The Welsh Coast Pioneer and Review for North Cambria

Colwyn Bay Urban District Council. Continued from Page 4. Public Mortuary. In accordance with the request of the Local Government Board contained in their last letter, dated the 6th inst. the surveyor then submitted amended plans of the public mortuary, which had been drawn anew so as to fully comply with their wishes. This building has been enlarged and altered which necessitates the estimates being in- creased by ;Cioo so that it will be necessary that a special resolution be passed to increase the amount of this loan from £ 1,500 to £ 1,600. The Local Government Board have also requested that the plans, &c., of the proposed cemetery and depot land be amended in different respects. I have these in hand which can be completed so as to be returned to them with to-morrow night's post. Contravention of the Byelaws. I have to report, continued the surveyor, that Mr Fred Merridew is erecting a large timber work- I I shop at the rear of Britannia House, off Woodland- road, without, in the first instance submitting plans of the same for your approval. I have notified him to-day that the plans of the said building have not been received, also tS this erection contravenes the byelaws, I have called upon him to remove the said building within four days from the date, failing which proceedings may be taken in the matter. As this person is being urged by Mr Roberts, the tenant of Britannia House, to defy the Council, intend to Jay an information against Mr Merridew, unless instructed differently by the Council to-day. Continuation of Victoria Avenue. "As requested by the Highways Committee, I beg to submit for adoption by the Council, plans, sections, specification, estimates, &c., and appointments for the making up of the private street on the north side of Greenfield-road, being a continuation of V-ctoria Avenue." Private Streets in Woodland Park. "As requested by the Highways Committee, I beg to report as follows on the private streets in Woodland Park, which runs from Woodland- road to Hillside-road, and the other runs from the private street just mentioned to. Coed l'etl.a. Road, past the front of Llys Aled :—-The first mentioned road was constructed about or S years ago, and considering the long period it has been in use, it is in a very good state at the pre- sent time, but before it is taken over by the Coun- cil the following attention should be given to the same viz :—The carriage road requires macadam- ising on the flat places which occur at the south end, the channels require picking up at one or two places, and at least one additional gully should be put in. The kerb requires ralsint; where it has subsided, and the footpath requires re-gravelling in parts. I estimate the CClOtt of making up this road, suitable for adoption., at £ 17 15s. The other which runs from this road past the front of Llys Aled to Coed Fella-road, has been constructed about 5 or 6 years ago, and is in a fairly good condition, but the carriage way here again is very flat in parts, and two gullies, at least are- rociuired to drain away the surface water, and slight attention is required to kerb and channel. The green growth would be re- quired to be removed off the surface. I estimate that the cod to the abutting owners of making this road suitable for adoption will be r [ The report was adopted. Vital Statistics. The Surveyor reported that the district was remarkably free from all infectious illness, and at the present date not a single case existed in the district. (Hear, hear.) The death rate was 8.1 per 1,000. A Petition from Highfield Road. The Clerk read the following petition from a number of residents in Hi;ghfield-road ■—"We the undersigned, inhabitants of Highfield-road, desire most urgently to draw your attention to- the entire absence of gas lamps or other means of illumination in the above road. We would point out that the road is now completely full of houses, all of which are occupied. On moon- less nights an almost Egyptian darkness prevails, which is intensified by so few of the front