The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

ERYIOOD. funeral of Mr Thomas Price, «f Trr- lft u r" Gwenddwr, took place on Tuesday. >lie lii i at Owenddwr C o n gr e ga t i o n a I' f' f»«|»e 1, yas largely attended. The. Revs. Gordon rj,,l'Hanis (vicar) and E. T. Parry olTickikid. e deceased was 68 years of age. He leares a Qb,o, H'x sons (two of whom are wring l°»d), and one daughter. For a short *imc ''epresented the parish on tlie Builtli Hural w°Uncil. ^■^femorial Service.—Auditorial service for Benjamin Jones, formerly of the Pool Hall, lIù lckadarn, and formerly of the (Jelly. Llan- at ew, who died at Brecon Infirmary, was held lbe Baptist Chapel. There was a good ^eldanee, and an appropriate sermon was e*ched by the Rev. Williams, minister. c A Good Result.—As a resul of tbe patriotic UctTt recently given at Erwood l).v tlie Gwcu- a^r United Sunday School, the sum of X 13 f,a>i made and divided as follows :—Builth Red -l'oss Hospital, £ 8 Penoyre Red Cross oDitaL f5. t fother's Union.—A meeting of the Mother s for the three parishes of Gwenddwr, ^lckadaj-n, and Llandilo Graban. wa-g h<M at i The Skreen, on Wednesday, the "JOth inst.. A ^be kind invitation of Mrs Aubrey Thomas, afterwards refreshed the members with a. tt' eily rationed war- time sugarless cup of tea. e attendance was small, owing to illness, the et afternoon, and other causes, but those who I'resent much enjoyed listening to an ex- k)fllellt and helpful address given by Mrs •Morgan. Llanstephan. The subject of her discourse lvflfi Duty, well done." Good advice and 011- ^gement were mingled with sound. prac*i«nl ^Sestions. Mrs Aubrey Thomas followed a few words on the wise use of the rote, Lien's new future responsibility. Mr Mor- of Llanstephan, was present and read the .Y.

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THE AIRMAN. L Airman Where are you going, speeding to- wards the dawn ? E're the sun's warmth I'm feeling, Will you be homeward stealing. Or. maybe, downward reeling, Shattered and torn ? II. Airman ? What are you doing, poised in the upper air ? Dropping your bombs on a station '? Fixing a gun's location V Destroying, for recreation. Some Gotha'-s lair ? III. Airman Where arc you dining, to-night when the day's work is o'er ? Back in that town where the vampires I-aml) Over there in a prisoners' camp ? Or. by the light of Charon's lamp, On Styx' shore ? IY. Soldier I'm going out yonder I m doing my job like you I'm dining to-night at Fate's caprice, Which—till I get my Last Release. Or the Huu goes down on hisknecs for Peace— I shall alwavs do W.A.T.S., HilS.

