South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943

Marconigrams

Latest investments have brought the final figure for Swinton Wings for Victory Week to £67,195.

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The President of the Board of Education, the Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler, M.P., formally opened the new Foulstone Modern School at Darfield on Monday.

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“If the pits were closed for one Saturday a fortnight, the attendance would be considerably improved.” — Sir Samuel Roberts, Bt., Chairman of Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.

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Yorkshire Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd., have declared final dividend on ordinary shares of 4 p.c. (less tax), making 6½ p.c. against 5 per cent. last year. Net profit is £127,950, against £85,126 last year.

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Countess Fitzwilliam has promised to open a War Welfare Fund garden party at Swinton on Bank Holiday Monday.

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The Hon. Richard Wood, third son of Lord Halifax, was among the audience when Mr. Churchill addressed Congress in Washington.

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The Halifax Building Society has contributed £3,500,000 for Wings for Victory Weeks, it was announced last Friday. This makes the total amount subscribed by the Society to the national war effort to date £21,424,772.

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A gala is being organised and will be held in the Vicarage Field, Swinton, on Whit Tuesday for the benefit of the Red Cross. Swinton has already raised £1,400 for this fund and the objective is the £2,000 mark. Miss Frances L. Gillett is the organising secretary.

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The Montagu Hospital Board have appointed Quartermaster Sergt.-Instructor J. M. Crane as physical training officer in connection with rehabilitation work, which is a new feature of hospital service.

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At the 101st annual general meeting of the Early Closing Association held in London, the Board of Management was urged to press their request to the Government for the stabilisation of the earlier closing hours now voluntarily observed by most shopkeepers.

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Sergt. David C. Smith, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Watson Smith, “The Cedars,” Tibshelf, Derbyshire, and formerly of Denaby Main, is missing. Mr. Smith is managing director of the Hardwick Colliery Co., Ltd., and while in the U.S.A. last summer saw the ceremony in which his son was awarded his pilot’s wings.

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Members of Mexborough and District Rotary Club heard with pleasure on Tuesday that one of their serving members, Captain J. E. Brooke Smith, of Wath, who has been serving with the tanks in Tunisia, had been promoted Major in the field. Major Smith is a partner in the firm of Messrs. Tiptaft and Smith, accountants, of Mexborough.

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Yorkshire contributed nine to the total number of sixty-two convictions for cruelty to animals obtained by the R.S.P.C.A. during April. This shows an improvement on April, 1942, when there were 68 convictions, but is an increase in the number for March of this year. Once again horses head the list with sixteen convictions, as against twenty-three in March; there are five cases involving cattle as against six last month, while offences against dogs rose from seven to thirteen. There was one case of laying poisoned edible matter and one under the Transit of Animals (Amendment) Order, 1931, while ten cases were brought against owners and others responsible for or permitting these offences. One person was disqualified for life from keeping a dog or holding a dog licence.