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unusual item in the programme was a piano trio, and other entertainment was
provided by the members of the Reading Central Torchbearers.

PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION
The Palmer School Parent-Teacher Association held a successful whist drive at the
school on Tuesday evening, the M.C. being Mr. Frank Carter. Over £6 was raised for
the children’s Christmas Party.

NATIVITY PLAY
About thirty young students of the School of the Convent of the Presentation,
Easthampstead Road, Wokingham, took part in a nativity play in the school on
Monday afternoon. Senior girls formed the choir.

FOR NEW GATES
A jumble sale in the Church House, Wokingham, on Friday last week and a “Village
Shop” in the Wokingham Town Hall on Saturday each raised just over £14 for the
fund to provide new gates for the graveyard at All Saints’ Church, Wokingham. Both
functions were organised by Miss S.M. Finch.

NEW SAVERS SIGN
Surmounting a pole, erected in the Wokingham Market Place on Monday, is a red,
white and blue target bearing the figure “600.” This represents the number of new
national savers the local committee hope to recruit before the end of March next year.
Each hundred will be signified by an electric light switched on during normal
“lighting-up” hours.

FLOODING
Heavy rain caused a considerable amount of local flooding in the Wokingham area
on Wednesday. In the Easthampstead Road on Wednesday. In the Finchampstead
Road on Wednesday evening policemen came to the rescue of several pedestrians and
carried them through the worst of the flooding. In Rances Lane, Waterloo Road and
Patten Ash Drive, water was at times several inches deep, and there was also heavy
flooding at Arborfield, and in Matthewsgreen Road.

TOY SERVICE
At the schoolroom in the Milton Road, Wokingham, on Sunday, the Rev. H.M. Ray
Smith received from boys and girls of the Baptist Sunday School toys and books for
the annual “toy service.” These gifts, with similar items from the primary department
of the school, were sent to a London church, for distribution among needy children.
The service was conducted by the Sunday School superintendent, Miss I. Evry, and
the address was given by Mrs. George Andrews. The lesson was read by Master
Christopher Woods.

A RECORD CATCH
It is not for nothing that anglers have the reputation of being tellers of tall stories.
Very often their arms outstretch credulity. And for that reason, 15-years-old Arthur
William Cardrick, of 109, London Road, Wokingham, has sent his latest catch to be
mounted in a glass case—for he knows there would, in its absence, be many reproving
glances as he told how, on Saturday, he caught the giant pike he has been tempting for
years. Using a light rod with a line of only 8½ lbs. breaking strain—and without

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