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FARMING AND WAR.
FARMING AND WAR. WAST; OF GBA!N FUR INTOXICANTS. Sir Alfred Mond, speaking in the House tf Commons on Thursday in the resumed iebate on the question of the national food supply, said: The President of the Board of Trade, made a very important speech yesterday and made an announce- ment of very far-reaching importance. At last the Government, who hitherto felt rnwilling and reluctant, have been forced to fm," the problem the urgency of which lias been pressed upon them in thi House for a year and a half, and as to which the Press has been occupied now fox very many months. It is difficult to under- Aand-the right hon. gentleman did not ixplain it yesterday—to what is due the wmewhat sudden c-onversion he has ox- perience between the debate in the House oil the 15th October and the debate which, took place yesterday. In his speech of the i5th October the right hon. gentleman absolutely set his face against restriction uid against action. It is extraordinary -hat he could not deal with a matter of inch importance as the question of the food supply of the population, and he tnded his remarkable speech in the fol- lowing words: The policy of the Government is to pVovide plenty, to see that we have in this country an abundance, to see that it is brought here and on the terms which will allow no one to exploit or to become unduly rich at the expense of the oonsumer. That was spoken on the 15th October. Yesterday, a row weeks afterwards, the right hon. gentleman announced the ap- pointment of a Food Dictator; there is to be restriction, there is to be a census of stocks to be taken, an inquiry into milk regulations which we have not yet been allowed to see, and that is one of the diffi- julties of discussing this matter—and in the course of a few weeks there has been a revolution in this matter. The unwil- j lingnesB and the reluctance of the Gov- eminent, who have failed during over two years to face the elementary question of the food supply for the people and whp, have relied upon insufficient voluntary effort, propose to take the measures de- scribed yesterday. Not before, but when prices have risen. I would like someone an the Front Bench to explain to the Houae and the country why this position of the Government has been adopted. The Government consists, as we all know, of men of great ability. We know that they have got sufficient power in the Cabinet. They have at their disposal the best intelligence and information in the coun- try. Things are going to happen, and what is to happen must be known to the Government better than to any of us. A Committee was appointed, and the Com- mittee have made their rpport. But nothing has been done. Until we see that what was found impossible yesterday becomes suddenly a grand policy to-day. Not many weeks ago it was suggested that wheat might be brought from Australia. 1 he Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Irade ridiculed the suggestion, and declared that no one engaged in shipping would propose anything so foolish as to bring wheat all the. way from Australia, which would occupy a very much longer time than bringing wheat from the North American Continent. As if anybody did not know that. You apparently did not know that there was no wheat you could bring from North America. Yet a few weeks afterwards the Board of Trade adopts the very policy which had thus been ridiculed in this House, and we are informed that chips are going to be sent to Åustralia. What is the meaning of this Mg-zag course—of this absolute want of consistency week tli-s absolutc? walt of coiisi(?tenc' v -iveek I af?er week illontli after iu(,Ltlt, a,?id ?-far The right hon. gentleman must have known as well as other people that in a war of this kind the food supply would be t. most important subject. The Govern- ment appointed an emment committee under Lord Milner. That coinn, ittet,, made recommendations. Those recom- mondatioas, of course, the committee i having been appointed, are not follov,-ed i out. Why, we have never been told. I There is no doubt that if at the begin- ning of the war a consistent food policy— an intel^ligent^ food policy—had been fol- I lowed in this country there would have been no question now of panic legisla- tion, or of the regulations of which m-e. have heard. Every other country besides ours has been treated by almost every Government in a systematic and more or less drastic way. So at the beginning of the war they adopted a system of supplying machinery to the agricultural interest throughout the country. They did not exempt ploughmen and carters. They substituted for them motor ploughs and motor lorries, and that enabled them to dispense with a Rjreat number of ploughmen and carters on the land. The French Government have been operating on exactly the same lines, but in this country nothing of the kind has been done. The Board of Trade has not done anything. It might have had a system of providing the local authority, the parish council, it may be, with a motor plough, and other meehani- cal arrangements, so that the land could be properly cultivated, and at the same time a great many men released. There is no reason why that should not have been done, except that it was nobody's job to organise it. There is another point I should like to ¿. w attention to. Take the question of potatoes. It seems absurd. when we are short of potatoes in this country, and especially in Ireland, where the crop has suffered from blight, that no steps were taken to provide against such a state of thing prevailing. Everybody knows that potatoes properly