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TOWN AXD COUNTRY NOTES.

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TOWN AXD COUNTRY NOTES. The St. Asaph Board of Guardians had a preliminary canter at their last meeting over the comparative returns which Mr. Bircham, the Poor Law Inspector, has recently issued on the pauperism in the several Unions comprised in his district. The St. Asaph Guardians, it appears, stand pretty well up in the list for generosity. This would seem to be regarded as a test of inefficiency in Poor Law administration. Of course if the average cost per head of the population is kept at a high figure by the granting of relief in undeserving cases there ought to be a thorough overhauling. If on the other hand it is prodnced by dealing liberally with those who are really in need, we see nothing that the St. Asaph Board of Guardians need be ashamed of. We have no sympathy with a system of Poor Law administration which grinds down the poor in order that the Guardians may take to themselves the flattering unction that their particular Union comes out best in the matter cf niggardleness. All over the country it is possible to economise in the matter of Poor Law administration, but there should be economy all round, and it should start with the expenditure, that is involved in keeping the Poor Law machin- ery going, which is ridiculously dispropor- tionate to the sum actually spent in reliev- ing the necessities of the poor. -Having regard to the large demands which the St.Asaph Union is making upon the financial resources of Rhyl it is to be regretted that the town is so badly Tepresented on the St. Asaph board. At the last meeting there was only four out of the nine members Dresent, and this is about the average that obtains throughout the year. There are three members who have not attended more than two meetings during the last five months. Surely gentlemen ought not to aspire to public positions unless they can find the time to attend to the duties of the office. When we see people taking upom them- selves honours without discharging the obligations and duties attendant on them the natural inference is that they are seek- inf their own aggrandizement rather than the public weal. Rhyl not only needs the presence of everyone of its members at the fortnighly meetings of the St. Asaph Board nf (Guardians, but also demands their un- V" casing vigilence. At the present moment is merely a milch cow for the a-uial districts.and it has become so through the inattention to duty by about one half the members that the ratepayers have sent fo represent them. Some members are exceedingly faithful and active, and are en- titled to the thanks of the community, but as for the others they ought to choose be- tween the alternative of immediately re- signing their seats or being more regular iin their attendance in future. Mr George Perkins did well to call the .attention of the Abergele District Council on Monday to the limitations the London and North Western Railwav Company have imposed upon the week-end tickets that are issued to Rhyl ard to other places on the coast. Instead of encouraging it the London and North Western Railway Com- pany are doing their utmost to check the holiday traffic. The different resorts on the North Wales coast have lost thousands of pounds this year through the action of the company For three weeks they en- tirely suspended the issue of the week-end tickets, and when they at last continued -them they limited them to such trains as to practically make them useless to the average business man. No wonder railway dividends are going down. Sharehol- ders have hitherto been so happy in the receipt of their dividends that they have not troubled much about the management of the company's affairs. Now the divi- dends are down it may stimulate inquiry .among the general body of stareholde and if they do so Ihey will find that the cause of the reduction is not so much the increased price of coal as the unpopularity of the London and North Western Railway Company. The severe check which the company have placed on the holiday traffic is fraught with very serious consequences to a number of small towns who have spent a great deal of money in catering for the annual summer influx, and we think that there ought to be a. combination of the authorities interested with the view of bringing some pressure to bear upon this powerful corporation to revise their pre- sent arbitrary methods. Complaints are being constantly made to us of the condition in which the Cob leading from Rhyl to Rhuddlan on the west side of the river is kept. Free passage is obstructed in no less than four places by almost unclimable fences. ft is with dif- ficulty that a young and active man can climb them, whilst young ladies will find the effort an absolutely impossible one. The whole of the path, after the fall of rain is also disgraceful, this being especially the case by the gate at the Rhyl end. If the path were only decently kept in order it would prove far away the most pleasant walk to Rhuddlan. But it seems that someone in authority, or who are assuming an authority, are doing their best to dis- courage the use of the Cob as a footpath. The obstructions that have been put up have been deliberately designed to make passage olong the Cob as difficult as possi- ble. It should be the business of the Rhyl Council to protect the public rights over the Cob, and see that the fences that have been put up are replaced by proper styles,which can be used by ladies and elderly people as well as by youths and youug men.

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SHOCKING FALL FROMI RHUDDLAN…

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