RELEASED TO SING IN OPERA
WELSH MINER
leuen Evans, 30 year old Tonypandy, Glamorganshire, colliery worker, has been told that he may leave his job to sing in opera. The manager of the colliery agreed to give Evans 12 months’ leave so that he could take up a contract offered by the Covent Garden Opera Company. Evans was held- by the Essential Works Order. He was released, said a National Service officer, because he is a surface worker.
It may not be so easy for the other Welshman chosen by Coven, 1 Garden, Wilfred Jones, of to get his release, said the officer, Jones' is an underground worker. Mr W. H. Mainwaring, M.P. for East Rhondda, who had written to Mr Shinwell, applying for Evans’ release, told the pitman: “Don’t worry about .the end of the year. Be such a success that you will never return to the mines.”
Evans is due to take up his new career on October 28.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 51, 18 November 1946, Page 4
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161RELEASED TO SING IN OPERA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 51, 18 November 1946, Page 4
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