South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 17 July 1943
Marconigrams
More than 100,000 road passenger transport workers in England and Wales will benefit by an agreement which has been reached for an increase in the war wage of 4s. 6d. a week for adults, calculated on the hourly rate of pay, with agreed increases to other staff.
Swinton will have two wall plaques instead of one to commemorate its adoption during Warship Week of the trawler-minesweeper Kingston Jacinth. At the formal exchange of plaques from the Admiralty to the town, and from the town to the ship on Saturday, a former commander of the minesweeper, which has been sunk since the campaign was held, received the town’s plaque on behalf of the ship and then returned it to be kept as a memorial.
Out of a total of sixty-six convictions recorded by the R.S.P.C.A. last month, Yorkshire had three. An unusual feature has been the number of cases of cruelty to birds. There have been three cases of cruelty to ducks, two to thrushes and one each involving a starling and a gosling. In addition, there is one case of a bird being braced as a decoy, and three of confining in too small a cage. There are five cases under the Wild Birds Protection Act. The total number of convictions is the same as last month., Horses and dogs are still far too high on the list, with twelve and eleven respectively, but cases against pigs have sunk from six to one. The list shows an increase of ten over the same month last year of
Mr. J. C. Winterbottom, stationmaster at Wath L.N.E.R. passenger station, has been appointed stationmaster at Barnby Dun, in charge of Bramwith.
The Rev. N, F. Kedward, resident minister at the Doncaster Road Methodist Church, Goldthorpe, for the last year is leaving in August to become a chaplain in the Royal Navy.
Over three hundred young miners have already responded to the appeal of the South Yorkshire branch of the Young Communist League to spend their holidays on the land helping farmers. The numbers who have already agreed to help include the following from South Yorkshire areas: Thurnscoe, a notice at the pit gates resulted in well over 60 miners volunteering; Cudworth, a good response; Mexborough, over thirty volunteers; Maltby, over eighty young miners volunteered in three days, more enrolling.