The Aberdare Leader

Music in the Park. The Cynon Valley Band, on Sunday last, gave a choice selection of sacred music in the Aberdare Park. Among the items was included the Church Parade," and such a favouriate has it become that Mr J. Manley, the con- ductor, has received numerous request to include it in the programme for Sunday evening next, and he has kindly consented to do so Perhaps a synopsis of the piece will not be out of place. The title of the piece indicates its character, and the composer, Mr J. O. Hume, has most aptly and beautifully illustrated an episode in a soldier's life. The opening movement depicts the Sabbath Morn," where all is quftt and peaceful. Presently we hear the chim- ing of the "Old Church Bells," and so realistic is the arrangement that it is nearly impossible to decide whether it is the instruments, or in reality a peal -f bells. Suddenly we hear the bugles sounding "the fall in," and while the men are assembling we hear that Arn- old Christmas hymn. The Bounv Christchurch Bells." During the com- manding officer's inspection we nave an allegro movement, which is smartness itself, including a pretty little lio, it solo. Then with the roll of the drums for four bars and off the regiment marches to church to that well-known tune, "Soldiers of Christ Arise." Arriving at the church we hear a beautifully arranged andante religaso," which clearly indicates that divine service has commenced. Later we hear a a Soldier's Hymn;" and imme- diately the Amen is finished the Old Church Bells are again pealing forth their sweet and merry sounds, an in- dication that service is over, .-vnotnei roll of the drums, and the regiment is homeward bound to that spirited tune, The Soldier's Return." A short finale concludes one of the best descriptive selections we have had the pleasure of listening to for a very long tune. and a piece of music expressively written for Sunday services.

Ten Illustrious Welshmen. THE ADJUDICATORS' AWARD. Sir T. Marchant Williams, Mr W. Llewelyn Williams, K.C., M.P., and Professor Thomas Powel, who consented to act as adjudicators in the competition for the ten best subjects representing the most eminent Welshmen, in ac- cordance with an offer by Mr D. A. Thomas to defray the cost of reproduc- ing these subjects in statues to be placed in the Cardiff City Hall, nave announced the result of tb,>ir labours The Town Clerk of Cardiff (Mr J. J.. Wheatley) has received from them the following letter 24th July, 191P. "Dear Sir,—The public were invited by you in May last rto name the ten most eminent Welshmen or Welsh- women in the history of Wales and Mon- mouthshire (previous to the reign of her late Majesty Queen Victoria). whose figures should be placed in the Cardiff City Hall; and as a prize of Æ20 was offered 'to the compiler of the best list: we wero asked by you to de- termine the ten names that should ap- pear in the list, and to name the com- petitor or competitors whose list or lists contained the largest number of the names so determined by us. The task thus imposed upon us, we are happy to say, proved to be much easier than we had anticipated it would be. We ex- perienced not the least ciifficulty in coming to an agreement as to the ten Welshmen who, in our opinion, deserve the distinction of having their figures pedestalled in your magnificent City Hall. Their names arranged in alpha- betical order are as follows:- 1.—Dafydd Ab Gwilym. 2.-Saint David (Dewi Sant). 3.-Gerald the Welshman (Giraldus Cambrensis). 4.—Owen Glendower (Owain ulyn Dwr). 5.-Henry VII. 6.-Howel the Good (Hywel Dda). 7.—Prince Llewelyn (Llewelyn v Llyw Olaf). 8.-Bishop Morgan. 9.—Sir Thomas Picton. 10.—The Rev. William Williams, of Pantycelyn. We regret to say that not one of the 354 competitors succeeded in naming the whole of the ten names in this list- not one of the competitors named even nine of these names; but the following competitors named eight of the names, and we recommend, therefore, that the prize be divided equally among them: —Mr W. H. Harris, Jesus College, Ox- ford; Mr W. W. Price, 11 Stuart Street, Aberdare; Mr R. E. A. Sinnett, 3 Argyle Street, Pembroke Dock; Mr Fred J. Warren, 3 Victoria Place, Haverfordwest; Miss M. V. Warron do.; Mr Ralph Warren, do: Mr G. P. Williams, Selwood, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury. We have but to add that it has been a great pleasure to us to assist, even to this very small extent, in carrying out the splendid scheme of our fellow- countryman, Mr D. A. Thomas, whose generosity, we are given to understand, will be regulated simply and solely by the highest artistic claims and con- siderations.—We remain, yours faith- fully, (Signed), T. Marchant Williams. W. Llewelyn Williams. Thomas Powel.

