South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 22 June 1934
Marconigrams
Adjacent posters at Thurnscoe: “Beer Best,” “Save Water.”
In the parish of Hampall Stubbs there was neither birth nor death last year.
Lord Halifax is to receive the degree of Doctor of Laws from London University.
The Mexborough birth and death rates balanced last month at 12.7 per thousand.
The Workmen’s Compensation Act is to be extended to cover the mining disease of silicosis.
At Barnsley on Wednesday: “Where did the dog bite this boy?” “Just at the top of the entry.”
“Mine-owners tell me that there are more blacklegs among them than among the miners.” — Mr. G. A. Griffiths, M.P.
“A man in court recently said he had lived for a long spell in Wales. Just the place for a long spell.” — Punch.
“The average man of 1834 was a stupid clod compared with the average man of to-day.” — Mr. R. Haughton James.
Viscount Halifax is to perform the opening ceremony of the Doncaster Technical College extension in September.
An internal drainage board has been formed for the Dearne area, extending from Cawthorne eastward to Conisborough.
Visiting days at the Conisborough Isolation Hospital have been reduced from three to two a week, Tuesday being cut out.
Sir Oswald Mosley is holding a Blackshirt demonstration in the Sheffield City Hall (Socialist controlled!) next Thursday.
“I am learning the violin at sixty-eight,” says a correspondent. “We sympathise with his neighbours living at 66 and 70.” — Punch.
“An expert says that the motor-car of the future will be fitted with wings. So will pedestrians if they have lived good lives.” — Punch.
In spite of appeals for economy the townships of Mexborough and Conisbrough last month increased their consumption of water.
In the House of Commons on Wednesday a Conservative member, Mr. A. E. L. Chorlton, suggested that unemployed miners might take up bricklaying.
“An Austrian has invented a piano which only the pianist can hear. There should be no difficulty in allocating the Nobel Peace Prize this year.” — Punch.
Mr. W. King (South Elmsall) and Mr. J. Potts (Great Houghton) have been elected chairman and vice-chairman of the Osgoldcross Guardians Committee.
“The most interesting half of a life should, psychologically, be the first half. Everything that is acquired is acquired in that time.” — Mr. H. G. Wells.
“The last wave of Victorian colliery development reached as far as New Conisborough and Denaby.” — Dr. A. B. Dunne, medical officer to the Doncaster Rural District Council.
A conference of local authorities is to be held at Mexborough on July 20th to consider the possibility of adopting a 40-hour week for Council staffs without reduction of pay.
The Rev. F. Briggs, D.D., vicar of St. James’s, Worsbrough Bridge, formerly vicar of Mexborough, has accepted the living of Swalcliffe with Shutford, in the diocese of Oxford.
The Yorkshire Traction Company has distributed, ex gratia, £1,000 among the 55 members of the staff of the former Dearne Light Railway who could not be taken over by the Company.
Lord Halifax is to reply for the Government in the House of Lords on 11 July to the demand by local authorities and leaders of education for the raising of the school-leaving age on educational, social and economic grounds.
At the annual conference of the Urban District Councils’ Association at Whitby next week, Mr. W. Chappell, chairman of the Swinton Urban District Council, is to raise the subject of the heavy losses suffered by many local authorities (including Swinton) under de-rating.
In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Tom Williams asked if the Home Secretary was aware that recently 40,000 miners paraded at Doncaster without any police to accompany them, and would he consider employing a few miners to teach the Fascists their business?
Mr. T. W. Ireland, M.A., formerly headmaster of the Mexborough Secondary School, is to receive from the Senate of the Sheffield University, on June 30, the honorary degree of Master of Arts, in recognition of long and valuable work for education in the area served by the University.