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Sat 24 Jan
ST. PAUL’S WOKINGHAM
The authorities of St. Paul’s church, Wokingham, have been offered for £100 the
field adjoining the churchyard on the western side, as an addition to the burial ground.
A generous donor has offered £50 conditional on the rest of the money being raised
by voluntary subscriptions.
A memorial tablet to the late Major de Vitre, rector’s churchwarden for many years
of St. Paul’s, Wokingham, has been erected in tablet form on the interior south wall of
the church. An alabaster slab over green marble has a white marble centre, on which
is inscribed the following: “In ever-loving memory of Denis Frederick Denis De
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Vitre, only son of the Rev. G.E. Denis De Vitre; born March 18 , 1867, at Weston
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Vicarage, Herts; died May 13 , 1924 at Keep Hatch, Wokingham, where he lived for
50 years. ‘The gift of God is eternal life.’” His ashes lie around the adjacent buttress
outside.
At a recent meeting of St. Paul’s Parochial Church Council it was approved that
application be made for a faculty for the erection of a memorial plate in the church to
the memory of the late Sir Edward Walter K.C.B. (founder of the Corps of
Commissionaires), and Marianne, his wife who from 1867 till 1887 were worshippers
at this church.

Sat 7th March
WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS
Her majesty the Queen has purchased four of the water-colour drawings of South
African gardens painted by Miss Elizabeth Drake, of Wokingham. These drawings
have been reproduced by A. and C. Black Ltd. to illustrate the book on “South
African Gardens,” by Miss Dorothea Fairbridge. The subjects selected by her Majesty
are: “Bougainvillea at Welgelegen, Cape,”; “Pergola at De Grendel, Tijgerberg,”;
“Hydrangeas by the Water, Bishopscourt, Cape” and “Hydrangeas on the Stoep,
Paradise, Cape.”

EMIGRATION CINEMA LECTURE ON CANADA.
At the Wokingham Cinema, Broad Street, on Friday evening, under the auspices of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, a cinematograph display and illustrated lecture was
given by Major W.H. Hayward (late member of the Legislator of British Columbia),
entitled “Your Chance in Canada.” There was a large attendance, and the lecture was
followed with much interest, new films featuring agriculture, dairying, fruit raising
and cattle ranching in operation, while there were also views of the mountain scenery
and the well-equipped railroad cars and ocean liners of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.

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Sat 30 May
TERRITORIAL WEEKEND
“D” Company spent Saturday night under canvas at the Finchampstead range and on
Sunday morning carried out a portion of their training in which they practised the
company attack. Met by their band on Sunday morning they marched back to the Drill
Hall, where they arrived about 12.15 p.m. The men were in full marching kit with
rifles. Captain A.C. Hughes commanded and Lieuts R. Haye and E.S. Ford, D.F.C.,

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