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  Considerable flooding was experienced in Sutton district on Sunday consequent upon the torrential rain of Friday night and Saturday, and for the second time within nine months we had the spectacle of the Sutton to Mansfield Road near the Reservoir being impassable for several hours.
  It is many a long day since rain so heavy and continuous had fallen in the district, and though the locality missed the inundations and devastation experienced only a few miles away, there was a considerable amount of damage done, particularly to gardens. ...

  The downpour at Huthwaite on Saturday night is stated to have been the heaviest within living memory. Huthwaite, by reason of its elevated situation, did not suffer any disastrous effects, but a certain amount of inconvenience and loss was caused to some residents. Gardens that lay in, or at the bottom of sloping ground, were in most cases more or less damaged, and this was to be doubly regretted, as conditions have been all against the gardener for many weeks past. In Barker Street, Common Road and Blackwell Road, soil, seeds and plants were washed away, and the gardeners were faced with the prospect of doing their work all over again - if they considered it worth while.
  In the streets on Sunday morning there wer occasional streams where the sewers were inadequate to deal with the volume of water, and up the sloping roadways which branch off Main Street, deep channels had been cut out of the soft ground by the rushing waters. There were channels in these particular places before, but the storm made them deeper besides carving our not a few fresh ones.

  All over the open country were swirling pools, and the sound of hurrying waters, and what are normally musical brooks became rushing and pitiless torrents. At the bottom of Blackwell Road, where half-a-dozen streams from the uplands converged into one overwhelming river, the spectacle was not without interest. The double culvert under the road could not take anything like the quantity of water that rushed at it, and for a distance of 20 to 25 yards a flood of from six to twelve inches deep poured over the roadway into the gardens opposite.
  The brook form Newton was very much swollen and huge quantities of water came at high velocity down the steep hill which goes up to Blackwell and helped to utterly spoil gardens of Messrs. Wass, Molyneaux and Truswell, near the turning. Mr. Truswell is an exhibitor at many horticultural shows and many of his prize seeds and plants were ruined. In addition, he and his family had to stay up all Saturday night to combat the water which flowed in at his front door and out at the back one on its way to spoil his backyard and garden. In all three cases, little remained of cultivated ground besides pools of water and patches of mud.
  It need hardly be mentioned that the rain found all the weak places in roofs and ceilings. The water soaked through all the old crevices, and disclosed some new ones in a good many cases, but it should be remembered that the downpour was an exceptionally heavy one, and a leaky roof is a triviality, compared with the drawbacks and apprehensions with which some people have had to put up through it.

On Wednesday afternoon the members of the Parish Church Mothers' Union were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Coupe at "The Orchards." Tea was provided, and, the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Coupe was highly appreciated and was subject of a vote of thanks by the visitors.

In respect of the full week's holiday which New Hucknall miners had last week a grant was made by the Notts. Industrial Union. Financial members were allowed 3s. each, and sixpence for each child. The distribution of money took place at the Free Church schoolroom on Wednesday night and was supervised by Mr. B. Smith (president) and local officials of the Union.

Mr. George Dickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dickson, of Sutton Road, who has been for the past few years a medical student at Sheffield University, has passed his final examination. Mr. Dickson, whose parents have lived in Huthwaite over 20 years, has himself many friends in the town and district, to whom the news of his latest success will give great satisfaction. He is one of the little group of promising students who proceeded from Blackwell Road School to the Brunt's School, Mansfield. All through his medical studies he had maintained a high standard of merit and both he and his parents are assured of a host of good wishes.

Two fine pictures will be shown in each half of next week at the Lyric Theatre. "Alias the Bad Man" is a lively Western film dealing with cattle-stealers, shootings, sheriffs, and romance. ... "Lonely Wives," holds the screen this week-end, and is uproariously funny.

  First team v. Rufford (away):- A.P. Bacon (capt.), F. Dobb, G. Dobb, A. Gibson, J. Shaw, F. Adlington, A. Spencer, W. Slack, A. Taylor, H. Sanderson, H. Iball. Reserve D. Ellis.
  Second team v. New Hucknall Colliery Office Staff (home).- E. Vardy (capt.), S. Worthington, N. Bradford, W. Keeling, T. Clarke, N. Thompson, T. Gascoigne, W. Hunt, A. Thompson, W.L. Green, P. Bostock. Reserves, H. Vardy, T. Geal and W.H. Thorpe.

  Increased activity is referred to in the annual report of the Convalescent Homes Sub-Committee under the Notts. Miners' Welfare scheme.
  The number of patients sent away was 785, compared with 751, although as a result of the more stringent medical examination, 27 cases have had to be rejected.
  The committee state that they still feel that the system of examination should be continued, rather than that the risk should be run of having men confined to bed in convalescent home or, as happened, having to be fetched home by road at heavy expense.
  The cost per patient per week for maintenance was £1 9s. 2d., compared with £1 10s.
  The pits from whom the bulk of the patients went were: Kirkby 98, Rufford 52, Newstead and Mansfield 41, Sherwood and New Hucknall 40, Welbeck 47, Cotes Park 38, Bentinck 34, Thoresby 33.
  Both Captain P. Muschamp (chairman) and Mr. G. Anuable (secretary) have been added to the committee of Nottingham and Notts. Homes Management Committee.