Miskin Men Acquitted. STORY OF A MOUNTAIN ATTACK. At the Assizes, Swansea, on Saturday, William Rogers, Thomas Thomas, and John Davies, three young men residing at Miskin, were arraigned on a charge of attempted rape on a one-armed woman named Mabel Houley. The case was heard at Mountain Ash Police Court on July 10th, when the three prisoners were committed to the Assizes. Counsel for the prosecution was instructed by Mr T. Marchant Harris, Aberdare, and counsel for the defence was instructed by Mr S. Shipton, Mountain Ash. Mabel Houley said that she stayed at James' Lodging House, Green Street, Aberdare. Last June she, together with a Frank James, the man she was living with, were returning from Old Ynysy- bwl across Llanwomio Mountain to Aberdare. When on the mountain they met the three prisoners. She had seen one or two of them on a previous occasion. The prisoners, after some words, attacked them both. Rogers attempted to assault her, while the other caught hold of James. After a struggle she managed to escape from his grasp. Information was given to the police with the result that the three prisoners were arrested. Rogers gave evidence on his own be- half. and the jury returned a verdict of Not- Guilty" in respect of the three prisoners., and they were discharged.

The Reflector. BY HYPNOS." Who is the fellow who put the lighted end of a cigarette in his mouth r Tre- cynon. Fire and fool at the same end this time. You shouldn't wear a nug-and in that conspicuous fashion. You know what the minister said, don't you. Cwmdare. The Trecynon and Lhvydcoed boys go up the canal bank to let out the latest Empire song on Sundays They're afraid of "Hypnos" hearing them in Trecynon. One voung man went picking honey- suckle for his girl, and entrusted her with his cigarette. When he returned. alas, there was none of it left. Mv word, there was a scrum. The I people woke up on Tuesday morning at Cwindare, and found there was no water in the taps. Fortunately, a few of the men had beer in the house. Beer for breakfast is rather upsetting, though. There was also quite a rush by the women folk, when the milk cart passed. There was no need of Milk O. penny a pint" this morning. If the drought continues Cwmdare will be placed in rather an awkward position. The pystill on which the people depended is now dried up. Some of the women will now have an excuse for not washing their faces. One lady beat all the others, for she did her washing on Sunday. A Llwydcoed man also Aig his garden on Sunday. What are Trecynon, Cwm- dare, and Llwydcoed coming to? A Trecynon pianist only played rag- time on Sunday Igst. It's a disease now.

I find if we want anything done we must go to work and do it. It is of no use to talk. none whatever; doing is the secret of life's successes.- -ML-r-z Chisholm.

Mode of Working. Mr. A. J. Abraham, general mana- ger of the Aberdare Tramways, has, in accordance with the instructions of the District Council, reported the modus operandi of the Tramways as follows:— Cars to commence running at 5. SO a.m. Run Workmen's Traliic umil 7.45 a.m. Maintain approximately a ten minute service through the day, running extra cars between 2.0 p.m. and 6.0 p.m. to deal with workmen's traliic. Last service car run about 11.15 p.m. from Aberdare to outer termini. Cars run 2.0 p.m. until 10.0 p.m. on Sundays. Extra cars to be run on Saturdays, holi- days, and at any other time when traffic calls for same.

Mountain Ash Palace Theatre JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF M.H. HAGGAR AT THE ASSIZES. In the Civil Court on Friday Mr Justice Channell delivered judgment in the action heard on Wednesday, in which Mr W. H. Brown, temperance hotel proprietor, Swansea, sought damages for trespass at Mountain Ash against Mr Haggar, cinema propiietor. Aberdat-e and Mountain Ash, a full re- port of which appeared in our last issue. In the course of his judgment, Mr Justice Channell said the case was a nice point in real property law, the question being such as appeared not to have been clearly decided by the higher courts. The point was whether a person on acquiring property was bound by a verbal agreement made between the original lessee and someone else, as was done in this case. His Lordship decided that Mr Morris could not have revoked the leave and license, which he had given to Mr George Kenshole nor compel Mr Haggar to pull down any part of his building. Mr Haggar had a right in equity against Mr Morris, and that being so he had a similar right as against Mr Brown, whose only remedy (if he had any at all) was against Mr Morris for having as- signed to him less land than the lease showed. There must, therefore, be judgment for Mr Haggar with costs. The witnesses for the plaintiff were the plaintiff himself, Mr Edward Brown (his son), and Colonel Morgan, whereas those for the defendant were Messrs George Kenshole, J. E. Wil- liams, W. Haggar, and T. W. Griffiths. The result is, not only has Mr Haggar nothing to pay, but he has not to pull down any part whatever of his build- ing, and the plaintiff has to pay Mr Haggar's as well as his own costs. There was no jury in this case. Mr Marlay Samson and Mr Howell Owen (instructed by Mr iidward Harris, solicitor, Swansea) were the counsel for the plaintiff, whilst Mr Lincoln Reed (instructed by Mr T. W. Griffiths, solicitor, Aberdare) acted for Mr Haggar.

