Delayed Telegrams
Conisbrough Council Complaints
Following complaints of late delivery of telegrams, Conisbrough Urban Council decided on Wednesday to request an explanation of the delays from Doncaster’s Head Postmaster.
Coun. A. M. Carlin referred to a telegram handed in at Worksop at 8.56 a.m. and delivered by the Conisbrough postman the following morning and said since then he had heard of another telegram being delivered late. The Council should protest at these delays.
The Chairman (Coun. J. Humphries): We pay for service and telegrams should be delivered at the earliest possible moment.
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War-Time Nurseries
The Clerk (Mr. R. W. Birch) reported that the Senior Regional Officer of the Ministry of Health, in reply to the Council’s protest against cessation of work at Denaby war-time nursery, wrote that there was already a nursery class in the district making provision for 40 two to five-year-old children, that there was accommodation for a further class, but after a recent review it had been decided the second class was not justified at present. A nursery was being opened at Mexborough, to which transport from the district could be organised. The Minister would be prepared to reconsider his decision on the cessation of work at Denaby nursery if furnished with concrete evidence of its need.
Coun. T. Shephard said that at present there were only about 18 children attending the present nursery at Denaby.
Coun. R. Shephard wanted to know what the charges were.
Coun. H. Gomersall said the schooling was free and there was a nominal charge for meals. The children were cared for 12 hours a day.
Coun. Sheldon could not realise why in these days when women were having to work they were not sending their children to be cared for in such ideal conditions. It was ridiculous to suggest that people should go two miles to leave children at Mexborough and then go to work.
The cessation of work on the new nursery is to be reviewed in a month’s time.