The Aberdare Leader

Mountain Ash Jottings. BY LUCIFER. What fools M.P.'s would make oi themselves, and how ridiculous their conduct would appear to the country if at the end of an important public debate on an essentially public matter they turned casually to the Press Gallery, and asked the members of the Fourth Estate to omit all reference to the question under discussion. And let us assume that the Pressmen very properly ignored such an unheard- of request, and that when next they took up their duties Parliament, in a spirit of pique, decreed that all reporters must leave the precincts of the House while they resume discussion of the same public matter. And yet it is something after this nature that the Mountain Ash Educa- tion Committee have been up to. The question of the rehabilitation of Mr. J. J. Beckerlegge was most certainly a public matter, in which the people had a perfect right to know what was being said and done. The request to the Press to leave out all reference to the discussion three weeks ago came as an after-thought towards the end of the debate. And it was simply a casual request by two members, confirmed by the chairman. The request was by no means unanimous, and the motives which prompted members to ask for the deletion of the report were not identical. It was for the sake of Mr. Beckerlegge himself that Mr. Bowles threw out the suggestion. Mr. Bruce Jones had no such qualms for the feelings of a con- scientious objector. What his motive was is not yet quite clear. It is time that the Mountain Ash Council and Committee understood that casual requests to the Press to leave out discussions cannot be noticed, any more than appeals from defendants in the Police Courts. There should at least be a vote on the matter and a majority secured for or against sup- pressing a report. Also the request ought to be made and the vote taken at the commencement of the discussion, and not in the middle or the end, after the reporters have gone to the trouble of taking a full note of what has been said. ======

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Aberdare County Court. Monday, May 22.—Before His Honour Judge Bryn Roberts. Administration Request. Henry Albert Whitcombe, 37 Bell Street, Tre- cynon, applied for an administration order in respect of his debts, £ 35. Mr. T. W. Griffiths, Aberdare, represented debtor. He is a colliery surface labourer at the Bwllfa Colliery, and earns 38/7 per week. He has a wife and two children. He offered to pay his debts in full at 12/6 per month.— Granted. Compensation Claim. Tlie case of Wm. Benjamin Davies, against Powell Duffryn Colliery Co., was mentioned by Mr. Ivor Parry, Pontypridd. Air. A. J. Prosser (Messrs. Ivenshole and Prosser, Aberdare) represented the respondent company. The applicant's case had been disposed of at the March Court, but His Honour had to take notice of a matter of 9 days in which claimant had worked at the Gas Works. The claim was in respect of nystagmus contracted whilst in the respondent's employ.—His Honour declined to make any alteration in his previous award. Respondents' Submission. Thomas Rees, 2 Gadlys St., Aberdare, against Cwmaman Coal Co., was mentioned by Mr. Ivor Parry. The respondents, Cwmaman Coal Co.. represented by Mr A. J. Prosser, had submitted to an award of 4/10 per week.—His Honour consented. No costs. Breaking Bad Bronchos.-The PowoJl Dulfryn Colliery Co., represented by Mr. A. J. Prosser, Aberdare, claimed ;C6 from Cecil Benjamin, Chepstow, in regard to horse-breaking. Defendant was engaged to break a batch of horses that the Company had bought—Color- ado Bronchos. The price agreed upon was C3 per jiorse. On February 19, out of a batch of 32 horses there were left 6 unbroken. Defendant bought one of the horses for zL6, but claimed that the Company owed him money for breaking the horses. He was paid in instalments as requested and accord- ing to the work done. Defendant had practically admitted the claim for £ 6, but counter claimed £ 7 for work done. —Defendant denied that the horses were not broken Some of them were bad ones. He informed Mr. James that the horses were a bad lot and not having worked before could not be broken. Mr. James replied. Do the best you can and you'll be paid for the bad workers." In February he noti- fied Mr. James that he had finished the contract. The last five horses were practically unbreakable.—Wm. Benja- min, son of former witness, who helped his father to break the horses, corro- borated his father's evidence. — John James, P.D. farm bailiff, said that one day in February Benjamin's son told witness that his father had had a tele- gram to the effect that his mother was seriously ill. Witness did not see Ben- jamin after that. The five horses which had not been broken in by Ben- jamin were eventually broken in effec- tually by a man named Holland. Frank Holland said that he took in hand the five horses which had been left unbroken by Benjamin and com- pleted the work, for which he was paid £ 6.—His Honour, in giving judgment for the Company on the counter claim, which was the only point at issue, said that if it had been proved that the horses were intractable then Benjamin would have been relieved of any obliga- tion, but it had been proved that they were tractable and had since been broken in. Compensation Cases. Mr. William Thomas applied to His Honour on be- half of Miss Florence Mabel Burrows, of Regent Street, Aberaman, for pay- ment out to her of the sum of 28 com- pensation apportioned to her at the October Court in respect of the death of her brother, Reginald Collier Bur- rows. His Honour ordered payment of the sum.—Mr. Thomas also applied on behalf of Mrs. Margaret Phillips, of Harriet Street, Trecynon, for payment out of Court of a sum of interest on the compensation fund in respect of her late husband, Mr. Richard Phillips. His Honour directed that the interest should be paid.—In the case of Abra- ham Richards and the Bwllfa Co., Mr. Thomas applied to His Honour for an award directing the Company to pay Richards a sum of 8/- per week in re- spect of the half difference between his present earnings and those he would have been earning if he had not sus- tained an injury at their colliery on the 16th March, 1915. His Honour made the award.—In the case of David Lan- deg Powell, deceased, who met with an accident on the 12th July. 1915, at the Bwllfa No. 3 Colliery, and died on the 17th January 1916, Mr. W. Thomas applied for the apportionment of the sum of £ 70 agreed compensation. His I Honour declared Mr. Thomas Powell, 4 St. Johns Street, Trecynon (father), and Elizabeth Powell and Ethel Powell to be the dependents and directed the sum of j640 to be paid out to Mr Powell, £ 15 to Miss Elizabeth Powell, and LI,5 to be invested for Miss Ethel Powell until she attains the age of 21 years.- In the case of John Hitchings, de- ceased, of 40 Jubilee Road, Godreaman, who was killed by a fall of roof at the Powell Duffryn Co.'s Cwmneol Colliery on the 3rd April, 1916, Mr. Thomas applied to His Honour for the appor- tionment of C290 compensation. His Honour declared the widow and eight children dependents, and directed that the sum of 13/6 per week be paid to the widow for the maintenance of herself and children.

