RESIDENTS in Finstall, Bromsgrove, asked the Post Office to consider making deliveries to the village on Sundays, a service already enjoyed by their neighbours in Aston Fields. The application was being made through Stoke Prior Parish Council which appeared to be divided on the issue. At a meeting, its chairman, the Rev Stockdale, commented that London, the World's greatest city, managed perfectly well without one, therefore so could Finstall who only had a handful of residents. The pro-lobby felt they had a strong hand as Bromsgrove's MP Austen Chamberlain had recently joined the Cabinet as Postmaster General.

POWICK asylum was full to overflowing, the female wards especially so. Workhouses at Bromsgrove and Droitwich were warned not to send any more of its paupers suffering from mental illness.

THE high price of mains water supplies was giving the ruling guardians at Droitwich workhouse, where there was a perfectly good well, a headache. The habit of changing the water after only two tramps had bathed in it was wasteful, so in future they proposed to make all able bodied paupers use the well to pump their own water.

NELLIE France, a 19-year-old press worker, was brought up at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions held at the Shire Hall, Worcester, charged with stealing a child - Elizabeth Guest, from Bromsgrove. The jury heard France and a male friend had lodged with the Guests for one night and in the morning she had made off with the girl. She was tracked down by Pc Walters on his cycle, four miles away making for Halesowen. Before being sentenced to six months' hard labour France had pleaded that she was merely taking the girl for a walk.

THREE Droitwich lads - Ben Colley, Henry Bourne and William Fullaway - appeared at the Borough Petty Sessions charged with wilfully playing football in the street. Each was fined 4/6 (22.5p).