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0 0 ]II[ Promptly Stopped, will avert Winter Suffering. throat cc^igh. It comes with the broken tjlHL^IW^KJlxy^r -weather and causes much discomfort and anxiety, especially amongst those who have mi nSSmMz# good cause to fe&r that it will develop into the chronics-winter^ cough which caused them so fWr Therefore, the fact that science has at last revealed i I$1 *n ^P8 a metilocl °f treatment which will not only cure ■I Mi such coughs promptly and pleasantly, but will so strenghten ;$ll$l!j and invigorate the breathing organs as to absolutely prevent jm further- attacks, even in ^the depth of winter, is news of l/ill are little silver-jackettcd tablets, "which contain -nvigorating, I I germ-destroying, demulcent, and tonic lung medicines, in such volatile form II I that they may be breathed direct into the throat and lungs as the tablets j dissolve on the tongue. The tablets are so handy that they may be carried I i. in the vest pocket, so pure and free from objectionable sedatives and narcotics H that children, old folks and invalids get nothing but benefit from them, and t so potent for good that desperate cases of deep-seated chest troubles have I been cured by their use. [•11 Now is the time to get rid of that cough once and for all with Peps, before film if merely palliative policy of taking drug-laden cough mixtures into 1 ra\\ the stomach has driven the mischief deeply into the weakened lungs UV*V\av and bronchial tubes. Treat your lung troubles with the only remedy that reaches the lungs direct—Peps, the great breaihing cure. A box of Peps now may mean all the difference between getting rid of that cough promptly, pleasantly and permanently, and a winter of chronic -chest-weakness. | VH or 219 a box. See the guarantee, name PEPS, on na re every use box, a umlesa f

