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The new Council Chamber will have seating for 30 members (anticipating an
increase of six on the present constitution), with a dais for three movable seats and
adjacent seats for six officers. Accommodation is planned for six Press representatives
and a public gallery for thirty people.
The Mayor will have his own parlour with an antechamber and the Mayoress will
have a private room. There will be a Member’s Lobby and retiring room, an interview
room, kitchen and two committee rooms, each capable of seating 25, and so arranged
that they may be used as one large room.
The Town Clerk’s new department will contain seven offices, a store, a waiting
room and an interview room and the Borough Surveyor’s department will be
somewhat larger. As at present, the Borough Treasurer’s department will be on the
ground floor. The Public Health and Housing departments will have much improved
accommodation.
Provision is made for an automatic telephone room and one strong room. There will
be a central filing room, a welfare room for female staff, and a cleaners’ room on each
floor. The caretaker will have a three-bedroomed home.
TWO PUBLIC HALLS
There will be two public halls. The larger will seat 600 people, and the smaller hall,
150 people. The two halls will be so designed for simultaneous use, but the cloakroom
facilities, lavatory and bar accommodation and car park may be shared.
In the large hall there will be a stage with ample wings, a musicians’ room and two
dressing rooms. In addition there will be a projection room and chair store. A separate
entrance will be provided for each hall, with recessed pay-boxes.
The council’s assessor, who will make the award, is Mr. Clifford Culpin, of
Doughty Street, London, W.C.1. The first prize will be of £1,000 with second and
third awards of £500 and £250. The designs must be submitted to the Town Clerk by
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October 17 , and the assessor will notify the General purposes Committee of his
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awards at their meeting on November 1 .

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CLUB TO CLOSE
The Wokingham Club is likely to close down at the end of this month. No official
confirmation of this fact has been issued but it is understood that a meeting of the
advisory committee, appointed by Mr. R.H.R. Palmer, president and owner of the
Market Place premises was held this week. They forwarded “certain
recommendations” to Mr. Palmer, said a member of the committee, Mr. R.A. Ingram.
The news has followed months of doubts about the future of the club, which is in debt
and suffering from lack of support. The possibility of a reprieve came at the end of
May when it was suggested that the football Supporters’ Club might take over the
premises as their headquarters. This move failed. A final meeting will be held at the
end of the month.

MORE MUSIC
In answer to many local citizen’s appeals for more music in Wokingham the local
Workers’ Education Association on Tuesday decided to form a gramophone society
and a musical appreciation class. The meeting was held in the Library. The society
will meet every Tuesday evening in the reading room at the Library to listen to
records. It is planned that mainly classical music will be played. The music
appreciation class, which the W.E.A. will run for 12 weeks after Christmas, has come
from the formation of the gramophone society. Mr. R. Doran, of the W.E.A., says that

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