The Rhondda Leader

Local Weddings. I On Tuesday last the wedding of Miss I Maggie A. Williams, daughter of Mr. Wm. Williams, Treherbert, apd Mr. Jas. James, Pentre, was solemnised at Beth- lehem Chapel, Treorchy, by the Rev. Mr. Davies, Bethlehem, and the Rev. P. Gelli, Duffryn. The male section of the bridal party came up from Ton, whilst the female portion proceeded downward from Treherbert to Pentre. The ceremony took place about 9.30 a.m., after which the wedding party made their way to Treher- bert to the bride's father's to breakfast. At breakfast there were about fifty friends and acquaintances as well as relatives of the bride and bridegroom. The bride was dressed in white silk and large picture hat trimmed with chiffon and white feathers. In the afternoon they went to Swansea Valley to spend their honey- moon, accompanied as far as Cymmer by the bridal party.

Absolute Clearance Sale. J. LEWIS & Co., The Cash Furnishers, Beg to announce that owing to the rapid and successful extension of their busi- ness find it necessary to at once rebuild and enlarge their already extensive show- rooms ana works. Previous to doing so they have decided to make room for the builders, to offer the whole of their Grand Stock of Furniture for Absolute Unre- served Clearance Sale. The whole stock must absolutely be cleared regardless of cost. This sale will afford intending cash buyers to secure great bargains at enormous discounts. During the sale arrangements can be made to store goods purchased without extra charge till re- quired, and all goods will be delivered tree. Customers purchasing £ 5 worth rail fare refunded. Sale Price List Free. Carefully note our one and only address— J. LEWIS & Co., The Cash Furnishers, 82, Queen Street, ( ) CARDIFF. 1536

Rhondda District Council. The monthly meeting of the Rhondda Urban District Council was held at Pen- tre on Friday. Dr. W. E. Thomas pre- sided. There were also present: Messrs. E. P. Griffiths (vice-chairman), Dr. Naunton Davies, Messrs. Wm. Morgan, W. H. Matthias, J. D. Williams, J.P., E. P. Davies, J. Brooks, D. Smith, Thos. Davies, Danl. Evans, Thos. Davies, W. T. Jones, T. Morgan, Edward Jones, D. R. Jones, R. S. Griffiths, Dd. Edwards, D. C. Evans, Thos. George, Thos. Gri- ffiths, David Williams, W. D. Wight, Ben Davies, David Rowlands, together with the clerk (Mr. W. P. Nicholas), the sur- veyor (Mr. W. J. Jones), the medical officer of health (Dr. J. D. Jenkins), and the gas manager (Mr. Octavius Thomas). Porth Tramways. The Chairman moved a resolution that the necessary steps be taken by the Coun- cil to acquire the portion of the Porth tramways in their district. Mr. Lemuel Griffiths seconded. Mr. D. Smith enquired what the object of the Council was by taking this over. The Clerk: It is valuable in connection with our Electric Tramway Scheme. Alderman Matthias: It is part and par- cel of the scheme. The Clerk further remarked that it would be a valuable asset. Mr. Smith: It hasn't been a valuable asset for anybody. The Chairman: Unless we secure it, it will very severely handicap us in dis- posing of our tramways. The resolution was unanimously adop- ted. Gelli Recreation Ground. A letter was read from the solicitor and agent of the Bailey's Estate respecting the plot of ground which they had placed at the disposal of the district for recrea- tion at Gelli. They complained of the fencing being continually broken, and threatening to lease the land for building purposes unless the Council protected it. The letter was referred to the Health Committee. New Reservoir. Mr. W. D. Wight, in accordance with his notice of motion proposed that the Council proceed with the construction of a reservoir at Garreglwyd, to hold 104 million gallons of water. He stated that 18 acres of land- would. have to be ac- quired, and the reservoir would have a gathering ground of 120 acres. The esti- mated cost was £ 32,000. Mr. Wight urged the necessity of the Council taking steps in the direction of safeguarding the j district against a possible drought, and characterised this scheme as the most feasible one that had yet come before the Council. Mr. J. D. Williams, J.P., seconded. Mr. Thos. Griffiths asked if this would be a permanent source of supply. He was afraid it would not be. They were informed by their water engineer that the water must be obtained as expeditiously as possible, so as* to meet the require- ments of the district. He (Mr.