The Kington Times - February 1917
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Kington Times 10th February 1917 - Page 3
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| Date | 10/02/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 10th February 1917 |
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nomy vantage to for clothes ur require- ONS . * ng rapidly , not gs and the many king of Clothes . high prices and yf Wool Yarns , ulterating their ade wools and goods although or . carce . makes it ders in the busy usual , obviously , attention . onomy advantage to put Clothing necessi - i r being cheaper . oollen goods will e , owing to the by the immense lothe the Allied NE order for 19 They , will not to 4 years after f the mills are on the remainder wing to lack of export are given me use . selection of CLOTHS , e Serges , the best value . ON'T DELAY . amore , ches Maker office , NSTER . ft - hand side , which the wagon . There id that the hurri- with the require . lamps nust be at- EY . ESSION ) . led on Monday and Cornewall , Comman- man Edwards , Mr. Denny , Mr. Collett- illiams . dents Wright on the ring the past year the Bench renewed 25 in all . URT . as then taken and n the large number t of the regulations and Superintendent on the instructions the police through- more strict in this CASES . Stretton Price . farm labourer , and d . a gardener , for windy lights on a dismissed with a ed both cases d as a fruit dealer , se to make to P.S. ng a bicycle without on January 26th at was imposed by the Farm , Canon Pyon , ar offence at Canon ary 16th . P.C. Main mmons for a similar r . of Dilwyn , when Eardisland parish , ithout a tail light at t know that it was as called to it . ENDANCE Attendance Officer . ing cases , all from ned that the Con- prosecutions with a attendance at the ich was at present ed 5s . in respect of Newman , aged 13 , 11 week in 12 months . Parks , regretted he d in a letter stated orly their daughter . help with the work . Knapton , for a sec- cher , of Knapton , in aged 9 and 8 years to pay s . in a fort- was Westhope , whe respect of the same . 2 dances had not im- fe of a soldier , who s fined 2s . Gd .. her lost 70 attendances ose husband was also fined 2s . 6d . for the ed on Westhope Hill , er girl , 6 years f ine made a very suit- leed ; you know what she is . Well , she You cannot put too much emphasis on this point- ) THE KINGTON TIMES . FEBRUARY 10 , 1917 . The higher the price per pound the less the cost per cup CEYLINDO TEA 2/2 24 26 International Stores J. S. 93 . LEOMINSTER TOWN THE BIGGEST GROCERS IN THE WORLD TEA COFFEE COUNCIL . IMPORTANT DISCUSSION ON FOOD PRODUCTION APPLICANTS WANTED FOR PLOTS . SIR FREDERICK CAWLEY'S GENEROUS OFFER . The monthly meeting of Leominster Town Council was held on Tuesday when there were present : the Mayor ( Ald . H. Gosling ) , the Deputy - Mayor ( Councillor Jorn Watkins ) , Ald . George Page , Ald . G. J. Abell , Councillors H. J. Southall , J. B. Dowding , J. Moss , J. K. Hyslop , H. Reynolds , with the Town Clerk ( Mr. W. T. Sale ) and Mr. C. O. Mapp , the Medical Officer ( Dr. R. Williams ) , the Sur- vevor ( Mr. J. Budd ) and the Collector ( Mr. A. Reynolds ) . A SMALL RATE . The Mayor proposed the adoption of the report . to the rate said it would appear that the , esti- mate might not be sufficient . He did not think it would be quite sufficient but at any rate they probably would not be much behind and if necessity arose there was no difficulty about making a supplementary rate . He thought at the present time they should postpone every problematical outlay as a threepenny rate would merely mean a sum of money lying idle . The report was adopted . THE FIRE BRIGADE . from the country there was only one man to work the engine . of men to come forward and help them in case of fire . GROCERIES PROVISIONS There down . That was never going to take place in England . If the people here cried for food and were hungry the war would be over and we should have lost it and the brave fellows who lay in all the theatres of war would have sacrificed their lives in vain . asked the Council to enter into the matter with all the zeal , energy , heart and soul they had ( applause ) . 4 He Councillor Molyneux in seconding said that while he agreed with the greater part of Councillor Watkins ' speech he did not agree about the glut of potatoes . A glut of food he would like to see but we did not want a glut of potatoes and a shortage of other kinds of food . He would like to see the land pro duce the crops for which the land was most suitable . He was not one who was in favour of encouraging this intense production of potatoes in Herefordshire . They would be utilising land that might be better used for other kinds of crops . Herefordshire as a whole was not a potato producing county . Other districts could produce a greater crop at a far less cost of material , manure and labour . They wanted to see there was a reasonable supply for the needs of the county and their devote their attention to producing what the county was best fitted to produce . There were two other articles of food that were greatly required , pigs and poultry . He thought they ought as well to encourage the keeping of pigs and poultry . They were offered 8 acres of land and that could be cut up into upwards of 120 plots