sitt- ing rooms being in use during the winter season. It is not unusual to collide with the young trees which skirt the footways, or to have to grope for one's own door. We venture to think it is high time some provision was made, and trust the Council will see their way to give the matter early attelntion." This was signed by 30 resi- dents in the road in question. The petition, which was read amidst much laughter was referred to the Highways Com- mittee. A National Museum for Wales. A circular letter was read from the Cardiff Corporation inviting the Council to approve of .a. petition to Parliament granting Wales a, sum of money for the establishment of a National Museum in the Principality, the site to be settled upon by arbitration. A Member-. Why put it up in Cardiff. The Chairman We can go to London sooner than to Cardiff from here. The Clerk pointed out that the site had not yet been selected. On the motion of Mr Roberts, seconded by Mr Bevan it was resolved that the Council dp- prove of the petition. Hospital Loan Sanctioned. The Clerk reported that a letter had been re- ceived from the Government Board, sanctioning the borrowing of £ 1,500 fer the erection of a infectious disease hospital and other purposes. Relief Arrangements. The Conway Board of Guardians wrote re- ferring to the recent decision of the Board to divide the Union into separate relief districts, and asked for permission to hold the meeting of the Colwyn Bay Relief Committee in the Coun- cil Room. It was resolved that permission be given for one month, and that the consideration of the matter as regards subsequent arrangements be referred to the Finance Committee. The New Treasurer. A PEACEFUL PARTING. Mr G. P. Jenkins, manager of the National Provincial Bank, Colwyn Bay, formerly treasurer to the Council, wrote as follows, in reference to his resignation from that position: "Dear Sir,—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the ist inst., and note the con- tents, thereof. I should like to take this oppor- tunity of saying I shall always look back with pleasure upon the time I was the treasurer of your Council, as my relations with all the mem- bers and officials during the whole term of my office since my appointment to that position on the igth November, 1896, have always been mote cordial, and it is gratifying to me that the cause of the present change is not due to. any desire to part with me personally.—Yours faithfully. "G. P. JENKINS." Mr Thomas Roberts moved that a motion be recorded in the minute book conveying the thanks of the Council to Mr Jenkins for the man- ner in which he had conducted his duties as ï treasurer of the Council. Dr Brooks seconded, and added that he was sure the relationship between the Council and Mr Jenkins had been a very cordial one. They regretted very much1—personally he felt so very much—the action of Mr Jenkins's directors, but Mr Jenkins himself was in no wise responsible for it. The motion was agreed to unanimously. The manager of the. North and South Wales Bank wrote accepting the office of treasurer in succession to Mr G.. P. Jenkins, the fee of £100 to be paid him on condition that the ordinary account of tne Council was worked free of inter- est or commission being agreed to as a commen- cing arrangement. New Member on the Cowlyd Board. The Chairman observed that the next business upon the agenda was the appointment of a suc- cessor to the late Mr John Roberts upon the Cowlyd and Colwyn Bay Joint Water Board. While they were .all sorry for the reason, the work must be done. Dr Brooks I beg to move that Mr Thomas Roberts be appointed to the vacancy. Mr Dickin seconded. This was unanimously agreed to. Mr Thomas Roberts, in thanking the Board for his selection, said he knew he would not be fully able to occupy the place filled by the late Mr John Roberts, whose abilities were so well known, and he was very sorry that the gap had ever been caused it was a gap on the owlyd Board, and it was a gap in Colwyn Bay gener- ally, neither of which would be filled for a very long time, The Council then rose.

