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Three records were broken and one equalled at the Magnus Grammar School's annual sports on Saturday.
There was keen competition for the senior victor ludorum, and the honour went to S. Sheldrake of Bromhead House, who won the 100 yards open, the long jump, the 220 yards open, and was placed second in the 440 yards.
R.L. Streets, also of Bromhead, was junior victor ludorum.
Streets broke the school record for the half-mile under 14 years on Friday, and S. Collier set up a new record for the under 15 hurdles on Saturday. M. Dethick beat the record for the half-mile under 15 years, and Wharburton House broke last year's relay sprint record. The 100 yards under 15 record was equalled by Stranger.
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The many prizes won in the slogan competition for school children organised in connection with Safety Week by the Newark Road Safety Council, were presented to the winners by the Mayor prior to Monday's meeting of the Town Council.
Senior winners were first (equal): Rita White (11) Barnby Road County School: ÒWhere it says 'Halt' on Barnby Gate don't cycle on and meet your fateÓ; and Darcy Reginald Noutch (13) Barnby Road County School: ÒAt the top of Newton Street, use first your head and then your feet.Ó Junior first prize winner was Helen de Vos (10) Barnby Road County School. They received book tokens.
Another Mothering Sunday has come and gone, violets have been presented to mothers old and young by proud children, and the requisite amount of surprise has been shown.
The 18th Century custom of going a-mothering on a Sunday in mid-Lent became extinct some years ago.
It was revived by the late Miss Penswick-Smith, daughter of a former Vicar of Coddington, and has recently grown to its original proportions.
Nearly everybody knows that it is usual to take a bunch of flowers to one's mother on this day, but how many remembered that it is also customary to bake and eat a Simnel cake?
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Picturesquely situated in the Vale of Belvoir is the village of Aslockton.
This small Nottinghamshire village houses one of the National Hunt training establishments which has horses running in the most famous of all steeple chases in the world, the Grand National.
The trainer is Mr W.R. Bissell. In training at the moment he has about 23 horses, and of these two run in the National next Saturday.
Chief hope from the stable is Gallery, which ran in the big race last year. So far this season Gallery, who is a 12-year-old bay gelding by Winalot out of Nunnery, has run well.
He has finished in front of Cromwell, Lord Mildmay's fancied National mount, and has also beaten Acthon Major, another fancied National contender, over four miles at Cheltenham.
AIn the newly equipped dining rooms in the Mount School grounds on Monday, 250 school children sat down to the first lunch ever served there.
The kitchens, supervised by Mrs Knight, cater for 500 children a day from the Mount, Lovers Lane, Barnby Road Seniors, the Methodist and Holy Trinity School.The menu for Monday was minced beef, potatoes, carrots, parsley sauce, and gravy.
For sweet, Manchester Tart.
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The Rev. Canon T.H. Cashmore, Vice President of Rotary International of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, proposed the toast of the Rotary Club of Newark at the Silver Jubilee Charter Anniversary Dinner in the Town Hall on Friday.-o-o-o-o-
Seventy-seven-year-old Mr George W. Nicholson, of Collingham, gave his reminiscences of a lifetime's work for Methodism before the Newark Methodist Circuit Quarterly Meeting in Barnbygate Church Schoolroom on Thursday.A surprise development affecting the future of the cattle market was reported to the Town Council on Monday by Councillor D.P. Blatherwick, chairman of the cattle market committee.
He stated that the submission of plans for the new market to the county director of planning had resulted in their being told it is intended to bridge the railway and that, if this is done, the bridge will go straight across the cattle market and also across playing fields.
The news comes at the same time as the opening of the latest amenity at the corporation-owned Newark Cattle Market a new canteen.
What was formerly a drab and uninviting room is now resplendent in fresh paint and, with modern tables and chairs in the cafe-style, should now form a pleasant retreat for farmers and others who use the market to settle their business.
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Considerable interest has been raised by the map of the borough now displayed in the Market Place window of Messrs Clarks-of-Retford Newark shop.
On it are introduced the town's accident "blackspots."
Every accident reported to the police during 1949 has been marked on the map with a numbered flag, and on either side is an index explaining the nature of the accident which occurred at that particular place.
The map was conceived by Chief Inspector R.C. Thomas and executed by Pc Taylor.
It is announced by the Sea Cadet Corps headquarters in London that a third efficiency pendant has been awarded to Newark's Sea Cadet Corps.
The Newark cadets become the first in the north eastern area of the country to receive three awards.
Vice Admiral Guy Russell, R.N., the Admiral Commanding Reserves, personally congratulated the unit.
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The first four of Newark's contract for 108 Wimpey concrete houses will be completed tomorrow and the official opening ceremony will be performed by the mayoress, Mrs B. L. Maule.
The houses are numbers 1,3,5 and 7 Alexandra Avenue.
The eagerly awaited development will be open for public inspection and a large crowd is expected.
From both the outside and the inside they appear quite traditional but the facilities inside are of the latest fashion with an abundance of cupboards and drawers and a gas cooker and copper.
In the living room there is a fireplace of a unique design combining the traditional open grate and a gas fire and in the dining recess adjoining there is an electric fire.
The houses, already in high demand, will be completed at the rate of five a week.
They were started in August 1949 and all of them should be inhabited by September of this year.
