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METHODIST GUILD
The Wokingham Methodist Guild held a literary evening in the church schoolroom
on Tuesday Miss S.M. Brown presided and a film of home missionary work in
Cornwall and the Tamar Valley was projected by Mr. H. Shanks.

ROTARY CLUB
Speaker at Monday’s meeting of Wokingham Rotary Club was Rotarian W.
Markham, a past president of the Reading club. He told members about a holiday he
had spent recently at Barbados in the West Indies.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
A house in Denton Road, Wokingham, is being taken over as a meeting place for the
Society of Friends (the Quakers). They estimate that altogether the whole project will
cost between £3,000 and £4,000. This will be met by money that has been collected
by Quakers in Reading and district—most of it comes from Wokingham.

MUNICIPAL OFFICES
Wokingham’s new municipal offices—now approved by the ministry—will be
smaller than at first envisaged. The size of the office block has been reduced by the
omission of waiting rooms and circulation space.

FIRE STATION
Prospects of Wokingham’s new fire station have receded again. After turning down
the outright purchase of the Finchampstead Road site at the figure asked by the Town
Council the Fire Authority have estimated that if the rent was based on this figure the
negotiations for a lease were likely to be unsuccessful. The Finance Committee of the
Town Council have decided to tell the District Valuer that the rent required will have
to be in relation to the capital value of the site.

YOUR HEALTH
There were 17 cases of infectious disease notified to the Medical Officer of Health
for Wokingham during December, it is revealed in his monthly report. Scarlet fever
was the most prevalent with 11 cases.

VITAL STATISTICS
Girls outnumbered boys by 12 to 8 in the births recorded in Wokingham in
December. During the same month there were nine deaths—four men and five
women.

COST OF SNOW CLEARANCE
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It has been estimated that between December 27 and January 15 , 10,000 tons of
snow felon the public highways in Wokingham. The fall was the heaviest recorded
and was the equivalent of one-and-a-half inches of rain. The approximate cost of
clearing it was £5,000, of which £1,500 will have to be paid by the borough.

BERKSHIRE OR WATERLOO
A proposal to call a new block of flats in Waterloo Road, Wokingham, “Berkshire
Court” has been objected to by the Town Council Highways Committee. They suggest
“Waterloo Court” as an alternative.

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