Shop workers made a bid for an Easter break
HERE in this weekly feature we take a look back at the Rochdale Observer from 100 years ago...
●●EASTER SHOP CLOSING
To the editor of the Rochdale Observer
Sir,
Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to ask a favour for the shop assistants of the town at the forthcoming Easter holidays?
I suggest that the holiday for this year be extended from Good Friday till Tuesday morning. Such a holiday would, I am sure, be much appreciated by the assistants after the rush of the past few months.
Owing to present circumstances, many will have been working understaffed and the extension, if granted, would enable them to secure a muchneeded rest.
Yours, etc., HOPEFUL.
●●TEACHERS’ SALARIES
To the editor of the Rochdale Observer Sir, I was glad to see in your “Notes” of last week your comment as to why men teachers are paid more than teachers who are women.
Few will dispute your statements that the generality of lady teachers leave in a few years, ten or a dozen, which is what is expected, and that male teachers are better paid, which is in accordance with the desire of the Board of Education, that additional inducements should be offered to men of merit to make teaching their life’s work.
This does not at all imply (what one might at first think) that lady teachers serve too little time to become efficient. Have they not to be certificated through college training just as the men have?
Nor does it imply that men are superior as teachers. But the country could ill afford to be without men teachers.
Such a loss educationally might be disastrous and this, the Board of Education, have met in such a way that they get some males to take up the work and become assets of the state.
But special inducements are special inducements and, in the case of women, they are not needed, seeing that the supply is good.
Indeed, in comparison with women’s work in other departments of life, the teaching profession remains attractive to women ever yet.
Yours, etc., AL ’ANGLAISE.
●●WAR CASUALTY PHOTOS
Private Leonard Ashworth 21, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, is now presumed to have been killed on October 9, last year. He was been reported as missing on that date. His home was at 73 Durham Street, Rochdale.
Private Gordon Holt of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment is now officially presumed to be dead, after being reported as missing since April 28 last year. His home was at 121 Croft Bank, Calderbrook Road, Littleborough.
●●OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Sir James E Jones, Alderman Cunliffe, Alderman Dunning and Coun Davidson were re-appointed overseers of the poor. Alderman Dunning asked that he should be allowed to retire but the council did not agree. ●●LAYING OUT SPARROW HILL SLOPES
From the report of the Town Council meeting: The minutes of the General Purposes Committee authorised the employment of Messrs. Stansfield and Sons, landscape gardeners of Todmorden, to make out a plan for the laying out and planning of the slopes of Sparrow Hill and the hillside behind the Town Hall.
We understand the work, when completed, will form one of the most ornamental parts of the town and will be so arranged that the grounds can be locked at night to preserve them from injury.