* Griffiths) had a suggestion—but he did not wish to put it forward as a proposition—to make, viz., to introduce a pump to Llynfawr and convey water in pipes from that place. He was told that Llynfawr con- tained a considerable quantity of water. The South Wales Electrical Power Com- pany were laying their mains in the dis- trict, and he (the speaker) having had some experience as to the cost of pump- ing by electricity, thought it would be a good plan to have electrical power con- veyed to Llynfawr and put a series of pipes from Llynfawr to their present re- servoir, or put pipes to supply those dis- tricts which were now at too high an alti- tude to be supplied from the existing waterworks. The supplying of these dis- tricts could be done equally as well by the system he suggested as by any other. He thought Llynfawr would provide a supply for a great number of years, but it would not, in his opinion, be an ever- lasting source of supply, and he did not think it would supply them as long as coal would be worked in the Rhondda Valleys. They ought to look around for sources of water supply, for springs were becoming fewer year by year. What would be the cost of an electrical instal- lation at Llynfawr P It would take in the first place about two and a half miles of pipes, a pump and an electric motor. The pump need be worked for only a certain number of days in the year. If they knew the quantity of water required head, then they could form an approximate estimate of the cost of the additional supply of water required during the dry part of the year. Assuming that Llynfawr, in con- sequence of mining operations in years to come, would not provide a supply, the pipes that would have been laid between that place and the existing reservoir could be used as renewals in other parts of the district, for renewals were constantly re- quired and a certain sum had to be placed annually on account for the purpose of providing for repairs and renewals. Therefore, so far as the pipes required were concerned, the labour in taking them there and fixing them would be all. He respectfully submitted this scheme as a means of obtaining water expeditiously and for a good number of years. The Chairman: Provided, of course, the Medical Officer thinks the water is good for use. I very much doubt whethe: the Medical Officer will sanction that scheme for a second. My personal opinion, judging from the report, is that Llynfawr as it is can never be looked upon as a proper reservoir. We must get a good bottom and a clean bottom. The Clerk pointed out that by touching Llynfawr they would be subject to a clause by which they had agreed to supply 20,000 gallons of water daily. Mr. Griffiths remarked he was of opinion that eventually they would have to go outside the Rhondda Valley for their water supply. Mr. Wight said he thought Mr. Gri- ffiths ought to have attended the com- mittee meeting and discussed these mat- ters there. Mr. R. S. Griffiths thought that surely by this time they should have made up their minds beyond suggestions. They had been considering schemes for years, and now they had gone back to consider suggestions. They ought to be on with the work of construction, if it should not have been completed by this time. Mr. Griffiths had criticised the present scheme from the standpoint of the diminishing of the springs, but the scheme proposed by Mr. Wight was not dependent upon springs at all, but upon the rain in the wet season of the year, which everyone knew was ample in the Rhondda. Valleys to supply two or three other valleys besides, could they but get a place for its safe storage. If Llynfawr were a proper reservoir, and the 42,000,000 gallons of water it con- tained were sufficiently good for domestic purposes, if there was no compensation to anybody involved, and if they were simply to put in a pump and take out such quantity of water as they required, he (Mr. Griffiths) did not suppose there would be a man in the, Valley who would suggest that anything else should be, done. It was abundantly proved that Llynfawr was not fit to touch, and if they tapped it they would be open to be made to give another authority a quantity far in ex- cess of that enjoyed during a drought. If they went to Llynfawr they would not be allowed to take the whole of the water, but must make a provision which would put the adjoining Rural District Council in a better position that it erer was before. The scheme proposed by Mr. Wight was the most feasible and the cheapest, and it could not be denied that here an ample supply of water flowed to waste. They were not tapping a, fresh source, but simply making use of the area within their power to retain the water until they required it for use. They were told that the Council ought to be spending £ 200,000 a year in erecting workmen's cottages, but these people were simply talking about a matter without dreaming of the most vital needs of the vast population of the Valley. They had never considered that they did not have an eighty-day supply of water in the event of a drought. It would be a lasting dis- grace to the Council if they were again caught in a drought. They had the sanc- tion of the people to the expenditure of this quarter of a million for f gas and water. They had done practically no- thing since to provide for the people what they said they, as people entrusted with the welfare and the