CWMDU. A.O.F.—Tlie statement of accounts for 1917 of the local branch of Foresters. Court Saint Michael," of the 'Hereford District. shows that it continues to flourish. The funds, which now amount to over two thousand pounds, are well invested, and the interest derived helps to defray the heavy expenditure in sick and funeral benefits, which for the past year amounted to over £ lf>0. The interests of the Court are well looked after by the two well known officials Messrs David Davies (secretary) and J. P. Edwards (treasurer). The accounts were audited by Messrs R. Evans and J. P. Morris, and show a net increase of £ 28 7s. Gd. for the year. The officers were Messrs Wm. Powell (C.R.), Ben Powell (Sub. C.R.), David Thomas Tuthill (Senior Wood- ward). and David Morgan, junr. (Woodward). Church Missionary Society.—At a well at- tended meeting held at the Schoolroom on the 1J tli inst., the Rev. Daniel Cove (Cardiff), for- merly a missionary in New Zealand for 27 years, gave an interesting account of the work done by the Church Msssionary Society in foreign parts. The missionary boxes distributed some time ago by the local secretary, Miss Adelaide Powell (Crescect) were called in, and the result proved very satisfactory. The amount is not yet complete, but the total realised will probably exceed .£5. A few more extra boxes were accepted, and the Missionary was heartily thanked for his address, on the motion of the Rector, and supported by Mr John Thomas (churchwarden). Farming Notes.—The farmers have been very busy in this neighbourhood during the past few weeks ploughing up their allotted amount of ground. The weather has been favourable for the work. and the green sward is rapidly being turned into rich brown soil. Although some are shorthanded, they can see that more home grown food is necessary, and arc doing" their best to carry out the instructions. Camp Concert.—On Thursday last another excellent concert was held in the Y.M.C.A. Hut, Prisoners of War Camp. Bwlcli. A capital programme had been arranged by Ptc. C. Beales, and Mr Barr, as chairman, carried out his duties very ably. The concert commenced with a elarionette and pianoforte duet by Sergt. Kay and Ptc. C. Beales, and this was loudly ap- plauded, as also were the songs by Miss Loam (Crickhowell), Mrs Roberts, Mrs Jones (Llau- gynidr). Miss E. Hamar (Cwmdu). Miss Main- waring (Bwlch). Tlie duet by Mrs Roberts and Mrs Jones was well received. Lieut. Chorley (Hermit-age Camp) provided some splendid violin solos, and was warmly encored. Sergt. Kay also rendered more elarionette solos in first-rate style. Pte. F. Nash created some jolly good fun..with his humorous parodies, Pte. W. Daws and Pte. C. Beales sang in their usual good form, and Sergt.-Major Chainey also sang two songs and was much appreciated. Pte. James gave a recitation, and showed great talent and Miss Davies (Bwlch) and Mrs Jones (Llan- gynidr) also showed their elocutionary powers to great advantage. A vote of thanks was pro- posed by the Commandant. (Capt. Lorraine) to the artistes who had provided such an enjoyable evening, and was seconded by Sergt.-Major C'hainev.

GARTH. At Home.—Sapper David Arthur, Tynllan, has been home to see his wife and two children for a few days, and is looking well. He is stationed somewhere in the south of England. Central African Mission. An interesting lantern lecturc on the work of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa was given at the Schoolroom last Friday evening, by the Rev. I -nm, J. Evans, M.A.. rector of Llangammarch. There was a good attendance, and the lecture was much appreciated. Marriage.—The marriage of Mr Evan Jones. Cefnscrwydd, Llangammarch, to Miss Kate Jones, Rhosygilwcrn, Garth, took place on Wednesday of last week at Olewydd Congrega- tional Chapel. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr J. Jones. Rhosygilwcrn, who was well known in the Builth district, having been a member of the District Council and Board of Guardians for many years. The bridegroom is well known in Llangammarch, and is the brother of Mr T. Jones. Cefnscrwydd. Both brothers have always taken a keen interest in the singing at the C.M. Chapel. Mr T. Jones training the adult choir, while Mr Evan. Jonc¡.; conducted the children's choir—always success- fully. The bride was attended by her sister, Mi's Jones, Cefnbran, and was given away by her brother, Mr J Jones, Penhernwenfaeh. Llanwrtyd. The bridegroom was accompanied by his brother. Mr T. Jones. The Rev. D. A. Griffith, the minister, officiated, and the Rev. E. Evans, minister of Llangammarch C.M., took part. After the service the party proceeded to Rhosygilwcrn, where a reception was given. The honeymoon is being spent in Swansea.