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Speed Asked For. Tramway No. 1: Twelve miles per hour Cemetery Road to Glan Road Junction. Eight miles per hour Glan Road to North Avenue (Gad- lys). Six miles per hour North Avenue to Town Hall. Two miles per hour around Town Hall curve. Six miles per hour Town Hall to commencement of double line in Car- diff Street—termination of Tramway No. 1. Tramway No. 2: Eight miles per hour from Cardiff Street (commence- ment of Tramway No. 2) to the junction of Ynyslwyd Road with Cardiff Road. Four miles per hour only past Ynyslwyd Schools during school hours. Twelve miles per hour Ynyslwyd Road to Terminus. Tramway N.o. 3: Cars return from Aberaman this route. Twelve miles per hour.

Compulsory Stops (F.D.: Fare Division). All down cars at junction of Ceme- tery Road and Park Lane. All cars at junction of Mill Street and Cemetery Road (F.D., Cross Inn). All cars Glan Road (Entrance to Park) (F.D., County School). All down cars before crossing East Avenue and Neville Terrace in Gad- lys Road. All cars in loop by Higher Stand- ard Schools (F.D., Brynhyfryd). All cars by Town Hall (F.D., Town Hall). Commencement of loop in Cardiff Street-end of Tramway No. 1 (F.D., Victoria Square). In Cardiff Street before crossing Station Street and Cross Street. In loop by Wind Street (F.D., Full Moon). In loop by Ynyslwyd Road (F.D., Ynyslwyd Road). Junction of Lewis Street ond Car- diff Road-commencement of Tram- way No. 3 (F.D., Plough Inn). Before crossing Beddoe Street in Lewis Street (outward cars use this route). Junction of Lewis Street and Car- diff Road—termination of Tramway No. 3. (F.D., Aberaman Hall). Aberaman Terminus.

All Stations Including "Stop by Re- quest" and "Compulsory." Trecynon Terminus. Stop by re- quest at lestyn Street and at Cled- wyn Terrace. All down cars stop at Park Lane. All up cars stop by re- quest at Park Lane. All cars stop at junction of Mill Street and Cemetery Road. Cars stop by request: Hir- wain Road loop by Mount Pleasant and at junction of Broniestyn Ter- race. All cars stop at Glan Road. Cars stop by request in Gadlys Road by Oxford Street. All down cars stop before crossing East Avenue and Neville Terrace in Gadlys Road. Up cars stop by request at North Aven- ue in Gadlys Road. All cars stop in loop by Higher Standard Schools. Cars stop by request at corner of High Street and Seymour Street. All cars stop by Town Hall. Cars stop by request in Canon Street by the New Theatre and G.P.O. Cars stop by request at junction of Canon Street and Whitcombe Street. Cars stop by request at junction of Canon Street and Commercial Street. All cars stop at commencement of double track in Cardiff Street (Victoria Square). All cars stop in Cardiff St. before crossing Station & Cross Streets. Cars stop by request at junction of Duke Street and Cardiff Street. All cars stop in loop by Wind Street (Full Moon). Cars stop by request by Ynys- lwyd Schools. Cars stop by request Sunnybank St. Cars stop by request near Albion Inn (on corner Aberdare side of Albion Street). All cars stop in loop Ynyslwyd Road. Cars stop by request at Curre Street (near Cardiff Arms). Cars stop be request, Aber- gwawr Street. All cars stop by Hill Street, Aberdare end of Lewis Street. 'All cars stoi) in Lewis Street before crossing Beddoe Street. All cars stop near Mount Hill Street (Aber- aman Hall). Cars stop by request: Mason Street, Lower Station Street, IJlarnnewy Street;, llemorc: street, gas- works Road. In Loop near George St., Opposite Aberaman Church. Aber- aman Terminus. On Tramway No. 3, Cardiff Road, cars return Aberaman to Aberdare by this route. Cars stop by request oppo- site Cwmaman Road.

