There were busy scenes outside the Manchester branch of the Bank of England in King Street as applicants for the War Loans queued to qualify for the discounts on advanced payments.
Over half a million people across the country subscribed to the latest issue with staff working across the weekend to finish the paperwork.
The death of Alderman Wainwright was announced at the age of sixty one.He had Ben born on Liverpool Road and began working at the age of ten for the Midland Railway Compnay.
Eventually entering the shipping business, he had served on the council for twenty five years across a range of committees and had served on the bench as a county and city magistrate.
The second of the poor children’s picnics took place with 1,800 scholars from the Gorton district taken to Platt Fields Park.”Not even the wretched weather reported the Evening News could damp the spirits of the children.
Black smoke coming from a factory chimney in Blackley was pit down to a shortage of stokers by the dyers Fred Cawley and Co. The police court heard that the war had handicapped the company as so many experienced stokers were away fighting and said such prosecutions were harsh at this time.
A nominal fine of 10s was imposed
Manchester County Coroner heard that case of a sixty seven year old lady who was knocked down on the Stretford Road. Alice Barlow died from her injuries after being hit by a car after leaving her employers house in Stamford Road.
According to the papers Alice was a victim of the blackout and a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
A Milnrow vicar was killed in a motoring accident in Cumberland.The Rev. FP Wright being driven up a hill while on holiday with his daughter in Keswick when the car began to roll backwards.Mr Wright asked the driver should he get out and then leapt out in an attempt to get a stone to stop the car from running backwards and was killed.
He had been a vicar in the parish for 32 years.
There was speculation that the King would be visiting Manchester as part of his tour of industrial areas. He was currently in Coventry.