sprayed do not get the blight, and if out potatoes had boon sprayed we might have been in a fai better position. It would have cost the country very little even to pay for the spraying. In the Highlands, ?aay m ftould, potato spraying is done for the farmer. After all, such steps as thœo would have been taken if the department had been dealing with the Army or with the Navy. The Government spent £20.006,000 in building huts for the Army. They spent many millions in putting up Sactories for the provision of munitions. ae moltBY was poured out with a favish tend for these purposes. But our agri- culture and our food supply, which iT so important, has never had a^ £ 10 note spent on it by the Government in order to en- able it to provide, more food during th# war. That is my complaint. I can never understand why all thece things, which must be so well known to the Board of Agriculture, have been ne- glected, and why no action has, been taken. Let me take another point. No steps hare been taken, 60 far as I am aware, to Idy down in any way any prin- ciple Qs to what land should be ploughed up foi wheat. No survey has been made. There has been no allotment of the various areas. No one has been consulted, and no one has been told that his land must be ploughed up. You have com- mandeered 4.000 businesses. Why ndt commandeer the land in t'he same way? Mr. Prmgle: How can the State do it? ,Sir A. Mond: Surely the State "ail take over a farm. They have taken er land for munition factories, and they could quite as easily take over 4.000 farms as they have taken over 4.000 in that indue- try. They have simply to give their in- etructions and it would be done. If I had the power, I would do it myself in Why not have national farms? The in?a syst?natic way. These problem6 i may be dimcult. but they are not impo&- I sible of solution. You have put up all {i o,??r the cotmtry national ?hcll factories, i  factories tad 'to be i r4tioiJ s?pU factories had Ito be?l- equipped. The national farms are already to your hand. arable land has been the fact that they have felt—I think wrongly-that as soon as the war stops there will be a great slump in wheat prices, and they would have turned a lot of their land into use- less production. If the Government had given a guarantee for a certain number of years, it would not have cost them any- thing. I am certain wheat will remain dear for some years after the war. The farmer, of course, is not in a position to judge these things, and he does not like to take the risk. 1 say that if the Government gave a guarantee now they would add greatly to the wheat supply of this country. There is another point I want to come to. and one which I think has not been mentioned at all during these debates. I wonder whether the House, or the country, realises the enormous waste of food material, land and labour which is going on in this coun- try owing to the destructive distillation of grain for the purpoe of making alcohol for drink. I am not normally a temper- ance fanatic or a prohibitionist. I would not advocate anything exceptional in the way of restricting the moderate enjoyment of alcohol if the people like to take it, but we are not in normal time; we are in an abnormal time. We are in a time when every ounce of our strength is re- quired to win a great war. Neither beer nor whisky is required to win a great war, though alcohol so far as it is wanted for munition purposes must, of course, be had. Anyone who lives to look into the figures will see that we have in this coun- try an enormous area which is utilised for the production of barley and hops for the purpose of brewing beer. A considerable amount of this land whch is available for growing barley would I think be suitable for wheat, while the hop land at the proper season could be used for growing very fimi crops of potatoes, or any other crop of that kind. Then you have a large amo ut L.bour emoloyed in this, and though it would not tic order in tins ueoate to deal with the question of man power, and I do not; pr <>•_>•«*- to do so, when you think of the area of land in the United Kingdom under barley alone in 1914 lor brewing and dIs- "I!; was estimated by the Board of Agriculture to be 871,000 u.r96, 1 :1 which is now arable, not which wants breaking up, but which is arable and therefore can be used tor arable crops, which got the labour and is being tilled-when think of this I say the reduction f¡},c Govern- ment has made in the e-ving f. -ilities is infinitely too small, and if they will not adopt a drastic policy of entire pro- hibition. ? hope the new Food l)'-otai.- r will seriously consider the question with a new at any rate of cutting it down very considerably. There are no greater beer drinkers than in Germany, yet in Bavaria they have reduced brewing by 50 per cent. The Austrians have abolished it alto- gether, and in Russia the distillation of alcohol Las been entirely prohibited. I am urging this as a war measure, and I have a very good precedent for it. I do not know how far members of the House are aware that this very step was taken during the Napoleonic wars by Ph:t. It is nothing new to learn on this question. You really only have to 50 t ack on our own history of our statesmen up tier simi- lar circumstances in order to lincl the remedies for our difficulties. The Act of '35 prohibited' for a limited time the making of low wine or spirits from wheat;, barley, meal, or any other sort or kind of meal, flour, or bran, or I permitting home made spirits deposited in warehouses for export to be taken out for home consumption. This was in June, 1795. and it went on for a number of years after the war, because they found the result so beneficial.. That war measure was adopted for the purpose of conserving the food supply of the people. I advocate it now with no ulterior motive, but for exactly the same reason. 