South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944
Marconigrams
Collections for the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund in the Dearne area for the month of August realised £130/11/1.
Final figures of the Salute the Soldier campaign show a grand total of £629,020,860 which is more than £12,000.000 higher than the Wings for Victory Week campaign total of last year. “Small” savings are approximately £170,000,000.
Another one million tons of outcrop coal has been produced since last October from the Yorkshire sites which are being worked by Sir Lindsay Parkinson and Co. With an average of 600 men the company reached a summer production of 50,000 tons a week.
Captain Gordon Pollard, of Doncaster, who holds the Military Medal and Military Cross, and who has just been decorated by Field Marshal Montgomery with a bar to his M.C. for gallantry in Normandy, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Pollard, formerly of Mexborough.
Hickleton were beaten by Hanging Heaton by 37 runs in the final of the Yorkshire Council Cricket Championship last week-end. This was the third successive occasion on which Hickleton had figure in the final. Last year they were beaten by Swinton and the year before they won the championship.
Countess Fitzwilliam opened a Red Cross rally at Wombwell on Thursday.
Canon George William Clarkson, Rector of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, who has been appointed Rector of Skegness, is a member of a well-known Conisbrough family.
Manvers and Barnburgh Collieries Youth Athletic Sports which had been postponed and were to have been held at Bolton to-morrow (Saturday), have now been cancelled.
The Mexborough Charity Cricket Committee have already set on foot plans for an ambitious Victory Ball to mark the conclusion of the war in Europe. A band with a national reputation will probably will probably be engaged and it is also hoped that a prominent personality of national repute will officiate as Master of Ceremonies.