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Canals Employees' Picnic. The employees of the Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals had a very enjoy- able outing on Monday (Bank Holiday). They numbered 85. A portion of the staff started from Cardiff at 7.50 a.m. and were joined at Aberdare by several co-employees. The conveyances, sup- plied by Mr Tom Dix. started from Aberdare at 9. A halt was made at Penderyn for lunch after which the party proceeded to Ystradfellte Caves. They afterwards resumed the journey to Glyn Neath and Pontneathvaughan. Dinner was partaken of at the Angel Hotel, and:a visit to the famous falls followed. The return journey started at 6'45, Aberdare being reached at 9 o'clock. A very pleasant day was spent.

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Letters to the Editor. Letters on any subject of public interest are invited. It should be understood that we do not necessarily agree with the views expressed therein. Corres- pondents will oblige by writing on one side of the paper, and must invariably enclose their names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but am guarantee of good faith. MOUNTAIN ASH STREET LAMPS. Mr. Editor.—I should like to draw the attention of the ratepayers of the district to the wasteful expenditure which has just been incurred by the Mountain Ash District Council in fixing a mechanism on our streets lamps for the spontaneous lighting of the gas jets. I should think it would have been wiser for the Coun- cil to use electricity for our street light- ing than to spend more money on a flim- sy mechanism which is bound to get out of order. I have spoken to several rate- payers, and they are surprised at the action of the Council. One naturally asks what is the object of this extra ex- pense, but it is not so easy to answer. It cannot be for the purpose of saving the expense of a lamp-lighter, because one sees a man carrying a ladder, going round the streets to see that the clocks are work- ing properly. Already one can notice that some lamps are not lit at all, and that others remain lighted up to mid-day until an individual armed with a ladder puts them out. If these appliances can- not work well for a fortnight, how many will be in working order a year hence? It is gratifying to note that these patents have, up to the present been fixed in the Duffryn Ward only. Let us hope that the Council will have profited by these failures and that they will refuse to sanction any similar expenditure in the other half of the town.—Yours, FIAT LUX. TRAMWAYS FOR ABERDARE. Sir,—Mr. Morgan Parr is greatly troubled with the prospect of a Tramway for Aberdare. What is it that worries him ? Surely it is a new role for Mr. Parr to take up, when he says he is going against his own interests and that he feels the real Socialistic fraternal feel- ing" towards his fellow men. Hail, Comrade Parr! I knew all along that in God's good time you would be numbered among the wise ones of the earth, viz., Socialists. May T, on behalf of the I.L.P., extend to you the cordial hand of fellowship, and invite you to our local Institute? But just let me put him right in one or two instances. I would like to point out to him that the heavy, cumbersome buses are not good enough for us in Aberdare. Mr. Parr ought to know very well that these things are very shaky and rocky. They may suit certain streets in London where there is practically no gradient, but they will be very much out of place in Trecynon and Cwmaman. These things are removed but one step from the ancient mode of locomotion which serves Aberdare at present. No, Aberdare will put up with nothing short of a proper electric traction scheme. The town deserves it, and the inhabitants demand it. Such a scheme would be a little gold mine. There is no district in South Wales which is better adapted for such a scheme. We have houses all the way from the Cemetery at Trecynon to the extreme end of Cwm- aman, and with the exception of a few yards near Aberaman Colliery, there are houses on the other route to Abercwm- boi. At the starting point Cwmdare people, with its growing number of resi- dents, would strongly patronise the ser- vice; Llwydcoed people would join at the top of Windsor-street or Mill-street. The scheme is bound to pay, and the ratepay- ers are bound to benefit by it. It is a disgrace to Aberdare that we have not had something of the kind years ago. Fancy a town of 50,000 inhabitants de pending upon a few brakes. Whenever a person wants to go to Aberaman or Tre- cynon he generally has to wait 20 minutes or half an hour, and he could walk there in that time. Mr. Parr's argument re a Limited Scheme will not hold water. Let Cwm- dare, Llwydcoed, Rohertstown, Abernant, and Cwmbach, places which the trams will not visit, speak for themselves. They must see that for the first few years the line should be confined to the most popu- lous areas. Mr. Parr might as well have complained that Monk-street resi- dents are opposed to the scheme because it does not include the laying of rails in that street. In the' same manner every side street resident might so argue. We cannot all have the trams passing our doors. By and bye, perhaps, the scheme will be extended to Cwmdare, with a branch line to Cwmbach. But in the meantimePlet us take the scheme as pro- moted 3 or 4 years ago, i.e., Cemetery to Abercwmboi, with a branch line along the new road to Cwmaman. I would ad- vise Mr. Parr not to be nervous about his poorer neighbours. They are in safe keeping with our Council, which includes some good Progressives. More power, say I, to their elbow, to push forward an up-to-date scheme of locomotion. By up- to-date I mean electric trams, run an rails. There is nothing in the whole world like them, in speed and in com- fort.