of land each 300 square yards . He for one would not like to see the whole lot ploughed up . Could they find 120 that would take all these plots and if not how were they going to use them ? They would also like to know if Sir Frederick Cawley would let the Council , the land per- manently . as he thought the Council ought to encourage the future production of food . He did not think they would get 120 to take the plots and they wanted something else produced besides potatoes . They also waited a supply of pigs and poultry . He would sug- gest that if they could get 40 applicants that each should take three plots . one for the cultivation of potatoes , one for a pig run and another for fowls , which might be worked in rotation . He considered that movable sheds could be easily provided . The refuse from the garden could then be utilised by the pigs and The rent of the plots would be so . low that it would be a great incentive for . anyone to take three plots . They wished to know what the demand was and therefore all who wished to take a plot should write at once to the Town Clerk . The quicker they knew the quicker they could get to work . He thought an advertisement should be inserted . in the Leominster News inviting applications for these plots . The Committee were of the opinion that all who had any land should see to it as a national duty that it was well and thoroughly and intensively cultivated , and any who knew of land that was not being properly cultivated should report at once to the Coun- cil . He hoped that that movement would not fall in abeyance like the small holding movement in the past . The failure of the movement in the past had not been the fault of the people ; it was due to lack of encourage- inent . fowls . He could assure the Council that The Deputy - Mayor said he should have told Reynolds and carried that the Council be the Council that Sir Frederick Cawley wished recommended to accept this offer and that the the Council to take the land for two years . precise tenus and conditions of the letting He had had a large number of applications and and the arrangements for dealing with it be he believed Councillor Reynolds had also been left to the Committee . posed , by Councillor Molyneux , seconded by whatever land was not laid out in allotments It was further pro - spoken to . Councillor Southall and carried that if the would be cultivated by a man in the town and Council accept the above recommendation the planted with oats , wheat or potatoes . They negotiations with Mr. Neild , Miss Wood and would then be carrying out the conditions be- Lord Meath be discontinued but that pressure cause Sir Frederick Cawley wished it all to plots in question are duly put under cultiva- should be left to the Committee . be brought to bear upon them to see that the be planted . He suggested that the details tion . COUNCILLOR WATKINS APPEALS TO LEOMINSTER . Councillor John Watkins supporting the adoption of the report said they would see that they had decided to purchase ten tons of seed potatoes . The Council- keep pigs at those prices . acre . GO TO 3 MARCHANT BROTHERS FOR The Best Selection of New MILLINERY and Ready to Wear Goods In All Departments . Children's Millinery and Baby Linen . A Speciality . 1 , Broad Street , LEOMINSTER . CORRESPONDENCE . that a man might be turned out any year and lose what he had put into the land . He sug- gested the allotments should be one - sixth to Lord Lieutenant on the subject of war savings , The Town Clerk reported a letter from the one quarter of an acre which would give a circular on the cultivation of land giving plenty of scope to any man who had a small them power to spend money in certain ways : amount of time to spare . He sug - kept pigs . to lend a cillor Southall . and a circular upon National Service , which asked for the co - operation of Boroughs over 10,000 in population . LEOMINSTER COUNTY LICENSING SESSIONS . Friday , present Major Chambers ( in the Colonel T , W. Davidson , Alderman No person was pro- their duty to act promptly in every way that would tend to increase the production of food . They urged that the increase of pigs was the quickest way to add to the meat supply . One of the points was that quantities of feeding material were wasted every day and it was suggested that arrangements should be made to collect waste from tradesmen's premises , hotels , boarding - houses and dwelling houses . He was glad to say that Mr. Budd told him in the refuse cart was practically nil , so that that the amount of food material taken away the point did not really affect them . Councillor Reynolds thought the pig ques- THE NEW RATION . was another point and that was as to bye- tion a most important one but with sharps at laws . Their bye law , however , was nothing The Mayor said there was one thing which more than the common law on the subject , and 35s . a sack it was too much to ask people struck him that had not been mentioned . For only prevented a man keeping pigs in süch to keep pigs . They were recently promised himself he agreed with planting potatoes and HOW CURED MY RHEUMATISM . that feeding stuffs should be cheaper and he not having pigs and fowls . He knew this a way as to be a nuisance to his neighbours . thought they should inquire into the matter . district was not so good for potato growing He wanted