Excerpt from a report on an item at a Bridge-Blean rural council planning committee meeting: “Resolved: As a matter of urgency, that consideration…… be deferred.”

A large white sow belonging to Stanley Hooker of Madams Court Frinsted gave birth to a litter of 24 pigs, believed to be a record. It is hoped that 8 will survive. The average litter of pigs is 7-8.

It was decided to stop restoration work on Canterbury Cathedral’s Bell Harry tower owing to the recent declaration of war.

A Mr Gambrill fell in front of the Herne Bay bus in Sea St, Whitstable following an epileptic fit. The bus driver managed to pull up, and the man was attended to by four Blackshirts and taken to the Fascist Headquarters where his wounds were washed and dressed by the first aid section of the British Union of Fascists.

Henry Black was fined a total of 21s 6d for driving a locomotive at over two miles an hour in London Road, Canterbury on December lst

The men employed at Tomson and Wotton’s Ramsgate brewery had their annual outing. Two saloon carriages on the S.E.R. provided with plenty of refreshments for the journey to London was thoroughly enjoyed. They wended their way to the Smithfield cattle show and various places of amusement were subsequently patronised; the return journey commenced 11.50pm. On the way home the toast of  “The Firm,” by whom the expenses of the day were generously borne, was most enthusiastically drunk.

An eccentric man name Rutley was fined 38s at Dover Police Court for being drunk and disorderly. He is locally known as “The Admiral” after he paid a visit to the German fleet last autumn attired in the uniform of British Admiral, and was received as such by the German commander. It was stated that the defendant was in the habit of wearing a sword, and when under the influence of drink he flourished it about in a dangerous manner.