South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944
Marconigrams
Final returns show that the schools of the country which set themselves a £10,000,00 Salute the Solider target, raised in all £13,560,000.
He vast resources of the Distillers Company are to be turned over to the production of penicillin and a huge plant is to be built in the North East, probably in County Durham.
In the House of Commons debate of the Planning Bill on Wednesday, Mr. G. Griffiths, M.P. for Hemsworth asked that the Minister should seek power to prevent subsidence and said that in Yorkshire thousands of acres of good land were now under water. He said that collieries had robbed the country of hundreds of acres of good land by putting muck-stacks on it.
Mr. Herbert J. Sharp who belongs to the well-known Conisbrough family of that name, has been resident for many years in Filey. His any friends throughout South Yorkshire will be pleased to know that he retains his good health, although he has reached the octogenarian stage. In his early days he was perhaps the best amateur golfer in South Yorkshire and he was also a good cricketer. He now relies on the game of bowls as a means of recreation to preserve his activity.
The whiter loaf that is coming shortly will be as rich in Vitamin B1 and more digestible than the National Bread. It will release 150,000 tons of offal for feeding livestock.
The Government’s plans for the demobilisation of workers in war factories are to be announced shortly. They will be complementary to the military demobilisation scheme which has already appeared in a White Paper.
Superintendent J. Walker of Doncaster Division of the West Riding Police, said on Tuesday that the regular police would not be able to do without the help of the Special Constables after the war. He was speaking at the annual supper of the Mexborough section of the Special Constabulary and said when hostilities ceased the duties of the police might be even more difficult than they had been during the war.
Some 1,700 men and boys have been on strike at Barnburgh Main Colliery this week over the non-payment of Porter Award minimum rates for Saturday afternoon work to about 30 haulage hands. It is understood that the issue has been referred to a conciliation committee and the men have been told that if the committee decides that additional payments should be made to the men these payments will be retrospective. This seems to dispose of any reason for striking,