—Yours, etc., Trecynon. NAGROM RAPP. ABERDARE CEMETERY AND PEN- DERYN CHURCHYARD. Sir,—I very much doubt the wisdom of continuing this correspondence with Mr. George, whose main idea seems to be to distort and misrepresent facts, and to blur the real issue by fictitious figures and groundles statements about the mat- ter in dispute. I am not surprised, after reading his last letter, that this muddle-headed critic, in his sublime simplicity, did not comprehend some plain statements made by me in my last letter, and that they were U unintelligible to him, as he does not seem to understand the drift of his own argument. One would have thought that even Mr. George would have at once admitted (novice and unititiated as he is) that statements made in open Council are often not reliable. As to the table of fees of the late Burial Board the interpretation he places on the two first lines of that table is utter- ly misleading and false. The following are the words of the table: — a For the right of making one inter- ment in common grave, 14s. For pur- chase of same grave in perpetuity, extra 25s." It is perfectly clear from that regulation that the person who pays only 14s. for a grave has no legal right to bury in that grave afterwards, without the sanction of the Council, and such sanction could not be given without violating the regula- tions of the late Board. So I strictly ad- here to the statement I made in my first letter that "the fee for making one in- terment in Aberdare Cemetery, according to the tables, so as to secure to the pur- chaser the rights of burial and control over the grave afterwards is 39s. and not 14s." It is amusing to note how Mr. George wanders from one subject to another in order to confuse ihe issue and blind the public, and to make himself believe, in his unconscious simplicity, that he has made out a case for a cemetery in that I unsightly marsh and undrainable bog at Hirwain. At Penderyn," he says, "the lowest I fees for interment in common grave of ¡ parishioners and non-parishioners are 30s. and 35s." That is grossly inaccurate, as new graves are opened for children over u month old for 10s. and 12s. A child of two months old was buried in a new grave on the 21st inst. The fee was only 12s., although he lived outside the parish. A burial, under similar circumstances in Aberdare would cost 28s. He asks, again, Why in cases of new graves to be bricked, have the fees ad- vanced from 32s. to 37s., and from 37s. to 42s. ?" Because more ground is neces- sary for a brick grave, and it is only fair to the ordinary grave-holders that I should follow the example of Aberdare Cemetery by charging a higher fee. If I acted on the strong representations of the inhabitants of the parish," the fee for non-parishioners would he 74s. and not 42s. If Mr. George was acting in the interest of truth, he would have asked the person who had the receipt for par- interest of truth, he would have asked the person who had the receipt for par- ticulars, and I have no doubt they would have been given him. The extra fee for burial of a child in reserved ground was paid to the grave- digger for removing and replacing the stones which were on the grave. Also, in the case of the 22s. 6d., the extra ls. 6d. was given to the sexton for the same reason. Now, this information, again, could have been obtained from the per- sons who had the receipts, unless they were tarred with the same brush as Mr. George himself, whose one idea appears I to be to pervert the truth. To talk. about a legal conveyance in connection with a grave purchased in I perpetuity is arrant nonsense. Nothing of the kind is required. He talks in a glib manner of a rate of something like I £ 400 a year extracted from the already over-burdened ratepayers of Aberdare. (which is expended on maintaining and beautifying the cemetery) as of little moment, and "not worth discussing." All I can say is, if I had a quarter of that amount annually, I would guaran- tee Penderyn Churchyard being kept in perfect order. "Before he makes any more innuendoes or baseless insinuations about me, I II think it would be wise to disabuse his mind of a certain idea, that r.o rector is responsible for the state of his church- yard, The putting of Penderyn Church- yard in order is no part of my duty, yard in order is no part of my duty, although I would gladly assist in the matter. It would have been more to Mr. George's credit if he had endeavoured to I make himself conversant with that fact, before passing such uncalled-for stric- tures on my conduct. I Penderyn Churchyard," he says, offers little attraction in spite of its large fees," thereby assuming that the fees paid for graves, etc., should be ex- pended in beautifying the Churchyard. There is another important fact which should not be lost sight- of, and I sin- cerely trust that Mr. George and Co. will inwardly digest and seriously take it to heart-and that is, it is the duty of every grave-owner in Penderyn Churchyard to keep his grave in order, and if this were done, Penderyn Churchyard would be one of the prsttiest graveyards in the country. I have been told that Mr. George says "that the 'jail' (sic) of his ambition is to get a cemetery at Hirwain. I think it would be more commendable on his part, if he wishes to extricate himself from the slough of despond into which he has descended, and far more worthy the goal of his ambition, if he were to devote his energies, not to the boggy desert of Hir- wain, but rather to the persuading of his friends and connections to clean the graves of those near and dear to them in Penderyn Churchyard, so that it may act as a kind of incentive to others to do their duty in that respect. And, doubt- less, such action would he instrumental in silencing those captious individuals who, with their clouded minds and warped judgments in the exuberance of their own verbosity, criticise without knowledge and clamour without sufficient understanding to comprehend the bear- ing of the matter in dispute. If Mr. George were more accurate in his facts, perhaps he would be more wise in his conclusions.—I am, yours, etc., LLEWELYN JENKINS, I Rector of Penderyn July 26th, 1910. [This letter was held over from last week. Mr. Geor,e's reply follows.