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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Householders, managers of hotels, Clubs, Boarding Houses, Lodging Houses and
Hostels should make themselves acquainted with the provisions of the Fuel and
lighting (Coal) Order 1941, and which limits the acquisition of house coal to six cwts.
(hundredweights).

SALES OF NEW POTATOES PROHIBITED
The Ministry of Food announces an order, which comes into force immediately,
prohibiting all sales of new potatoes of the 1942 crop, including potatoes in the
ground. Producers who have grown crops under glass for early sale should apply for
sales licences to the Director of Potato Supplies, St. John’s College, Oxford. This
prohibition will remain in force until a plan is introduced by the Ministry for
marketing new potatoes during the early weeks of the season, when supplies are short.
New directions which come into force on Wednesday, have been issued by the
Ministry as a further measure for building up the reserve of long-keeping potatoes for
use in June and July.

MR. S.A. PITHER LEAVES BROAD STREET
Mr. S.A. Pither who has been associated as manager of the butchers, at 15, Broad
Street, Wokingham since June 1940 when the business was sold, is leaving.
We undoubtedly shall all miss his cheery smile as well as his unfailing courtesy and
the personal interest and trouble which he invariably took to please his customers.
Being a very old resident of Wokingham, having resided her for some twenty-two
years and having won the esteem of everyone we trust that he will not be very long in
fixing up another appointment.

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Sat 9 May
BUSY FIRE BRIGADE
On Saturday the Wokingham Fire Brigade dealt with a fire in the Wokingham S.R.
Station yard, when a truck, containing boxes, caught fire. No sooner had they returned
from this outbreak than they were called out to Tanners Farm, Swallowfield, where a
cowshed was burning. The same night at 11.00 there was a fire at the Loddon Bridge
Tea Gardens. A shed was ablaze.

JUNIOR SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
The football match played on Saturday to benefit the comforts fund of the club was
a great success. Both teams, Crown Villa (Reading) and the Army Technical School
(Arborfield), showed splendid ability, and it was the best junior game seen in
Wokingham for many years. The result seemed destined to be a 2—2 draw until the
last three minutes, when A.T.S. scored the winning goal.

AWARDED THE B.E.M.
Company Sergeant-Major Nigel Headington received the B.E.M. from the King at a
recent investiture at Buckingham Palace. Sergeant-Major Headington was educated at
Marlborough College, and was Bursar at Maiden Erlegh School until he joined up just
before the outbreak of war. He is the son of Mr. John Headigton, who was Mayor of
Wokingham in 1900, and Mrs. Headington, of “Penveriton,” Wokingham.

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