Farnham Mail from Farnham, Surrey, England • 6

6 MAILbox The Mail November 11 1986 High toll among developers in the battle advance Deaths STEVENS Gladys Beloved mother of Bill and Ann passed away suddenly on November 6 1986 Funeral service to take place at Aider-shot Crematorium on Wednesday November 12 at 1130 am Any flowers please to The Co-operative Funeral Service 68 Victoria Road Famborough farther into our ranges for our fields MY friend and neighbour Christel Rummery would do well to doublecheck her facts before writing to the Press or complaining to the Ombudsmen her two hobbies Happily Michael has now been converted road to Damascus late than never he now for new housing inner cities rather than on green fields But I fear Mrs will never be converted that Births CATO The precious gift of a baby girl Danielle to Greg and Kim Cato (Heigho) Bom October 9 1986 Our sincere thanks to staff of Maternity Frimley Park Hospital Special thanks to the Staff Nurse who bought her into the world weighing 61b 9oz GROCOCK To Paul and Liz congratulations on the birth of your son Matthew on November 5 1986 at Louise Margaret Aldershot Congratulations BARHAM Karen congratulations on passing the Law Society's final examinations With much love Mum Jackie David and all the family -The MAIL- Biting the hand that feeds? Member of Parliament Mr Julian Critchley has joined the protests at the huge cuts in rate support grants being imposed on the Shire counties Hampshire is to receive £12m less from Whitehall in the next financial year which will inevitably mean a hefty increase for ratepayers to find The policy apparently is to deprive the counties full of loyal Tory supporters in order to find more money for the areas but the latter are mostly run by spendthrift Socialist councils so the effect will be to reward the profligate to die detriment of the thrifty Counties such as Hampshire and Surrey which have worked wonders in meeting Government targets while maintaining a reasonable level of public service now feel they are being just as badly dealt with by the Conservatives as they were by the last Labour government Mr Maurice Perratt chairman of Hampshire Federation of Associations has sent a letter to the Environment Minister Mr Nicholas Ridley pointing out that the system seems to favour high-spending authorities operate with little or no regard for at the expense of those who spend responsibly continual diversion of rate support grants away from the Shire counties has gone on for far too long and has taken us the ratepayers to the end of our patience We therefore say enough is he declares Will Mr Ridley take heed? It seems that there are a number of Tory rebels in the Commons on this issue but will there be enough to make Mr Ridley and his Cabinet colleagues think again? This is a matter of great importance for many thousands of households It could also be a matter of considerable electoral importance to the Government for with the rise of die Alliance in local elections the Conservatives cannot now take too much for granted THE Army has extended the danger area of the Ash Ranges by several hundred acres I refer to that land west of a line from Ash Wharf to Furze Hill and including in particular the tarmac road that runs on the eastern edge of Ash Vale Until this week this area has Heseltine on the better campaigns in the our Rummery to understand planning committee does not support the housebuilders in the fearful over-development of this district Incidentally the field is NOT in our village conservation area would that it were and working on that! Also Charles Church are NOT the developers whose application we finally approved But I welcome Mrs concern for our village environment which I fully share Over the past few years we have inter alia fought off three appeals over the whole of Church House Farm a similar number over the upper part of our and two so far at the Croft The green fields around our village are stained with blood Long may our successes continue! David Carrow Councillor for Hartley Wintney Winchfield and El-vetham Hart It is not for an editor to alter correspondents' personal opinions or to decide whether they are mbbish or not Editor favourite Perhaps you too Sir would also check such allegations before printing indeed headlining the total rubbish that appears in her letter of November 4 Very sadly a Department of the Environment Inspector in 1980 while refusing housing development over the whole Church Farm site Hartley Wintney indicated it would not be unreasonable for some houses to go at the foot of the slope farthest from St Church and our much loved village churchyard Just at that time Michael Heseltine as Secretary of State for the Environment ordered a change in the NE Hampshire Structure Plan so that certain named villages chiefly Hartley Wintney Hook and Yateley were forced to accept many hundreds of additional houses Hart was directed to find the sites and the unhappy forced allocation of 70 houses at Church House Farm with access over common land was actually made in 1982 in our local plans WRITE to: The Editor Penmark House Albert Road Aldershot CAMBERLEY DISTRICT FUNERAL SERVICES LTD (Formerly Greedy and Son Lid) DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Private Chapels of Rest 24-HOUR SERVICE YORKTOWN ROAD COLLEGE TOWN CAMBERLEY TEL CAMBERLEY 33241 In Memoriam GODDARD Henrietta Elizabeth In loving memory of dear Mum Hetty died November 11 1967 age 70 Treasured memories of you still A song a flower a distant hill Harry and