Premier&theTime Limit THE LICENSING DEBATE. In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr John Ellis (L. Nottingham) asked the Prime Minister whether he was prepared to put the House in possession of the terms of the amendment by which it was proposed to carry out the suggestion that for a short term of years succeeding the 14 years the surrender of the monopoly value should not be neces- sarily a condition of the renewal of old licences. Mr Aequith Without pledging myself at this stage to any precise form of words the suggestion which I made would, I think, be Effected by adding the following provision to sub-section 1 of clause 3 Provided that until the expiration of seven years after the termination of the re- duction period there shall be no power to attach as a condition of the re-grant of an old licence any condition for securing to the public the monopoly value of the licence. A definition of old licence would have to be inserted defining the term to mean as regards on-licences existing licences within the meaning of the Act of 1904, that is licences existing before the passing of that Act, and as regards off licences licences existing before the parsing of the BilL The House went into Committee on the Licensing Bill, and proceeded to consider fur- ther the third clause, which deals with the question of the time-limit and with the appli- cation of the local option principle: to licences at the end of the reduction period. Mr Harcourt moved to leave out the original local option proposal, and substitute for it. the following sub-sectioii On the termination of the reduction period (a) the foregoing provisions of this Act as to local option shall take effect as if a majority of two-thirds of the votes given were required for the carrying of a resolution instead of a bare majority, and (b) these provisions shall be extended in such manner as Parliament may determine so as to authorise a resolution limiting the number of licences to the number existing at the time, orreducingthat number to any less number, and (c) a prohibitory resolution in force at the date of the termina- tion of the reduction period should cease to have effect, but the provision of this Act as to the interval required between the taking of polls shall not prevent a poll being taken on a further resolution, although three years have not elapsed since the date of the poll on the resolution which has so ceased to take effect. Mr Plarcourt said this proposal was made in fulfilment of a pledge given by the Prime Minister for the purpose of making clear that the local option provided' under Clause li. should continue after the close of the re- duction period, and should extend to new and to old on-licences, and also to make it clear that where this local option was exercised after the period of 14 years a two-thirds majority of those voting: should be necessary for carrying the resolution. As to the selection of two- thirds rather than three-fifths he found it difficult to offer an explanation, but said perhaps a good reason to suggest was that we are a duodecimal rather than a decimal ,country, and people were accustomed to think in thirds rather than in fifths. (Laughter.) For the sake of, temperance they should aim at securing a large majority for such proposals as this, in order to give them permanence when they had been carried out. Sub-section C had been inserted in order to make it clear that a resolution for prohibition of new licences during the period of reduction, if it happened to be in operation at the close of the period, should not be taken then to mean the total prohibition of all the licences in exist- ence. Mr Balfeur Amazed. Mr BALFOUR (C., City of London) said this fsub-section gave local veto not! only with regard to all on-licences, but also off-licences. 4 Mr HARCOURT said that was not the inten- tion of the Government, and he did not think St was the effect of the amendment. If it was the effect of the amendment it should be altered on report. (Opposition ironical cheers.) Mr STANLEY WILSON: If you don't understand your own Bill you., can't expect '"anybody else to do-so. (Laughter.) Mr BALFOUR was filled with amazement fct the failure of the Government to make their meaning clear. Liberal Criticism. Mr WHITEHEAD (L., Essex) appealed to « the Government not to press this amendment, but to till back on the form of the clause as originally embodied in the BiH. The amend- ment submitted by the Government would administer a fatal stab in the back to future temperance reform because insistence on a two-thirds majority would prevent the effec- tive limitation of drinking facilities. The Suggestion of prohibition would arouse the antagonism of the average man, and would prevent local option having any operation Upon an extensive scale. (Opposition cheers.) Mr BELLOC (L., Salford) said without doubt a majority of the voting Liberals of the country, and probably a majority of the DO tion,, were in favour of the main prin- ciple underlying the Bill, namely, that the State should resume control within a compara- tively short period over the liquor traffic but on to that had been tacked a number of clauses -of which this was an example—which had Nothing whatever to do with the main prin- ciple. They had to do with the principle that fermented liqutor was a bad thing, and he was convinced that this proposal would not have the support of a majority of the people, and he doubted whether it would be approved by a Oiajority of Liberals. (Opposition cheers.) Mr F. E. SMITH (C. Liverpool) twitted the Government for not daring to propose prohi- bition out and out. Mr LEIF JONES (L., Westmoreland) said •tody If a hare majority vote was sufficient to change the Goyernmeent of the Empire, it Jfas idle to pretend that on the burning ques- tion whether or riot in a parish there should or should not be* the public sale of liquor they Squired a majority of two-thirds. Mr Keir Hardie and the Blind Pig. Mr KEIR HABDIE (Lab., Merthyr) en- dorsed the opinion that the Temperance Bill Sir W. Harcourt largely influenced the Section of 1895 and adversely to the party Ppoeite. He believed the reason was not the Introduction of the Bill, but the fact that the was not pressed through the House of ^ooimons. The measure