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1912

Sat 3rd Feb
An engagement is announced between Captain Edward Hills Nicholson, Royal
Fusiliers, eldest son of the late Alfred James Nicholson of Wokingham and Ethel
Frances Henry, daughter of the late Cecil Henry, of Drumlamph, County Derry.
“Morning Post.”

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Sat 10 Feb
WOKINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL
It was recommended that a clock be obtained and fixed in the large town hall and
that the Borough Surveyor prepare a report on some improved means of ventilation by
the windows of the hall.

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Sat 16 March
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY
At All Saints’ Church on Sunday morning and at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday
evening, special sermons were preached and collections taken on behalf of the
National Society.

GARTH HUNT POINT-TO-POINT
This popular fixture is again announced to be held at Lordlands Farm, Hawthorn
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Hill on Tuesday, the 2 April. The Hon. Secretary is Mr. E.M. Sturges, of Barkham
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Square, Wokingham, to whom entries close on the 26 inst. Tea and light
refreshments will be provided for all farmers within the limits of the Hunt.

NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES
Under the auspices of this Union a meeting was held on Monday, at the Studio,
Great Mead, Wokingham, kindly lent by Mr. F. Garry, who took the chair. The
Chairman expressed himself as very pleased to welcome all present to the
consideration of the great question of the Enfranchisement of Women. He himself was
as yet only a student of the subject. He put before his hearers the two points- of the
wild, lawless conduct of the members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and
of the earnest and devoted work of the far larger number of peaceful law-abiding
Suffragists.
A resolution condemning the recent outrages of militant Suffragists was proposed
by Mrs. Robie Uniacke, President of the East Berks Societies, and seconded by Mrs.
Keeble, and carried unanimously.
Mrs. Corbett Ashby, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Union,
then proposed a resolution calling upon Members of Parliament who support the
principle of the Enfranchisement of Women to vote for the reading of the Conciliation
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Bill on March 22 , on the ground that the patient and constitutional work of a vast
number of earnest women and men should not suffer through the rash action of a
small section of women.
All the speakers condemned physical violence as a means of political propaganda
and emphasised the point that the women who were employing violent methods
formed only one-tenth of the women organised into societies asking for the vote, and
an infinitesimal proportion of those who would be enfranchised by the Household

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