1 say it is perfectly scandalous that your children and women cannot obtain sufficient nourishment when you are em- ploying large masses of land and a large amount of labour in producing what is after all, at best, a pleasurable, but an en- tirely useless commodity. I therefore hope the Government and the Food Dictator will do something. I hope the Food Dic- tator will really be allowed to do some dictating, and not merely make memo- randa and recommendations for Govern- ment Departments, to be then referred to another conference, and then to another Board, something like the Man-Ilowel; Board which we have at the present time. I hope that this will be taken seriously in hand. In the debate yester- day I think a great deal too much street, was laid by some speakers on the sub- marine menace. We were assured, ii almost lugubrious tones, that the sub- marines were a menace. I think it is de- plorable to give the Germans the kind of testimonial that they wanted. think in his mind that he might dig up grass land, but he would say, Here i, the lease," and he thinks perhaps he had better not. If an announcement had been made that these leases should be set aside for this purpose, then I think a great many more questions would have been asked and a great deal more would have been done. The right hon. gentleman knows as well as I do that the farmer is conservative and slow moving. There is one thing I may say in his defence. He has been asked to break up old pasture, and the landlord has, perhaps, been able to con- sent, but the breaking up of old pasture is a serious thing. You cannot immedi- ately grow a wheat crop. If the farmer is to be induced to do that, it must be shown to him that it would be a profit- able transaction. For some period there ought to be a fixed sum guaranteed to him under such conditions. You cannot ask the farmers to do this immediately out of sheer love for their fellow men. If the Government at the beginning of the war had guaranteed to the farmers 45s. a quarter for three years—those three years are getting on—and wheat being I above 45s. a quarter, the Government would not have lost a farthing over the transaction, but what they would have done if they had adopted the recommend- ation is that they would have had a good deal more wheat land under cultivation in this country. Anybody who has been in touch with English farmers knows per- fectly well that one of the reasons that has mads them chary of turning up Again, I do not see why they cannot take over the wheat crop of this country. We have taken over the wheat crop of other countries. The farmer, like other people, is naturally watching and waiting for the best prices, and as prices go up, he becomes a more un wiIling seller. Nobody likes to sell when prices are on the up grade. That is the time when you want your maxi- mum other-wise you are going to have your wheat held up. That is the thing you have to avoid, even if you commandeer the whole wheat supply at a reasonable price. It is a thing which can be done. Other productions have been commandeered. Then with regard to our meat supply. We can supply a very large amount of our own meat, and I do not see why we should not regulate our own meat supply, even if we cannot regulate the South American sup- ply. The Government have not planted any potatoes. -In Hyde Park they have planted flowers. An example of that kind was not likely to induce other people to realise that there was something serious on. Not only that, but the right hon. gentle- man, the other day, in answer to a ques- tion, said regarding prohibitions and leasee, that any question of a breach of these covenants was to be brought before the Board of Agriculture. Why should they be brought before the Board of Agri- culture? The farmer has his lease, and he knows that he is liable to a heavy fine if he breaks up grass land without per- mission. The farmer probably might It would be of interest to know what has been done, because a very great amount of delay, a great deal more delay than ought to have occurred, has occurred in the com- pletion of the ships that were on the stocks. Of course, this debate might have been more useful if we had known the regulations intended to be issued and we had had some statement of the action to be taken to improve the position. I, at any rate, am very pleased that even at the; eleventh hour our Government has begun to do aoiiiething. May I ask my right hon. friend not to waste too many months in getting in returns. So far as I can see, i-no? people in this country are occupied not in producing anything, but in filling in I ■ pieces of paper, and I do not want my right hon. friend and his staff devoting!1 most of their time to filling up endless forms only to find them accumulating. c-specially at a time like this. I understand we are to get some of these returns which may take months to fill up. i and months to put together and tabulate. and in the meantime the people of this country want more food and cheaper, and the people are entitled to have it. We are not in a state of famine, we are not in a state of serious shortage; we are in a con- dition of relatively small shortage and of consequently relatively high prices. It ought to be a question of relatively small and not enormous regulations to retrieve the balance, and this would do very much to remove what industrial unrest exists in the country. (Cheers.)
