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school master, he had noted the improvement in children’s health since the scheme
was first put into operation.
The deputy regional food officer, Mr. M.E. Eastbrook, also spoke and urged
mothers to try and influence those mothers who did not collect their cod liver oil and
orange juice to do so.

1954
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Sat 6 Feb
MUSEUM PIECES?
Recent gifts to the borough include a set of lantern slides of old Wokingham
(showing the old manual fire engine and the old timbered houses in Rose Street,
where the food offices now stand) and a collection of black and white reproductions
of old Wokingham inn signs, many of which have passed into obscurity.

NEW SEAL
A welcome addition to the Borough of Wokingham’s office equipment is the new
lever press seal-embossing machine which does away with the troublesome and
unsatisfactory method of having to melt and use sealing wax. Used officially for the
first time this week the machine incorporates the recently-granted coat-of-arms in a
seal approximately two inches in diameter.

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Sat 13 Feb
W.E.A. LECTURE
Mr, George Owen gave the eighteenth in his series of lectures, “The National
Wealth,” in the Town Hall on Friday last week, and dealt with the finance of local
government.

FOR THE OLD FOLKS
The Highways and Establishments Committee of the Town Council have accepted
an offer by a decorator to re-decorate the kitchen at the Wokingham Town Hall used
by old people as a rest room free of cost.

STATISTICS
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Deaths of permanent residents in Wokingham between December 20 , 1953, and
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January 16 , 1954, show a heavy increase over the previous month—14 against four.
During the last month six men and eight women died. Of these, one was over 90, four
over 80, five over 70, one over 60, two over 50, and one 14-years-old boy. During the
same period 10 births were registered—four boys and six girls.

C.E.M.S. MEETING
The All Saints’ (Wokingham) branch of the C.E.M.S. held their annual meeting in
the Church House, Wokingham, on Thursday. The rector, the Rev. F.A. Steer,
presided. Mr. R.S. Davies was elected chairman, and the secretary (Mr. F.W. Green)
and treasurer (Mr. W. Jasper) were re-elected. After the meeting members went to the
Milton Road Schoolroom, where the Rev. S. Hinton gave a talk to the Men’s Contact
Fellowship on “Communism and Christianity.”

TO “CRY” AT HASTINGS

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