South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 17 October 1942
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Mexboroughs Warship Week plaque which la to be presented to H.M.S. Tarantula, the warship the town ” adopted.” is on view in the window of the General Post Office at Mexborough.
In the home baking competition, organised by the Barnsley British Co -operative Society, finals of which were held last week-end, Mexborough housewives carried off five of the fourteen final awards.
It was reported at Wednesday’s meeting of the Conisbrough Council that in a period of fourteen weeks there was a trading loss of on the local British Restaurant. It was decided to Increase the charges.
Presentations from railway colleagues were made on Saturday to Mr. D. S. Humphreys. J.P., of Mexborough, who recently retired from the position of secretary of the men’s side of the London and North Eastern Council No. 2.
Mr. P. Popplewell, of Doncaster, who was a member of the staff of the Midland Bank, Mexborough, before Joining H.M. Forces, has obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers. He had previously served in the Coldstream Guards.
Mr. Frank Hoyland of Wath-on- Dearne, a former member of the teaching staff of the Hill School. Thurnscoe and an old boy of Mexborough Secondary School has received a commission in a special branch of the Royal Navy. Sub- Lieutenant Hoyland Joined the Navy a year ago.
Civilian casualties in air raids on the United Kingdom during September announced on Wednesday by the Ministry of Home Security were: Killed or missing believed killed 207; injured and detained in hospital 238. In August 403 persons were killed or missing, believed killed: and 509 injured and detained in hospital.
To-day (Friday). October 18th, from 8.20 to 8.45 cm. in the Home Service, the B.B.C. are to broadcast a programme of messages recorded by members of the British Army who fought in the Burma campaign. These messages have been recorded in India. During the programme Pte. W. Horton will be sending a message to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. Horton of 18. Albert Road, West Melton.
Yorkshire has yielded a greater tonnage of railings from church properties than any other county. The total for the whole of Yorkshire is 729 tons. Hull subscribed 221 tons of this. Sheffield 104 and Bradford 70. According to the latest available figures issued by the Ministry of Works, railings from 3,563 church properties (that is churches. chapels and graveyards) in England, Scotland and Wales have yielded 9,493 tons of metal.
It is proposed to form a Sea Cadet Corps in connection with the by Mexborough Youth Council.
Miss M. Hill, of Bolton-on- Dearne has been appointed District Nurse by the Hoyland Nursing Association.
For absenting himself from Home Guard duties without reasonable excuse a Sheffield Home Guard was sent to prison for a month on Wednesday.
The L.N E. Railway Co. announce that Mr. C. Bell. Stationmaster at Meadow Hall, has been appointed goods agent at Mexborough.
Major Lloyd George. Minister of Fuel, said in an interview on Wednesday that “generally speaking, coal output is tending in the right direction, upward.”
Warship Week plaques were exchanged between Cudworth (last Thursday) and Wath (Saturday) and the ships which they respectively adopted during their recent warship weeks.
Wombwell Urban Council are to ask the County Council to transfer the first aid post, which they established at the beginning of the war in the Wombwell swimming baths to other premises.
Squadron Leader Royce Clifford Wilkinson. D.F.M. and Bar, who is a native of Mexborough, has been awarded the M.B.E. “In recognition of distinguished services rendered in connection with the war.”
Four new Vicars were welcomed at Tuesday’s meeting of Chapter of the Rural Deanery of Wath-on- Dearne. They were the Rev. S. B. Pigeon, Vicar of St. Thomas’s, Worsborough, the Rev. A. E. Peaston. Vicar of Ardsley, the Rev. W. S. Fletcher, Vicar of Kilnhurst, and the Rev. W. H. de Voil. Vicar of Elescar.
Judge Stewart at the West Riding Quarter Sessions in Wakefield on Monday said that there had been an all-round increase in crime in the district, especially in shopbreaking, housebreaking and other larcenies. Juvenile crime had increased by 278 from 1,391 last year to 1,669. Adult crime had increased from 2,709 to 2,811.