The results were announced of the Hyde by election with the coalition candidate Mr T.G Jacobsen beating the independent candidate Mr D.P Davis with a majority of 874.
Three officers of the 18th Manchester’s regiment were awarded the Military cross and corporal was awarded the distinguished conduct medal.
Manchester was leading the way in providing doctors for the army said a report in the Evening News.One hundred and thirty doctors were already on active service with a further eighty working at the Second Western General Hospital on Whitworth Street.
Taxes were going up across the country as the chancellor announced that the current expenditure on the war amounted to £1.5b.Taxes on theatres,cinemas, horse racing and football matches would be increased, there was to be an increase in the price of rail tickets, increased duties on cars and on imports of sugar,cocoa,coffee and chicory.
The chairman of the Manchester City Licensing Bench, interviewed by the Evening News said the the liquor restrictions were having excellent results on the life of the city.
“He did not hesitate to attribute the encouraging state of affairs as much to prohibition of treating as to the curtailment of the hours in which liquor may be supplied for consumption on or off the premises”.
Cardboard eggs bearing the Red Cross were being worn across the city as part of Egg Day to raise money for wounded soldiers.Over two thousand collectors were on the streets selling the eggs with the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway contributing to the collection.
That week the Salford Hundred’s appeals court was hearing the cases of conscientious objectors.One case being heard that week was that of Harry Davis of Higher Broughton who said that the taking of human life was sacred.
The death was announced of Oliver Gaggs a well known Manchester musican.He was best known as the conductor of the Minnebabas Minstrels as well as writing numerous overtures and songs.
The Manchester Parks committee discussed a proposal to allow free boating facilities for wounded and convalescing soldiers.The committee agreed to the proposition but added that on,y a limited number of boats on Heaton Park, Boggart Hole Clough and Platt Fields Park should be made available for the scheme.
Meanwhile, with Easter approaching, it was reported that there would be no lawn tennis or bowls taking place in Manchester’s Parks, owing to the recent bad weather, neither the courts nor the greens were in a fit condition.
The Evening News reported on the forthcoming birthday celebrations of an 102 year old lady in Gorton.Mrs Sarah Taylor of Hyde Road still lives at the little sweet shop along with her 96 year old sister and her daughter.Mrs Taylor, reported the paper, still retains most of her faculties and despite her great age is in good health and would put to shame many a women half her age.
Most of the war news came from Verdun now over fifty days of fighting had been taking place, and reports spoke of ferocious assaults by the German army for the Mort Homme Hill with liquid fire and tear shells being used.
Finally there was a warning sent out to amateur photographers after a Manchester Doctor was fined while taking shots in Fleetwood of the ferry docks.Regulations under the defence of the realm act prohibited the taking of pictures within one and half miles of the town without permission from the military authorities, the Doctor was fined ten shillings.