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION INI 'WALES.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN WALES. The Royal Commission on University Educatiou in Wales held further sittings for the bearing of evidence last week. The evidence taken related to the Univer- sity of Wales, and the following witnesses were heard:— The Right Hon Lord Kenyon, K.C.V.O., Senior Chancellor; Sir David Brynmor i Tones, K.C., P.C., M.P., Hon. Standing Counsel. < On behalf of the Senate: Professor E. 1 V. Arnold (Bangor), Professor A. H. Trow (Cardiff). 1 On behalf of the Theological Board: J Principal Evans, Principal Owen Prys, Principal Thomas, Rees.. < On behalf of the Guild of Graduates: Professor A. H. Trow. ]
STRANGE DIS6L0SURES.|
STRANGE DIS6L0SURES.| I FORMER SWANSEA RESIDENT'S ALLEGES I" BlGAiW. At Pontardawe Police Court on Friday —before Mr. E. G. Benthail and others-- Arthur Booty, now residing at Bridgend, was charged with bigamy. Mr. J. T. Howell, of Bridgend, appeared for the defence. Annie Booty, 18, East bourne-road, Tottenham, London, said she became acquainted with defendant ill' 1908. He then said he was a widower. On April 12th, 1909, they were married at Stoke Newington, and lived there for a whilo. The first thr-ja months after marriage were happy ones. Later they came to lire in Morriston. In 1913,. owing to her hus- band's conduct, she left him. He after- wards wrote her several letters, but she did not reply to any of them. The letters had since been destroyed in a Zeppelin raid. Cross-examined, witness denied that her husband had accused her of intemperance and immorality. She alleged that the trouble arose through her husband being intemperate, and he had spent money which she had given him to acquire a public-house. She took proceedings i'.gai nsi her husband in 1910 for separation, and this was granted. Defendant had afterwards asked her to return to him. and she did so for a while. They th?n went to Tive in Swansea. She admitted keeping whisky in the house, and she took a little every night before going to bed as she was used to it. She denied that her husband had given her money wiietti he had money left him. Her sister had never written defendant stating that she (witness) was dead. If her sister had written to that, effect she would have told her so. She next saw her husband at Bridgend, and she called him a blackguard. She also t said he would look nice in the courts, but she did not stand drinks at an hotel in Bridgend and boasted of the circum- stances which had brought her to the p 1 1  place. 4 Mrs. A. H. Jenkins, Stoke Newington, niece of the prosecutrix, said she was present at the wedding. David Joshua, of Jlelincourt, said that in September, 1914, he wae at Clydaeh Chui-ch when Booty went through a form of marriage with Sarah Goodwin. He (wit- ness) was the bas{ man. Booty then de- clared he was a widower, 3ud produced a mourning cii d, in respect to his "deceased" wife. Sarah Good\yin send she was married at Clydaeh to Booty in September, 1914.— Sergt. David Davise (Clydaeh) gave evi- dence of receiving defendant into custody from the Bridgend police. Booty now pleaded Not guilty," and reserved his defence. He was accordingly committed to take his trial at the next Assizes. Mr. Howell, in applying for bail, said defendant had had an interesting career. He was for 18 years in the Cambridge- shire police, and eight years a police officer at the Jock&y Club, where he fre- quently came in contact with the late King Edward, who presented him with several gifts. He had also received letters from the King's Equerry. Bail was allowed, defendant in £50 and two sureties of £25. It is also stated "that Booty was en- gaged two years under the Swansea Cor- poration in carrying out improvements at the Promenade and Cwmdonkin Park. He was later engaged in laying out the grounds for Mr. P-ercy Player, J.P., at I Wernfadog, Clvdach.
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TO -SAVE HIS MOTHER.
TO SAVE HIS MOTHER. Mr. Justice Low, at the Yorkshire Assizes on Monday, heard a charge of parricide against John James Christian Gibbons, a boy of 17. The evidence showed that on October 14 the family were sitting at tea, in Hull, when the father became angered with his wife and struck and kicked her, threaten- ing to kill her. The boy rose and with a pocket-knife struck his father, who iied shortly afterwards from the loss of blood. In the magistrate's court the boy said ¡hat he struck his father to defend his mother, believing her life to be in danger. The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty on arraignments for both murder md manslaughter, and the judge ex- pressed his entiro agreement.
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ISEIZED PAMPHLETS.
