Above’: Youngsters help old
folk at The Close, Bridge,
by spending their pocket
money at the darts stall at
Saturday’s fete. Right:
Bridge-Blean Council chair-
man, Cllr. Dr. R. A. C.
McIntosh, tries his luck at
bowling.

Bridge fet
recruiting
To help hos,

RECRUITING campaign
launched by the Bridge Gr«
bury Hospitals at a fete and opci
Saturday. The afternoon raised

Opening ‘the fete, the chair-
man of Bridge—Blean Rural
Council, Cllr. Dr. R. A. C. Mc-
Intosh. who is also -a vice-pab
Iron of The Close, said that the
Bridge Group of the Friends
collected £220 last year and that
‘money was spent on providing
comforts, not onlv at The Close
‘but also at -the Kent and Can-
»t‘er‘oury H 0 s p it-a l, Highland
Court, and they made a dona-
ition .to the new Post-graduate
Medical Centre in Canitenbury.

“The Group.” he con-‘tixnued,
“considers that it now needs to
collect somewhere near £300 and
would ‘like to see its rpresent
membership of 371 rrai-sea ‘to
400. I lmow there have been a
‘lot of new houses :built in
Binidge and I am quite sure
there ‘are enough people to
swell «the -membership 1L0 this
ta‘:-get.”

The chairman of :the Group,
-the Rev. C. Perry, had earlier
introduced Cllr. Dr. Mcln-tosh
and thanked all those who
worked for the Grou.p, especially
those who helped organise \the
fete. The secretary, Mrs. F.
Apps, xpropo-sed a. vote of nthanksi
to Cllr. Dr. McIn-tosh. '

Apart f=rom the sideehows and
competitions, ‘there was -a minia-
ture cinema, Pupils from B-ridge
Pr.i-mary School gave a dancing
display and Ithe band of (the 5th
(Volunteer) Ba't.t‘a‘l.ri*on The
Queen's Regimen-t -played dur-
ing the «afternoon.

Stallholdersz Soft drninks, Mrs.
I. Morgan and Mrs. G. Beau-

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