► RE-NUMBERING OF HOUSES

Town Planning and Highways Committee recommended not to implement the re-numbering of houses until after the June elections. The register of electors would not show the new numbering, and it would be difficult to find out where people lived. 

► JOINER’S WORKSHOP

The Committee had an application for change of use of 100 Bitton Park Road to a joiner’s workshop. Previously, there was a motor cycle shop. Mr Evely thought the workshop was the lesser of ‘two evils’. The chairman thought it was quite in the wrong place, in the middle of a residential area, to have the noise of planing machines, and so on. It would be terrible to live with. When it was a motor cycle workshop, there were innumerable complaints. The application was refused.

► TEIGNMOUTH  HOSPITAL

After holding the position for 17 years, Mr Frank Russell has retired from the chairmanship of the League of Friends of Teignmouth Hospital. During that time, the League has contributed benefits to the hospital costing in the region of £50,000. Mr Russell’s successor is Mrs Marjorie Lyne.

During the past year, they had seen the completion and opening of the sun lounges. There were many who had misgivings of the wisdom of the venture, but those who had seen them agreed that they were absolutely marvellous. 

They also campaigned for improvements to the kitchen layout and equipment. The modernisation was carried out by the authorities with Exchequer money.

► KITES

On Thursday afternoon, a man and woman stood on Teignmouth esplanade, each holding what appeared to be a large fishing reel. But there were no rods, and the sea was a long way away. The solution was high up in the sky, where two large kites were flying. The kite fliers appeared to be English, ruling out the possibility of a Chinese invasion of Teignmouth. Kite flying is a very popular pastime in China.

► FIREMAN HOOPER DID NOT EXIST

A competitor named Hooper, of Dawlish, swept the board at the County Fire Services annual angling championships on the Exe. Because the other three members had gone home, he collected the shield and four trophies for the heaviest weight of the day. 

It was only after he left that the organisers found that Fireman Hooper did not exist – there was no one of that name at the Dawlish Station. They thought he might have got his contests mixed up with others on the Exe. Now the officials were trying to trace him to get their trophies back.

► WISE WORDS

Good business is business with profits to both sides. It is a wise man who looks things over, instead of overlooking things. A lie is too big a price to pay for anything.

► PORT LIGHT APPROVED

The Harbour Commissioners wrote that they were considering installing a flashing light on a 15ft concrete column on the Ness headland, to enable visiting craft to identify the town. 

While shipping already had the lighthouse and a backing red light onshore, those were navigation lights, Mr Ronald Doel expressed the opinion that an identification light was absolutely essential. 

They would remember a coaster running aground at Labrador, and the master saying he could not find the way in. When there was a haze, ships four miles out could not see the red lights, while the suggested light on the Ness would be visible for seven miles.

► RIVIERA CINEMA

Vincent Price in The Pit and the Pendulum; Circus of Horrors; Swiss Family Robinson; Robin Hood; Pinocchio; The Barefoot Executive