Gas Meter Charges. SIR,—Now that the ratepayers have become the owners of the Colwyn Bay Gasworks, I trust that the charge for use of meters will be discontinued. lvhile gas consumers were dealing with a private company they had to submit to the charges that company imposed, but now they should not be called upon to pay for their own property. A butcher might charge his customer for the use of the scales, or a farmer for the use of his milk can, with as little justice as a corporation charges for its gas meters. I hope some spirited member of the Council will take this matter up —Yours truly, A BURNER.

Re Llanrwst Town Hall. SIR,—I noticed in your last issue a letter from Mr P. S. Jones, the hon. secretary of the Rate- payers' Association, stating "That the associa- tion will not, under any circumstances, deal with the question of expense" with regard to taking a poll of the town on the above ques- tion. I was given to understand that all persons subscribing one shilling were entitled to mem- bership. How is it that a meeting was called to decide this without giving notice to all the members to attend? I know for a fact that over a dozen members knew nothing of the meeting. I am not now criticising their decision, but sim- ply advocating the advisability of giving notice to all members of meetings held, believing it to be the best course for the success of the associa- tion.—Yours, etc., T. R. JONES. Llanrwst.

The Carters Before the Magistrates. SIR,—In reading the report in your last issue of the case against the Colwyn Bay carters I was very greatly surprised to notice that a solicitor who was not a Welshman appeared on behalf of no less than three of the defendants Surely this must have been due to some terrible oversight Otherwise, where, on the one hand, is the sense in the carters objecting to a foreigner" securing a local contract, and, on the other, in briefing a Saxon to defend them, thus excluding their own countrymen from the chance of earning an honest. copper ? Master carter, methinks thy name spells inconsistency, with every emphasis on the word. The more one thinks of the real-ly crass ignor- ance that leads these men to suppose that they can stifle fair and open competition—especially by brute force—the more one deplores that such a woeful state of things should be possible. What is the explanation of this terribly gross lack of broad-minded common sense ? Is it possible, as opined by a correspondent in a recent issue of the Pioneer, that sectarianism, instead of enlightening and elevating, is really the contributing cause of such public exhibitions of -all that is narrow and sordid-minded ? Whatever the root of all this evil, there can be no two opinions that the pitiful, pain- ful exhibitions we are treated to in Colwyn Bay are truly of the gravest 'concern to all right-minded people. Evidently, there is something very "rotten in the state of Denmark." To return, however, to the carters, one cannot but wonder that, to be consistent, they do not place themselves in front of the traction engines one frequently sees in the locality and try to stop them —for do not the latter diminish the carting that: would otherwise be done by local men and their horses ? The further one dips into such a question t'he more astonishing it is to find that anyone can be so utterly foolish as to imagine that protection can be applied to even Colwyn Bay trade. Where should we be-just to take one example—if we prohibited foreign flour from entering our gates, or taxed it out of the town ? Should we not starve if we had to subsist on purely local supplies ? What utter folly, then, for the carters to try and coerce the Council into conceding any terms they choose to depiand, as against a fair price for work offered by an outsider I am told on good authority that at Llandudno 6s. 6d. is the amount of at least one contract for carting, whereas 9s. was the price the Colwyn Bay carters tried to insist on—a vast difference between the two Such high-handed action, however, is certain to recoil on those participating in it, and already I learn that whenever in future the mis- guided individuals in question send in a tender, the chances are—influenced no doubt by the theory that the only way to teach some people is through their pockets—that they will not get it accer)ted and particularly does this apply to Llandudno work. Or.ce more, therefore, does the old axiom hold good-" Experience teaches The master carters will be sadder if not wiser men, and minus some of the £ 500 they were prepared to spend on ousting the invader and if only they will try to learn the lesson taught them, and see clearly that there are always two sides to a question, at the same time cultivating the habit of regarding matters from their neighbours' point of view as well as their own, the more fair-minded, contented, and tolerant they will become.—Yours, &c., COSMOPOLITAN.

Llanrwst School Board and Religious Instruction. SIR,—I beg to offer the chairman my thanks for his courtesy in replying to my enquires. It must, be highly gratifying to the friends of religious education at Llanrwst, to learn that religious in- struction at the Board Schools is not only in a state of high efficiency, but is also a matter of ancient history,ante-dating the introduction of any syllabus. Perhaps if a close investigation were made it would be found to go further and enter the domains of ancient mythology. However this may be I know exactly the modi- cum of credit Boards of this dim and distant past may claim for their solicitude to give the youths entrusted to their charge a religious training. The present chairman may not know that prominent members of former Boards made the most deter- mined opposition to the introduction of a scheme of religious instruction, and when told that every- thing had been dropped, it caused me no surprise, as I fully expected, sooner or later, such would be the case. Mr Williams asserts that not only has religious instruction been given from a remote period but that there has been no break, up to the present, in its continuity. It is somewhat con- flicting to find that so warm a supporter as Mr Mills has always been, should not have known something about it. It is evident the subject occu- pied no very prominent place in the Board's delib- erations. We could have no clearer indication of the Board's indifference and lack of interest than that it should allow systematic examination to be dropped. Mr Williams must have meant the statement that his remarks were general, as a rhetorical em- bellishment. It can serve no other purpose as, fortunately for him, they can in no way be inter- preted as general, being directly and specifically applied to particular schools then under considera- tion. Were we to take Mr Williams' explanation of his own words seriously it would involve him in difficulties from which he could hardly extricate himself to speak unadvisedly and without due re- flection. The data from which Mr Williams seems prepared to prove the religious attainments of the Board Schools are the marks obtained at scholar- ship examinations. I am not in a position to know much of these results,but it is the height of absurd- ity to assume they are proper bases for comparing the attainments of different schools. The only proper test I know would have been for the schools to be examined and due consideration given to the range of the subjects taught and the general proficiency of the scholars. If the attainments of Board scholars are what Mr Williams represents them to be, well and good. It is right and pro- per it should be known and credit be given to those who deserve it. But we should have something better than a hap-hazard deduction from false premises. Remarks made by chairmen of public bodies should be well weighed, and it is much to be deprecated that Mr Williams should have given currency to a statement whose truth cannot be veri- tied. (call upon the chairman either to prove his statement or apply the only test by which it may be satisfactorily proved.—Yours, &c., J TITLEY WILLIAMS.