health of the dis- trict, were compelled to do—to launch all this public money in what used to be a private concern. He had great plea- sure in supporting the resolution before the: Council, but he was open to be con- vinced that a better scheme was avail- able. The Council was obliged to do something, and that without further delay. Mr. W. D. Wight said Mr. Thomas Griffiths' scheme was nothing new. It J was an old scheme revived under a dif- ferent name. It had been before them years ago, but was abandoned for appro- priate and sufficient reasons. The idea of tapping Llynfawr was an old one, its only new feature being one which would in- crease its expense-that of pumping by electricity instead of by steam. They could take it from him (Mr. Wight) as an engineer that electrical power would be dearer than steam for this work. Nobody had been able to do work by elec- tricity as cheaply as by steam, and to take power from Treforest rather than have a steam engine at Llynfawr would decidedly be a retrograde step. More- over, Llynfawr was supposed to hold 42 million gallons, but this would in all pro- bability be insufficient to meet their re- quirements in a very great drought. And supposing all the old water was got out, it would take a very considerable time— it might be two years—to fill Llynfawr, because the watershed there was very poor and small. By the scheme which had been proposed they would have storage for a hundred million gallons. He urged the members to make up their minds on the question once and for all. Mr. T. Griffiths jocularly remarked that he ought to have been at the committee meeting, and he hoped Mr. Wight would accept his apology (laughter). Mr. Wight: I don't want any apology (laughter). Mr. T. Griffiths said his experience in the cost, of pumping by electrical power differed from that of Mr. Wight. At Llynfawr he thought pumping by elec- tricity would be far cheaper than by steam, if they could get the power at a reasonable price. Mr. Wight further remarked that, there would be less danger of the supply diminishing at the reservoir he proposed than at Llynfawr,. because the former place was over 400 feet higher than the latter. The Chairman favoured Mr. Wight's scheme, and thought the bottom of the proposed new reservoir would be more suitable than the filthy bottom of Llyn- fawr. Before the proposition was put to the meeting, Mr. D. R. Jones said he wished to explain his position in regard to the question. He fully endorsed what had been said by thei mover of the resolution, but he (Mr. Jones) might be called upon to take some action in reference to the working of the coal under the reservoir and to negotiate with the Council further on. He asked the Council not to think him unkind for having said nothing on the question now. Mr. Wight's motion was carried, Mr. T. Griffiths being the only dissentient. Matron for the Fever Hospital. Miss R. E. Smith, of Belvedere, Kent, and Miss A. Alexander, of Cardiff, ap- peared before the Council as applicants for the post of matron of the Ystrad Isolation Hospital. Miss Smith was given the appointment. The Tramways Act. On the proposition of the Chairman, it was decided to borrow from the Corpora- tion of Eastbourne a further sum of L6,500 for the payment of the taxed costs, charges, and expenses of the Tramways Act of 1902, on the security of a further charge, making, together with the sum of R3,500 already borrowed for the same purpose, a total sum of L10,000, instead of the L8,000 as limited by the recom- mendation of the Finance Committee and confirmed by the Council. Education Committee to be Appointed. The Chairman announced that before the next meeting the Council would be the education authority for the district, and he proposed that a special meeting be held so as to appoint their education committee before, the 30th of September. This was agreed to. This concluded the public business of the meeting. Health of the District. The Medical Officer (Dr. Jenkins) re- ported that there were registered during the month of July 366 births, 189 of boys and 177 of girls, equal to a birth-rate per 1,000 per annum of 39.7. During the corresponding period of last year the birth-rate was 51.3. The number of deaths from all causes was 145, viz., of 82 males and of 63 females, equal to a death-rate per 1,000 per annum of 15.7. From the principal zymotic diseases 20 deaths were registered, equal to a death- rate per 1,000 per annum of 2.1. Scarlet fever caused 2 deaths, diphtheria 4, typhoid fever 1, diarrhoea 13. There were registered 14 deaths from bronchitis, pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs, equal to a death-rate per 1,000 per annum of 1.5. Phthisis (pulmonary consumption) caused 7 deaths, equal to a death-rate per 1,000 per annum of .7. Infantile death-rate.—The deaths of children under one year of age were equal to 147 per 1,000 of the children born; and the number of deaths under five years amounted to 51.7 per cent. of the total deaths. Inquests.