Norma Using our revolutionary microchip system FuelBoss Fuel for fur trade onslaught I WOULD just like to thank those readers who responded to my recent request for fur coats to be used in the campaign against the fur trade The increasing momentum of the lynx campaign must be worrying the British Fur Trade Association who have set aside substantial funds to defend their business when faced with anti-fur campaigners Supporters may like to know that an all-party group of MPs has been formed to recommend an Early Day Motion calling for a ban on the import of skins obtained by trapping methods long outlawed in Britain as inhumane Please write to your local MP to voice your opinion and to urge him to support the motion The fur traders may have the funds but the voice of the public can be loud enough to speak out on behalf of the animals to influence legislation Julie Eagle Moray Avenue College Town Camberley Letters appear in the every Tuesday and Friday FUNERAL DIRECTORS The complete Funeral Service PATRICK CO 86 East Street Tel Famham 714884 been open to the public at all times and was very popular with local residents I know of heart attack victims young cyclists and mothers with children all seeking to minimise the danger of the main roads Additionally the road was used by large numbers of walk-eers some with dogs joggers and others out for a leisurely stroll on Sunday mornings To add insult to injury residents received a letter from Brig Mountford Aldershot Garrison Commander saying: would like to emphasise that in no way are we attempting to increase restrictions on Ash This letter was of course delivered after the imposition of the new restrictions and the erection of the fence It goes on to thank us for the continual goodwill Some time ago your paper published a denial by the Army that there were any plans to fence off the common We now know this was at the time when an Act of Parliament was being prepared to allow such fencing Can we place any more credence on the word with such a past history of prevarication? 1 fully expect the danger flags to fly 24 hours a day seven days a week from now on Shades of Critchel Down! Has the Army learnt nothing about public relations since 1947? It could of course restore the use of this area to us it Our customers are saving 35p in every The answer is in the Bible BY supposing that attitudes and responses to the human condition must be the same as ours Mr Starke (Letters Oct 14) falls into perhaps the commonest of all traps in this area We spend an hour a year in fascinating document that THE Penmark House Albeit Road Aldershot 240 Fleet Road Fleet 4 High Street Camberley Classified Advertisements Aldershot 28221 Fleet 62248 Camberley 681161 Aldershot 27222 John Kay which regulates and precisely tl expenditure drops substantially without loss of monitors central heating so precisely that fuel comfort Worth calling us it? FuelBoss London Road Hook Tel Hook 49096528 Then and now has been largely unused since 1945 but I would bet my pension to a penny that nothing would move it to do so The local council with an eye to the Army as the largest employer of local labour will again do nothing on behalf of the people it is elected to represent A Bolt Heather Close Ash Vale research I AM busily researching my family tree and wish to find out more about one particular ancestor Charles Frederick Nichols (bom in Gloucestershire 1870) lived in the Camberley area between 1920 and 1940 I do not know what became of him after that Can anyone tell what happened to Mr Nichols? I should be most grateful and would hope if successful to re-establish contact with his descendants Shem-monds 2 Alston Close Surbiton Surrey week! dance electric light breakfast luncheon afternoon tea and dinner from £3 13s 6d per Today after a £3 million facelift the present man MRS Brewer complains about the money spent on security at the Tory conference and wonders why the same was not paid out on the Labour Party conference (letters October 28) Just a few bobbies were needed she says at the Labour conference The reason is simple Mrs Brewer: it is hardly likely that terrorists would blow up the people who give them support and sympathy as do the Labour Party! Recently we have had the Labour-controlled Haringey council (or should I call it Har-ing-gay) allowing the mouthpiece of the IRA Sinn Fein to vent their hate of Britain Also in Brighton the Labour councillors allowed the same people the platform to spew their hatred because Mrs Thatcher has taken a stand against terrorists that the security is needed Mrs Brewer to protect you and people like you I am proud to know that my taxes are spent to safeguard this government and Mrs Thatcher is the best we have had since Churchill Lyle (Miss) Gordon Road Camberley DO you recognise the Famborough Hotel? Of course not This is how it looked back in Victorian times before a fire in 1902 led to its rebuilding in the familiar Edwardian style that we know today Built originally in 1855 to serve the new Army camp it offered and families first-class accommodation for both man and beast stabling for 100 horses pine douche XX the NEWS group THE suggestion that Surrey Heath Council should commission a sculpture for its new civic offices possibly sponsored by local industry raises some fascinating possibilities Coun Mrs Jeanne Read who put forward the idea suggests that such a work would bring a great deal of publicity for a sponsoring company's product With the art world having swooned over arrangements of bricks at the