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Trains—Late Tuesday morning a light goods engine was derailed on the down
(Reading) line at Wokingham Station. This caused passenger service delays for
several hours. About 4.30 p.m. normal running was resumed.

HELPING THE HOSPITAL
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On June 9 , the 3 Wokingham (Methodist) Girl Guides held a sale and concert on
the lawn, at Braemar, Peach Street, lent by Mr. W. Medcalf. The chair was taken by
Mrs. W. Medcalf, and Mrs. H. Porter, M.B.E., declared the sale open. The Mayor and
Mayoress were present and a fine crowd supported the Guides. As a result, £37 10s.
has been sent to the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

FIVE HUNDRED NEED RATION BOOKS
Over five hundred Wokingham people have not yet been to the Town Hall Food
Office for their ration books and identity cards, according to an official this week.
Distribution should have been completed on Saturday. Some of these people may be
holiday makers or have left the district The plan has worked smoothly in Wokingham;
residents have cooperated well.

AIRMAN MISSING
Two months ago Flight Sergt. Malcolm Baxter applied for a transfer from
instructor’s duties to more active service. On Sunday he was reported missing. Flt.-
Sergt. Baxter is 21 and the captain of a Halifax bomber. He was educated at
Cordwallis School, Camberley, and Leighton Park School, Reading, and later
employed by the Anglo-Saxon Oil Co., and joined the R.A.F. in the autumn of 1940.
He is unmarried and lived with his mother at 56, Matthews Green, Wokingham.

Fri 9th July
HIGH PRAISE FOR WOKINGHAM SAVINGS
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Before the Chairman (Ald. E.W. Reeves), and a representative gathering of the
Wokingham savings Committee, at the Town Hall on Thursday. Mr. J.H. Clare, Chief
Commissioner of the National Savings Committee, paid high praise to everyone
concerned, for their remarkable efforts in the recent ‘Wings for Victory’ week
Campaign, and for the district’s wonderful savings record.
Mr. Clare, who had come to the meeting from London Headquarters, brought with
him a personal message of thanks from Lord Kindersley for the Borough and Rural
District Council and for the Wokingham Savings Committee.
In reply to a suggestion made by the Chairman of the Committee (Ald. E.W.
Reeves) that the target for these special weeks should be fixed by Headquarters, Mr.
Clare thought this would be a difficult thing to accomplish—and that, in his own
opinion, the local people should be the ones to decide their own target.
However, Ald. Reeves’ resolution will go forward to Headquarters for
consideration.
Before answering the many and diverse questions put to him, Mr. Clare informed
his listeners that, although he had no definite information, he thought that the policy
of the National Savings Committee would be to hold further special weeks in the
future.
He also warmly congratulated the Hon. Organising Secretary, (Mrs. Jean Baxter),
for her unstinting and tireless efforts in connection with the campaign. These
sentiments were also voiced by the /chairman and Ald. Barrett.

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