South Yorkshire Times, October 10, 1942
Marconigrams
The two tyres of a big bomber now weigh close on 8 cwt.
Half the sugar consumed in Great Britain is now provided by sugar beet grown in this country.
Between two and three million gardens and 1,750,000 allotments are yearly producing vegetables to the value of between £ 10,000,000 and £15,000,000.
Wath Urban Council on Tuesday turned down the appeal of the Swinton Urban Council for a supplementary supply of water to augment their own inadequate supply.
The Mexborough and district Railwaymen’s Whateley House Fund, which aims at raising £1,700 for the purchase of Whateley House for the extension of the Montagu Hospital is nearing the £7OO mark. This amount has been raised since last March.
Coun. T. H. Barker, of Goldthorpe has been appointed Regional Investigation Officer under the Minister of Fuel and Power for the group of collieries comprising Hickleton, Denaby, Cadeby, Manvers, Barnburgh, Goldthorpe and Highgate.
Mrs. D. M. Charlton, of Brampton House, West Melton, the South Yorkshire representative of the Yorkshire branch of the Women’s Advisory Housing Council, has been making a survey of local housing conditions. A consensus of opinion is that “home ” is still the most Important place in the life of the women of South Yorkshire and that she would rather prepare her own meals than subscribe to a greater communal life.
The water supply in many parts of Swinton remains very unsatisfactory and householders are very seriously inconvenienced. Some solution to this pressing problem must be found.
The gardeners in the Mexborough Montagu Hospital area have contributed between four and five tons of potatoes to the Montagu Hospital. These gifts are warmly appreciated.
Immediately after the Christmas rush of mall has been got out of the way a new air letter mail service is to be introduced by the Post Office. It will be to forces in the Middle East and beyond.
At a meeting of Mexborough Modern School Governors on Monday it was decided to form committees consisting of pupils at senior schools in the district to deal with school offences, such as theft.
Major Herbert Sutcliffe, the famous Yorkshire cricketer, has given a tentative promise to take part in next summer’s charity cricket match at Mexborough. It will be remembered that the last match realised £500 for the Montagu Hospital.
The scholars of Wath Grammar School held a Harvest Festival service last Friday, subsequent to which they sent a lorry load of vegetables grown either in the school gardens or in their own home allotments to the Montagu Hospital and the Wath Wood Hospital.
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company have made a number of concessions to Old Denaby residents in the course of modification of increased ferry charges which will now come into force this week-end on the ferry across the River Don between Mexborough and Old Denaby.