Marconigrams
Rotherham Quarter Sessions will be held on Friday, April 30th.
Holidays at home will be arranged in most industrial areas this summer.
Royston Urban Council on Monday levied an unchanged rate of 9s. in the £ for the current half-year.
The ordinary West Riding Division Petty Sessions will not be held on Easter Monday at Rotherham.
Coun. H. Waring was on Monday elected chairman of Rotherham Rural District Council with Coun. W. Cloke, J.P., vice-chairman.
Mr. C. W. Peat, a member of the Rockingham Lodge of Freemasons, was among those who received Provincial honours at a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge at Bradford recently.
An interesting feature of the annual meeting of Rotherham Chamber of Commerce was a statement on industry and State influence by the President, Mr. T. W. Edwards.
The gardens at Wentworth Woodhouse will be open on Easter Monday, April 26th, from 11.30 until 7 p.m. The entrance is 1s. and the proceeds will be given to the Red Cross and St. John Fund.
Mr. N. Baster (South Kirby), fatherstone and Hemsworth Collieries) was elected President of the Yorkshire Branch of the National Association of Colliery Managers at Leeds on Saturday.
Dearne Urban Council are to have an official seal made from a design by the Surveyor (Mr. W. H. Adams). It depicts the unification in 1937 of Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Bolton into one urban district.
A profit of £192 in the year ended March 31st, 1943, was announced at the annual meeting of Frickley Colliery Athletic Club on Sunday. The profit brings the club’s total credit balance to £365.
Rotherham United will play Doncaster Rovers at Millmoor on Saturday.
Royston Urban Council are to invest £1,000 in Royston Wings for Victory Week.
Coun. N. Mell, J.P., has completed 40 years’ service as a member of Hoyland Urban Council.
Coun. H. Burkinshaw is the new chairman of Rawmarsh Urban Council and Coun. H. Hutchinson is vice-chairman.
The pending retirement was announced on Sunday of the Ven. Archdeacon Arthur Baker, Rector of Handsworth.
Delegates of Rotherham Labour Party and Trades Council will on Tuesday next resume discussion on the Communist application.
Hoyland Urban Council have elected Coun. G. A. Laister chairman and Coun. Stanley Bedford vice-chairman. Mr. Laister is aged 38 and the youngest member to hold the office.
Mr. T. W. Edwards, secretary of Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., was on Monday elected president of Rotherham and District Chamber of Commerce for the fifth year in succession.
Arrangements have been made for short Easter holidays, including Saturday and Monday at a number of works in Rotherham and district. In others the holiday break is for one day only.
Magistrates at Rotherham West Riding Court on Monday were Mr. W. Dyson (chairman), Colonel M. C. Martyn, Mrs. Nicholson, in the first court; Mr. B. Willoughby (presiding), Mr. S. C. Ward and Mr. H. Hutchinson.
Mr. George Baker, O.B.E., of Herringthorpe Hall, Rotherham, managing director of Messrs. J. Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., has been appointed President of the Sheffield and District Engineering Trades Employers’ Association.
Ald. W. Dobbie, M.P. for Rotherham, who voted against the Government on the Beveridge Report, gave a talk on the Beveridge proposals at a special meeting of Rotherham Labour Party and Trades Council on April 16th.
Allowances made by Rotherham Co-operative Society on behalf of 110 married and 114 single members of the staff who have joined the Forces, totalled £1,952 for the half-year ended March 9th, 1943, and of this amount the employee’s quota was £483.
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Herbert Petch (24), of Upton, near South Elmsall, has been awarded the D.F.C. Before joining the R.A.F. six years ago he worked at Upton L.N.E.R. Station. Flight Lieut. Petch has taken part in many raids on Germany.
On Monday 169 employees of Darfield Main Colliery received seven days’ notice. The step is stated to be due to concentration and to have been taken with the approval of the Regional Controller of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. The men affected are employed in the Melton Field seam. As many as possible are to be re-absorbed in other work at the pit.
Mr. Frank Williams, of Mexborough, has been appointed headmaster of the Hill Boys’ Modern School, Thurnscoe, in succession to Mr. T. H. Bollans, who is retiring. Mr. Williams is headmaster of the Denaby Main Junior Mixed School.
The Mackworth Praed Cup, premier award in the Home Guard .22 rifle shooting competition, was presented to the winning team, No. 15 Platoon “D” Company, 71 Battalion, West Riding (Staincross) Home Guard at a ceremonial parade on Sunday at Cudworth.
Mrs. E. Lenthall, of Dronfield Woodhouse, near Sheffield, who recently gave a series of talks on Russia at Rotherham Adult School, was on Monday elected the first woman chairman of Dronfield Urban District Council, of which she has been a member since 1936.
At the annual meeting of the Yorkshire District of the British Commercial Gas Association Mr. J. W. Brearley, Engineer and Manager to the Swinton and Mexborough Gas Board, was elected vice-chairman of the Yorkshire District. Mr. Brearley was also elected to the National Executive of the Association and the Association’s Publicity Committee in London.