South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 21 August 1943
Marconigrams
The Rev. E. B. A. Somerset, Vicar of Grinton, and formerly Vicar of Mexborough, has accepted the living of Middleton Tyas in the Diocese of Ripon.
Mr. Charles Marks, a well-known Mexborough business-man, has been made an associate member of the National Council of the National Federation of Grocers’ and Provision Dealers’ Associations.
Mexborough Secondary School Higher School Certificate and School Certificate candidates may have their results from the headmaster (Mr. H. L. Watkinson) at the school on or about Wednesday, August 25th (H.S.C.) and on or about Saturday, August 28th (S.C.).
Under the will of Mr. George Mitchell, a director of the Yorkshire Tar Distillers, Ltd., of Doncaster, and formerly for many years resident in Swinton, a bed is to be endowed at the Montagu Hospital, on the death of his widow, to be known as the “George and Emma Mitchell Bed.” The cost of such endowment not to exceed £2,000.
A dividend of five and a half per cent. has been declared by Manvers Main Collieries, Ltd., compared with five per cent. last year.
An application for an overtime agreement for the mining industry is likely to be made by the Mineworkers’ Federation shortly.
Brampton Hospital Committee’s gala, held on Saturday with the object of raising funds for the purchase of a new piano for the Montagu Hospital, far exceeded its target, no less than £225 being raised.
Mr. J. A. Hall, President of the Y.M.A., is urging free meals for pitboys between fourteen and sixteen years of age, stating that he is perturbed at the low physical standard of boys of that age who are in the mines.
Sergt. Reg. Martin, only son of Mr. A. R. Martin, headmaster of Darfield Modern School and Chairman of Mexborough Montagu Hospital, and Mrs. Martin, of Mexborough, is in a military hospital in North Africa suffering from malaria.
The death occurred suddenly on Monday while on holiday at Rhuddlan, North Wales, of Mr. Thomas Field (64), a well-known Mexborough schoolmaster. Mr. Field was well-known in South Yorkshire cricket circles, having played for Mexborough in his younger days.
Many cases of absenteeism at five Yorkshire collieries are being dealt with at pit tribunals without recourse to the police court. Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd., have experimented at their Bullcroft Colliery, and, in three weeks the pit “court” dealt with forty defaulters. Other tribunals are in the experimental stage at Dinnington, Bentley, Maltby and Denaby Collieries in South Yorkshire.