—There were 14 inquests held during the month, 5 being upon persons fatally injured in a, colliery. Last year 10 inquests were held during July. Scarlet Fever.—The prevalence of this disease which was reported upon in the June report has not diminished except in certain localities, for 112 cases were notified throughout the month as com- pared with 81 in the previous month. Tonypandy was the locality affected-no fewer than 39 having occurred thereat during the month. At Tylorstown, also, the disease was prevalent, and 14 cases occurred in that portion of the district throughout July. The infected houses were situated in eight streets, and all except one of the cases were primary. School influence did not appear so im- portant here as in the case of Tonypandy, and no exceptional steps were directed against this influence. Two deaths were registered as due to scarlet fever during the month, one each at Clydach and Wil- liamstown. During the month there were 11 cases of typhoid fever notified, and one death was attributed to this cause at Cwmparc. There were 24 cases of diphtheria and 4 deaths. Education Committee. A meeting of this committee was held on September 5th, Dr. Thomas in the chair. The appended report was adopted by the Council:- The Clerk of the School Board (Mr. W. G. Howell) was in attendance at the re- quest of the Committee. Chairman. Councillor William Evan Thomas was appointed chairman of this committee. I Tonypandy Voluntary School. The Clerk reported that no reply had been received from the solicitor to the trustees of the Roman Catholic School at Tonypandy, ancUfurther reported that he had written Father Griffiths: asking per- mission for the surveyor and medical offi- cer of health to visit and inspect the school with a view of reporting thereon to the Council.

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Resolved that Councillor R. S. Griffiths be asked to accompany the surveyor and medical officer on their visit, and that the clerk notify Father Griffiths accord- ingly. Estimate of Expenditure. Resolved that the Clerk of the School Board be asked to inform the overseers, for the purpose of preparing the Poor Rate for the ensuing half-year, of the approximate amount that will be re- quired to meet the expenses chargeable during the said period in respect of ele- mentary education, for which a precept will have to be issued by the Council as the Local Education Authority after the appointed day, being the 30th day of September instant. Secondary Education. Information was given to the Commit- tee by the Clerk of the School Board as to the work carried on in the nature. of secondary education, and the cost thereof, at the Pupil Teachers' Centre School at Perth, the Science School at Ferndale, and the Evening Continuation Schools, and the Chairman pointed out that this could not be continued b- the Council out of the pi oduce of a rate of one penny in the pound as limited by the Act. Resolved that the Clerk of the Council and the Clerk of the School Board be appointed to seek an interview with the Clerk of the County Council on the sub- ject of Secondary Education provided at the said schools, with a view of some working arrangement being arrived at. School Board Office Staff. The Clerk of the School Board reported that the office staff consisted of himself and four assistants, all of whom were desirous of being taken over and becom- ing officers of the Council. The matter, as well as the system of keeping accounts to be adopted, was very fully discussed by the Committee, and ultimately it was Resolved that the Clerk of the Council and the accountant be appointed to meet and discuss with the Clerk of the School Board the question of keeping the minutes and accounts of the Education Commit- tee, and report to this Committee. Compensation. The Clerk of the School Board informed the Committee that differences of opinion existed as to whether the office which he held had not been abolished by the Act, thereby entitling him to compensation, and whilst, he did not put forward a claim for compensation, he suggested that it would only be fair to himself that the fact of his coming over as an officer of the Council should not prejudice his por- tion with regard to compensation if it should hereafter be judicially determined that his office of Clerk of School Board was abolished by the Act. The matter was discussed by the Com- mittee, but no resolution was passed in reference thereto. The Clerk of the School Board further reported that Mr. R. A. Lewis, of Lloyd's Bank, Pontypridd, was the Board's trea- surer, and that there were 6 attendance officers, 3 manual instructors, 4 cookery instructresses, 6 workmen, a ground keeper, and an office cleaner. Resolved that, the consideration of the question of taking over these officers be deferred.

