Mexborough and Swinton Times April 23, 1937

New Chairman of Wombwell U.D.C.

Mr H Hallsworth, the new chairman of Wombwell Council, is the senior member of the Council, having sat continuously since 1911.

In that period he has gone the complete round of committees and has specialised to a great extent on matters of rating and housing. This will be the second period as chairman in the post-war years.

In the field of education he has achieved some of his best work and at present he is chairman of the Wombwell Education Committee, in which capacity has succeeded the late Mr Edward Tune, J.P. after a long period of “apprenticeship” as vice chairman.

He was made a permanent magistrate last year. Mr Hallsworth is one of the leaders of the Methodist Church at Enfield, and at one time or another has filled most of the officers. He is a native of Hemingfield, which was returned to the Council.

Mr Hallsworth has two sons, one a chief chemist at a large works in the Midlands, and the other chief sanitary inspector to the borough of Beverley, East Yorkshire.