The offices of the Labour leader in Blackfriars Street Salford were raided by police. Much of the following case was heard in camera but what was reported was that printed publications were taken away that were likely to “prejudice HM’s relations with foreign powers.”
The summons was answered by Edgar Whiteley secretary and manager of the National Labour Press and a councillor for the Longsight ward in Manchester. Much of the argument in court concerned why the case should be heard in private.
The case was adjourned for a few days and when reconvened the press were re admitted to hear that the magistrates had ordered the destruction of 127 copies of the Labour Leader which was published on the 5th August and asked what we were fighting for?
A former captain of Manchester Grammar school was killed in action in Gallipoli.
Second Lt Gordon Morley Hewart of the sixth Battalion Lincolnshire regiment was twenty two years old.After attending the Grammar school he had attended Balliol college in Oxford getting a first in Classical Moderations.
Grammer school boys were volunteering to help with the harvesting of an abnormal plum crop said a report in the Evening News.
A party of boys had gone to Grasmere to help with hay making but had to return due to bad weather but a second party of sixty had gone to Pershire in Worcestershire working for six hours a day harvesting hundreds of tons of egg plums.
Two employees of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway Co were seriously injured in an accident at Royton junction when they were repairing tracks and were struck by a shunting engine and a wounded soldier was injured at the Company’s good shard on Oldham Road when the Red Cross motor waggon he was travelling in was hit by a tram.
It was the Oldham Wakes the final weekend of August and cotton operatives descended on Blackpool with the roads packed with motor cycles and side cars.The weather that weekend was fine but dull with light sea breezes.
Representatives of the wine trade in Manchester expressed concern over the prohibition of wine exports from France that had been announced. The vintage had been a failure that year and there was as a consequence a huge shortage of wine.
The Mayor of Salford formally opened Langworthy Park, the site formerly the Highfield reservoir which was begun but never completed. The new park came with bowling greens and tennis courts.
