Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 July 1932
Marconigrams
Work will commence next week on a new Labour Exchange to be erected in Mexborough.
A second edition of our recent publication, “Landmarks of South Yorkshire,” is being prepared.
Over 400 applications have been received for the tenancies of fifty new Council houses at Mexborough.
“This country must become coal-conscious,” Mr. Isaac Foot, M.P. Secretary for the Mines Department.
Of 133,492 free meals given to children in West Riding schools in 1931, 77,207 were provided in the Hoyland district.
According to Dr. Grayson, insects have no sense of time. Yet we have never known a midge to be late for a picnic. —” Punch.”
The centenary of the Oxford Movement is to be celebrated by a great open-air service in the grounds of Hickleton Hall on June 22nd, 1933.
Nearly 2000 men at Wombwell, Darfield and Hickleton pits have received notice this week, and 500 more will receive notice at Manvers Main shortly.
Since the arrest of their building programme. the West Riding Education Committee have dispensed with the services of eleven school architects.
Messrs. John Baker and Bessemer. Ltd. of Rotherham and Kilnhurst. have received an order for wheels and axles for use on the Danish State Railways.
Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd., owners of a number of South Yorkshire collieries including Goldthorpe, have passed their dividend for the seventh year running.
At a children’s service in the Hooton Pannell vicarage garden last Saturday, the Vicar of Bolton-on-Dearne (Mr. Almond) accompanied the singing on a cornet.
“Considering the state of trade. pianos are still being sold at a surprising rate,” said Mr. Frank Fair, managing director, at the annual meeting of Wilson Peck Ltd.
The agreement under which the Yorkshire Traction Company will take over the Dearne District Light Railway has been approved by the Wombwell Urban District Council.
Heard at the Barnsley West Biding Police Court: The magistrate: I thought all Liberals were teetotal? The Clerk: These are National Liberals.
The Blackhall Colliery Band is to give two concerts in the grounds of Hickleton Hall on Saturday afternoon and evening, and Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, President of the British Legion, will preside over each.
Mr. T. F. S. Brass, M.A. and Mr. J. Brass, B.Sc., sons of Mr. J. Brass, managing director of the Houghton Main Colliery, have both been successful in obtaining their first-class Certificates of competency under the Coal Mines Act.
The Yorkshire Association of Building Societies recommends its members to fix the maximum rate of interest on all new money at 4 per cent., including bonus, for fully paid-up shares, new subscriptions, and on deposits.
The British Legion has organised a big party from Yorkshire for the pilgrimage to Arras and the Belgian battlefield on Sunday and Monday. The party will leave Leeds on Saturday and return the following Saturday.