raised the fighting Jjstincts of the liquor'interest, but the fact |«at it was not persisted in did not rouse the Qghting instincts of the temperance forces of the country. As a consequence the Govern ment suffered. He would like to give it as his own opinion that the party opposite stood to gain considerably in the opinion of the electorate by persisting strenuously with the measure now before the House. The backbone of the Opposition was broken. Members on the Labour benches were under no delusion as to the probable effect of the Bill. They wanted to see drunkenness diminished, and believed that one means was to reduce temptations to drink. The sight of means to do ill-deeds makes ill-deeds done." The first outcome of the Bill would be to weed out the more dis- reputable public-houses which existed. At the end of 14 years a new phase of the question was to be entered upon. He desired to deal with Sub-section B of the amendment now before the House. As far as he could ascertain the only effect of sub-section B was to indicate to the Parliament 14 years hence what was the opinion of this House of Commons. He was sorry the Government had fixed a two-thirds majority, He quite admitted legislation of this kind could not afford to go ahead of public opinion, a that there might be a danger if a bare "majority were suffi- cient to put into operation these pro- visions of these ^rovisjons being evaded. The other week he was in a part of Nova Scotia where the prohibition law was in force. He lodged at an hotel with some friends, and they naa a discussion on temperancte and the effect of prohibition. One who was present asked him if he would like to be taken to the Blind Pig." He confessed his ignorance, but was taken to a room at the back of the office where there was whisky, brandy, wine, beer and all forms of liquor served to those who called for them. He did not desire to see legis- lation whiph would have such results as that, and in place of a two-thirds majority he sug- gested that it should be three-fifths. He further advocated tne principle if it could be accom- plished of having licences not as a private monopoly, but in' the hands of the munlci- pality. At present even in country bouses people were not welcomed who did not re- peatedly order drinks. What he would like to see would be places, controlled by the munici- pality to which a man could take his wife and where he could have social converse and enter- tainment whether they ordered drink or not. Mr SHERWELL (L., Huddersfield) thought the Government were likely to suffer from an excess of generosity. Sir THOMAS WHITTAKER(L., Yorkshire) did not think the explanation of the reasons for including paragraph (B) in the sub-section at all satrisfactory. It was an instruction to future Parliaments as to what they should do 14 years hence, and it was not necessary or desirable. At half-past seven the guillotine fell on the latter part of Clause 3, thus shutting out somef three pages of amendments. The Committee at once divided on Mr Harcourt's amendment, which was carried by 295 to 135. On the question that clause 3 sta,nd part of the Bill a further division was challenged by the Opposition, but the Clause was carried by 301 to 131. y Justices and Discretion. The Committee then proceeded to the con- sideration of Clause IV., the first sub-section of which preserves the discretion of the licens- ing justices as to the extinction of licences over and above the reductions required by the scheme of the Bill. Mr .SAMUEL ROBERTS (C., Sheffield) moved the rejection of the first sub-sectiou. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the inten- tion of the Government was that the statutory reduction fixed by the Bill should be the mini- mum, and that if the justices came to the con- clusion that the circumstances of the locality justified a further extinction of licences their discretion should be fettered only bythe finan- cial provisions of the Bill. A The amendment was defeated by 249 to 109. Mr CAVE (C., Surrey) moved a verbal amendment to the clause with the object of retaining the system created by the Licensing Act of 1904. ° Sir S. EVANS (Solicitor-General) pointed out that under Clause 1 of the Bill thev had already imposed upon the local justices the duty of carrying out the statutory reduction of 31,000 licences in 14 years, and he argued that it would be obviously inconvenient and un- desirable to have a different method of proce- dure with regard to the very limited discretion given to the justices of dealing with the optional reductions under Clause 4. Mr BALFOUR said the point raised by this amendment was a very important one, and he regretted that a Cabinet Council was then pro- ceeding which prevented the Househaving the assistance of any Cabinet Minister. (Opposition cheers.) He regretted that the Government should have left the Treasury Bench utterly unadorned—(loud laughter, in which the Solicitor-General, Mr Samuel, and Mr Cherry who were the occupants of the Treasury Bench! heartily joined)--by any gentleman belonging to the higher grade in the Ministerial hier- archy. Mr McKenna, entering at the moment, was received with hilarious cheers and Mr John Ward hailed him as Beauty unadorned." Mr BALFOUR, continuing, contended that the Solicitor -General had tlot aet the argu- ment of Mr Cave, that the reference to Quarter Sessions should be preserved, and said he should support the amendment. A Legal it Spar." Mr HERBERT SAMUEL pointed out that while this clause took away the reference of all licences to Quarter Sessions it preserved an appeal to Quarter Sessions as a judicial body. I Sir E. CARSON (C., Dublin) advanced a contrary opinion, and advised the Under Secre- tary for theHome Office not to beso absolutely certain as he generafly appeared to be when interpreting points of law. (Ministerial cries of, Oh," and Opposition cheers.) Mr SAMUEL: I am not. expressing my opinion, but am acting on advice. (Ministerial, \/be6rs«) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL argued that the right of appeal in the case of pre-1904 on. licences was preserved. The amendment was defeated by 270 to HO and it being after 11 o'clock, progress was reported, and the Speaker adjourned the House at 10 minutes past 11.