MID-WALES FARM NOTES. I The farmers of Central Wales have been able to proceed satisfactorily with ploughing operations, and records show that some hundreds of acres of fresh sward have been turned up during the past month in the counties of Brecon and Radnor. Under favourable conditions the new acreage allotted to most farmers will be in readiness for the seed by the middle of March. The ploughing programme it is true, is a big one. but the willing attitude of the majority of the farmers in the two counties enables one to make this statement with confidence. So far the scarcity of farm hands has been met by the supply of soldier labour from the Brecon Depot, and the Women Farm Labour Committees have an ample Supply of women land workers at their disposal to meet any demand that may be made in both counties. The man who ploughs up the land to-day works in the national interest, but this is not all that the country needs. The man of the hour is the one who judiciously manures and properly cultivates the land, to make it yield crops in abundance for the use of man and beast. In the counties of Brecon and Radnor there are hundreds of acres marked out by the War Agricultural Executive Committees to be ploughed for 1918 crops that, without'plenty of manure, will not pay for the labour, and will not add much to the food supply of the nation. One refers to land worked out fifty years ago and then nllowedio take up its own sward, in the days when the British farmer was nearly pressed out of existence by unfair foreign competition. It behoves our agricultural leaders and z, farmers in these serious times not to overlook the importance of using only the best seed. Most of the corn crop of 1917 was damaged therefore no untested grain should be sown. The soil should be examined by experts, as the same seed does not suit all farms in the t'ame district, and there arc cases where fields on the same farm differ so much in the soil as to make it necessary to obtain several different seeds for the one holding to secure good crops. The Board of Agriculture is well aware of the importance of using only the best seed, and Mr David Thomas, the Agricultural Organiser for Breconshire and Radnorshire, has done all in his power to encourage the farmers to take advantage of the expert knowledge of Professor Bi-ffeit "iid Mr Stapledon. which is placed at their disposal for seed- testing. Farmers in their own interest, as well as in the national interest, should refrain from using inferior seed only seed of high germination and clean from all injurious weeds should be sown. In past years it has been a general practice of farmers to sow their own seed, and cases are known where the same kind of oats has been sown on a farm year after year for nearly a quarter of a century. Year after year the germinating power was gradually reduced, till at last the crop proved a complete failure. To-day the needs of the nation are too serious to allow bad old practices to continue every acre ploughed up should be supplied with the best seed available, and the Government should see that this is done. The War Agricultural Executive Committee for both counties have appointed District Executive Officers to see that the ploughing orders are carried out, but would it not be advisable to instruct these officials to impress upon the farmers the importance of having all their seed tested free of charge by the Food Production Department ? In the middle of all this turmoil a true lover of his country cannot view the present situation without recalling to mind the great stupidity of a large section of the community who argued in the past that it was impossible t1) make Great Britain self-supporting. This terrible war has opened their eyes at the eleventh 'hour. and it really secrii as if we have come to the final page in the history of the short-sighted policy of Free Trade. Well I remembei\an incident which happened some five years ago when the late Rev. David Owen, once Vicar of Alltmawr, near Builth Wells, better known in Mid Wales as the Farmers' Fricnd," brought before the Builth Board of Guardians, of which he was a member, a resolution in favour of reducing the number of workhouses in Brecon and Radnor to oiiek, The "resolution was passed and the rev. gentle- man then suggested that the Builth JVorkhouse should be used for the storas^ of wheat, barley and other cereals for human consumption in the days when Great Britain would be at wir with Germany, which he predicted would take place very shortly. Some of the members treated his statement as a joke. but to-day the inhabi- tants of Builth and district would only be too glad if they had some hundreds of tons of wheat stored in the empty rooms of the Builth W orkhouse. R.W.

