outh Yorkshire Times – Saturday 08 May 1943
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A Thurnscoe woman was sent to prison for a month at Doncaster on Tuesday for assaulting Mrs. G. Woolford, a teacher, and Mr. F. B. Goddard, headmaster of Dearne Thursncoe Junior Boys’ School.
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Approximately £145 was realised by flag days held last weekend throughout the Montagu Hospital area in aid of the Whitley House Fund. Details of results from individual districts are not yet available.
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The Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler, M.P., President of the Board of Education, will open officially on Monday week May 17th, the Darfield Foulstone Modern School, of which Mr. A. R. Martin, chairman of the Morley Urban Council, is headmaster.
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The Rev. William Simpson, for ten years minister of the Congregational Church, Mexborough, has been elected chairman for 1944 of the Leicestershire and Rutland Congregational Union. It is a distinction and his many friends in the district join in congratulations. Mr. Simpson has for the last eight years been Minister at Enderby Congregational Church.
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Having enlivened Parliament and given the country a new catchword by raising the “Hi-de-ho” cry, Mr. R. G. McGhee, M.P. for the Penistone Division, now announces that at an early sitting of the House of Commons he will ask Sir Kingsley Wood how many times during the last ten years prosecutions have been started in the Sheffield district for charges of income tax evasions involving in each case a sum of £50,000 or more.
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National minimum wage scales for juvenile mineworkers are recommended in a supplementary report by Sir John Forster’s Committee, which has been inquiring into conditions at the pits. A view of the reluctance of youths to enter the coal industry, Establishment minimum rates, they emphasise, should be regarded only as part of the improvements which they have already recommended. There should be a difference between the wages of youths working on the surface and those underground. The rates should be fixed by the industry’s own machinery and should be based on percentage of adult pay.
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Air Commodore Squadron Leader North-East Command, A.T.C., has now fully recovered from his illness and is fulfilling all his public engagements.
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Mr. T. Williams, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, opened a whole-meal canteen at Yorkshire Main Colliery, Edlington, on Sunday.
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The Sheffield Trustee Savings Bank is investing £10,000 in local Wings for Victory Weeks, £2,000 each will be earmarked for Conisbrough, Dearne, Mexborough, Swinton and Wath.
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Recently completed research by British scientists has revealed the production of a potato powder which only requires mixing with a partly boiling water to provide a plate of hot mashed potatoes.
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Coal production fell by 34,000 tons for the four weeks ended April 17th compared with the preceding four weeks. Output averaged 405,200 tons a week against 403,700 tons in the period ended March 20th. South Yorkshire’s percentage of standard tonnage was 91, and West Yorkshire’s 92.4.
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Air Commodore C. R. Steele, D.F.C., son of Coun. C. Steele, a former Vicar of Swinton, has been promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Air Vice-Marshal Steele joined up from Swinton in the Great War and after going through Sandhurst joined the Royal Flying Corps. In the present war he has served in France and Rhodesia and is now back in England.
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Major Walter Morys, M.C., Regional Commissioner for the National Savings Movement in Yorkshire, has accepted an invitation to become Director of Publicity for the Movement and will leave Yorkshire to take up his appointment next on May 12th. From that date he will be directed from headquarters in London. Major Morys took over control of the region in 1937, coming from Liverpool. His successor has not yet been appointed.
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The 2013 (Manvers and Dearne) Squadron of the A.T.C. was successful on Saturday in winning jointly with Hull the team cup presented by Sir Ronald Graham for competition in the North-East Command Boxing Championships. Successful members of the Manvers and Dearne team, Cadet James Butler, junior champion, Cadet Billy Thompson, champion and Cadet Walton, senior runner-up, go forward to the national championships. The cup is to be exhibited at Adwick old Saturday in connection with the A.T.C. Wings for Victory exhibition.