DELIRIOUS NEWPORT PATIENT. The death took place at the Newport Hospital on Monday night of a young iron worker, named Herbert Faulkner (21), son Of Mr Arthur Faulkner, 56, Oakley-street. Deceased sustained iniury to the head at Lysaght's works a week ago. A day or two later he becrne delirious and, unknown to his home +2 • ou^ ked and went to work under the impression he was wanted. He was removed to the hospital on Monday, dying the same day.

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i CABINET MIN ISTERS GIVE EVIDENCE AT BOW-STREET. (Worid?Gmpht Presff) Mr Gladstone' attcnded h? their lieutenants, leaving the court after giving evidence. acad^^iS?(P^);Panl^^t;;LL-B-' Wk° madG me of her 0PP^tunity to display her powers as an advocate in her a' Lloyd George in the witness-box.—(World's Graphic Press ) is on 'the P°9CT Miss ^hurst, who, dxessed.in white,

Flood Pictures àt Cardiff and Pontypridd. v ■ J the TJilw thehline TateF- 2—Motor-car fording the Ely. river at betweien the G.W.R. and T.V R lines' showine the p9r,p, J^^ywhere the T.V^R. Line crosses the G.W.R. 4.—Submerged.land X. V.n,. lines, snowing tne Paper Works m the background.—(" S.W.D.N." Photo.) V » •'■ v • i CHURCH WALL THREATENED BY A WATERFALL. the C?foI9>dd' Tras yestewlfy.iii some dangerfrom the sudden rush of rain-water, the retaining wall'ehownon. the right of our picture showmgsome signs-of bemg^ndermiped by-the flood.-<Photo by W. Rowlands, PontyprimT GLAMORGAN CANAL BURST AT UPPER BOAT. A f. '!<. t'" I' "'1' 1 The of canal, which Is by now empty of water at this poiiltuis indicated cross. The bank was .earnedya^y in the foreground of t e picture.—(Photo, by A. and G. Taylor, Cardiff and Pontypridd.) ,J. n r ;<