RHEUMATISM KIDNEY TROUBLE Rheumatism is (lue to uric acid crystals in the joints and museles, the result of excessive uric acid, which is also the cause of backache, lumbago, sciatica, gout, urinary trouble, stone, gravel, and dropsy. Estora Tablets, It thoroughly harmless specific based on modern medicinal science, are the successful treatment, and have cured numberless obstinate cases after the failure of all other tried remedies, which accounts for their superseding out-of-date medicines sold at a price beyond all but the wealthy. Women frequently suffer from ills, aches and pains, under the impression that they are victims of ailments common to their sex, but more often than not it is due to the kidneys and in such eases Estora Tablets will set them right. Estora Tablets—an honest remedy at an honest price—Is 3d per box of 40 tablets, or six for 6s 9d. All chemists, or postage free from Estora Co, 132, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C. Brecon Agent WALTER Gwiixiu, M.P.S., Medical Hall; Builth Wells Agent—T. A. Comma x, M.P.S., ThePharmacy. <

BRECON RURAL COUNCIL. Guidance for the Bacon Producing Farmer. A meeting of the Brecon Rural District Council was held on Friday. Mr Jenkin Williams presiding. Mr B. L. Pritchard. the executive officer under the Rural Food Committee, reported the arrival of the forms for food cards and the cards themselves. He had sent the forms out. They were to have come on the 7th inst. He thought they were the first authority in the county to get them. v The Rev. Thos. Griffiths asked how they were going to ration the farmers, when they had cows and pigs. He had his form that morning and he could not conscientiotfsly fill it up, since he had a cow. They were supposed 0) state the shop from which they had their margarine or butter but how was a man to do it when he had a cow. Mr Pritchard It is more or less impossible to ration producers. Mr John Smith asked what- was the position of the cottager who had his pig or two. The Chairman said they would be interested to hear correspondence which had passed between their Chairman (Air Owen Price) and the Food Controller. Mr Price wrote as follows on February yth "As Live Stock sub-commissioner for this county and also chairman of the Food Control Committee for the Rural District of Brecon, I should be extremely obliged if your Lordship will please let me know what are the duties and responsibilities of the farmers and labourers of this county in the present food production crisis. It has been the custom of farmers to feed and kill one, two or three pigs, every year according to the size of the farm and the number of the family, and nearly all labourers provide one pig for home consumption. The bacon thus provided is used in the course of the coming year. This system is most economical. and as a rule very little beef or mutton is purchased by the farmers during the year. Some of these pigs have already been killed and others will be killed during the month. Under the circumstance can the provision by these men of home killed bacon for their families for this year as usual be considered guilty of making unnecessary provision for the future ? The reply was as follows :—" I am directed by the Food Controller to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst.. and in reply I am to state that there is no order of the Food Controller preventing householders from killing their pigs and curing the bacon, which they obtain from them but all persons killing and curing must give notice to that effect to the Food Control Committee that they propose to do so.—R. Leigh Rathbothan. for deputy director of supplies." The Chairman added that he knew of no order directing persons to give notice of killing pigs. The Rev. Tlios. Griffiths said all people who intended killing had done so.