— Editor.] ABERDARE CEMETERY & PENDERYN CHURCHYARD. Sir,—In replying to my letter published in the Leader of the 23rd ultimo I wish the Rector of Penderyn would have a greater regard to the points raised and confine himself strictly to answering the questions involved instead of going off at a tangent into regions of abusive language where jibes and sneers, though useful to condemn, are powerless to con- vince. Yet I am gratified to think that in spite of the abuse this controversy has at least borne 9, litte fruit, which I am sure the public and especially Hirwainites will not be slow to take note of, namely, the Rector's recent statement that the lowest fees in Penderyn for interment in common graves of parishioners and non- parishioners are not 30/- and 35/ for he says "this is grossly inaccurate as new graves are opened for children over a month old for 10/- and 12/ As instanced, a non-parishioner's two I months' old child was buried on the 21st of July (please mark the date) the fee being 12/ This is a change in the Penderyn Scale of fees which the public will appreciate, and since this is its first appearance, and as it is not contained in the Table of Fees, what is there to prevent theRector becoming a public bene- factor by further reducing his charges? However this sudden reduction in so short a time is a little too obvious when one remembers that not many months back a non-parishioner paid the sum of ;61 2s. 6d, not for a new grave (which is always more expensive) but for reopening a common grave for the burial of a baby six months old.. I pointed out in my last letter that the charge on the I Penderyn Table of Fees for work of this kind was X-1 Is. and asked the Rector to account for the extra 1/6. His reply is "that the extra 1/6 was given to the sexton." Is the rev gentleman justified in making an extra 1/6 charge on behalf of the sexton when the sexton's portion of the fee of zCl Is. is plainly set down on the scale as 5/- ? Either a scale of fees is a scale of fees or it is a farce. I am well aware "that brick graves require more ground" but seeing that the charges on the Penderyn Table of Fees which have beenjratned to meet this are 82s, and 37s, I naturally am curious to .know whether it was the strong repre- sentations of the inhabitants of the parish which induced the rector to increase these to 37s. and 42s.? Referring to the first two lines of the Aberdare Burial Board's Table of Fees, the Rector states that the interpretation I place upon them is false and utterly misleading." This charge can much more consistently be laid to his own doors, I have not sought to interpret the purchase of graves in perpetuity." which has proved to be such a Serbonian bog to the rector. I am not concerned about this perpetuity perpetually applied, as .1 have laboured previously to explain. What I am con- cerned about is that Penderyn Church- yard has nothing to offer less than 30s. and 35s,, which will compare in price with the 14s. fee for burial in a common grave at Aberdare Cemetery, Then why drag in the purchasing fee continually if I it is not with the intent to gull the public ? In my last letter I gave a table of burials for the year ending March 31sfc, 1910, shewing distinctly and clearly that out of a total of 857 burials only 7 purchased graves in perpetuity, whilst 637 availed themselves of the opportunity of burial at the cheapest rate, namely the 14s. common grave rate, so that out of the total number of burials for the year not one in a hundred purchase their graves. How then does the rector, without com- mitting mental suicide, harmonise with I¡ facts and figures his statement that the bulk of the burials in Aberdare Cemetery is in ground purchased in perpetuity?" Again what part of the Aberdare regu- lations am I to be directed to in order to find such a statement as this that a person who pays only 14s for a grave has no legal right to bury in that grave afterwards without the sanction of the Council, &c." Perhaps the learned Rector will enlighten me as to the page I and number since my search for it has been in vain. The practice still in force at Aberdare and it is common know- ledge to nearly all who bury in the cemetery-is that the privileges of every graveholder are repected and not violated as the Rector would have us suppose, It must be a profitable occupation to be employed as sexton in the Penderyn Churchyard where so many extras are to be earned and where the liberality and generosity of its owner is so marked. For instance the 12s extra fee which was paid to the sexton for burial of a child four years old in reserved ground was in addition to his regular fee of 5s and as the receipt I hold shews a total payment of XI 17s there is nothing in the scale of fees to justify an extra charge of this kind being made. The answer to my question as to how the charge of XI 17s 6d for the converting of an old grave into a new grave in order to bury a baby girl nine months old is arrived at, has yet to be antici- pated. There isn't even the remotest hint on the Penderyn table of fees to a I charge of this description. If the Rector is able at will to change an old grave into a new one to suit his purposes where does the value of tis boasted graves purchased in perpetuity come in? Besides, it must be interesting to know what process there is involved in changing old into new. Perhaps the Rector has solved the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone." To be sublimely oblivious to a legal conveyance bearing the seal of the council for graves pur chased in perpetuity and to term such as arrant nonsense is beyond com- ment, as it only bears testimony to monumental ignorance and crass stupid- ity. The future burial ground for Hirwain in spite of the hard names hurled against it as unsightly marsh," undrainable bog," boggy desert," and what not, stands where it did, and even in its present ungainly state is a source of income to the Aberdare Urban District Council to the extent of J612 per annum. Who can answer for its future when this desert shall blossom as the rose," The sympathy of the Rector for the already overburdened ratepayers of Aberdare in the payment of tel in the £ rate might be more acceptable and would go down with better grace did the charity he so readily extends to others begin to make itself felt at home. So far from "distorting and misrepre- senting facts" and "giving fictitious figures I challenge the Rev Llewellyn Jenkins to give figures which will dis- prove mine and to refute my statements, which he has the unabashed temerity to brand as untruthful.—I remain, J. O. GEORGE.

