A letter addressed to the Mayor of Narberth offered a display of 500 photographs and prints ‘in your city’ commemorating the anniversary of the death of the former Indian Prime Minister, Mahatma Ghandi. Councillors agreed that the Clerk should inform the correspondent of the small population of Narberth, which would not warrant such a display.

Tenby Players presented Noel Coward’s Nude with Violin at Greenhill School. Newcomer Ann Jefcoate was praised for her ‘perfect’ portrayal of Cherry-May Waterton.

Despite the Leasehold Reform Act, the leasehold system was being perpetrated by private developers in the Tenby area, members of the town’s General Purposes Committee were told. Said Councillor Glyn Powell: “I think it is very, very wrong for people who build new houses to build them on lease. I think they should, as the Government stipulated, sell them as freehold.”

The Ministry of Defence gave the official OK for ‘Babs’, the car which set up a land-speed record 40 years earlier, to be dug up from Pendine sands where it had crashed in 1927, killing Welshman J. G. Parry Thomas.

In Saundersfoot, concerns were expressed over the safety of the tunnel between the village and Coppett Hall.

Councillor H. C. Johnson criticised the County Education Committee’s proposal to scrap Narberth Secondary School as a shameful waste of public money.

Marriages: 2nd Lieut. T. O. G. Stokes, Miss M. J. Wilson at St. Issell’s, Saundersfoot; Mr. D. J. Sture, Miss P. A. Murphy at St. Mary’s, Begelly.

Rugby: Pembroke Dock Quins and Tenby United provided fans with an exciting and hard-fought league match, with Tenby winning 13-6. Everyone agreed that the Quins were no pushovers; it was hard to believe that they were languishing at the bottom of the league table.