Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 05 May 1933
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A fourteenth-century arrow-head has been unearthed in Conisborough garden.
There is no one livning person who is not in debt to our voluntary hospitals.—Lord Moynihan.
Defendant, at Barnsley, on Wednesday: “The brake was not bad, it was puttable right.”
The Swinton Urban Council have reduced their rate for the half-year by twopence, to 5s. 4d.
The third annual Gift Day of the Wath Rural Deanery for the Bishop’s Appeal Fund raised £478.
The Maltby Amateur Operatic Society are performing ” Merrie England ” from May 10th to May 15th.
We read that for three years a London barber refused to speak to his only sun. He cut his own heir.—” Punch.”
A Yorkshire solicitor found a large snake coiled up in hie bath. It must have made him go h. and c. all over.—” Punch.”
An historian announces that women used cosmetics in the Middle Ages. Women still use cosmetics in the middle ages.–Punch.
A cynic says that the greatest sign of industrial activity in this country is the number of people with axes to grind.—” Punch.”
The quota of permitted output in the Yorkshire coalfield for May is 62.5 per cent of standard tonnage, compared with 65 per cent last month.
“I do not think the method adopted by suicides should be reported. It simply encourages people.”
The Kilnhurst Colliery has been closed for several months for a complete mechanical overhaul. About 800 men and boys are affected by this temporary suspension.
The Swinton and Mexborough Gas Board during the year ended March. 1932, increased their sales by over 60 per cent, owing to a large increase in the industrial demand for gas.
Trading results for March in the Yorkshire coalfield were not so satisfactory as in the two preceding months, and resulted in an increase in the debt of the wage fund to the owners.
The Minister of Labour has informed Mr. T. Williams, M.P., that the cost of administering public assistance in Durham and Rotherham by commission up to March 31st was £23,100.
The Ministry of Health has intimated its disapproval of the action of the West Riding County Council in authorising a separate public assistance rent allowance of eight shillings a week.
As a result of the coal quota it has been found necessary to work only one shift per day at Earl Fitzwilliam’s New Stubbin Colliery. The work is being shared among the whole of the men.
A fire which destroyed a railway station waiting room is thought to have been started by a spark from an engine. We did not think it passible to start a fire in a waiting room.—’Punch.”
Mr. David Jagger, the painter, is represented in this year’s Royal Academy with a portrait of Miss Ruth Graves, daughter of the Sheffield philanthropist, Alderman J. G. Graves. His brother, Mr. Charles Sergeant Jagger, the sculptor, exhibits models of groups intended to decorate the facade of Thames House, Millbank, and a sketch of a statue of the King-Emperor designed for Delhi.
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