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Marconigrams – November 3rd, 1933

November 1933

South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1933

Marconigrams

“Anything for an unquiet life—that’s the modem slogan.”—Mr. Ingleby Oddie.

October was the best trading month in the Yorkshire coal industry since April.

“I am very fond of money, and the older I get the fonder I get.”—Mr. Bernard Shaw.

The number of parliamentary electors in the Don Valley continues to increase and is now 68,008.

There is a reduction of five per cent in the permitted output of the Yorkshire coalfield for November.

The London and North-Eastern Railway Company are to spend £2,300,000 on new construction next year.

Some of the Dearne Valley tramcars have been purchased for service in Falkirk and in Lytham St. Annes.

We understand that two syndicates are in negotiation for the purchase of the Hippodrome Theatre, Mexboro’.

The Bishop of Sheffield will preach the re-opening, after renovation, of John’s Church, Adwick-on-Dearne, Wednesday, Nov. 22nd November.

The Wath-on-Dearne Urban District Council have agreed to support a public appeal for funds for the reconditioning of the parish church bells.

The Very Rev. Canon Leteux, formerly Roman Catholic priest at Hemsworth aid at Denaby Main, died last Friday, aged 70 and was buried on Tuesday at Denaby.

The choirs of the daughter churches of Wombwell, Worsboro’, and Ardsley took part in the patronal festival of the ancient parish church of Darfield on Wednesday.

Mr. Harry Pollitt, the Communist leader, spent the weekend in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and addressed crowded meetings at Denaby and Mexboro’ on Sunday.

“The National Recovery Act is the last throw of capitalism,” writes Mr. Joseph Hall, J.P., of Wombwell, financial secretary of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association, who is in the United State as a British trade union observer.