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Trecynon and Llwydcoed Notes. BY MARCELLO. I know of a Trecynon family who were saving daylight at a terrific rate last Sunday morning. If time is money they must be wealthy now. Mrs. Jones had been instructed by the minister, who was anxious that she should arrive in chapel in time on the Sunday morn- ing, to put on the clock an hour at bed- time. She did so. Some time later John arrived home. The beerhouse sage had been giving him points in the same time- ly direction, so when he got home with trembling hand and cloudy vision he proceeded to advance the hands of the family chronometer by 60 minutes. Re- sult: Mrs. Jones, who is usually half an hour late, was at the door of the sanctuary for once an hour before the caretaker. As for her husband he slept over his mistake. He did not save day- light but he saved a meal. 1-. Who is the man who broke the hand of the clock when putting it on and broke a commandment the same time? Ever since he has been uttering—not blessings on the. whole blooming business. He swears by Mahomet's beard that he will not lay hands on that clock's hands any more. He came very near smashing its face too. In another case the lungs of a kitchen timekeeper were affected when its hands were tampered with. Like Will Bryan's clock it struck hundreds and thousands in the early hours of Sunday morning, entering into a vigorous com- petition with the roosters of the neigh- bourhood and later with the church bells. Finally it settled down to utter silence-a silence that could be felt. In many places in Marcello's beat the new time was sadly out of joint. I am sure there has not been such a commotion since my grandfather's clock stopped short never to go again when the old man died, or when the clock was put back 24 hours in the time of Joshua. It is unofficially reported that one gentleman residing not a hundred miles from Tregibbon duly put on his watch on Saturday night according to Govern- ment regulations but forgot to wind it. His seat at the breakfast table and in the chapel were vacant on Sunday morning. He is not given to swearing but on this occasion he was cursing the silent-and stagnant—watches of the night. I have been told of a local somnam- bulist whose recent feat puts Raffles' Rip Van Winkle in the shade. He got up in his sleep and walked to the door of his favourite inn. He found it closed and came to the conclusion that the new stop-tap order had been further extended. The crowing of ilie lnll- keeper's cock woke him, and he went home sorrowfully. Ah, between altering the hours of gstting cut of the bed and the hours of getting into 1 :u' j e declares that we arc really putting tV- clock back. Who is the Trecynonite who spent a shilling on some stuff to rejuvenate a ten-year-old straw hat, and spoilt it in the bargain? Now he is going to generously give the hat away to some poor beggar and is prepared to sell the cleansing lotion for much less than he gave for it. What offers? I have been told that a local soldier who is with the Salonica Forces is "carrying on with a native girl. How he manages to express to her his undy- ing love for her I don't know, because, unlike the Apostle, he does not know the lingo. If perchance his girl at home should meet her Grecian rival it would be a case of "Greek met Greek." But | it is more than likely that when quitting "those isles of Greece" his request will be— "Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart." "Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold." Last Sunday evening a man was seen effecting an entrance into a Llwydcoed habitation when all the family were out. He was at first taken for a burglar, but it was ascertained afterwards that he was after a charm- ing lady that lives in. the house and that he stayed there till she returned. It was with reluctance that a Llwyd- coed lady went to a neighbour's house to tea last Sunday. She went merely to keep a promise. She is sorry now that she did not break her promise, because she nearly broke her heart ow- ing to spilling tea on her lovely dress. If you strike a dog with a bone you don't hurt him. That was a Llwyd- coed man's argument when he hit his kid with a cucumber.

