South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 7 August 1943
Marconigrams
Mr. Ronald Hall, of Tickhill, has been appointed headmaster of Denaby Main Junior Mixed School in succession to Mr. Frank Williams, who is now headmaster of Thurnscoe Hill Boys’ Modern School.
The game of baseball was seen for the first time at Mexborough on Monday evening. The game is often referred to as “glorified rounders,” but actually it calls for a high degree of skill and is quite exciting.
The garden fete held at Milton House, Swinton, on Monday for the Swinton War Welfare Fund realised over £500. A similar effort at Hoober House for the Red Cross made £215. Countess Fitzwilliam opened the fete at Swinton and Maud Countess Fitzwilliam the Hoober effort.
Wing Commander R. G. S. Leslie, D.S.C., D.F.C., A.F.C., who was killed in action in North Africa recently, early this year toured a number of Yorkshire collieries under the auspices of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and talked to the miners. He made several trips underground. During his tour Wing Commander Leslie spoke to miners in the Cortonwood, New Monckton, Rotherham and Sheffield areas.
Results of the Higher School Certificate examination of the Northern Universities Joint Board will probably be communicated to heads of schools presenting candidates on or about Wednesday, August 25th. Each school will be informed of the results only of its own candidates, and a printed pass list will be sent to the Press as soon as it is available. Each head of a school presenting candidates for the School Certificate will be informed of the performances of the candidates from his school on or about [text continues beyond clipping].
Mr. John Taylor, manager of Houghton Main Co., Ltd., for many years, has retired on account of ill-health, and has been succeeded by Mr. F. C. Mackie, who has been in the service of the firm for a number of years.
Through the kindness of Mrs. Turner, of Abby Farm, Swinton, a garden party is to be held there next Thursday, August 12th, to which all who are interested in the Montagu Hospital are invited. Visitors are asked to bring their own refreshments, but tea will be provided. There will be a whist drive in the evening.
“A reduction in the amount of air-borne dust breathed by the miner is the one immediate measure likely to diminish the incidence of pneumokoniosis” – lung conditions caused by dust – stresses a report issued by the Medical Research Council. The systematic use of water to suppress dust at the coal-face should be tested, it states, besides the maintenance of adequate ventilation. Mist projectors or other methods should be used in roadways and loading points.
Mrs. T. S. Charlton, Brampton House, West Melton, has accepted an invitation to sit on the Women’s Advisory Committee on Solid Fuel, of which Lady Egerton is chairman. The chief aim of the committee, which was formed recently, is to teach women something of the part which coal plays in the national life and to help them make the best use of solid fuel in their own homes. Mrs. Charlton is the only member of the committee living in the provinces and in direct contact with a district where coal is used extensively.