SEIZED PAMPHLETS. SEQUEL TO RAID BY SWAiiSEA VALLEY POLICE. At Pontardawe Police Court on Fri- day, Thomas Evans, collier, of Y nit-- meudwy, was charged- under Section 27 of the Defence of the Reai ru Act for being in possession of pamphlets and dûcll ments which were likely to prejudice vic- cruiting and the discipline of Eio Majesty's Forces. Considerable interest. wa-" taken in the case, the court being packed with people.—Mr. Henry Thomp- son appeared to nrceecute on behalf of Capt. Lindsay, Chief Constable of Glam- organ. Mr. Thompson, in a lengthy opening. explained that the defendant was secre- tary of the loeai branch of the N0- Conscription Fellowship." On August 30th defendant's house was visited k Insped-or David, Pontardwe, who foune. a large number of pamphlets, brieflete tra,e.tc, and documents which were stxbse- quently submitted to the Waf" Office, and, after being examined in London the papers were returned to the Chief Con- stable of Glamofgan with instructions tc prosecute the defendant. Mr. Thompson went on to eay that he considered it absolutely expedient in the interest of the nation that everything should be done to encourage the brave men who are upholding the standard of t.heir country in France and other places. In his opinion it was nothing short of treachery for anyone, whatever his private convictions may be, to do or saT anything which may dineourage all those men who. were laying down their lives daily. Mr. Thompson also added that anyone in pos- session of suoh treasonable and seditious pamphlets shoald not be tolerated in the community in which they lived. Before commencing the evidence, the defendant asked for an adjournment in order to call legal. advice. Mr. Thompson strongly opposed this ap- plication. Mr. Thorpe (the clerk) pointed out to the defendant that he had been æry{'d II with a summons since the 9th of Novem- ber, and had plenty of time to secure legal I)er, and had? plenty of t?.T- n e to seciare legal Defendant, in reply, ,mid he expected to see a solicitor there to-day from Mer- thvr, but he had not turned up. Supt. Letheren .produced his authority to prosecute the defendant, and he said it was at his instigation that the raid on defendant's house was undertaken. Inspector David gave evidence of the raid on August 30th, in company with in company v?-ith P.S. Thomas. Defendant was then in! work, and witness and the sergeant took possession of pamphlets numbering several thousands in all. When seen later the defendant -aid: Yos, they are, my property. I would like to have a li.st of them." To this the inspector said that he had never seen defendant distribute i any pamphlets about the streets, but ha had seen defendant carrying parcels from the station. Witness had also seen de- fendant taking Mrt in several meetings, held under the auspices of the local Socialist Party. Defendant: Have you had any com- plaint against my moral or political con- duct in this district? Inspects David: No. I Captain Harold Williams, military re- presentative for Swansea district, said he had perused a number of the pamphlets (produced), which had been seized, and he had no hesitation in raying that they were prejudicial to recruiting. The d.ehndan made a further appHca- tion for an adjournment, but on b-iii- refused he made a statement that (he books seized were printed before the war. He had received no intimation from the police as to what passages were deemed offensive. He Lad no wish to apologise for his peace activities, and contended that the prosecution had failed to prove any interference with recruiting. The peace movement was a legal one, and he had not attempted ooncealment. By Mr. Thompson: Defendant had the pamphlets in his possession, "but had not distributed fliem. He was aware of pro- secutions in other parts of the country. He was enthusiastic in the work, Mr. Sam Jenkins (cliairm, an), after re- tirement, eaid that the Bench took a serious view of the case, and the majority. had decided to offer the defendant the option of paying a fine of £ 30 or to go to prison for three months. Defendant: I'll take the three months. Accordingly, defendant was led to the cells. On Mr. Thompson's application, the Bench ruled the defendant to pay costs, 9.5 5s.
I DEARER NEWS?i
I DEARER NEWS? i At a' committee meeting representative of British newspaper proprietors held in London on Monday afternoon, Mr. C. D. Sh, presiding, a resolution was adopted recommending the owners of morning and evening newspapers through- out the country to increase the selling price by one halfpenny, the date upon which the increased charge is to take effect to be settled later. In support of the recommendation, the committee pointed out that a serious posi- tion had arisen in the trade in con.se- quence of the enormously increased cosrt of paper and all items of production, and that without an increase in the selling price it was impossible under present con- ditions to continue publication except a.t heavy loss. Another meeting of the committee will be held shortly to consider the decision of the various proprietors on the recommen- dation.