LLANGAMMARCH WELLS. Lecture.—A lantern, lecture was given by the Rector (Rev. J. Evans), at the Church Institute on Tuesday evening last week. to a large audience. The subject was the work of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. The lecturer spoke of the work of the Bishops in Africa, and incidentally mentioned that it was Dr. Livingstone who first proposed the scheme in 1867. and that the Rev. C. Mackenzie was the first consecrated bishop there, in 18G1. The lecture was much appreciated, and a good collection was made at the close. Death of Mrs Bowen, of Abereeiros Illll.- We regret to record the rather sudden death of Mrs. Bowen, widow of Mr. Thomas Bowen, Abereeiros Inn. Since her husband's death, which took place ten months bgO. Mrs Bowen had lived in Llangammarch village, leaving the business and house to her grand- daughter and her husband (Mr and Mrs Price). A few weeks ago Mrs Bowen went to visit her daughter, Mrs Griffiths, at 128. S. Helen's, Swansea. She complained of being unwell on the Thursday, and a doctor was called in, and pronounced her illness to be pleurisy and heart failure, from which she diod on the following Tuesday, the 19th inst. The funeral took place last Friday, and the remains were brought to Llangammarch by train. A short service was held at the house, when the Rev. Mr Williams. vicar of S. Gabriel's. Swansea, officiated. A large number of relatives and friends met the funeral party at Llangammarch Station, and the coffin was conveyed direct to the church, the Rector (Rev. J. Evans) officiating. The service was choral, and the organist (Miss Evelyn Arthur) played the Dead March." The chief mourners were Mr and Mrs Bendle (son-in-law and daughter), Talybont-on-Usk Mrs Weather- ley (daughter). Llanelly Mrs Goldstraw (daughter), Birkenhead Mrs Griffiths (daughter), Swansea Mr John Bowen (son). Garnant Mr Thomas Bowen (son), who is the Army at Nor- folk Mrs Pritchard (sister), Burry Port Mrs J. Jones (sister). Ebbw Yale Mrs. T. Jones (sister-in-law), Ebbw Yale Mrs Edward Price (grand daughter), Abereeiros Afis-s Hilda I Stephens (grand-daughter). Llangammarch Mi- David Thomas (grandson). Garnant Miss Muriel and Master Freddy Griffiths (grand- children), Swansea Mrs Williams (niece). Bargoed Miss S. A. Jones (niece). Ebbw Yale Mr Isaac Davies (brother-in-law), Llan- wrtyd Mr David Bowen (nephew), Tymawr. The bearers were Mr Davies. Poityn Mr D. J. Davies, Malvern Mr Jones, Dolygaer and Mr Moms, Bridgend. Beautiful wreaths were sent as follows :—" From Sal and Will, Evelyn and Ted From Louisa. Alfred, Edith, and Fred From Clara, Fred, and Tommy From Sarah and Owen From Hilda and Pefcv From Miss Price. Cammarcb. A service in memory of the deceased lady. who was greatly esteemed and well known in tho district, was held in the Parish Church last Sunday evening, when there was a large con- gregation. The Rector officiated.

FISHING PRESERVES AND FOOD HOARDING. To the Editor of the County Times. Sir,—Allow me to reply to Capt. Evans's (Ffrwdgrech) letter on the above subject which appeared in your last week's issue, and to thank him for his invitation to a little talk about fish and fish preserving." and for his offer of a few days' fishing d providing.I am an honest working man, who can catch fish by proper means." I am a working man, and can, 1 think, make a fair claim to the prefix. I have not. however, had enough opportunity for practice to make any claim about catching fish. My object, however, was not to receive a lecture for myself, or a few days' gratuitous fishing. Capt. Evans, evidently, has put quite a wrong construction on what I wrote. What I intended to convey was that there is something radically wrong when the wives and children of the working classes have to fare for the greater portion of their meals on tea and dry bread, when they are surrounded by tons of food—fish in the rivers— which are reserved for a few