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Glamorgan WatSr Board PONTYPRIDD DECIDES TO JOIN The question of joining the Glamorgan Water Board has been discussed frequently in elL private by the Pontypridd Council, and ob- jection was originally raised regarding the price required for the Rhondda Council's undertaking, which was included in the scheme. With a view to explaining the posi- tion a deputation from the Rhondda met the Pontypridd authority last week, and the final decision of the Pontypridd Council was con- sidered at a special meeting held on Tuesday. Mr Arthur --Seaton proposed that the Council join the Water Board unconditionally, otherwise, if they were to impose many condi- tions they might wreck the whole scheme. The Council would be represented on the Board by some of its members, and the clerk (Mr Colenso Jones), who would see that the interests of the Pontypridd Council would be safeguarded when the Bill was drafted for sub- mission to Parliament. Mr D. Arnott seconded. Mr Moses Jones moved an amendment that the Council should join the Board condition- ally that the Board would be prepared to carry the mains from the sources of supply to '& point within the Pontvpridd area at a price not exceeamg 41cl per 1,U) gallons. Mr %1.. Juliaij. seconded the amendment, which upon a division was lost. Mr Moses Jones thereupon proposed another amendment that the Board as a condition of Pfht.vpridd joining be asked to make arrangements for the appointment of avaluer for the apport iaument. of the de- prcciation of the concerns taken over by the Board, and that the valuer be instructed to put under the heading of depreciation any excess value that might have been paid by any authority for their undertaking. There was no seconder, and the motion to join the Board was carried with one dissentient.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES. Honorary Degree for Mr Lloyd George. ¡ On Friday, November 13th, the Court of the I University of Wales will hold its annual collegiate meeting at Bangor, and on the afternoon of that day a Congregation of the University will be held for the conferment of degrees. The event of the day will be the ) capping of the Chancellor of the Exche- quer as LL.D., honoris causa. Bangor is naturally proud of the oppor- tunity thus given to it of doing honour to its distinguished member, and active preparations are already being made for celebrating the I event with due circumstance. It is unfor- j tunate that neither the ci ty nor the LTniversitv College possesses a hall large enougn to accommodate even a quarter of the number of people who are, ordinarily, anxious to attend the more important academic cere- monies, and it will be remembered that, on the occasion of the installation of the Prince of Wales as Chancellor of the University six years ago, the University had, for a part of thdny, to desert the collegiate city and to conduct its proceedings in the huge pavilion at Carnarvon. Bangor, how- ever, is doing its best to rise to the require- I ments of the coming ceremony by converting the largest public building in the city, except I' the Cathedral, into an academic theatre for the occasion. That building is the old Tabernacle Chapel, in Dean-street, which used to provide seating accommodation for close upon 1,200 ptople. The pulpit, the big pew," and the rows of pews in the centre of the ground floor are now being removed, and the building is being turned into 4 public hall, which will doubtless be found useful for academic and other "secular" gatherings in the future. Here the capping ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. Admission will be strictly by ticket, and, owing to the limited accommodation, will have to be confined to members of various university and college bodies and their friends, to graduands and their friends, and to students. In tne evening the vjlianceiior of the Ex- chequer and Mrs Lloyd George will be the, guests of the Bangor College Council at a public banquet to be given in the Penrhyn Hall. Mr Lloyd George is expected, in replying to the toast of The guest of the evening," to deliver an important speech on Welsh education, and he may. incidentally, have something to say about Welsh college grants and about the claims of the Bangor College Building Fund.

LLANELLY HARBOUR SCHEME. The Llanelly Harbour Trust made applica- tion to the Board of Trade for sanction to carry out a training scheme, designed by Mr Cyril Jones, but after holding an inquiry at Llanelly the advisers of the Board could not recommend it, and outlined what- they con- sidered to be the best method of improving the channel for the purpose of navigation. The suggested works included the construc- tion of a slag wall from Carregfach and the substitution of a suction for a bucket dredger. The Trust have considered the report and have, made application to the Board of Trade for consent to carry out the work suggested by the Board's advisers. m

REMARKABLE SUICIDE. An extraordinary case of suicide was in- vestigated on Tuesday at Broadway, near Weymouth. On Monday nighl> an architect vnamed Firth, 39, of independent means, was found dead under the kitchen table in a house in which he lived with his widowed mother. By his side was a toy cannon, lamp and matches. Dr. Hawkins gave the opinion that whilst lying down deceased discharged the cannon and the shot entered his left side, pierced the heart and came oat through his back, making a complete hole. A verdict of Suicide while temporarily insane was re- turned.

-=- J. FISHGUARD SEWERAGE QUESTION. ¡ Animated Discussion.. At. a meet!ng of the Fishguard Urban Council on.Mondayevening Mr D. G. Thomas referred ,to the recent Local Government inquiry .respecting a proposed sewerage system for ^West-street new houses, remarking that it was freely circulated through the town that one of ..tb.& Fishguard Council's officials had instigated :-the Uanwrda Parish Council to oppose the outf&U and that correspondence between mem- bers had taken place thereon. If that were the case, he, as a member, demanded that the ^correspondence should be produced. Mr T. Lewis said he knew nothing of the matter. Mr D.;G. Thomas replied that he referred to their medical officer. He (Mr Thomas) knew more than he had told the Council, and everybody knew it. Mr Lewis said that before a charge of that kind were made Dr. Owen should have notice it was manifestly unfair that fen official should be charged with trying to thwart the sewerage outfall in an underhanded manner. Mr Thomas denied preferring a charge of underhandeduess, he only asked if it were true that Dr. Owen had instigated the opposition of Llanwrda Council, and he had a perfect right to ask that. On being asked for names, Mr Thomas replied that if he told them everybody would be astonished. Ani- mated discussion arose on the question of .giving the matter publicity. Mr T. Lewis said it could not be more public than it was already. The subject then dropped.

