ing I in her repul 1., 4. _________ _, made several recommend- ations, including financial back- for the society. are vast areas of knowieu e 111 this city which we do not it-smow When his department nau the and if someone does not do tried to“pin them down"abou1; absdlutely wrong." will t h e ninus stops Slose, buses to St going a m e zrvice ' and from w i l l imon. lly as Close serve igsido :e 32 ia St 3 p e r 1 will ' tem- Roper sity i-stop aus. lquire may ; cen- Can- £1.15 zrbury aced ir, the Danni 3. oung Wives presented Highland Court Hospital with a tumble dryer andfiknitted blanket on Tuesday. The wives held a sponsored knit-in to raise the money for the dryer, during which they made the blanket. ‘ Dryer gift for hospital A party of 16 members of the Bridge Young Wives’ Group made a return visit to Highland Court Hospital on Tuesday to present a tumbler dryer given by the group for the use of the hospital. They were welcomed by Mr J. Jackson, secretary of the Canterbury Group Hos- pital Management Commit- tee, Miss B. E. Armitage, principal group nursing offi- cer. and Mr W. McGuinness, nursing ofiicer in charge at Highland Court. In handing over the gift, the group secretary, Mrs P. Anderson, said: "This has been made possible by the efforts of our members and the generosity of their spon- sors in our recent knitting marathon and‘ is-a mark of appreciation and admiration for the wonderful work car- ried out by the hospital staff.” Mr McGuinness, who ac- cepted the gift on behalf of the hospital, thanked all who had contributed. Mrs K. Pierce, leader of the Young Wives’ Group, pre- sented to a resident patient a blanket made from the knitted squares for use in his wheel chair and thanked Mr McGuinness and his staff for the buffet refreshments. St Anselm-a man of our times THIS week, a Canterbury art teacher, who believes that St Anse1m’s life has been eclipsed by the death 70 ‘years later of Thomas Bec- ket, will have her faith put to the test. . On Thursday and Friday children at St Anselm’s Roman Catholic Secondary School, Old Dover Road, will present Anselm of Canter- bury. It is a full-length lay on the life of the saint wri ten by the teacher, Miss Joan White, of 134 Whitstable Road, Can- terbury. It was a year ago that Miss White and other members of staff at the school discussed a suitable way of celebrating the school's 10th anniversary this year. - Hotelierifinedyfori motoring A CANTERBURY hotelier was fined a total of £34 for five motoring oiiences by the city magistrates on Friday. Lorries were overloaded’ A ‘ Two transpo'rt"comps.nies- and their drivers were fined by the city magistrates on Friday for using over-loaded lorries. They were Sandwich and District Growers, of Grove Road, Preston, and their driver, Albert Wright, of 264A Reculver Road, Beltinge_ and Albert Raines, of 236 Hythe Road, Ashford, and driver Barclay Raines, of 95 Towers- view, Kennington. Mr Noel Hunter, prosecut- ing for the Kent County Council W e i g h t s and offences Paul Wilkinson, aged 28, of The Salisbury Hotel, Station, Road West, admitted using a. van with insufficient mir- rors, withoutva. born, without insurance and with an out- of-date driving licence on January 4; charge of driving with an out-of-date licence on Janu- ary 13. , , Mr Conn Dunster told the court Wilkinson was driving along Castle Street, Canter- bury, on January 4. - He was stopped as there .were no wing mirrors on the van, and the horn, when tested, did not work.- A few days later Wilkin- son produced a driving licence, which had expired, and an insurance cover note, which had also expired. Mr Anthony Girling, for Wilkinson, told the court: “As far as renewing the driv- Ina Hnonno ie nnnr-nrnnri hp and a further- The school is hoping to have a statue of the saint erected at the school. "But.” sa s Miss White, "we agreed thati was wron to put up a statue to someone at very few people knew much about. . - “We talked about doing a pageant, then I was ill and durin my three months of conv escence I had time to think about the idea. This is the result." ‘ The more she researched the life of Anselm, the more he became a “Man for our times," says Miss White. "In a way much more than Becket. He has been e§l_i sed by_Begket,_V_._vli_o ' died near y 7iTy§arsl§.ter.’ The research, says Miss White. showed that Anselm was more than‘ just a leading scholar. "The more I looked, the more I realised he was a whole man. A real person with great character.” FIRST PLAY This is Miss White's first pla . but she admits that Anselm 3 life provided the perfect plot. "It has everything that a play needs. including a murder. a." royal weddingand no less than three kings." ‘ One of the main points_:of' Anselm's personalit was ‘his.’ ability to make las g friend- ships: “He had a genius for, friendship, with a. tremendous wargith of character and a. clear min .” ’ ‘ The lay covers the years?” from 1 57, when Anselm left; home after a quarrel with his father, to 1106, Just three years before his death i.n Canterbury. Music for the prodtictlon - ~- -=..:»~:-.-‘haw. M’ .