isolated families of our county gentry." and which no one else dare touch. That is, considering the great shortage of foodstuffs, in my opinion "food hoarding." Capt. Evans, in his letter, admits this. but justifies his position by placing the preservers" on the same level as the farmer and poultry rearer. I hold no brief for the farmer, but I am willing to admit that his produce is the out- come of his own labours, and therefore he has a reasonable right to do what he likes with the surplus. The fish preserving, however, as practised by the majority in these parts, con- sists of nothing more than the purchase of a notice board, which is fixed in some conspicuous place, warning all and sundry-that "trespassers will be prosecuted." and sometimes paying a man to see that this order is, rigorously carried out. If this is Capt. Evans's idea of pro- ducing," it certainly is not the working man's. If we all produced on the same principle, we would soon find about ninety-nine out of every hundred starving, and the odd one living in luxury. Capt. Evans chides one for grumbling about something one hasn't got when he hasn't troubled to ask for it." There, sir. lies the Crux of the whole question. Let me tell him, most emphatically, that the honest working man doesn't want charity, if he can do without it. What he wants is—a fair living wage, fair con- j ditions of living, and a fair chance to live. Given these, he is quite "willing to pay a fair price for any article he m;i^ j^quire. <■ I hope this will not come under t^P charge of • re- criminations" I certainly do not intend it to be. My suggestion that private owners should issue tickets to fish their waters found favour. Xow, sir, will Capt. Evans take a definite step and issue a certain number of season tickets at a reasonable charge to working men from his own parish of S. David's, outside his own family and dependants, for one day or two evenings a week (working men can only fish in their spare time), the fees, if lie likes, to be given to Penoyrc Hospital. This would allow him to discern between the honest, man and others. It would also show that lie is quite prepared, as lie says in his letter. to bear his share of the trouble and shortages." and would set an example which I am sure other owners would follow. Further, it would form a sort of fish ration if all kept their tickets for their own districts. Lord Rhondda and Mr J. R. Clyncs, in a message to soldiers in the trenches last week, said :—" You can be in good heart about the folks at home Rationing schemes, which mean share and share alike for everybody, are about to be put into operation so that the poorest. may have as good supplies as the well-to-do." Let our local gentlemen who talk so glibly about patriotism show they are really in earnest and pool their vast reserves of food which the Creator intended to be food for all, and not for a few. and so relieve the lot of some of the wives and children of the poor, numbers of whose men folk are laying down their lives. and who are the only real preservers of these fishing preserves. If Capt. Evans will spend the couple (if hour, he had to spare for my benefit in visiting some of the homes of the poor in S. David's, or take his stand in one of the local butchers' shops on a Friday, and hear women begging for meat for their little children. I'm sure he will quite see the point of my remarks. I hope I have made it plain that I do not advocate the throwing open of the rivers, but firmly believe that the Board of Conservators are well able to look after the rivers, from the fishes' point of view, so that they give their legitimate annual yield for the mutual benefit of all. I sincerely trust, that Capt. Evans will not take this personally my object is the whole and not" the individual. Apologising for being unable to express my views more concisely.—I am. yours faithfully, A WOULD-BE IZAAK WALTON. Brecon. Feb. 1918.

