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Swine fever is suspected among a number of pigs which passed through Newark market on Wednesday, August 2, and on the following Wednesday.
Ministry of Agriculture officials have the matter in hand and yesterday the Advertiser was told that two premises were under observation.
It is understood inquires are being made to see all the pigs in question have been traced.
Six of the pigs which were taken from the market to Kelham have died.
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Newarkers travelling to London by British Railways will find all-round improvements in the service when the winter timetables come into operation next month.
There will be a speeding-up of long-distance passenger trains, announces the Railways Executive, and other improvements include better washing facilities on trains, more buffet cars, the continuation of excursions, and increases in seat reservations.
Sir Eustace Missenden, chairman of the executive, introducing the new services, said that the timetables will come into effect on Monday, September 25th, and operate until June 17th, 1951.
A shop sale scene unprecedented locally for some time occurred in Stodman Street on Saturday, when Messrs Hunt and Co offered a big variety of goods at greatly reduced prices.
The first person in the queue arrived at 1.15am.
At 4am queueing was fairly fast, and long before opening time there was a large crowd collected, so that the shop door had to be opened at 7.45 instead of 9am.
Each of the first six customers received an electric iron free.
Ordinary customers wanting goods not in the sale were served with difficulty.
Such things as electric bed blankets, vacuum cleaners, electric fires and kettles, butter dishes and other tableware, fancy goods, etc, were quickly snapped up.
Practically everything of a sale description in the shop was sold out, states the manager, Mr G.W. Cobb, thus making way for a new stock of goods.
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The Ballroom and Council Chamber of the Town Hall were a riot of colour on Saturday, when the Newark and District Horticultural and Allotment Holders' summer show was held there.
It was opened by the Mayor (Ald.A.E.Whomsley).
In the Council Chamber were two other displays.
One was by Mr H. Stone, Southwell, and the other by Messrs Mackender and Son.
The entries, numbering nearly 400, were a good average, and the attendance was a record.
If the promoters were proud of the success of the show they had a right to be, and none more so than the Committee and the new hon secretary, Mr C. D. Maxon.
Congratulations were sent from Newark to Buckingham Palace yesterday following the happy announcement, at 1pm, that a princess had been born to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Town Clerk of Newark, Mr J. H. M. Greaves, sent a telegram on behalf of the Mayor, Alderman A. E. Whomsley, and the townspeople of Newark.
The news was received with much local jubilation. Bunting and flags were flown from many of the houses and buildings in the town, and some of the celebrations spilled into the streets.
It is a day that will long be remembered not only in the Newark but throughout the country.
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It would appear that a mistake was made when Newark's Elm Avenue sports ground was first mapped out since many spectators are staying away because of the seeming fact that if there is any wind or rain at all in Newark it blows across the ground with fierce determination.
An alternative layout has been suggested by a member of the committee, which has prompted considerable debate.
The idea is that the football pitch should be where the current practice games are played, to the right of the pavilion as you go through the main entrance.
The stand could then be erected on either side by what is now the covered accommodation.
The tenants of the converted Army Huts on the Bowbridge Road Camp are settling down to life in their new homes.
Transformed by Newark Housing Corporation, the huts have two bedrooms, a large living room with kitchen range, kitchen with deep sink, pantry, coal house and WC.
There are gardens back and front.
The huts present a pleasant interior, are lined and finished with cream paint.
Electric cookers can be installed.
The rent is 7/6d plus rates 2/3d.
The above Advertiser news photo show a section of the huts which were occupied at one time by the ATS.
On the right Mrs V. Pannell and her two sons who think the new home is "super."Her husband, Petty Officer Pannell, of the Fleet Air Arm, is at present in Malta.
On the left is Mrs C. J. Jarman, aged 72, who moved in from 33 Beech Avenue in order that her and her son and daughter-in-law and two children could have a home of their own after seven years.
"I am very satisfied"she says.
In the centre is a view of the living room and on the right another tenant who is very pleased with the accommodation.
Six West African managers for United Africa Co., a subsidiary concern of Unilever Brothers, arrived in Newark on Monday for a stay of five days.
In the evening they attended the meeting of the Town Council and were given a warm welcome by the Mayor (Ald. A.E. Whomsley, J.P.) Accompanying them at the Council meeting was Mr F.T. Bennitt, of the British Council.
The Mayor said they welcomed the visitors from Nigeria and the Gold Coast as their friends.
He understood that during their stay in Newark they were to see for themselves how the town was governed.
He hoped that when they returned to their own country it would be with a feeling that they had learned something and that the British system of government was capable of being followed with advantage in other countries.
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Horse lovers over a wide area visited Bassingham on Saturday for the village's sixth annual horse show and gymkhana, which is a leading attraction in the district.
Over £120 was given in cash prizes.
A field on Manor Farm was the venue, affording ample space for everything.
The weather was perfect, and the jumping and other features were watched by a large ringside crowd.
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Speaking at the Open Forum held in the Minster on Friday, the Provost said that four years of strenuous effort had not moved the Authorities to adequate efforts for coping with Southwell's littered streets.
From the official suggestions made regarding the 1952 Festival of Britain he quoted that those making arrangements were expected to carry out "some lasting contribution to the common good."
He would like to see a stone tablet erected to the effect that Southwell residents had, in that year, won the battle for unlittered streets.
