South Yorkshire Times, December 22nd 1933
Marconigrams
The broadcast of the Bethlehem bells on Christmas Eve will be relayed to the Wath Parish Church.
“This putting of the Ford in Oxford is becoming a matter of some concern.” – The Vicar of Leeds.
We are not yet ready for the next war. Hospital surgeons are still recovering shrapnel lost in the last.
The secretary for the Mines Department is shortly to issue new regulations to secure improved lighting in mines.”
“Why, ‘e’s got a scarf on just like Dad,” said a disappointed little girl as the Prince passed through Cudworth.
“Half a column of coffee, please,” said the jaded journalist who had been sent out to do his wife’s left-over shopping.
No city in England has encountered more obstacles in fitting itself into post-war conditions than Sheffield.” – Christian Science Monitor.
“Summer” tickets at a penny a mile will be issued every day up to December 31st 1934, available between any two L.N.E.R. stations for return in a month.
For the “Marlborough and Queen Anne”
Exhibition in London next spring, Lord Fitzwilliam has promised period plate from the treasures of Wentworth Woodhouse.
The Miners’ Federation Executive have summoned a delegate conference for December 28th, to consider the question of establishing an effective wages board.
Lord Irwin is still making good progress from his hunting accident, and after an x-ray examination in London it has been found there is a cracked bone in his arm.
The Wombwell council have recommended four of their members, Messrs. R. T. Preston, D. Cookson, J. W. Mellor and H. Hallsworth for appointment as Justices of the Peace.
Mr. H. R. Murray, M. P. for Twickenham, a director of the Manvers Main Collieries is in an Edinburgh nursing home, recovering from an operation for appendicitis.
The appointments for married women teachers are to be reviewed individually by the West Riding Education Committee and terminated where this can be done without hardship.
The directors of the Manvers Main Collieries are entertaining three hundred pensioners of the Manvers Main and Barnburgh collieries to a Christmas dinner on Saturday at Swinton and Goldthorpe.