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Last weekend in Newark was of military importance.
It ended with Sunday morning's memorial service in the Parish Church for the officers and men of the 8th battalion the Sherwood Foresters who lost their lives in the two world wars.
On Saturday evening, 32 past and present officers of the 8th battalion attended a reunion dinner at the Town Hall.
The dinner was the first held there since before the last world war.
Brigadier P. N.White, Colonel of the regiment, and assistant director of the Territorial Army, was present at both social functions, and attended the memorial service, after which he addressed the battalion and others on parade and made presentations of the medals.
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The first overs of the 1950 cricket season will be bowled on Saturday.
Net practice has been in process for the past fortnight, but now is the time for the real thing.
The Kelham Road ground is reported to be in good condition, and Newark Cricket Club are set for their first games.
Last season's players will all be available and a number of new faces will appear, including P. H. Kent, a fast bowler, who formerly assisted the club.
The first XI will be led by J. A. Rowbottom.
The proceeds of one of the Advertiser Tests - Newark CC versus a district XI - will be allotted to the National Playing Fields' Association.
Barnbygate Methodist Church, Newark, had a re-opening on Thursday following the complete redecoration.
The Chapel Steward and Treasurer Mr A. Chapman, while unable to state the exact cost of the work said, he thought it would amount to £1,900 and that £1,280 had already been disbursed.
A service in the afternoon was followed by tea, and then there was a musical interlude, with organ items by Mr Roy Sheldrake and Mr A. Sheldrake, and solos by Mr Stanley Noble. In the evening a public meeting was presided over by Mr F. Winter, and addressed by the Rev William Wallace of Sheffield.
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When the Stirling Castle sails from Southampton for Cape Town, South Africa, three weeks tomorrow a Ransome and Marles department worker, Miss Florence May Shaw, of Acacia Road, Balderton, will be setting out on a journey which will end in a reunion with a brother she has not seen for 34 years.
Miss Shaw, who teaches at St Giles' Sunday School in the junior department and lives with her nephew, and his wife, Mr and Mrs John Johnson, is to stay for a few months with her younger brother Mr Harry White (59) a great war ex-serviceman who was badly wounded when his ship was blown up in the Dardanelles action, was invalided out, and remained in South Africa.
The Newark Borough Confirming Authority met on Thursday and granted a licence and a provisional order which were approved recently at a meeting of the Licensing Justices.
Mr J. B. Norman (Messrs. Larken and Co.) applied for confirmation of the grant of a provisional order for the removal of the licence of the Boar's Head, Middlegate, owned by Messrs James Hole and Co to a site on Winthorpe Road.
On Winthorpe Road a large number of houses had recently been built but the area was not served at present, the nearest public house being the Bridge Inn, Lincoln Road.
The new Boar's Head, he went on, would be of an up-to-date character.
There would be a bowling green and a garden where visitors might sit.
Mr Norman said they had the necessary permissions except the building licence.
As soon as that licence could be obtained they could proceed with the work.
The application was then granted.
Jimmie Mitchell, of Farrar B.W. club, was top-of-the-bill at two table tennis performances in Newark last week.
On Wednesday he won a vital game against Nottingham, which gave Newark the championship of the North Midland League.
The following night he became singles champion of the town after John Maul had taken him to five games.
Mr R.W.O. Birkbeck, the circulation manager of The News Chronicle, was the guest of honour at the annual dance of the Newark branch of the National Federation of Newspapers, Stationers and Booksellers on Wednesday.
He expressed the view that national daily newspapers would never reach their pre-war size.
He was afraid there might be another shortage of newsprint in May, June and July with a possible reduction to six pages again.
He believed the paper of the future, three, four or five years from now, would settle down to an average of 12 pages.
Mr M. Tierney, Daily Telegraph representative, said his colleagues always talked about the Newark do for a long time afterwards and were glad to be associated with it.
The function, attended by some 150 guests, was held in the town hall.
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The information that it is hoped the official opening of the Power Station at Staythorpe will take place about a year hence was given to the Mayor (Councillor B. L. Maule) and other members of Newark Corporation during their visit to the new plant, England's most up-to-date power station, on Thursday afternoon.
When it is in full operation the new power station will take more than one colliery to supply it with all the coal it needs - some 5,000 tons daily.
