4 AUGUST 1928, Page 12

When the day arrived there gathered in Thistly Meadow many

representatives of all classes of the village community : parents, labourers, farmers, publicans, landowners, business men, " daily-breaders " of several sorts. A good many officiated as judges. They were given little cardboard squares numbered one, two, or three ; and these they handed over to the winners of the first three places in each event ; and each winner carried his ticket off to a small tent where the success was noted down and the marks that each House gained progressively added up. Opposite each event on the printed programme were four columns headed H., N., R., S., indicating that each individual success reckoned so much to the total of the House.

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