the people of the town to under- It was absurd to talk about asking men to SOME GOOD ADVICE BY CORPL . T. S. stand that it was the wish of the Government as . Lincolnshire but they had forgotten one They were advised to do , this plots of land , he had received a practical offer thing , the maximum they were supposed to As regards the and the wish of the Council that any man who by the War Agricultural Committee . WILBURN , OF THE R.A.M.C. eat nowadays . There was nothing which The Finance Committee of the Town Conn- provided it did not become a danger to health . News and they hoped that the price would be talked about 120 plots of land : Like stomach , liver or kidney disorders , and was in a position to keep a pig should do so , price had been advertised in the Leominster from a man to assist the Surveyor in pegging made meat go further than out the plots of land . a good old in fact most other bodily ills , rheumatism re- Councillor Molyneux fashioned hot - pot or Irish stew . If they had sults simply from accumulation of impurities cil proper reported that at their meeting on The maintenance of the health of the popula- even lower . February 1st , the Borough Treasurer pre- tion was of great importance and he did not order for seed potatoes because of the short have thought there were a number of men who He thought Councillor Reynolds ' remarks bacilli , toxins . uric acid or anything you like , They were urged to place an He should plenty of vegetables meat would go further . in the system . Call these germs , microbes . sented his estimate of the receipts and think they could agree to pigs being kept supply . expenditure for the 12 months ending 31st within a few feet of the back door in a shed manures . As Chairman he thought they gested that they draw out a bill announcing all the food ( laughter ) . They also decided to order artificial could manage a quarter of an acre which about pig - keeping were most sensible . would cost them from 8s . to Ios . He but they are all impurities and form the It paid his wife because he bought primary cause of organic disease . March , 1918 , which showed that the sum of without proper paving . He suggested that ought to have an expert on the Committee and I used to He was certain there think the only way to stop rheumatic pain was 397 19. 4d . would be required for the general anyone who wished to keep pigs should con- he therefore proposed Mr : Hyslop shonfd be Sir Frederick Cawley's offer and stating ex- purposes of the Borough Fund , and it was pro- sult Mr. Budd , who might in case of doubt there as their agricultural adviser . actly what they wanted . was not a brass farthing in it . Then with to drug the nerves and vital organs into partial posed by Councillor Southall , seconded by call in the Medical Officer and consult the lor Hyslop advised them to have the artificial Mayor for his compliment and said he would in the town had a sudden desire for poultry better than to recommend such purely tempor regard to fowls . He kept fowls and periodi- insensibility by taking opiates and narcotic Councillor Hyslop thanked the Deputy- cally - about once in three months - someone drugs or rubbing on liniments . Councillor Gough and carried that the Council Sanitary Committee . They wished to put manure But I know he recommended to make , a rate at 2d . in the every facility in the way of pig keeping pro- allotment holders . to supply small householders and do the best he could . With regard to potatoes , ( laughter ) and they took from four to five of ary expedients now . vided it did not become injurious to the health lime . They decided to get some towards providing this sum . in addition to planting and manuring , they his fowls . Instead , take a level Working men had great difficulty in Councillor Southall also getting small quantities and now they would of the community . He then went to the police who teaspoonful of common refined alkia ' saltrates would want sprayi If they were well were watching the lights of the town most in water every second morning , before break- reported that the special Committee appointed Councillor Southall seconded and referring by the Sanitary Committee to supervise the know where to get a cwt . if they wanted it Sprayed two or three times they would get an anxiously and asked them if they had an idea fast , and notice how quickly it dissolves and work of repairs at the Isolation Hospital were depots and Mr. Budd had kindly promised to treated in the spraying of potatoes with sul- they think it was a thin man ( renewed laugh deposits or sharp crystals in stiff joints and The lime would be stored at the Council's increased crop of from 30 cwt . to 2 tons per who had taken his poultry . A little while permanently clears out of your system . all dis- He hoped they would be liberally after someone comes and whispers to him that ease causing impurities and painful uric acid quite satisfied with the way the work had give all assistance . Referring to the Borough been carried out and the Hospital could now Surveyor's schedule of uncultivated land phate of copper and the use of either a wet or ter ) . He presumed that they were watching sore muscles . be prepared for use within 12 hours or less . the borough , they asked Ald . Russell to wait liberally treated by Mr. Prothero over the the thin men of the