Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 06 September 1941
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The final proceeds of Wath Comforts Fund’s Bank Holiday gala amounted to £322.
Higher basic wages for nurses will be considered by a National Committee to be set up by the Minister of Health.
The death occurred on Wednesday of Mr. J. Westwood, verger for 27 years at Mexborough Parish Church.
The Rev W. G. Laurence, curate at Mexborough Parish Church, hopes to be ordained priest on September 21st.
In the twelve days August 22nd to September 2nd, there was no interment at Wombwell Cemetery. In seventeen days only one death was recorded.
A successful year was reported at the annual meeting of Swinton and District Nursing Association on Monday, and it was stated that there was a surplus of £l8.
Mr. W. A. Lewis, chairman of the Management Board of Mexborough Montagu Hospital for 25 years, was the guest of honour at a tea held to mark his 80th birthday yesterday, and received a cheque subscribed by well-wishers.
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Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S.A., who is over in England for a short stay, spent five hours at Hull on Tuesday, seeing for himself how the port had been treated by the German Air Force and fraternising and sympathising with its citizens.
The Board of Education has appealed to local Education Authorities to maintain as far as possible the position of evening classes and evening institutes during the winter. These evening classes form a valuable contribution to the stability of civilian life and progress in industry.
The recent Sunday cricket match at Swinton realised £20, which is to be handed over to the Mexborough Montagu Hospital. The effort was well supported, and Mr. C. W. Peat, Mr. Fretwell and Mr. W. B. Broadhead and others who helped in the organisation, were well rewarded for their hard work.
The Miners’ Welfare Commission is providing funds for colliery canteens, conditional on colliery owners clearing the site and being responsible for the establishment of the canteens; and the Ministry of Food is sending additional supplies of food—rationed and unrationed for miners, free of coupons, for consumption at the colliery.
Speaking at the Guild Hall, Hull, on the occasion of his visit on Tuesday, Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S.A., said, “You certainly need have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of American opinion, as it is expressed by the President from time to time, is heart and soul with our people, and with those others who are actively engaged in the fight for freedom.”
Pending the report of a National Committee on Nurses’ Wages, provisional increases in the salaries of State Registered nurses and students in training at voluntary hospitals have been arranged with the Minister of Health by the British Hospitals Association in conjunction with King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London and the Nuffield Trust. These higher wages range from £3O a year for first year probationers to £90 for State registered staff nurses.
Mexborough Spitfire Fund has now passed the £500 mark. The total subscribed is f518 18s. 8d.
A strong R.A.F. cricket team are again to visit Mexborough next Thursday to play a match in support of the Comforts Fund.
Half the increased cost of providing higher minimum wages for nurses is to be met by a grant from the Ministry of Health.
Mr. F. Jackson, of Harlington Road, Mexborough, has grown a vegetable marrow which is 27 inches long, 23 inches in, circumference and weighs 19 ½ b.
The Rev. O. Sutcliffe, a former Methodist pastor at Darfield, has been killed in an accident while cycling during the black-out in the Manchester district.
The Rev. G. Bernard, who has been curate in charge of St. George’s Church, Mexborough, for the last few years, leaves to take up a curacy in Westminster at the end of this month.
To decide the championship of the South Yorkshire Section of the Yorkshire Council cricket competition, Rockingham and Mexborough meet in a test match at Rockingham to-morrow.
The Rev. J. W. B. Moore, former curate at Mexborough Parish Church, who is now at Hull, where he has been in the thick of the raids, paid a visit to Mexborough during the week.
Mr. S. Carroll, of 21, Washington Street, Mexborough, has won the cup offered by the Mexborough Urban Council for the best council house garden. This is Mr. Carroll’s second success in the competition.
An open-air service is to be held at Mexborough on Sunday evening, in connection with the National Day of Prayer, on the open space opposite the General Post Office. A parade service is to be held at the Parish Church in the afternoon.
In reply to an enquiry by a reader we understand that local towns which come under the Fire Prevention Order, and where registration for firewatching will affect all men between 18 and 60, are Swinton and Conisbrough, Wath, Wombwell and Mexborough are not affected by the Order.
An idea of the magnitude of the damage and dislocation caused to L.N.E.R. telegraph and telephone services by the blizzard that raged in North- Eastern England last February is revealed by the fact that the work of repair has only just been finally completed. Ten thousand insulators and 4,000 miles of copper wire were required for the job of repair.
The Rev. S. Cook, formerly curate of Brampton Bierlow, and later curate of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is now serving as chaplain in a hospital ship in the Middle East. Mr. Cook, who joined the Forces eighteen months ago, married Miss Ann Henfrey, of Wombwell, headmistress of Christ Church School, Parkgate. A son, not yet seen by his father, was born six months ago.