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Delegates in England for the World Power Conference visited Staythorpe Power Station, on Wednesday, when there were some witty observations by Professor T.K. Nordensson, of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Replying to the welcome by Mr W.S. Burge, divisional controller East Midlands Electricity Authority, Professor Nordensson remarked that they had visited many factories in England.
"Today we are visiting a factory where you make something which is very elusive, which you cannot see, but which you realise can be very substantial when you get your bills."
By the time they visited England again it was probable that nuclear generation would have started, and there would be no chimneys "except for decorative purposes."
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Her Majesty the Queen passed through Newark Eastern Station at the conclusion of her visit to Mansfield and Welbeck yesterday.
Her Majesty opened the Portland Training College for the Disabled and also visited Harlow Wood Hospital.
The Mayor of Newark (Ald. A.E. Whomsley J.P.) who was present at the Mansfield ceremony, was on duty in the signalbox when the train went through at 5.15pm.
The Queen was welcomed at the entrance of the college by Winfred Duchess of Portland,the Duke and Duchess of Portland and Lord Morven Cavendish-Bentick.
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Delegates from 28 countries will attend the international Girl Guide Camp fire rally to be held at Oxford on Saturday.
There will be 10,000 Guides present, and the highlight will be the handing to HRH Princess Margaret of the Scrolls of Friendship.
These four scrolls are passing all over the British Isles.
Sunday was the great day for Newark Division, for it was then, on the Sconce Hills, that the scroll was brought by car from the Bingham Division
MSuccessful tests of the second generating set and boilers at Staythorpe Power Station have recently been made and today the output of the new set is expected to go into commercial load.
This means that the whole of the plant in the first of the three blocks of buildings to be built is now working and giving its output to the nation's supply of electricity.
Each of the two sets now working has a capacity of 60,000kw.
The remaining four sets will be of like capacity giving the station a total output of 360,000kw.
In the meantime a new type of steel pylon is being erected from the power station to a point near Sheffield.
The pylons are of a new design and are the first of the kind seen in this country.
Some of them are as much as a quarter of a mile apart.
They form part of what is known as the super grid system, and all carry current of 275,000 volts, which is something previously unknown in Britain.
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The first session of the Nottinghamshire Farm Institute, Brackenhurst, Southwell, which opened last October, was officially ended on Thursday, when the institute had its first speech day.
Certificates were presented to successful students by Dr T. Loveday, chairman of the joint advisory committee on agricultural education.
The first session had started in October, he said, with 36 students, 18 of whom were ex-Servicemen.
The object was to provide a year's residential course for those wishing to take up agriculture.
There was just one qualification - intending students had to spend one year on a farm before they could be admitted.
That, said Alderman Taylor, was to make sure that they knew what they could expect when they started farm work in earnest.
Many parents and friends assembled on the High School fields on Thursday to enjoy the eagerly awaited Children's Folk Dance festival.
It was organised by a committee of the local group of Folk Dance and Song Society, of which Mrs K.A. Quibell is chairman, helped by teachers of the schools taking part.
Nearly 300 children were dancing.
The programme was varied and included both English and European Folk Dances.
Throughout the evening the dancing reached a high standard and two demonstrations were enjoyed, one of Maypole Dancing by the children of Hawtonville Infant School and in contrast two Morris Jigs danced by teacher Mr Newall.
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Southwell Theatre Club has now been officially launched and plans are already in hand to stage plays during the 1950-51 season. Miss Flora Robson has promised to be president of the theatre club.
The first definite dates for a show are October 19 to 21 when the club will give Message for Margaret by James Parish.
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There will be an extraordinary general meeting of Newark and District Amateur Football League tonight to go into the question of alterations to rules.
Rule nine took a lot of punishment at the end of the season when cancellations piled up and made for considerable fixture congestion, making it obvious that something had to be done.
The village school of Averham celebrates the 100th anniversary of its opening on Friday.
This typical village school was built in 1850 by the squire Mr J. H. Manners Sutton who lived at Kelham Hall. His family was long associated with the village and the Archbishop of Canterbury of that name in the early part of the 19th Century and was at one time rector of Averham.
To commemorate the centenary an illustrated souvenir booklet has been issued showing a typical day at the school.
A holiday has been granted for the school on Friday, and there will be games and sports followed by tea for the present scholars.
In the evening there will be a gathering for old scholars, villagers and others interested in the school.
There will be a service of thanksgiving and dedication at Averham church, at which the Bishop of Southwell will preach and the director of education will read the lesson.
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To mark his retirement from the office of Town Clerk after 32 years, Colonel H. Tallents was presented with a silver salver at the town council meeting this week.
The Mayor said that the pleasure it gave him to make the presentation was tinged with regret that they were not only parting with the town clerk, but an old friend.
It was unique that a Tallents family member had been on the town council every year for nearly 200 years.
