Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 03 June 1932

Marconigrams.

Last month was the wettest May in this country since 1878.

The Mexborough Hospital “Rag” last week-end raised £500.

The late Mr. F. Wollinden, of Mexborough has bequeathed £100 to the Mexborough Old Folk’s Treat Fund.

Lord Halifax addressed a meeting of Accra Diocesan Association in the Church House, Westminster, on Tuesday.

Mr. G. A. Nixon is shortly to retire from the post of organist and choirmaster of the Mexborough Parish Church, which he has held for twenty-six years.

The Swinton and Darfield Urban District Councils have passed resolutions calling for Government action to deal with the drainage of the Don and Dearne valleys.

The output of British coal for the week ended May 21st was only 58 per cent, of the output for the corresponding week of last year, for only 1,500 fewer wage-earners.

“Black Diamonds, “Mr. Charles Hanmer’s film of South Yorkshire mining life, is almost ready for trade exhibition and will shortly be viewed by the Prince of Wales.

Mr. George Gray, of Swinton, has been awarded one of the twelve Miners’ Welfare Fund scholarships this year. The scholarship is tenable at the London University for a four years course in geography and geology.

An open-air school, the first to be built the West Riding County Council. was formally opened at Wombwell yesterday by Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer the Ministry of Health and the Board Education.