Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 18 December 1931

Mexboro’ U.D.C. Business Done In Eight Minutes.

The business of the December meeting of the Mexborough Urban Council, held on Wednesday, excluding the reading of the November meeting’s minutes, was transacted in eight minutes.

Mr. W. Frow, presiding, was congratulated at the dose by Mr. J. E. Cliff on “establishing a record.” There were no discussions.

In reply to the Council’s protest at the November meeting against the Unemployment Grants Committees refusal to approval grant for the West Road recreation ground scheme, Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., forwarded copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Committee, stating that the matter was “receiving further consideration.”

Mrs. Singleton wrote thanking the Council for their message of sympathy in her illness and conveying to the members seasonable greetings, which the Council reciprocated.

Among the committee recommendations confirmed were:

The suggestion of the Newton-in-Makerfield U.D.C., that separate accounts be kept of road and mains repairs necessitated by mining subsidence, has been adopted by the Council.

The attention of the County Council is being drawn to the condition of Main Street and of the footpath in Doncaster Road.

Controlled tipping is to be carried out on the Barnhurgh Grange Farm tip for two months following the closure of the Pastures Road tip.

Boxing The Market is to be open on Christmas Eve but not on Boxing Day or Monday, December 28.

The Unemployed Workers Movement have been meeting to place a temporary hut on the top market on Thursdays and Fridays for the collection of subscriptions.

The Markets Committee are to consider the covering in of the bottom market.

Thirty-three births, fifteen of them to Mexborough residents, were notified in November. There were 21 deaths, of which 17 were of residents.