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Sat 6 Oct
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WOKINGHAM’S 750 COUNCIL HOUSE OPENED.
Saturday was a red-letter day for the Wokingham Borough Council Housing
committee, for it marked the opening of their 750th permanent post-war house. But
next Tuesday will be the big day for Mr. and Mrs. Cane, for then they will move into
this show house from their present home in Kiln Ride.
At 61, Eustace Crescent—named after Admiral J.B. Eustace, five times mayor of
the town—Ald. N.C. Lawrence, chairman of the Housing Committee, presided over
the opening ceremony.
For a small borough with a population of 10,000 in 1945, it was an achievement to
have built 750 post-war houses, he said. Their job was not finished and a considerable
part of this estate still had to be done.
The estate was unlike any other in the town—it was an “open” one, with no gardens
in front of the houses, but lawns which the council would maintain. On this new
development—designed and built by Messrs Telling and Son (Builders) Ltd., —there
were four garages for every five houses. This should ensure that no cars were left by
the roadside or on the lawns.
The front door of Mr. and Mrs. Cane’s new home was unlocked by the Mayor Dr.
P.P. Pigott. Both she and Ald. Lawrence were presented by Messrs. Telling with an
inscribed key to mark the occasion.

ACCOUNTING MACHINE FOR WOKINGHAM
Wokingham Town Council are to buy a mechanical accounting machine at a cost of
£2,750, following a recommendation from the Organisation and Methods consultants
who were employed to suggest ways of increasing the efficiency of their
administration.
This was agreed at Tuesday’s meeting of the General Purposes Committee. The
Borough Treasurer, Mr. B. Chant, said that the cost would be met from the capital
fund, and would be repaid over a seven-year period.
In addition to rate-accounting, there were many other uses to which the machine
would be put and when fully operative he expected it to be used 26-30 hours a week.
This would mean that the demand for extra staff would be curtailed, although not
eliminated.

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Sat 13 Oct
END OF A TREE
The walnut tree around which a seat in memory of the late Ald. Philip Sale was built
between The Sale Memorial Homes and the Waterloo Restaurant—was felled on
Thursday, as the top had died and was brittle.

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Sat 3 Nov
WOKINGHAM RECEIVES COAT OF ARMS
A first look at the new coat-of-arms, which have been granted to Wokingham Rural
District Council. The design combines the principal topographical and historical
features of the district, and the motto Unum E pluribus (“One made out of many”)
refers to the union of the various parishes in one rural district. It is a variant of the
motto of the United States of America, whose first president, George Washington,
was descended in the maternal line from the family of Ball of Arborfield.

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