===== Doarrs Inquiry Resumed. ANOTHER ABERDARE REPORT. The representative specially commis- sioned to investigate the Aberdare cures of kidney and bladder troubles by Doan's backache kidney pills, reported in the local press during the past few years, forwards the following statement by an Aberdare woman. Mr Phillips, of 19 John street, Aber- dare, says :—" For two or three years I was suffering from kidney complaint; I had such cruel pains in my back that sometimes while at work I could hardly get upright. There seemed to be little specks before my eyes, my legs and ankles were swollen, and my joints felt stiff. My loins and shoulders ached, and I was feeling altogether out-of-sorts. Several medicines I tried gave me no ease, but Doan's backache kidney pills did me a world of good-in fact, I have felt like a different woman since using them." Nearly four years later, Mrs Phillips wrote:—"My health is still very good, I am glad to say." Doan's backache kidney pills are two shillings and ninepence per box, or six boxes for thirteen shillings and nine- pence. Of all chemists and stores, or post free direct from the Foster- McClellan Co., 8, Wells street, Oxford street, London, W. Be sure you get the same kind of pills as Mrs Phillips had,

Nora: "I told the instaiaieiic man that he needn't call so often." Mis- tress: "Did he take the hint?" Nora: mum; he took th' planner I" She said her fortune was her face. Responded he, That poverty Was no disgrace.

Presentation at Aberdare An interesting presentation and smoker were held in the Commercial Hotel, Aberdare, on Saturday evening. The meeting was convened for the pur- pose of presenting Mr William Lloyd, Herbert street, with a purse of gold. The pret-entation was organised by the local branch of the National Union of' Gasworkers and General Labourers, Mr McCormack presided and there was a good attendance. During the evening the following contributed to the programme Mr D. Richards, piano- forte overture Mr J. Whitcombe, song Mr G. Price, song; Mr W. Welsby, recitation Mr D. Ashman, song Mr J. Jenkins, song Mr G. Smith, song Mr William Edwards, song. Messrs A, Peterson, Levenson, G. Smith and D. Richards also assisted towards making the evening an enjoyable one. Mr G. Price, the secretary of the Branch, explained the object of the gathering and paid a glowing tribute to Mr Lloyd for his sterling devotion to the Union. Mr Lloyd was about the oldest member of the Branch, and he had no hesitation in saying he was one z, of the most useful. Mr Wm. Jones endorsed Mr Price's remarks and added that it had been an easy matter for the committee to organise a presentation for Mr Lloyd, inasmuch as the recipient wa,s so popular. The chairman then, on behalf of the Branch, handed over a purse of gold to Mr Lloyd, and remarked that he (Mr McCormack) was very pleased to be present and to be able to contribute something towards the success of the presentation and that meeting. On rising to respond Mr Lloyd was greeted with cheers. Speaking with deep emotion he thanked all for their kind sentiments. He did not claim to have done anything more than his duty in what he had done for the Branch. He earnestly appealed to all the mem- bers to take an interest in the Union and to do everything in their power to further its success. In assisting the Union they were assisting themselves and their families. (Applause). After the singing of He's a jolly good fellow," the chairman made a few remarks and advised the members, especially the younger ones, to listen GO the sage counsel of Mr Lloyd, who was such an honoured member of the Gas- workers' and General Labourers' Union, A cordial vote of thanks was given to the chairman on the motion of Mr G. Price, and on the motion of Mr E. Lloyd (son of Mr lVm. Lloyd), a similar com- pliment was paid the secretary and the committee,

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