The Tal-ywtin Quoit Club held their annual supper on Saturday evening at their head- quarters, the White Horse, Talywain, the com- pany present numbering about 60 members and supporters. Councillor J. D. Jones, Taly- wain, presided. Tom Crawley. was presented with the championship of Monmouthshire 1 gold medal.

n I A I Getting Money's Worth P SONGS & ROCKING HORSES FOR BAIRNS At a meeting of Barry Education Authority on Tuesday, Councillor J. A. Manatori, chairman of the Education Committee, inti- c C mated that recently the chairman of the authority (Councillor W. J. Williams, J.P.) and another member tested the children in order to ascertain the quality of the education system. They had, he said, gone through 3,000 papers in spelling and arithmetic, and found glaring instances of mistakes in easy words and simple arith- metical problems. This state of things was not peculiar to Barry, which was considered to lead in matters of education, but it was a general source of complaint. It was not the fault of the teachers, and he should be sorry for anyone to think that he held a low opinion of the work done in the Barry schools. On the contrary, they had the best teachers in the kingdom. In the infants' schools they spent £ S,G00 a .year on teachers. For what ? Councilor Fowler For putting them on rocking-horses and singing to them. (laugh- ter.) The Chairman gave instances of mis spelling in the higher standards. Out of 258 boys, 112 could not spell the word melodious," and 108 could not spell "pacific." and W could not srel. l the word behaviour." It was said that in general intelligence the children were very advanced, but he questioned whether children in schools under the old system 20 or 25 years ago were not more intelligent. There might be something very nice about flowers, but it was more important to know something about pounds, shillings, and pence. Other authorities were moving, including Cardiff and Swansea, where similar delects had been found. He moved that~a conference of educationists and those engaged in trade and commerce be held with the object of ascertaining what could be dope. This was seconded. Councillor John Williams asked what were H.M. inspectors doing if they had not found out this state of things. The Chair- ¡ man further stated that be had found from a I return that 50 per cent. of the children who left school at the age of 14 had Dot reached the upper standard. Councillor W. Fowler drew attention to the reasons given by teachers for absence from duty. Mother seriously ill was the reason stated in one case for 11 days' absence another, absent for eight days, was father dead." This, too, added the speaker, when most people could not afford more than one day to bury relatives. There was another absence from school from the 10th to the 21st owing to toothache. (Laughter.)—-Councillor Lee I am sorry for that teacher.

