South Yorkshire Times, April 29th, 1944
Marconigrams
Major Lloyd George, Minister of Fuel, welcoming in the House of Commons on Friday the new agreement on mineworkers’ wages, declared that it was a landmark in the history of the industry.
In 1938 the average cost of coal production in Yorkshire was 15s.2d., per ton and at present it is 27s.2d. per ton. In 1938 the output per person was 26.23 cwt. per day, and in 1943 it was 23.21.
Mrs. George Squires, wo has been secretary of the Ladies’ Committee of the Montagu Hospital for twenty-five years, has been presented with a gold chain and pendant in recognition of her long service.
The first year’s collections in the Wath district for the Red Cross Penny-a-Week fund have realised £1,684 10s 9d.
Mr. E. S. Bardsley, Editor of the Rotherham Express, one of the South Yorkshire Times series of papers, retires this week-end after over fifty years in journalism, for the last thirty-three of which he has been Editor of the Rotherham Express.
Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Morris, whose promotion to that rank dates from April 8th, is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Morris, of New Milton, Hants., and formerly of Mexborough. Lieut.-Col. Morris who is in the R.A.S.C., is serving on the Headquarters staff.
Mr. H. Jarvis, Mexborough’s librarian, reported at Wednesday’s annual meeting of the Library Committee that during the past year 83,733 issues of books had been made from the library, the largest total he had ever issued in one year, and 6,023 more than in the previous year
Among those elected to the committee of the Yorkshire Branch of the National Association of Colliery Managers at Leeds on Saturday were: Mr. F. Doxey (Thurnscoe), Mr. N. Hulley (Conisbrough), Mr. E. J. Kimmins (Wath) and Mr. G. C. Payne (Barnburgh).
South Yorkshire miners are making a spirited effort to repair the damage caused by the recent stoppage at Mitchell Main, Darfield and Cortonwood Collieries. They have all beaten their production targets since work was resumed.
Mr. W. F. Marsdin, manager of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Mexborough, from 1919 to 1937, has been appointed Manager of the new Miners’ Hostel shortly to be opened at Mexborough under the Bevin Scheme. The Hostel will accommodate some five hundred “Bevin boys.”
The average savings through Post Offices in the Wortley Rural District for the quarter ended March 31st, 1944, were £3,479 per week. The figure for the same quarter of 1943 was £2,368 and for 1942, £1m722. This is the largest average for ordinary weeks since the commencement of the campaign.
The deeds of the newly-acquired camp site at Squirrel Wood, Burghwallis, for Doncaster area Boy Scouts were handed over on Saturday to Mr. P. B. Nevill, representing the Boys Scouts’ Association Trust Corporation. The wood is the gift of Major M. E. Clark, District Commissioner, of Doncaster who formally handed over the deeds.