Rhondda County School, Porth. Last week we gave the list of winners of scholarships at this school. We are now glad to be able to give the names of those candidates who, notwithstanding their failure to obtain scholarships, did sufficiently well to be included in the pub- lished list, the county body having ex- cluded all those (58 in number) who did not secure 40 per cent. of marks. It may be observed that candidates who se- cure 40 per cent. of marks in all public examinations. can claim a pass." BOYS. Marks. Arthur Hooper, Gelli School 281 Wm. J. Smith Pentre, School 272 Hy. L. Prosser, Tonyrefail School. 272 Rees Davies, Trealaw School 266 Stanley Rowlands, Pentre School 265 H. Thos. Cox, Trealaw School 264 Wm. Hy. Mathews, Porth School 264 Harold G. Lewis, Cymmer School 263 Gwilym H. Jones, Ystrad H.G. 261 Sidney H. Miles, Trealaw School 260 Wm. Jas. Lexton, Porth School 258 Morris I. Thomas, Treorchy School. 257 David W. Owen, Treorchy School 254 Alfred Bailey, Cymmer School 250 Howard W. Jones, Dunraven School 250 Walter Bell, Treherbert School 248 Arthur Hanney, Pentre School 244 John Jas. Teague, Treorchy School. 244 Saml. M. Breeze, Cymmer School 243 C. Geo. Davies, Treherbert School 242 David M.- Hammond, Trealaw School 241 Fred J. Gingell, Trealaw School 237 Arthur Ll. Elson, Porth School 237 W. J. Cann, Cymmer School 235 David Walter Evans, Cymmer School 235 George H. Davies, Park School 233 Thos. D. James, Treorchy School 230 D. Trefor Evans, Trealaw School 230 Lewis G. Walters, Treherbert School 229 Sidney W. Morgan, Trealaw School. 228 Charles Lock, Williamstown School. 224 Wm. H. Evans, Treherbert School 219 Avonfryn Hughes, Trealaw School 219 Mathew Harcombe, Trealaw School. 218 S. W. Jones, Pentre School 218 Thos. H. Richards, Treherbert School 209 John Howells, Porth School 209 Jno. Rees Williams, Treherbert Sch'l 199 Archibald Davies, Trealaw School 197 Willie Bevan, Trealaw School 195 Wm. Williams, Treherbert School 190 Wm. M. Jenkins, Ynyswen School. 190 GIRLS. Marks. Esther Hughes, Tonypandy H.G. 263 Beatrice Williams, Llwynypia Sch'l 263 Diana M. Morgan, Tonyrefail School 258 Edith Isaac, Williamstown School. 251 Gwladys Davies, Penygraig School. 247 Edith A. Jones, Trealaw School 245 Oath. Lewis, Treorchy School 240 Laura Knight, Llwynypia School 238 Mary Powell, Llwynypia School 237 M.ary A. Prosser, Pentre School 236 Lilian R. Davies, Trealaw School 227 Maggie Jenkins, Cymmer School 226 Mary A. Hopkins, Treorchy School. 225 Edith Pickens, Treherbert School 220 R. D. M. L. Thomas, Trealaw School 223 Margt. A. Evans, Williamstown Sch'l 215 Rachel Fenwick, Tylorstown School. 214 Venus V. M. Morris, Ton School 213 Bessie Jones, Pentre School 212 Cariadwen Rogers, Cymmer School. 208 Daisy E. Griffiths, Pentre School 208 Sarah B. Phillips, Treherbert School 206 Rebecca Davies, Tonypandy School. 205 Sarah Evans, Llwynypia School 205 Catharine M. Lloyd, Cymmer School 205 Mana Hoskins, Llwynypia School Mary E. Crook, Pentre School 202 Mabel J. Griffiths, Tylorstown School 201 Alice Bailey, Trealaw School 201 Ethel M. Lyons, Trealaw School 200 Edith M. Morgan, Penygraig School 200 Hannah Evans, Williamstown School 195 Margaret E. Harris, Pentre School. 194 Urinah Roderick, Tonyrefail School. 194 Bronwen Hodges, Williamstown Sch'l 193 Eliz. E. Ray, Tonypandy H.G. 191 Eliz. J. Adams, Penygraig. School 188 Amy Grother, Tonyrefail School 188 Maggie J. Owen, Trealaw School 186 Rachel Bowen, Llwynypia School 184