Trackless Routes. Mode of working: "Cedes-Stoll" Sys- tem. Routes authorised by the Aber- dare Urban District Council Act, 1911. Trackless Route No. 1, Cwmdare. Speed asked for: Twelve miles per hour. All cars stop on inward journey before coming on to the Hirwain Road. Cars stop by request at Broncvnon Ter- race; at a point approximately four chains from Broncynon Terrace in Bryn Terrace; in Bryn Terrace approxi- mately eight chains from Broncynon Terrace in Bryn Terrace approximately twelve chains from Broncynon Terrace; in Bryn Terrace—King Street. Trackless Route No. 2, Abernant. Speed asked for: Six miles per hour between commencement (at the junction of Commercial Street and Canon St.) and Cwmhach Road; twelve miles per hour Cwmbach Road to Abernant. Compulsory Stops To Abernant—All cars stop at end of Commercial Street I before crossing Duke Street and Glou- cester Street. From Abernant—All I cars stop on River Cynon Bridge before crossing T.V. Railway. All cars stop before passing Cwmbach Road. All cars stop at Fothergill Street (F.D.). Stations: Stops by Request and Com- pulsory Outward bound-All cars stop at end of Commercial Street. Inward Bound-All cars stop on Cynon Bridge. All cars stop by Cwmbach Road. Cars stop bv request at entrance to Aber- nant House, Alexandra Terrace, and College Street. All cars stop, Fother- gill Street. Cars stops by request at a point on- furlong above Fothergill St.; at a point two furlongs above 1' tA.iOi icii* Street, and at corner by Becliesda Chapel, Abernant. Abernant Termuius. Trackless Route No. 3, Abercwmboi. Speed asked for: Twelve miles per hour from Aberaman Terminus to corner, entrance to Aberaman Col- l. 1, liery, anct rrom commencement of Park \jew Terrace to Abercwmboi Terminus, 15 miles per hour from entrance to Aberaman Colliery to the commence- ment of Park View Terrace. No Compulsory Stops. Cars stop by request: Starting from Abercwmboi Terminus, every third pole to the end of Park View Terrace (five stops in all). Then at entrance to Aberaman Col- liery. At junction with Cwmaman Road. Workmen's cars as on Tram- ways. Trackless Route No. 4, Cwmaman. Speed asked for: 12 miles per hour except between the following points: 4 miles per hour only on downward jour- ney in Clarence Street from Gladstone Street to Aberanmn Terminus. 6 miles per hour only on downward journey in Clarence Street from bottom of Jubilee Road to Gladstone Street. 8 miles per hour between Cwmneol Inn and Cwm- aman Terminus. Compulsory Stops All down cars at bottom end of Jubilee Road before en- tering Clarence Street. All down cars in Clarence Street before passing Glad- stone Street. Stations: Stop by Request and Com- pulsory All down cars; up cars by re- quest at corner by Gladstone Street. Cars stop by request in Clarence Street by Cynon Street. All down cars; up cars by request at bottom end of Jubi- lee Road. Cars Stop by Request at all the fol- lowing Stations: Duffryn St., Pleas- ant View Street (by Godreaman Halt), Top end of Jubilee Road (Cwmaman Road), by Fforchneol Arms, Top end of Gooseberry Hill; by third pole approxi- mately 120 yards from Fairview Ter- race: Aberaman end of Fairview Ter- race Cwmaman end of View Ter- race Nelson Street; Neol Street (Aber- neol Street); Cwmneol Inn; at a point five chains from Cwmneol Inn in Fforchaman Road; by Dr. Thomas's Surgery in Fforchaman Road; Cwm- neol Street. Cwmaman Terminus. Workmen's cars as on Tramways.

The Abercynon Case at the Assizes. Mr Scott, of Abercynon, the father of the girl Esther Scott, who was men- tioned in the case, Lewis v. Tiley, at Swansea Assizes last week, wishes to state that his daughter was not at the Aberdare Park on the evening referred to in the case, but was at the Aberdare Cinema as an accompanist on the occasion of a benefit concert for the Aberdare Football team, and did not leave until late in the evening.

Our ideals are not worth much if we flee from them at the first attack.

