Marconigrams – January 19th, 1934

January 1934

South Yorkshire Times, January 19th, 1934

Marconigrams

A Chamber of Trade has been formed at Goldthorpe.

The Houghton Main Colliery Company have re-opened their Parkgate seam, closed a year ago.

France has offered to restore the import quota of British coal in exchange for trade in French pit props.

“Let us welcome the machine: the machine’s all right.  It is in the wrong hands.” – Mr. W. Paling M.P.

The new nurses’ hostel in connection with the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, is to be opened on April 14th.

Two street hawkers fined at Doncaster on Tuesday for shouting at Denaby produced a petition in their support signed by 260 residents.

“If all the capitalists died tomorrow the world would go on, but if all the workers died tomorrow all the capitalists would die the day after.”  – Mr W. Paling M.P.

In the third annual festival of music at Thurnscoe on Saturday there is a decreased entry to the choral classes owing to trade depression, but sole entries are up to previous years.

The special committee of the County Council dealing with revision of boundaries have completed their work, and the results will shortly be circulated among the local authorities, and will be considered at a special meeting of the County Council to be held probably on February 14th.

Barlow’s, The Gift Shop, Montagu Buildings, Mexborough, for footballs, jerseys, knickers, stockings.  Whist and Bridge cards and prizes.  Agent for Everyman’s Library.  See window for latest in Valentines. Barlow’s Mexborough’s Popular Gift Shop.