TIED TO A PLANK. : I
TIED TO A PLANK. I Thrilling scenes occurred on Monday at the wrack of the Swansea registered steamer Muristan at Blyth. The Tyne motor lifeboat attempted to reach the vessel during the morning, but was dashed about in the heavy eea in such a way that her engines were damaged, and disaster seemed imminent. It was only by fine seamanship that the lifeboat was enabled to get away from the wreck out to the sea, where she remained in hopes of conditions moderating- Fourteen men on board the wrecked vessel had been huddled together in the charthouse since two o'clock on Sunday morning. During the day renewed efforts to get rocket communication failed. At six o'clock ir. the evening the men had been imprisoned in the ship .0 hours. TheíurisÜlll was then giving signs of breaking up. Oscar Eungain, a Bussian survivor, who managed to reach the shore on Sun- day, eaid ten minutes after the Muristar. struck the captain and steward left the bridge to get lifebelts, but were caught by heavy eeas and wash-d away. Eun- gain and four others decided to make a dive for the shore. He fastened himseli to a plank, and was washed ashore with the flow of the tide. Ju&tineus Nagos, a Chilean, another eurvivor, said on Sunday night he decided to attempt to reach the shcre with the aid of a lifebelt. None of I the others would accompany him, pre- ferring to remain in the eharthou^e and die together if help did not come.
LIVE FISH IN A MINE.
LIVE FISH IN A MINE. Live fish have been found in the bot- tom of a Transvaal gold mine, in a ver- tical shaft 3,800ft. deep. They were barbel,fl'öm'/rix inches to 12 inches long, and up to three-quarters of a pound in weight. They must have been merelv i spawn when they fell, eays a coirespoJi-j dent of the Fishing Gazette.* 1 t
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-. - - -_.- -FOOTBALL FINALS.
FOOTBALL FINALS. THE LEAGUE.—Lancashire Section. Burnley 2, ii vert-on 2 Port Vale 11, Blackpool 1. Stoke 3, Bury 0. Liverpool 3, Blackburn Eovers 1. Manchester United J. Manchester C. 1. Oldham. Athletic 2, Bolton Wanderers 1. Rochdale 2. Preston North End 1. Stockport C. 1, Southport Central 0. THS LEAGUE.—Midland Section. Barnsley 4; Leeds City 1. Brimingham 2; Leicester Fosse 1. Bradford 9; Grimsby Town 0. Huddersiield T. 2; Chesterfield T. 1. Hull City 1; Bradford City 0. Lincoln City 2; Kotheriiam County 0. Sheffield W. 2; Notts County 0. London Combination. Millwall 3, Southampton 1. Watford 1, Portsmouth 0. Clapton Orient 1. Luton 7. Fulham 2, Arsenal 0. Queen's Park Rangers 1, Chelsea 2. West Ham Uinited 4, Brentford 0. Tottenham ITotsput 3, Crystal Palace 1. Friendly Match. Reading 2, Footballers' Batt. 5. NORTHERN UfcllON. Bradford Northern, 6pts.; Hunslet, 3pts. Wakeiield Trinity, apt- Hull, 2pts. Tx?ds, ?pts.; Kingston Eovers, nil. Rochdale Hornets nil; .I?i?h. 11 pis. 7!il 1-4-'gh. p l Wigan 15 pts., Brou<?*iton Rangers & pts. Rugby Matches. A.S.C., 59pts.; Canadians, nil.
I LOCAL FOOTBALL RESULTS.,
I LOCAL FOOTBALL RESULTS. I One of the local junior football øidtr- Montana—had their undefeated record broken on Saturday. Municipal Seooadarj winning by two goals to one.. J East Side .Ir.niors 5, All Saints (EHver) Baptist Well 3, Pantygwvdr 0. St. Stephen's Scouts 2. Caanan 1 pontardawe 3, Llansamlet 1. Smelt Juniors 4, Mynyddbach ft. Swan Rovers 2, Manselton 1. Scouts S.
I BOXING AT ABERAVON. I-
I BOXING AT ABERAVON. I A further series of contests arranged by Mr. Alf Harry, Swansea, took place on Saturday evening at the W^ter-street Palace, Aberavon. The chief event was a scheduled 15 rounds bout between Will Brooks, Aberavon, the well known w-iter- weight, and Harry Davies., Cacrau, Maes- teg, the ex-amateur middie-weight champion of -W ales. Davies was the heavier man, and had a longer reach, hut Brooks proved the cleverer jtfiaii, and did most of the leading from c start to the finish. The bout went the full distance, Brooks being awarded the verdict on points. A 10 rounds contest between Glyn. Stephens. Pontardulais, and Tal Jones, Pontypridd, produced a lively encounter, Jones winning on points. A six rounds hout between Rees Jones, Sandfields, Aberavon. and Johnny Ekketts,. Maesteg, ended in a draw. Mr. George Devipe was referee.
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