatic system. Others in the Newark district are Southwell, Farnsfield, Lowdham, Bleasby, Collingham, Caunton, East Stoke, Fenton, Claypole, Spalford, Sutton-on-Trent and Winthorpe.
