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Throughout the afternoon the Carnival Queen, Miss Caroline Williams and her
attendants strolled round the Carnival Field helping, in their own way to make
Carnival ’72 an enjoyable occasion for all.

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Thur 15 June
OUTSTANDING SAVINGS RECORD
Each street in Wokingham has its own National Savings Group, and according to
Mr. Arthur Pindar, District Commissioner of the National Savings Movement,
“Wokingham Borough is outstanding in the Southern Region in its response to the
National Savings appeal. “Schools, societies and organisations are all strongly co-
operative and willing to assist the movement in every way,” he said.
He was talking at the National Savings stall in the Market Place, Wokingham,
manned by the Wokingham Municipal Borough Home Savings Committee on
Saturday morning, when the Mayor and Mayoress, Cllr. and Mrs. Ian Crail, with their
small daughter, Nichola, paid them a visit.
The stall displayed posters and literature to publicise the June Community Month
with an accent on voluntary work by the Home Savings Group collectors. With Mr.
Pindar was Mr. Dennis Irvine who agreed to be “temporary” Chairman of the
Wokingham Savings Committee 12 years ago and has remained Chairman ever since,
and the Southern region Deputy Member Mrs. Louis Parnell.
Savings in the Southern region now total over £1¼ million each year.

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Thur 6 July
SCOUTS’ HECTIC WEEK-END
A week-end camp in the Carnival Field, Wellington Road, Wokingham was the
climax to a fortnight’s celebrating by the Wokingham and District Scouts, in honour
of 50 years of Scouting in Wokingham. The Mayor of Wokingham, Cllr. Ian Crail,
accompanied by District Commissioner (Scouts) Stanley Batchelor and District
Commissioner South East Berks, Skip Newton, with other Guide and Scouts
Commissioners opened the event.
Cub Scouts from nine packs contested a 'Knock-out' competition involving several
Contests on boards stretched over the swimming pool.
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Winners of the 7-legged race were 1 Wokingham (All Saints) second, and 1
Winnersh, the newest Cub Pack in the District, third.
The Mayor presented prizes to the successful Cubs before the Scouts and Guides
competed in a tent pitching competition. The traditional sing-song round the camp fire
rounded off the first day.
Sunday began with a quiet half hour as the Scouts and Scouters held their own
service in the centre of the field. Then it was the Scouts turn to show their paces and
events to test their skill and endurance were soon under way. Seventy competitors
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took part in the assault course and Scouter Derek Oxborough, 3 Wokingham Troop
who planned the course, showed how it should be done and finished it in a record time
of 1 min. 44 seconds.
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The winners of the event were—under 13s, 1, S. Bruce. 1 Emmbrook; 2, R. Todd.
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St. Paul’s; 3, R. Williams. 2 Crowthorne.
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Over 13s. 1, M. Day. 3 Wokingham; 2. M. Leysham, 3 Wokingham and P.
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Davies, 1 Emmbrook; 4, A. Blue, St. Paul’s.

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