A travelling professional company of the Religious Drama Society, the Pilgrim Players, performed a play entitled "Christ in the concrete city," in the Pontefract Parish Church, on Wednesday. It concerns the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Prayers were led by the Vicar of Pontefract, the Reverend J. Peel, and the Bishop of Pontefract.

Sunday visitors to the Castle grounds, Pontefract, were pleasantly entertained in the historic setting by the Black Dyke Band, which gave the first of the season’s Sunday band concerts. The band, conducted by Mr. E. Hoole, played a varied programme of light music.

An appeal to Christians not to shrink from responsibilities of public life and service, was made by the Lord Lieut, of Durham, Lord Lawson of Beamish, at a well attended rally in the Micklegate Methodist Church, Pontefract, on Sunday, to mark the Men’s Fellowship anniversary. Lord Lawson emphasised the need for Christ in a changing and often terrifying world and quoted from the first Labour Member of Parliament, the late Kier Hardie, that without Christ, social and industrial reforms would be ineffective. In the evening Lord Lawson preached to a large congregation and expressed pleasure at seeing so many young people present.