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The Town Hall butter market, which is usually a cold and uninviting thoroughfare, was transformed into a warm and welcoming supper room on Friday night.
This was the occasion of the Newark branch of the National Farmers' Union's Ball.
The entrance hall and a committee room became a cocktail and coffee lounge and an oyster bar, and there was dancing for more than 370 guests.
Three sittings were necessary in the specially carpeted and heated butter market under the ballroom.
There were floral decorations all around the normally sparse stone entrance hall and balloons and other novelties were hung between the central pillars.
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The Rev L. Shorland-Ball of Collingham, presiding at the first meeting of the Newark Area Parish Councils' Association on Thursday, said their meetings would be a clearing house for problems.
Representatives would return to their parishes as missionaries, he said, and to show the help the Association could give.
The meeting, in Newark's Mount School, was attended by representatives from Balderton, Coddington, Collingham, Cotham, Elston, Farndon, Fiskerton, Hawton, Southwell, and Sutton-on-Trent.
Mr I. L. Kirk, a member of the Notts Association of Parish Councils, said he was pleased to see so many present.
The third and last of this year's shows organised by the Newark and District Horticultural and Allotment Holder's Society was held on Saturday in the Town Hall.
Supplementing the large number of fine blooms were well filled stalls of fruit and vegetables, and the Ladies' Section for home made preserves.
Mr H. A. Bailey, Sleaford, had a first rate display of chrysanthemums in the Council Chamber, where more of the competitive exhibits were to be seen.
The exhibits numbered more than 400.
Mr W. Stevenson showed the champion bloom, which was a Shirley Primrose.
The Shephard Cup for the most outstanding exhibit in the show was won by Mr G. Statham, with his incurve chrysanthemums.
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The opening of Millbank, the Millgate, Newark, residence known formerly as Wargrave, by the Duchess of Portland, on Thursday afternoon, as a Home for Aged people, set the seal upon a magnificent effort by the local Committee of the Red Cross Society.
The Home has accommodation for 14 people.
At present seven men and women are in residence.
Oldest of these are Mr and Mrs S. Parnham, age 91 and 92 respectively.
The Duchess, who is President of the Notts. branch of the Society, said it was a pleasure for her to be there, not merely because it was nice to be in Newark again and meet old friends.
The Home was a realisation of a dream.
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A National Farmers' Union team beat a team of Young Farmers by five-and-a-half points when a farming quiz was held in Newark's Castle Ballroom on Monday night.
Question-master was Mr G. R. B. Dawson, assistant county agriculture officer, and the umpire was Mr P. Lyth, of Brackenhurst Farm Institute.
Newark paid tribute to the memory of the Fallen of the two world wars on Sunday.
The Mayor, Alderman A. E. Whomsley, JP, laid a wreath of poppies on the town's War Memorial and afterwards joined the congregation which filled Newark Parish Church for a Service of Remembrance.
For the crowds that thronged to the Memorial Cross there was all the colour and pageantry of a military occasion.
Young men and women marched with the comrades of the 1914 war.
At the head of the old comrades were the flags of Newark's ex-Service associations.
At the memorial were representatives of the 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters, the Army Cadet Force, The Sherwood Rangers' Yeomanry, REME, the RAF, the Sea Cadet Corps and the RAOB.
The old comrades marched behind their Association standard from London Road Car Park to the War Memorial.
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Newark lost one of its most respected townsmen and probably its oldest tradesman on Friday night by the death of Mr George Howard Porter.
Aged 84, Mr Porter had carried on an extensive grocery and provision business in the Market Place for about 54 years, and took an active interest in it almost to the end.
He was also chairman of Newark Tradesmen's Plate Glass Insurance Association Ltd, past President and a former honorary secretary of the Newark branch of the Grocers' Association, and also past president of the Newark Tradesmen's Association.
In his own trade circles he became well known as an expert tea taster, and had judged competitions at the National Grocers' Association exhibitions in London.
A specially equipped radio detector van will be in Newark and the surrounding district during the next few weeks.
It will be accompanied by inquiry officers whose business it is to ensure that all users of wireless receiving apparatus, both sound and television, are in possession of current licences.
Wireless receiving sets installed in motor cars constitute a receiving station and require a separate licence.
The last comb of the Newark district was made in February 1949, when 1,700 premises were visited.
During this period 279 new licences were taken out, 38 unlicensed sets were found and 14 prosecutions resulted.
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The only ÒcasualtiesÓ after Newark's Guy Fawkes celebrations on Saturday night were men.
Treated at Newark Hospital for burns were Mr Kenneth Thorpe, of Lawrence Place, Newark, and Mr Raymond Pick, of Lincoln Road, Newark.
Firemen were called to Holden Crescent, Newark, to put out a fire.
A bonfire left by children set a tree trunk alight.
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A peel was rung on the bells of St Michael's and All Angels' Church, Averham, on Saturday for the first time since the bells were hung 110 years ago.
The Newark District ringers rang a peel of Grandsire Doubles - 5,040 changes - which took three hours.
The peel was in memory of the late Mr George Smith, an Averham ringer for many years.
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Southwell rural council on Friday discussed again a suggestion from their chairman (Mr A.W. Baggley) that they should adopt a coat of arms.
Mr W. H. Stevens thought it better they gave their chairman a chain of office, and between the two suggestions the council seemed to find it difficult to come to a decision so they agreed to think the matter over for another month.
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Mr Eric Ashton, of Brooks Motor Co, Newark, leaves Harrogate this morning in a Ford Prefect on the first leg of the two-day 1,000 miles car rally.
He is team manager for the Ford Prefect entries.
This is Mr Ashton's first long-distance rally, although he has made a name for himself in several minor events.
During the last year there was an increase of 50% in Newark of road accidents.
This was revealed at the annual meeting of Newark Road Safety Council last night when the Secretary, Mr H. Rayner, presented his annual report.
There were four fatal accidents, compared with one in 1948-49. Seventy seven people were injured, 14 of whom were children.
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Ransome and Marles Works Band, of Newark, who won the Midland area Brass Band Championship last March, were placed fourth in the National Brass Band Championship contest, at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Saturday.
They received a prize of 50 guineas. Five thousand people heard the 17 finalist bands compete.
With 192 points out of a possible 200, they were only six points behind the winners, Foden's Motor Works Band, of Sandbach, Cheshire.
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Turf in Newark's Beaumond Gardens on London Road will be re-seeded during the next four years.
Announcing this to Newark Town Council on Monday, Ald. E. T. H. Randall said that the London Road Corporation Bowling Green would be patched with turf from his own private green - a gift to the town.