The Miners' Federation. What it Costs. Mr. Joseph Davies' new South Wales Coal Annual contains the statement of receipts and expenditure of the South Wales Miners' Federation from January 1st to December 31st, 1902. At the end of 1901 there were 124,091 members, which had increased to 127,435 at the end of 1902. The income grew from £ 53,877 in 1901 to zC65,526, and the total funds available at the end of 1902 amoun- ted to E166,426, as compared with £ 122,576 at the end of the previous year. Last year's income included £ 41.422 12s. Id. contributions to the general fund £ 4,66*' to the Parliamentary representa- tion fund; £ 14,884 18s. lld. to the dis- trict funds; and £ 2,250 to the lodge funds. The total expenditure was £ 21,676 18s., more than half of this— £ 12,069 5s. ^d.—being for strike-pay. Management cost £ 5,440 19s. 2d., including E330 Is. lOd. for salaries, t354 19s. IOd. for stationery, printing, and postage; C2,644 12s. Id. for law expenses; £2,030 Os. lOd. for demonstrations, train fares, council, conference, shorthand notes, and income- tax; and jE81 Os. 7d. for rent. The ex- cess of income over expenditure was .£43,849 19s. 2d., and this was added to the sums already accumulated, making the funds of thei Federation at the close of 1902 E166,426 16s., divided as follows: —Central fund, zC99,841 3s. 2d. district fund, L47,206 8s. 7d. and lodge fund, £19,379 4s. 3d. I

Mr. Justice Darling to Visit the Rhondda, On Saturday evening next, September !9th, the Hon. Sir Charles J. Darling Knight (Judge of the King's Bench Divi- sion of the High Court of Justice) will give an address on The Feudal System before the Rhondda Cymrodorion Society. A reception will be given to his lordship and his good lady, similar to that given to the Right Hon. Lord Justice Sir Roland Vaughan Williams on his recent visit. His lordship and Lady Darling will arrive by the 6.17 p.m. train at Ystrad Station. The president and secretary will introduce a deputation consisting of some influen- tial ladies and gentlemen of the district, who will greet them on behalf of the locality. A bouquet will be presented to Lady Darling, and the. distinguished visi- tors will drive to Llysygraig," to accept the hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Thomas, J.P., chairman of the Rhondda Urban District Council. The meeting will commence at 7 o'clock sharp at Hebron Chapel, Ton. During the session, the Cymrodorion Society anticipate visits and addresses from Mr. D. Lleufer Thomas, barrister-at- law, Swansea; The Hon. Mr. Justice Darling: Miss Eluned Morgan, Pata- gonia; Rev. W. O. Jones, Bangor; Mr. Alfred Davies, M.P. Mr. J. Lloyd Mor- gan, M.P. Mr. Timothy Davies (London County Council), ex-Mayor of Fulham; His Honour Judge Gwilym Williams; Rev. J. Morgan Jones, Cardiff; Mr. Ifano Jones, Cardiff; Mr. Jacob Ray, Tre- harris; Cranogwen; Mr. Howell Price, M.A., H.M.I.S., Newport; Mr. Rhys Williams, barrister, London; Alderman H. J. Williams, London County Council Rev. C. Tawelfryn Thomas; Mr. Dan Evans, Mus. Bac. (Oxon.), Cardiff; and others.

Success of a Gelli Student. Mr. E. O. Lewis, B.Sc., has been ap- pointed to the post of science master at Bi-ynmawr County School. Mr Lewis is the son of Mr. Edward Lewis, Ocean Col- lieries, Treharris, and a brother of Rev. R. C. Lewis, B.A., Cardiff. Besides being a graduate of the Welsh University, Mr. Lewis has also obtained a first class at the T ondon Inter. ESe. He held, a King's Scholarship at Aberystwyth Day Training College for three years, and obtained a first class schoolmaster's certificate.

Cricket. Pentre Cricket Club. Batting Averages. L. Wight. 21.1 E. Hall (capt,.) 19 A. F. Hawkins 18.1 E. Venesse 17 W. Rowe 6.5 J. Bailey 5.6 Vic. Royall 4.8 H. Jones 4.6 A. N. Smith 3.8 J. Abraham 2.8 A. Ormonde I. 2.4