Tate a wheelbarrow containing horse manure and a tasteful collection of car tyres spread out along the Em-brankment why not use a sponsoring prodcuts to form the sculpture? Johnson Wax for example would derive a great deal of publicity through a sculpture formed of empty polish cans and plastic Toilet Ducks Likewise a few filing cabinets soldered together would bring everlasting fame to Bis-ley Office Equipment A column of oxygen canisters would acknowledge the presence in the borough of the BOC Group Of course some of the less artistic might think that such an arrangement was nothing more than a pile of old rubbish But you I and Mrs Read would know better church our Bibles gather a dust on our shelves and Name escapes our lips only when a misplaced hammer strikes our fingers Yet we have the presumption to believe that our logic must necessarily be His In fact it is not God Himself says that thoughts are not your thoughts and neither are My ways your If God is so good and loving how can He allow such suffering? to paraphrase Mr Starke Well He is good and loving as every one of the 1370 pages in my Bible tells me Yet even as early as page three I learn that there is an obligation on me Again and again He tells His people this obligation again and again they ignore it and again and again they suffer along with their families Finally to warn of another trap: when criticising Christians for getting it wrong (and yes it does often happen) remember to judge the letter by the quality of the contents not the garb of the postman Regarding the USA Mr Starke might ponder the number of powerful men of God whose voice is daily seen and heard on TV and radio in that country and the fact that one of them is preparing to stand for president I have yet to hear a voice from the so-called national Church in this country raised against the increasing tide of sins now including under the guise of the active promotion of homosexuality and lesbianism Michael Wilson Copse Way Wrecclesham Famham MR and Mrs two-pronged attack (Letters Oct 21) on my taking them to task for bom again glib selectivity in interpreting the Gospels has more than a little of a whiff of self-righteous cant about it get one thing straight for a start: my Bible needs no dusting down Alan I first took it up to read (from cover to cover as it happens) as many years ago as you say you and Pat have been journalists that is 40 It is my lifelong study of this leads me to have the temerity to challenge relative newcomers to its pages when they use convenient passages to confirm their own particular prejudices Two can play that game sorry but I cannot dignify version of using the Bible as the source with any deeper description So my turn now Pat you quote Deuteronomy at me Chapter 28 to be precise Turn back a few chapters to number 23 Lo and behold! All of us who thought we were being responsible in an overpopulated world by having vasectomies are barred from the Church Quote: that is wounded in the stones or hath his privy member cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the While on the subject of acceptability in the eyes of the Lord I note Pat and Alan in your diligent search for Biblical justification for the acquisition of worldly goods that you missed that inconvenient New Testament warning that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven I am asked if I have ever met a missionary with the clear intimation that such a sinner as I could never have done so Sorry to shatter another prejudice Alan My father as a dedicated Quaker led a mission to Kenya during the Mau Mau crisis in the 1950s with what Quakers call to rehabilitate Africans who had espoused that quasi-religious cult Mau Mau With a courage I have never been able to emulate my team steadfastly maintained the pacifism of their brand of faith for two years until they came home despite facing death at the hands of terrorists more than once I may not share my father's religion but I respect the way he has borne witness to it as a missionary considerably more than I do those who peddle their brand of Biblical ballyhoo around the Third World backed up by Uncle bombs and bullets Mike Sharp Chale Green Isle of Wight Photographs taken by the News Group staff photographers can be ordered from the News Adcentres at: Aldershot News Camberley News 1 Penmark House 4 High Street Albert Road Camberley Aldershot Fleet News 240 Fleet Road Fleet Each photograph size 8in 6in costing £2 including VAT must be prepaid when ordered A NEW medal specially commissioned by the Normandy Association has been in great demand from around the world Anyone who fought in the Normandy campaign between June and August 1944 is eligible and veterans have turned up from Australia New Zealand and Ariferica as well as from around this country to get the medal which is being sold to help the national NVA Charitable Fund Aldershot branch chairman Jerry Hills tells me that there have also been a few requests from other Normandy battle veterans from Germany Jerry who himself holds numbered medal 74 said the requests have been turned down were in he admits they were in the wrong I GOT a feeling of patriotism when a letter (hopped on my desk with a Union Jack as part of the franking At last I thought someone proud to be British It was most enjoyable Imagine my surprise therefore when I opened the letter and saw where it had come from Japanese motor firm Nissan no less and advertising Japanese cars made in Spain at that! 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