Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 16 January 1929

Boots From Distress Fund.

A Thurnscoe Rumour Emphatically Contradicted

At last night’s meeting of the Thurnscoe Urban District Council, the chairman (Mr. H. Bramham) and Mr. H. Mabin contradicted emphatically a rumour that had been going through the town to the effect that miners who had received boots for their children from the Lord Mayor’s Distress Fund had placed the boots in pawn.

The chairman said that he and Mr. Mabin had gone round the schools and had found all the children who had received boots wearing them, with the exception of four, who brought the boots for them to see.

The Council confirmed a minute objecting to the scheme for the use of two uncommissioned wards the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, maternity homes, on the grounds that the wards were erected to meet the requirements of medical and surgical cases.

Mr. Schofield complained that no mention was made in the minutes of his amendment to resolution that the Thurnscoe Council representatives meet representatives of the Bolton Urban Council to consider the provisions of the Local Government Bill.

The minutes were passed a correct record, the Clerk stating that two members voted against the resolution, and he did not hear the amendment put.