June 18 1952

Twenty-six Australian farmers and their wives visited Mr Stanley Sheldon's farm at East Stoke on Thursday.

They saw Aberdeen Angus attested cattle, and sheep and crops. They watched Mr Sheldon's sheepdog Nell, round up a flock of sheep.

Pictured being conducted round Mr Sheldon's farm on a trailer with the Australians are Mr Whyley, Mr Sheldon and in front of him Mr T. Horner.

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Five children in five minutes did £5-worth of damage in Newark's picturesque Friary Gardens on Sunday afternoon.

The children, all about five years old, ran amok for those few minutes.

They jumped in the middle of a couple of flower beds, breaking the flowers, ran along a historic old wall, after knocking a few pieces of it out to make climbing grips, gashed the bark from an old yew tree and jumped into flower borders.

The park's superintendent Mr. R. Upton, said: "This vandalism is wilful destruction."

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Mrs T. W. Howes made her first speech as Mayoress of Newark when she opened the annual garden fete of Christ Church, in the grounds of Potterdike, Newark.

She was accompanied by the mayor. The fete realised more than £100. Especially popular was a display of country dancing by Christ Church schoolchildren, and the Wot-is-it?

Museum, where curio-hunters could try spotting antiques from the collection of Mr C. H. Newbald, who owns Potterdike.

June 11 1952

Ever tried looking after 350 children let loose in a zoo for four hours? That was the job of the Rev G. H. L. Bowman and teachers of Newark Parish Church Sunday Schools who took pupils by train to Dudley Zoo on Saturday.

All children returned safely, but one little girl lost a purse and a boy a case.

A brown leghorn cross Sussex hen owned by Mrs M. Rushby of Laxton, has laid an egg weighing 6 3/4oz. The hen has now resumed normal laying.

Newark Round Table's chairman, Roy Smith, had a ducking in Grantham Canal by 11 team mates.

Newark were the winners in a three-cornered canoe challenge contest - the first ever to be held between Nottingham, Grantham and Newark Round Tables.

Each team with 12 canoeists, each racing an individual relay, went through a pretty slimy time one way or another, and Newark's team came in first.

Roy Smith got his ducking as a sort of celebration.

Colin Tipler of Grantham, also in the race, said he would award a cup to the winners, to be raced for each year on the canal.

One sporting gesture by Newark in that race - they too used only a single paddle when Grantham broke their double paddle.

June 4 1952

An Elston man who started his own bus service in 1919 with a converted car, drove into Newark on Friday the latest addition to his coach fleet - a £5,000 41-seater Daimler.

The bus went into service on W. Gash and Sons' Newark to Nottingham run on Saturday. Mr W. Gash, who drove the converted Humber car 33 years ago from Elston to Newark, is seen above with his new coach.

He is showing the 60-horsepower engine, more powerful than those in the firm's double deckers, which is stowed amidships under the passengers' feet.

Radio loudspeakers are let into the ceiling above their heads so that the reception is the same all over the vehicle.

Heaters are fitted, and demisters for the front windows. About 12 miles to the gallon is the diesel engine's fuel consumption.

Newark was the most thrifty of towns in six counties during the half year just ended, it was announced at a National Savings meeting in Newark on Thursday.

The average amount saved by every Newarker every week from October to March was 17s 6d.

Thursday's meeting, in Newark Town Hall, was to revive the National Savings Committee that existed in Newark during the 1939-45 war. Plaques commemorating Newark's successes in wartime savings campaigns hung on the walls.