South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 1 June 1934

Marconigrams

Sheffield has enough water to supply itself for 136 days.

Average weekly earnings in the Durham coalfield were 36s. 10d. last year.

The Bishop of Sheffield, who is in his 77th year, is the oldest bishop on the bench.

Nearly 40,000 persons visited the L.N.E. railway exhibition at Doncaster last week-end.

The amalgamation of the great brewing firms of Allsopp and Ind Coope has been finally approved.

The number of persons in employment in this country, 10,187,000, is the highest since December 1929.

Nearly 2,000 half-pint bottles of milk are sold weekly to the men leaving work at Smithywood Colliery.

“If you have money, idleness is leisure; if you have not, it is unemployment.” — The Archbishop of York.

Strong contingents from South Yorkshire took part in a Church Lads’ Brigade review and parade at York Minster on Saturday.

The present output of Sheffield steel is at the rate of a million and a half tons a year, which is 35 per cent more than in 1913.

The Rev. J. A. Claxton, formerly headmaster of the Doncaster Grammar School, was ordained priest in Sheffield Cathedral on Sunday.

The Yorkshire Amalgamated Collieries (Denaby, Cadeby, Maltby, Dinnington, and Rossington) are to issue £1,250,000 of 4½ per cent Mortgage Debentures.

Mr. Tom Williams, M.P. for Don Valley, is almost recovered from his recent severe illness and returned to the House of Commons on Wednesday.

The organists of the parish churches of Swinton and Wath-on-Dearne are to exchange duties on Sunday evening, June 17th, and in addition give short recitals.

Assistant Commissioner Dr. J. J. Huey, of Mexborough, was one of the adjudicators in the final of the annual competition of the St. John Ambulance Brigade last Friday in the Hotel Great Central, London.

A resolution from Denaby Main asking for the resignation of the president of the Yorkshire Mine Workers’ Association (Mr. Herbert Smith) was overwhelmingly defeated at a meeting of the Council of the Y.M.A. on Monday.