Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 02 February 1924
Marconigrams
There are now 86 pupils in the new Wath Secondary School.
The late Rev. Arthur Nicholson Vowler, Vicar of Ulley, Rotherham, left £648.
The Mexborough Urban Council are advertising for tenders for the erection of 32 houses.
The oldest native of Conisborough, Mr. George Appleyard, died on Sunday, in his 86th year.
The Rev. T. Romans, an authority on English Church architecture, is to lecture on the subject at Conisborough, on February 21st.
During the railway strike there were long queues of motor lorries and carts at all the local collieries waiting for deliveries of coal.
Miss Hobson, headmistress at the Wath National Schools, and Mrs. Steer, headmistress of Wath Victoria Infants’ School, will retire in March.
A Communist agitator has recently declared that attempting to spread the Communist gospel in this country is like trying to strike a match on a rice pudding.
It is expected that the construction of the Dearne Valley tramway will be completed by the first week in April, and that a service will be running before the end of that month.
The Wath Amateur Operatic Society will perform the comic opera, “Falka,” at the Grand Theatre, Wath, throughout the week commencing February 18th.
A concert promoted by the Montagu Hospital Sports and Entertainments Committee will be held in the Mexboro’ Hippodrome on Sunday evening, Feb. 10th.
St. Michael’s Church, Swinton, has developed in a remarkably successful manner financially, the accounts for the year showing a surplus of £175.
An inquiry has been held at Thurnscoe this week relative to the proposal to increase the number of the members of the Urban District Council to twelve.
An extension of the Fullerton Hospital, Denaby Main, estimated to cost £4,000 bringing the accommodation up to nearly 50 beds, was unanimously approved at the annual meeting of subscribers on Monday.
The resolution passed by the West Riding Education Committee last year, adopting six school-leaving terms in elementary schools, has been suspended until after March 31st next, in deference to a request from the Board of Education.
The Ministry of Labour report that the number of persons recorded on the live registers of Employment Exchanges as totally unemployed on January 21 was 1,215,900, or 4,540 less than the previous week, and 269,978 less than on January 1, 1923.
An effort is being made to arrange for two Shakespearian performances during the present month in the Mexborough Secondary School—probably “Macbeth” for the public, and “The Tempest” for the school—by Mr. Ben Greet’s company.
Mr. W. H. Chambers, of Clayworth Hall, Retford, formerly managing director of the Denaby and Cadeby Collieries, has relinquished, owing to advancing age and uncertain health, the appointment of Assistant Commissioner in the No. 5 District, St. John Ambulance Association.
The Miners’ Federation have accepted the resignation of three of their leading officials who are in the new Government, Mr. Stephen Walsh (vice-president), Mr. Vernon Hartshorne (E.C.), and Mr. Frank Hodges (Secretary). Mr. Tom Richards succeeds Mr. Walsh, Mr. A. Cook succeeds Mr. Hartshorne, and the secretaryship is in commission.
At a special conference of the National Union of Teachers, on Saturday, it was decided to consent to the continuance for the financial year commencing April 1st, 1924, of the 5 per cent. reduction from the gross salaries paid to teachers in elementary, secondary, and technical schools in areas where the allocated Burnham Scales are in operation, on condition that the consideration of scales for 1925-6 onwards be postponed until later in the year.