town to see who fattened cleanse and regulate a torpid liver or to flush dry spray as farmers had been none too There is nothing better to He asked that the Council should go into Com- upon the owners , but he had not yet heard the weight of oats . out first and then they would have what they out clogged kidneys . mittee at the end of the meeting on one or result . It was unreasonable to expect the meant . He would explain what he called " corrosive evidence " ( loud laughter ) this inexpensive . standard compound from any You can get some of two matters , including a case before the Surveyor to go round the out - parish and over Exchange at 40lbs . per bushel . Oats were sold in Leominster Corn and the man who had fattened most quickly chemist , and I have personally proved that it Bench on Thursday in reference to a house in the farms , but it was reported that there was wanted 42lbs . to the bushel which made the opinion was that if they kept poultry on the within a few days.-T.S.W. Mr. Prothero would have been the stealer of his fowls . His cures even the most severe case of rheumatism New Street . Councillor Watkins said that pig keeping land within a short distance of the town that quarter 336lbs . instead of 320lbs . , and with new allotments the thin men would soon get was uncultivated and unattended to . " The was very important . Men had come to him Committee were under the impression that this practically £ 9 10s . in the price of 100 quarters the people who owned the fowls . oats at 40s . , this would make a difference of fat but that would be very little satisfaction to and said they wanted to keep a pig , but their could be dealt with better by the War AgriHe therefore thought they should ask to be The Mayor in proposing the adoption of the landlords would not allow them . He did not cultural Committee . It was the intention of The report was adopted and the Committee Fire Brigade report said he was trying to make believe there were any property owners who the Committee to take action in cases where supplied with Bordeaux mixture for potato were given the powers suggested by Coun arrangements with Capt . Drennan for assist- were so unpatriotic . Pigs could be kept even men were not doing their best at this crisis . spraying . Councillor Molyneux offered The Executive Committee of the County War ance in case of fire . At the present time the near a house without nuisance and he read of a doctor who kept a pig outside his dining- Agricultural Committee had power to take the NO SKATING ON THE BOWLING GREEN . chair ) , Fire Brigade had sunk from 12 down to 4 sprayer . Councillor Hyslop was against planting any available men who were over military age , room window near the road to show that a pig land off such men . A man who would not of the ground with wheat or oats , as a small meeting the Secretary of the Bowling Club Russell . Ald . Page said that as he was coming to the James Farr , Mr. J. R. Hill , Allerman H. F. He agreed with the cultivate the land to help to feed the people and inasmuch as they had always to leave could be kept clean . three in the town in case they were sent for suggestion that the Borough Surveyor should of this island was a friend to the enemy and patch would be taken by the birds and they asked him if he would give permission for Superintendent Rooke reported that he had be called in by anyone who wished to keep al would also be feeding the grubs . not a friend to his country . Referring sufficient water to be used to cover the Bowl- laid on the table a report of all the licensed r . Budd informed him pig , but he did not believe in calling in the land in the Borough as distinct from the Out- keeping of pigs and poultry , he said that in skating . There was also to Councillor Molyneux's proposal for the ing Green in order that it might freeze for houses in the division . During the last year that he ought to have at least 18 to 20 helpers . would be too much red tape . Medical Officer and the Committee . That parish that was not cultivated . He main He could not give that permission they had been regularly visited and were gen- He might say theory it was very good , but it would not do but said he would bring it before the Council . erally well kept . He had had no occasion to . In times of peace there were plenty of helpers come when rich in practice . Poultry must be fed three times The Borough Surveyor said it would take summon any person for an offence against the but the place was now depleted , and they that some gentlemen had promised to provide tained that the time had were bound to ask that there should be a body a fund to help poor men to buy a pig byen , poor men , and the women and children a day and pigs twice a day and unless the 8,000 gallons of water . tenour of his license . must turn out and plant the land . means of a loan to be repaid when the pig was . been a question among working men how they He advised them to turn the turf in well . fed . They ought to do everything possible to It had wives would do it the men could not do it . could obtain cheap plots of land . he appealed on patriotic grounds to property from £ 5 to £ 8 and £ 10 per acre . while the would send a pair of horses to smash up an The aver- If they could not manage otherwise , they encourage working men to produce bacon end age price of allotments had