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Mountain Ash County Court. ■ Tuesday, May 22.-Before His Honour Judge Bryn Roberts. COMPENSATION. — Annie Davies, 10 Stream Street, Mountain Ash, repre- sented by Mr. Ivor Parry, Pontypridd. applied for an apportionment of £ 30'! paid into court by Nixon's Navigation Colliery Co. in respect of the death of her husband whilst in the respondents' employ. Applicant is 64 years of age and no dependents. — His Honour ür- dered £ 200 to be invested in the War Loan and pay 15s. per week to the ap- plicant till she attained 70 years of age. "A BOYISH PRANK." Harold Holmes, against Penrikyber Colliery Co., was a case reserved for judgment by his Honour from the last Court. The Judge was of opinion that the boy had brought the accident on himself. He had adopted a method that was ab- solutely prohibited and was necessarily j out of court. On the other hand, if that prohibition was not strictly en- forced, but was being continually broken, then the Company would be liable. In the present case the accident occurred as the outcome of a boyish prank and therefore outside his em- ployment. Judgment for respondents and costs on Scale B. PENKHIWCEIBER I? J PPE I,' CLAIM.—Thomas Jones, 31 Dfllwyn Street, Penrhiwceiber, claimed compen- sation from Nixon's Navigation Col- liery Co. for injuries received whilst in their employ. Mr. Ivor Parry repre- sented the claimant, and Mr. A. Prosser the respondents. Dr. Martin Jones sat as medical assessor. Claim- ant's evidence was that lie was em- ployed as a ripper at the Cwmcynon Colliery, Penrhiwceiber. On January 7th he was cleaning the blast pipes underground. He was lifting them when he felt a strain. Their weight was 11 cwts. He got them into their proper place, and then felt dazed and didn't know what he was doing. When he came to he found himself on the floor of the pit landing. He had not worked since.— By Mr. Prosser: He didn't com- plain to Owen Roberts about his hands, except to say that one of them had "gone to sleep." That was before he went down to work on the night of the accident.—Owen Roberts deposed that Jones complained to him of his hand be- fore going down to work on the night in question. Witness told him that it was only a bit of rheumatism. After the accident Jones gave way at the knees and they tried to hold him up. Witness went out with him.—George Mitchell, 12 Glancynon Street, Miskin, a ripper, stated that he worked with Jones on January 7th. He helped Thomas James to take Jones out. They found him in a stooping position. Jones was holding up the collar for about 10 minutes. Jones had complained about a week prior to the accident that he felt poorly.—Arthur Thomas James, 74 Penrhiwceiber Road, Penrhiwceiber, a haulier, stated that he was present when Jones got down from the tram. He put his arm round witness's neck to save himself from falling.—Dr. Thomas Davies stated that he medically attend- ed Jones at his house after he was brought home on January 8th. He was quite unconscious and in bed, and was suffering from paralysis of the left side of the face and left arm and left leg. Witness attributed his condition to the strain in lifting the collar. In his opinion it would be sufficient to pro- duce a small hemorrhage. — Dr. Ben Phillips-Jones stated that the condi- tion in which Jones was found was quite compatible with the work that he had been doing. The numbness of Jones's thumb was undoubtedly due to a cal- careous condition of the arteries. The man had worked from 9.30 at night to 4 the next morning, and in his (witness) opinion the numbness and the seizure had no connection. This concluded the case for the claimant.-Griffith Harris, overman at Cwmcynon Colliery, accom- panied Jones home. He was helpless and couldn't walk home without sup- port. His left leg was useless. Dr. MrGbie saw Jones in the afternoon just after the accident. He was suffer- ing from paralysis down the whole left side of his body. The conclusion he came to was that it was a case of apop- lexy and not due to any accident.—Dr. Downing saw Jones on March 17, when he had quite recovered from paralysis. —Judgment was reserved. ABERCWMBOI CASE.—Jos. Wat- kins, Abercwmboi, represented by Mr I. Parry, claimed an increased weekly sum of compensation from the P.D. Co., for whom Mr. A. Prosser (Messrs Kenshole and Prosser) appeared. Mr Illtyd Hopkins, sub-miners' agent, was with Mr. Parry. Watkins worked at Aber- cwmboi Colliery, and contracted nys- tagmus in July, 1912. He obtained light employment for some time and ultimately was given a job as rider-. In December, 1915, he failed and was idle for 5 weeks. It transpired that appli- cant's wages during last year when on light employment were more than the rate he was paid in 1912, prior to the illness. The average for last year was £ 1 15s. 6d., whereas the compensation paid him for the 5 weeks was 1-5/7 per week. The judge decided in favour of applicant, and increased the rate of compensation to 17/9 per week-half the average rate of wages paid last year.

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