Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 April 1933

Marconigrams.

Summer Time begins on Sunday.

“Should M.P.’s address open air or indoor meetings?” “No.” says Punch.

“I want a reduction in the price, not of beer but of milk.”—Mr. Herbert Smith.

A Wath Ruridecanal Conference will be held in the Church House, Wath, on Saturday.

“The modem girl is not a spineless creature,” exclaims a critic. Mr. Punch quite sees that.

It reliably reported that the Government do not intend to tax co-operative society funds after all.

“I should like to see an effective commercial way of marrying oil and coal.”— Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Mines.

The Rev. A. C. Hague, B.A., of Swinton, has been appointed vicar of Holy Trinity, West Hartlepool, by the Bishop of Durham.

Now that many parts of U.S.A. have gone “Wet” it will be interesting to know how Americans will celebrate the difference. “Punch.”

A cargo of British beer, the first legal consignment for thirteen years, was despatched to the United States on Wednesday.

Mr. Mark L. Nokes. J.P., of South Elmsall, formerly of Thurnscoe, on Saturday completed twenty-five years’ service as a West Wing magistrate.

The Rev. Dr. C. E. Whiting (formerly of Hooton Parnell), Professor of Theology at Durham University, was the preacher at the Wath Parish Church on Sunday morning.

Mons. Kredlinger, of Antwerp, a brother-in-law of Mr. O. J. Phillipson, managing director of Manvers Main Collieries, was lost in the air liner disaster at Dixmude last week.

Get your early peas and all seeds from Brookfield Nurseries, Swinton. ‘Phone 224. Shop in Church Street, Swinton, Stall in covered market, Mexborough.