Monmouth County Court TROUBLED JOURNEY TO WHITE CITY. A row in a railway train between Paddington and Reading on a journey to the White City by some Dean Forest miners had a sequel before Judge Owen at Monmouth County Court on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Alfred Jones, collier, Edenwell, Coleford, and he claimed 914 4s from Henry Jenkins, a collier, of Clements End Green, Colefore. Mr H. Williams, who was for the plaintiff, said defendant knocked two of the plaintiff's teeth out and spoiled a suit of clothes with the blood." There was a claim also for loss of work. Witnesses stated there was a dispute in the train, whilst others declared that the defendant, who is 50 years of age, struck the plaintiff, a youth, without any provocation. His Honour said he would allow R) only for the less of the teeth, adding the young man can surely get two artificial ones for "that." Husband's Promissory Note. A judgment summons, in which Margaret Price, jof Dingeston, claimed £ 89 upon a promissory note from her husband, J-ames Price, from whom she was now living apart, was called. Defendant was stated to be living at Hafodrynys near Crumlin. Mr Herbert Williams, solicitor, Monmouth, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that at a recent Court judgment was given for the woman. Defendant had paid nothing, and said he had not the money to pay. Piaintifi said that when they wece marrjed a few years ago the man had nearly £ 1.000 in the bank and houses near Pontypool. He had also offered XI,100 for a, farm. Yet," added Mrs Price, when we were living together I had to almost maintain him, for he came to live at my farm." The Judge Why I:iave you not -paid the money ? Defendant: I cannot pay. I am doing nothing, and only live with my nephew at present. The Judge: What do you pAy him ? Defendant: Nothing. The Judge How much did you have in the bank ? Defendant I don't remember. The Judge toid the defendant not to talk nonsense, and later added, Go away. Pay £10 a month. I advise you to pay. If you don't I will send you to prison for a long time." Claim for a Signature. Charles Price, a labourer, of Whitecroft, Forest of Dean, claimed il, for work done, from a Whitecroft licensee named Baldwen. What work ?" said the Judge. To his Honour's surprise the man said it was for putting his signature to an insurance paper.. As the piaintiit had not the money to pay the fees, the Judge said he could not hear the case.

MAESTEG WANTS AN ALDERMAN At a meeting 8f the Maesteg District Coun- cil on Tuesday, Mr Vemon Hartshorn presid. ing, Mr T. M. Franklen, clerk Glamorgan County Council, wrote that he was instructed; by the sub-committee of the Local Government Committee, which had been appointed for the purpose of preparing a scheme for the redis- tribution of the County Council seats, to state that they proposed to recommend the County Council to divide the Maesteg District into two divisions, one to comprise the Cacrau; and Nantyffyllon Wards and the other to comprise the East and' Wcfet Wards. The Chairman remarked that he had no doubt that the Council agreed; with the proposed division of the district, but. he did not know whether it would be wise at present to make representations to the -County, Council to select a faesteg member to fill one of the vacancies on the aldermanic bench. Mw J. H. Thomas thought it would be prematura to do so at present, though he fully agreed; that Maesteg was fully entitled to a representa- tive on the aldermanic bench. Mr John Howell said that when he mentioned the matter to some prominent members of the County Council, he was told that the aldermanic seata were reserved for the veterans of the County Council, and were not allocated according to population or importance of the districts. Ib was clear that Maesteg would not have an alderman for some years, the present member' having had only two years' service. Mr J. Roderick: The County Council have not appointed aldermen in that way in the past. As a matter of fact, our old member was senior to some of those who were appointed last time. On the motion bf Mr J. H. Thomas it was re- solved to reply approving of the proposed re. distributicja. It was stated that the. Council had decided to nominate Mr D. W. Thomas aa the Friendly Societies' representative on tha local Pensions Committee.

ABERAVON LIFEBOAT COLLECTIONS the lifeboat collections at Aberavon, or. ganised by Mrs G. Jones, Harbour House, the Mayor'and Mayoress being presidents and Mr W. Barry hon treasurer, resnlted in the substantiÀlsmn of E52 13s 9d, being the largest sum ever remitted to headquarters by Aber- avon and district. Mrs Joneat has received a letter of thanks from the Institution asking her to convey to Captain Jones, who superin- tended the procession, the Mayor uid Mayoress, and the ladies who assisted the best thanks of the committee.

r Just a little ti dish of ■ Post loastiesf th cream or milk at break- 11 »t or supper. Most delicious. 11 ipe-Iitiis Co., Lie! Shoe Lane, E.C. g >cers soil at 2d. and fid. per packet. with cream or milk at break- 11 ? fast or supper. Most delicious. 11 ipe-Iitiis Co., Lie! Shoe Lane, E.C. g Crocers sell at 2d. and 6d. per packet. I'¡:'r'