WEST CUMBERLAND TIMES, MAY 29, 1937.
SHORT NEWS ARTICLES 12.
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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Monkwray Junior School headed the attendance list of Whitehaven
Schools with a percentage of 97.76. Hensingham Council were second with 97.59
per cent and St. Begh’s Girls third with 96.03 per cent.
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TRIBUTE TO WHITEHAVEN
MINISTER.
The Rev. A. H. ANDERSON, Carlisle, has succeeded the Rev. E. H.
FRASER, Whitehaven as Moderator of the Presbytery of Carlisle. Tribute has been
paid to Mr. FRASER’s dignity and efficiency during a difficult
year.
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C. S. I. EXAMINATION.
The Whitehaven cricketer, Eric WALMSLEY, Catherine Street,
Whitehaven, has passed the Intermediate Part 1 of the professional examinations
of the Chartered Surveyors’ Institution.
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DISTINGTON TELEPHONE
FACILITIES.
A new telephone kiosk call office has been opened at Distington
Post Office. The fee for the use of the call office, including communication
with any exchange within a radius of five miles will be 2d.
The charge for a call to an exchange between 5 and 7 ½ miles
distant will be 4d, and it will be possible to communicate with any exchange or
call office in the United Kingdom which has full trunk facilities, upon payment
of the call office fee, plus the appropriate trunk fee. For instance the total
fee for three minutes conversation with a subscriber at Harrington would be 2d,
and to Workington 2d.
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