Mexborough and Swinton Times, April 22nd 1932

Marconigrams

The bank rate was reduced yesterday to 3 per cent.

The Wath Ruridecanal Conference will be held on May 12th.

Sir Alan Cobham’s air circus is to visit Doncaster this summer.

Ten thousand cases a year are dealt with at the county police court in Doncaster.

An Empire Shipping week will be held in Mexborough from October 14th to 22nd.

The Rev. E. P. Cook, vicar of St Mary’s, Doncaster has been appointed vicar of Pitsmoor, Sheffield.

It is expected that Yorkshire will send 150 Scouts to the Jamboree at Godollo, Hungary next year.

“If we want a land fit for heroes, we must first make it fit for children.” – The Rev. J. H. Cash, Goldthorpe.

Members of Conisborough Parish Church are arranging an excursion to Stratford-on-Avon for June 14th.

A former Darfield girl, Doreen Smith, has been chosen Rose Queen for the Blackpool floral celebrations in June.

The death occurred on Saturday of Mr. G. T. Tuby, the famous showman, a former mayor of Doncaster, aged 71.

The Mexborough Chamber of Trade are organising an excursion to London for Mexborough Feast on Thursday June 23rd.

Mexborough is among a number of West Riding secondary schools to be visited next week by a party of teachers from Amiens.

The annual sports of the Mexborough Secondary School are to be held on May 12th. This year all prizes will take the form of medallions and brooches engraved with the school crest.

The open-air school at Wombwell, the first of its kind in the West Riding, is to be opened to pupils on May 2nd, and Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, has been invited to perform the formal opening ceremony on June 4th.

Potato and all kinds of seeds now in stock at Brookfield Nurseries, Swinton (also covered market, Mexborough) and fresh-cut flowers, wreaths etc