South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 28 March 1942
Marconigrams
Mr. C. Paxman Tiptaft, J.P., of Cadeby, was on Saturday elected treasurer of the Don Valley Conservative Association.
The annual meeting of the Old Wathonian’ Association will be held to-morrow (Saturday) and will be followed by a whist drive.
The Archbishop of York has collated the Rev. Canon Edmund Hope, Vicar of Kirby Misperton and a former Vicar of Mexborough, as Archdeacon of Cleveland.
The Council of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association has passed a resolution recording appreciation of the attitude of Yorkshire mining M.P.’s in the coal debate in the House of Commons on March 17th.
Granted a special leave for the occasion, Leading Seaman Fred Griffiths (25), of Havelock Street, Darfield, took part in the opening of Darfield Warship Week on Saturday and has assisted throughout the week.
The total value of all classes of salvage collected by Municipal Authorities during January, 1942, exceeds £366,000. This is nearly 100,000 more than the figure for December, 1941. Waste paper tonnage leaped from 30,450 tons in December to 50,822 tons in January—a record tonnage for waste paper salvage.
Mr. J. A. Hall, J.P. President of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association, opened Darfield’s Warship Week on Saturday.
The Chief Constable of the West Riding, Mr. G. Campbell Vaughan, made a stirring speech at the Swinton Special Constables’ annual dinner, at which he was the guest of honour on Tuesday.
An effort is being made to set up a Citizens’ Advice Bureau at Mexborough and a meeting, to which local organisations have been invited is to be held to discuss the matter at Mexborough Council Offices next Wednesday evening.
A verdict of “Accidental death” was recorded at a Conisbrough inquest on Tuesday on a Conisbrough Cliff Company employee who was crushed to death when a rock weighing over a ton rolled onto him while he was at work.
The Rev. W. R. H. Hesketh, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hesketh, Park Street, Wombwell, until two years ago a member of the commercial staff at Cortonwood Colliery, has been appointed Chaplain of Special Constabulary at Wellingborough.
Good progress is being made in the effort by the railwaymen of Mexborough and district to raise the cost of Whateley House In order to enable It to be purchased to provide extended accommodation at the Mexborough Montagu Hospital.
Lord Templemore announced in the House of Lords on Tuesday that the Government had decided to release certain men from “a limited number of Army establishments.” for service in the coal mines. The whole question was under consideration, and a statement would be made as soon as possible.
The Post Office reports that approximately 80 per cent. of the letters handled by them are in new envelopes. Many people seem to think that as long as it is possible to buy envelopes there is no point in using economy labels. That is a misunderstanding of the position. Stationery manufacturers are now cut down to 15 per cent. of their pre-war tonnage, so that when present stocks are exhausted it will scarcely be possible to buy any new envelopes. For this reason, it is absolutely vital to use those in stock with the greatest economy, reserving them for registered letters, mail going abroad, and the few other occasions when a used envelope will not do.