Scraps. BY THE SCRIBE." Now when we are within a month or two of the opening of the Aberdare Tramway System, it is rather discon- certing and discouraging to see in the newspapers that the day of tramways is over. What are we spending < £ 50,000 t or £ 60,000 for? Is it for an obsolete system of cars which will be out-of-date in a year or two, and which must be superseded by something more mode n and suitable to the present age? In the Motor Transport Conference, held at the Automobile Club, London, last Friday, a Mr W. Worby Beaumont civil engineer, said that "except in re- mote districts, tramways were not suited to the modern requirements of traffic." What a pity that we had not heard this before we started the job. It is now too late for, be the system ancient or modern, we shall have to put up with it for a time. Mr Beaumont goes on to say that a system which required the heavy rails and the paraphernalia of a great rail- way installation in the streets, and was of no use except for the one particular kind of vehicle that was run upon it had, at the present day, with the recog- nition of the value of good roads re- quired for the greater part or the whole of the commercial and other vehicles, lost all the original reason for its aloption. It had become obvious, he declared, that there should be no ex- tension of the existing lines Sir J. Macdonald said at the came meeting that the day of the tramway was over. He did not say that all the tramway rails would .be taken up, but very few would be laid down in. the future, certainly not in large and busy towns. They would have good roads, on the surface of which vehicles would be run as smoothly as on rails. It had been predicted that before long the motor buses would be off the streets, and the last one would be found in the British Museum. It was much more likely th:\t that would happen to the tramcars. When Mr Sellon was condemning the Tramways lock, stock and barrel, cable, i track and pillar, whv did he leaye un- condemned those ugly instruments of torture tacked on to the pillars? The other day I saw a man's head coming in contact with one of these battery boxes, or whatever they are. His bowler hat was battered thereby, but it saved his head. Were it not for that he would probably be summoning the District Council for assault and battery. This man was sober, too, and-until that in- cident—a saintly soul.