The Chairman of the Liberal Party. Amendment to the Address. THE Welsh Liberal representatives met on Thursday afternoon at the House of Commons, under, the temporary chairmanship of Mr Hum- phreys-Owen, when the following members at- tended: -Mr Alfred Thomas, Mr Lloyd-George, Mr Herbert Lewis, Mr Herbert Roberts, Mr Wm. Jones, Sir George Newnes, Mr Aeron Thomas, Mr Alfred Davies, Mr Lloyd Morgan, Mr Wyn- ford Philipps, Mr Vaughan Davies, Mr Charley Morley, and Mr Frank Edwards. Several members from various causes have not been able yet to return to their Parliamentary duties. Mr Samuel Smith, although his health is much improved, is not sufficiently recovered to leave the Riviera. He hopes to do so early in February. Mr Brynmor Jones is detained at Cairo owing to his wife's illness. Mr Ellis J. Griffith has recently sustained a domestic be- reavement and Mr Keir Hardie was kept away by the serious illness of his daughter. Sir Ed- ward Reed is on his way home from Chili. The formal' business of the meeting com- menced with the unanimous re-election, on the proposal of Mr Vaughan Davies, seconded by Mr LlcJyd-George, of Mr Alfred Thomas as chairman of the party. A similar unanimous vote brought about the reappointment of the two honorary secretaries, Messrs Brynmor Jones and Herbert Roberts. Some discussion took place as to the position to. be taken up by the party with regard to the Address. A certain section advocating a do-nothing pol- icy, but eventually it was unanimously resolved that an amendment to the Address be moved in the following terms:—"And we humbly express our regret that your Majesty's Speech contains no reference to questions specially affecting the interests of the people of Wales, and that, in view of the failure of Parliament during the past six years to consider those interests, it is desir- able that there should be conferred upon the Principality a large extension of powers of local se'f-government." At the request of the meeting Mr Herbert Lewis and Mr Frank Edwards undertook the duty of proposing and seconding this amend- ment. A discussion followed as to the best means of furthering the question of Welsh disestablish- ment, but no. specific resolution was arrived at. I;e Self Government for Waies. Welsh local self-government occupied the at- tention of the House for a portion of Friday afternoon. Mr Herbert Lewis moved an amendment re- gretting that the Speech contained no reference to matters specially affecting the interests of the people of Wales, and urging that a large exten- si on of powers of local self-government should be conferred upon the Principality. The amendment was negatived by 117 to 164; majority, 47. The House adjourned at ten minutes to 12 o'clock.

—— "The Table Tennis and Pastimes Pioneer," a weekly journal for table tennis and ping-pong players, has published its first number. The fight on Friday night between Sharkey and Maher for the Irish championship- was stopped by the referee in the middle of the third round, and the spectators were so angry that they broke up the chairs and benches. The princi- pals had been arrested earlier in the evening and bound over to keep the peace, which probably accounts for the tame display.

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