Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 7 March 1942
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Sergt Donald Diggle, of Wombwell was invested with the Distinguished Flying Medal by the King the King at Buckingham palace on Tuesday.
On Saturday, March 14th, the Wath Cage Bird Society are holding a cage bird show in aid of the Mexborough Montagu Hospital at Wath Central Club.
The Pit Ponies’ Protection Society states that 4,515 ponies are used in Yorkshire coalfields, where 48 per cent. of the coal is carried by mechanical conveyors.
An octogenarian Mexborough couple have died within six days of each other, the wife on Friday and the husband on Wednesday, the day after his wife’s funeral.
The Council of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association decided at Barnsley on Monday to advocate an increase of 6d. a ton in the selling price of coal in order to provide pensions for mineworkers at 60, and to urge the prohibition of the use of electricity in mines for at least 1,000 yards from the coal face.
Owing to the rapidly increasing difficulties attending newspaper production, correspondents and contributors are kindly asked to write as tersely as possible. We are most anxious to maintain a full service of local news, but this must be confined to essential facts. The trimmings must be left for the more carefree days of the future.
Swinton and Wath open their Warship Weeks this week-end.
The late Mr. George Taylor, of Mexborough, who died recently, bequeathed £100 to the Montagu Hospital.
The Don Valley Labour Party’s effort for the Aid for Russia Fund has so far yielded £995 3s. 8d.
The West Riding County Council will be asked next Wednesday to approve a 1s decrease in the rates-from 12s to 11s. in the £.
The entrance examination for the Junior Technical School at the Schofield Technical College has been postponed until March 25th. The latest date for entries is March 18th.
The Mexborough and District Trades Council have written to the Ministry asking for an extra ration of soap for Swinton people, owing to the hardness of the local water supply.
Dr. Rennie Lee, second son of the late Dr. J. A. R. Lee and Mrs. Lee, of Mexborough, who is serving us a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F. Medical Corps, has left England for service abroad.
The Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, M.P., for the Don Valley, is to speak at a meeting at Skipton on March 16th in connection with the Government’s campaign to increase food production.
Doncaster Rural District ended its Warship Week on Saturday with a total of £188,362. The target was £150,000. Adwick-on-Dearne raised £283, Barnburgh £3,142 (plus a gift of £18) Cadeby £980, Old Denaby £306, and High Melton £1,863.
The Mexborough Montagu Hospital has received £396 15s. from the Manvers and Barnburgh employees in respect of deductions for absenteeism at these collieries on New Year’s Day. The men generously decided that the money could be devoted to no better purpose than the Montagu Hospital. The amount stated has been invested in Savings Bonds and will not be realised during the war.