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ARTS GROUP
Members of Wokingham and District Arts Group were joined by those of the
Bracknell and East Berkshire Writers’ Group at a meeting in Wokingham Town Hall
on Friday last week, when Mr. Norman Court spoke on Chinese art. He dealt with the
Chinese national approach to art and the influence of religion. The talk was illustrated
by a film of Chinese folk-art.

HOWARD PALMER BOWLING CLUB MEETING
An improvement in the financial position of the Howard Palmer Bowling club was
reported to members at the annual meeting held in the Wokingham Club on Friday
last week under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Bailey.
Mr. W.H. Bunch, the retiring secretary, said that in spite of a wet season, only one
match had been cancelled. The Saturday team had played 19 games, winning nine and
losing ten. The Wednesday team had secured eight victories and conceded eleven
defeats. The combined fixtures had.

AN INVITATION
Did you serve with the Allied Forces in Alexandria or Tobruk during the war? If so
the manager of the Ritz Cinema would be glad to hear from you, and would welcome
you as a guest to the first showing in Wokingham of the film “Ice Cold in Alex,” on
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November 24 .

1959
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Sat 21 Feb
WOKINGHAM CARNIVAL MEETING WAS A FLOP
A Council-Sponsored Event Suggested
Do the Wokingham public want a carnival in 1959? This question was answered
with an emphatic “No” in the Town Hall, Wokingham, on Wednesday, when less than
a dozen people—including the Mayor, three councillors and two Press
representatives—answered the Mayor’s invitation to attend a “public” meeting to
discuss the possibility of holding a carnival. Alderman F. Moles ruled that there were
insufficient people present to carry any decision, and said that he would refer the
matter back to the existing committee: but the public had spoken more eloquently by
their absence than they could have done in words.
Opening the meeting, the Mayor looked disappointedly in front of him at the five
people who sat among the 30 to 40 empty seats and commented, “This is
representative of a population of 10,000?” He went on to say that soon after taking
office—in May 1958—he had signed the cheques for the distribution of the profits of
the carnival held in August, 1957

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Sat 28 Feb
THIRTY YEARS A MILKMAN
Mr. E. J. Garrett Is Retiring
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Retiring on March 14 , after more than thirty years as a milkman, is Mr. E.J.
Garrett, of 92, Embrook Road, Wokingham, who is 65 years old tomorrow (Sunday).
Mr. Garrett left school when he was 12 years old, and started as a milk-boy for Mr.
Elder, of Matthews Green Farm. He kept this job for two years before working for
Mr. Boshier, of Chapel Green Farm, where he spent a further three years in the milk

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