LLANAFANFAWR. Military.—Sergeant Richards, M.M., son of Mr and Mrs Richards. Dolcelle Shop. who has been home on 14 days' leave from the Western Front, returned last week. Sergeant Richards, who volunteered soon after the outbreak of hostilities, has been in the trenches over two vears. and has come through unscathed so far. We were delighted to see him looking so well and hearty. Persoiial.-We are glad to learn that. Mr David Lewis, Sarnlielen. who has been dangerously ill. is progressing favourably under the care of Dr Spencer.

Breconshire Lighting Times. Ligiat up: Snbdue. if. March 1 \).:n 7..r»l 2 ;.2a 7.o3 •' ••• 7.55 4 ft.27 7.57 f) fi,) 7.59 e' II iun 8. o 7 (;.ai 8. -2 i

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LLANWRTYD WELLS Military Notes.— Private Rhys' Willjams, Durliam Light Infai.try (Railway View), is home from the frout, and Private Tom Nicholas. Glamorganshire Yeomanry (4. Irfoii Crescent) has paid a. Tisit on overseas leftve.- Steward Harry Gielcw, Esgairmoel Ganol (home on leave), who recently met with an accident to his leg whilst out riding, is making satisfactory progress. Per •sonal.—Mr Job: Jones, Esgairfach F.arm, Llanwrtyd, who has undergone a serious opera- tion at Swansea, is making slow recovery. Nursing Associatiai Mrs. (Dr.) Price Hosegood presided at a public meeting held under the auspices of The Llanwrtyd Wells and District Nursing Association at the C. M. I Chapel Yesti-y on Friday last. Lady S. David's was elected president and Mrs. Penry Lloyd vice-president, and the committee was re- elected. Mrs. W. T. Rees, Ffnonau, and Mr. J. E. Lloyd were also rejected as hon. secretary and hon. treasurer respectively. The accounts showed a balance in hand of £ 17 7s. 5d., as against an adverse balance of £5 Gs. 4d. at the beginning of the year Votes of thanks were accorded to the follow!g ladies who lent their aid in the collection of subscriptions :—Miss Janet Price, Miss Evans (Maesygwealod). Miss Hilda Davies (Bryn Irfon), Miss Bronwen Richards. Miss Jones (Miuyrafon), Miss Vera. Jones (Abergwessin), Mrs. James and Miss- Williams (Tirabad). "W hist Drive. Always to the fore in the cause of charity, the inhabitants of Llanwrtyd Wells and district upheld their reputation at a. whist drive and dance held at the Abernant Hotel on Saturday last, in aid of the London and North Western Railway War Seal Funds. There was a large attendance and the proceeds reached a substantial sum. Excellent music for the dance was played by a string band. The winners werai:—Ladies 1, Miss Lanaglan 2, Miss Edna Williams, Station Cottage 3. Miss Mary Davies. Llangammarch Wells. Gentle- men 1, Miss Collier (playing as a gentleman) 2, Mr Rhys Davies, Bryn Irfon 3, Mr VI. Beynon (after a. tic with Mr W. Wilson). Mr Braggins. stationmasier, Swansea, was the M.C. Tribunal.—Mr. Rhys D. Jones presided at meeting of the local Tribunal held on Saturday last, there being also present Messrs. N. Evans, J. A. Davies. J. E. Carey (National Service representative), and Samuel Griffith (clerk). In the case of William Evans, Loftwen. Llfyi- wrtyd, who made a personal application, con- ditional exemption was granted provided he took up work of national importance to the satisfaction of the N.R representative.—Mr. Wm. James Williams, butcher, was' granted conditional exemption, but to take up work of national importance during three days of the week.—The application- in respect of John Davies. Gellyfelen F,,riii, was adjourned. Food Control Committee.—The local Food fVmtrol Committee met at the Urban Council offices on Saturday ianr. when there were present—the Chairman (Mr. Rhys D. Jones), Councillors E. S. Morgan, D. I. Williams. R. Pugh Jones. Evan Price,-J. E. Carey, Messrs. D. J- Price. George Davies (Labour Repre- sentatives) and Samuel Griffiths (Executive officei-).-Tlie rationing scheme for visitors was discussed at length, and a sub-committee consisting of the Chairman, Councillors D. I. Williams, J. A. Davies, E. S. Morgan and T. E. Carey was appointed to deal with the matter, the Chairman with Councillors Williams and E. S. Morgan to be the delegates present at a. meeting shortly to be held at Llandrindod Wells Geo. Davies drew attention to the price of granulated and crystal sugars, which were charged at Gd. per lb., as against 5d. laid down in the Food Journal, and a long discus- sion ensued, it being eventually decided that, owing to the remoteness of the district and the cost, of carriage, leiailcrs were justified in charging the farthing extra.—On the proposi- tion of Councillor D. J, Williams, seconded by Mr. Geo. Davies. the n'ommittee recommended that, the salary of the Executive officer be .£ 150 per annum. Councillor Carey stated that Llanwrtyd had not yet received a visit .from the Inspector under the .Food and Drugs Act, and added he thought, it was high time the milk was sampled and that the officials gave Llan- wrtyd their fair share of visits.

BEULAH. On Leave.—We were most pleased to see Driver Frank Richards, son of Mrs Richards, the Shop, home from France oil 14 days' leave. He is looking well, and has escaped without injury or illness during the twelve months he has been out. Successful Ploughman. Mr John Parry, Llwyncadwgan, won the champion prize in the ploughing match at Builth on Wednesday of last week. There were seven competitors in his class. His former triumphs are too numerous to mention, yjjj, there are few who have done so well in the county. G.F.S.—A meeting of the local branch of the G.F.S. took place at the Vicarage on Thursday last, when a large number attended. They were entertained to tea by Mrs Evans, and a pleasant day was spent.