Cinema Opposition. Protest Meeting at Aberaman. A mass meeting which had been called by the committee of the Aber- aman Workmen's Hall and Institute was held at the Plough Tip, Aber- aman, on Monday evening, to protest against the erection by a private syndicate of a new Cinema on a site opposite the Workmen's Institute in Cardiff Road. The meeting was also asked to pass a resolution asking the Council to refuse to licence such building if erected. Mr. W. Collier, chairman of the Hall Committee,' presided, and ex- plained the object of the meeting. Mr. Collier traced the history of the Aberaman Institute, which he said was a, great boon to the whole neigh- bourhood. It was a meeting place for the young people, where they could talk, play and read, and other- wise spend their time reasonably and sensibly. He ventured to say that the Institute and Hall was a very valuable educational and moral asset to Aberaman, which was a better place since the building of the Hall and Institute. The building be- longed principally to the miners, and although he was not himself a miner —he was a "collier." (Laughter.) The Hall was theirs as a community I for the benefit of themselves, their children, and the inhabitants of the neignoournooa generally; and as a rule the shows they had there tend- ed to uplift rather than the contrary. He was a believer in Free Trade and fair play. A little opposition some- times proved helpful, but such would not be the case in the present in- stance when they found some alien cinema-monger coming along, and the object was not the good of the people but certain individual pro- moters were out to make money, and after the shares had been properly floated on the market they would probably sell out and retire, having netted a good sum for themselves without caring what became of the show afterwards. (Hear, hear.) They saw a number of these cinemas getting up around them, and he wanted to know who was going to run these places, if they were going to continue. The promoters of the Cinema were not out to promote the good of the people generally but their own solely. The Cinema people had paid nearly £4,000 for the site, and the tenants of the houses there would have to turn out, some of them after many years' residence there— at the bidding of the Cinema- monger. They had still something like 96,000 to pay on the Institute, and they could only do this by co- operative effort. He then called upon Mr. T. Bowen to move the first resolution protest- ing against the erection of the new Cinema. Mr. Bowen said that they were there as shareholders in the Insti- tute. It was not Mr. J. R. Poole, to whom the Hall was leased, that they had in view when they came forward with that protest. It would be for them at the expiration of tnat seven years' lease to say whether they were going to run the place themselves. He (the speaker) was always against private monopoly but for public monopoly, and where people could run such places themselves they should not leave them to others. The new Cinema would materially depre- ciate the value of that building, and he thought it was both cheeky and impertinent for people to come and place a building right opposite their own in that way. They had been struggling for a good many years, and they had a debt of 96,000 to meet still, although they had cleared off something like 15,000 to £ 6,000. If these people had gone a little higher up or lower down he would not mind so much. He formally moved the resolution protesting against the erection of the new Cine- ma. Mr. Morgan Thomas, who second- ed, said he thought it was very im- pertinent to think of erecting a build- ing opposite their own door like that. No opposition was going to -be detrimental to them as workmen. It was not Mr Poole they were think- ing about, but they must think of themselves as the inhabitants. Prac tically every individual there contri- buted towards that building. Such a company as that which promoted the Cinema only considered their own good and personal benefit, while they as workmen stood for the good of the community, and he thought they should make that pro- test as strong as they could. Such a company as that would do anything to declare a dividend. He could foresee that if the Cinema were built there would be a terrible state of congestion in the street in that particular spot, especially when the trams came into operation. Mr. Tom Lewis begged leave as one of the workmen to say that as far as he understood the matter, the proposed new cinema complied with the byelaws of the Council, and therefore that body had no option in the matter, and could not refuse it. Their protest therefore was no good, and it was folly on their part to pass such a resolution. According to his information the plans were passed. He did not believe they could ever stop the cinema coming there. There was a course that they could adopt, and that was if the cinema proved to be to their detriment as workmen- let the company build it, and they as workmen refuse to patronise it. What was there in this any more than in two tradesmen building shops in op- position to each other? The Hall was paying its way, and he thought they should not be so narrow-mind- ed. At the present time thousands of persons were paying their "tup- pences" to go to Aberdare to the Cinema. As he looked at it, it was the Hall first and Cinema after, and Cinema instead of a pint of beer sometimes. (Laughter.) Cinema instead of a pint and the Hall instead of two sleevers perhaps. (More laughter.) He believed personally that both could run together beauti- fully, and without detriment to each other in the least. The Chairman, replying to Mr. Lewis, said that the Council could not help passing the plans, but they were not compelled to grant the licence, and it was quite within their right to refuse it, just as the magis- trates had a right to refuse a public- house licence. On being put to the meeting the resolution was carried by an over- whelming majority, twelve only vot- ing against it. Mr. W. W. Price, general secretary of the Institute Committee, who moved the second resolution, asking the Council to refuse to licence the proposed Cinema, said that if they sent a strong protest to the Council against the erection of the Cinema and calling upon them to refuse to grant a licence, the probability was that it would have the effect of stopping the building of the Cinema, and that something else would be built instead. He would point out that if the value of the Hall deterior- ated they had not any strong funds behind them. They had paid already nearly Y,12,000 for the building and its furniture apart from the library, and the building had only been up four years next Christmas. When the present lease to Mr. Poole ex- pired, if the value of the Hall deter- iorated by the erection of a Cinema opposite, then they would not be in a position to get the same terms as before. They were asking, then, that the Council should refuse the licence. He would emphasise the claim that they m Aberaman had on the Council. They had spent money that the District Council ought to have spent. They had spent a large sum of money on the Baths at Aber aman, which were for the health of the whole community. The Council should help them a little in return. They had also helped the Council materially in regard to the library which they had provided. He there- fore moved that resolution calling upon the Council to decline to grant a licence for the new Cinema. In seconding Mr. W. H. Bowen said he was sorry there were some there who were against the resolu- tion of protest. Why they should be divided on the matter he could not understand. It was their own house and a large sum of money had been expended on it for their own interest as a community. Now they saw a private company coming into their midst. What for ? To take money away to some foreign country and to spend it there. Mr. J. Palmer, in supporting as one of the trustees of the Institute, said he did not object so much to the Cinema as he did to the fact that they came right opposite their own door. They were aiming at getting the Hall free within the next 10 years. It was nothing but a disgrace for people from away to come there to build a Cinema right in front of their Hall. The resolution was put to the meet- ing and carried.

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Aberdare Man gains Coveted I Degree. Congratulations are this week being showered upon Mr Goronwy Jones, only son of the Rev. R. J. Jolies, NI.A., Broniestyn. News has been received that he has Dassed his M.D..London TJniversity). This is a much coveted distinction in the medical profession, and but very few hold it. Only once before has this degree been gained bv an Aberdare boy, viz., Or John Jones, son of Mr D. W. Jones, J.P. We congratulate Dr Goromvy Jones upon his brilliant success, which must be extremely gratifying to his father. who is a veteran in the cause of educa- tion.

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