been something might get ten farmers to help them and he owners to encourage their tenants to keep farmers round were paying thirty shillings . acre or pigs . It was better to have a little nuisance Sir Frederick Cawley had made them a most frightened at this thing . so ( applause ) . They must not be The more the U generous offer of S acres of land to be cut up boats threatened the more determination they than to be without food and better to have the into plots for growing food . grunting of a pig than to hear the children He thought it would put into it . crying for food . was a very good offer and a most generous and Councillor Southall remarked that they FOOD PRODUCTION COMMITTEE . patriotic offer ( applause ) . The Town Clerk wanted the Council to act promptly . and himself walked from the Town Hall to the asked the Town Clerk if the minutes as drawn He INTERESTING RECOMMENDATIONS . land in 15 minutes .. It was near to the up empowered the Committee to provide for The Food Production Committee had held Wharf , on the Stockton Road . " The ground sprayers , tools . etc. three meetings . At the first meeting on Janu- was too hard to dig when they saw it but the ary 18th , it was resolved to co - opt Mr. Coun- moles had been turning it up and it looked Councillor Southall moved that the Committee The Town Clerk having re - read the minute , cillor Hyslop and County Alderman Russell good soil . He wished to make a passionate have the power to move in the direction in- as members of the Committee . After the appeal to the men of this town . The Com - dicated . He disagreed with Councillor Chairman had read some correspondence and mittee he was sure would help the poor people Molyneux's remarks as to potatoes . reported what preliminary steps he had already to buy seed potatoes . If a person had not was no fear of a glut of potatoes . taken it was resolved to order at once from the money to buy them he would guarantee Prothero said something about a glut . were examined and cheques recommended to be drawn . It was ordered that the Housing Mr. Porteit ( County Agricultural Organiser ) , that they should have the potatoes so that had asked Ald . Russell if Mr. Prothero meant the water was running out as fast as it was submarine He ( Loan Deposit Account at the National Pro - half Arran Chief , and ( 2 ) a truck of from five doing their share . ( 1 ) Ten tons of potatoes , half Up - to - Date and there would be 110 excuse for anyone not that in a town like Leominster they should not vincial Bank be now finally closed , and as He hoped he would not encourage the growing of potatoes . Ald . suggested by the Town Clerk a cheque for the to six tons of basic slag , the same to be stored see anyone standing on the street corners with Russell replied " Emphatically No. " What balance , including interest to date , viz . 26 when delivered in the cellar under the Town their hands in their pockets . He hoped too , Mr. Prothero meant was that for big farmers that he would see folks throw up sport - let it was not desirable that they should make of his claim of 45 for costs in connection with quire from the Gas Company what amount of bowling greens , and the golf links go and let special arrangements for growing potatoes on 7d . , be drawn in his favour in discharge Hall . The Town Clerk was instructed to en the carrying through of the whole Housing Sulphate of ammonia they could spare the them go into the question of food production . a large scale on ground that was inore suitable follows : I beg to lay before you my report Committee over the next three months and It was said that some poor people would not for growing other crops . for the quarter ending December 31st , to book an order for the same . The Borough be able to buy seed potatoes . A gentleman The Mayor proposed the adoption of the re- Surveyor undertook to prepare before the next had offered him £ 5 to be used in reducing the intended to say . Councillor , Molyneux said that was what he There were 25 deaths , 23 in the Borough and port . 2 in the Out - Parish . Of the former six were unculti- price to poor and deserving cases , and if Councillor Watkins said that as Chairman meeting a schedule of unoccupied Councillor Southall went on to say that one in the Workhouse , 4 belonging to the Borough , such people would apply to the Committee they reason why the Germans had survived as long and two to the Rural District . This gives an of the Housing Committee it was his duty to rated ground in the Borough . At a further meeting on January 25th the would deal with them generously . Some as they had was the fact that they consumed average of 17.4 per thousand per annum , or gram from Manila , the Customs officials , on second that . The housing question was on for Borough Surveyor reported upon his inspec- people said " But we can't live on potatoes . " three times as many potatoes as we did in his deducting the two from outside 16. There was examining the German steamers which were building five house , but there was a lot of tion of unoccupied or uncultivated ground and At the present time there were poor people in country and they also used a large amount of one ddath under 1 year ; 2 between 5 and 15 , laid up there , found the engine rooms of nine a the following matters were agreed : ( 1 ) To Leominster paying 10s . and 12s . per week for potatoes for feeding stock . trouble in connection with meetings which were There were four of them wrecked , while in others the fires were held two or three years before . As Chairman take from Lord Meath a piece of tillage land bread but were eating very few potatoes . Eight Councillor J. B. Dowding said that before deaths from heart disease , three from phthisis , burning under empty boilers . near the first milestone on the Worcester shillingsworth out of the 12 came from abroad . they got on with the allotment question and four from other lung diseases , two from influ- Washington advices state that the German that Committee he thought the Town Clerk Road , rent free for three years , undertaking They saw few potato parings in the dust bins the generous offer of lot Frederick Cawley enza , two from cancer , and 10 from all other crews on board the ships laid up in Philippine against a bill of £ 45 . They were indebted to to work it and leave it in a fair tenable con- because people were cating bread instead of he suggested they should consult the men who diseases . The only notifications from harbours attempted to destroy their machinery , him for all the trouble and care he took in the endeavour to secure on the same terms certain grown they ate potatoes three times a day . get on without considering the labour question cer of Health . În Canada where the grain was would cultivate the land . They could not cases of phthisis . - R . Williams , Medical Offi- and the authorities have taken the appropriate steps . There are 23 German and Austrian investigations . He only regretted now that allotment gardens at the Newlands , the pro- We wanted to wake up and eat what we could and it appeared to him they should either have TOWN LIGHTING QUESTION . vessels in Philippine ports , of which 17 are at Manila . It was said there would working men on the committee or else meet perty of Miss Wood , Mr. Neild and Mr. Dren- produce at home . The Town Clerk read nan respectively ; ( 3 ) also to try and arrange be a glut . He said let there be a glut , not the railwaymen and others who were interested Morris . Secretary of the Leominster Branch and Austrian ships in port in New York have a letter from Mr. Washington , February 5. - Thirty - one German with Mr. Edwards , Broadward . to plough such a famine . Referring to the submarine cam- in that vital question . parts of the Cemetery as may be set apart for paign the Deputy - Mayor said he looked at out the allotments in the way the Committee ing the Council for their action in regard to It was no use setting of the National Union of Railwaymen , thank- been sealed against boarding or departure . cultivation ; ( 4 ) the Chairman to order a truck the paper every morning not to read about a liked if it did not suit those who would work the Town Hall clock , and asking the Council Immigration Departments is under the closest The joint action of the Treasury , Labour , and of lime from Butt & Co. , Weston - super Mare , naval battle- or about the army - that was in the ground . The safe hands . to have every other street lamp lit until 8 guard . Germans desirous to leave must go to for retailing out to suitable purchasers . He looked to see what the sub Councillor Southall suggested these matters o'clock ( Hear , hear ) . Ellis Island and have their status determined question of pig keeping was fully discussed marines were doing . Just imagine - 45 million should be brought forward at the Committee . The Mayor said he had made inquiries about by appeal but until the next Town Council meeting on people to feed . It was a most serious ques- Councillor Dowding repeated that the men the lighting in other towns and according to There was no report from the Sanitary Com- the 6th February , nothing could be settled . tion and therefore he appealed to them for who cultivated the ground ought to be con- the information he had received the light mittee , but the Chairman of the Committee , At a meeting of the Food Production Com- their co operation . He hoped that in the sulted , and said he was speaking from ex- was no better with the lamps lit than it was THE GREAT SKIN CURE . Councillor Southall , said the Town Clerk hadmittee on February 1st , the Chairman reported Borough alone they would grow roo tons more perience . They should take them into their in Leominster with the lights out . handed him a circular dated January 4th from that replies had not yet been received from than last year and he would say that in the confidence , either by means of a public meet- BUDDEN'S S.R. SKIN OINTMENT . Councillor Southall said he would state Mt. Prothero , President of the Board of Agri- Mr. Neild or Miss Wood but that in the mean- Borough and Out - parish there should be 500 ing or a private meeting of the applicants . emphatically that all this talk about lighting It will Cure Itching after one application ; Sulture , and Lord Rhondda , President of the time an offer had been communicated to him tons more grown . There was one fear they Ald . Page said he agreed with all that the the street lamps was ridiculous . In towns destroys every form of Eczema ; heals old Local Government Board , with reference to the from Sir F. Cawley to rent to the Council a had of losing the war , that was the food Committee had done so far . He very much which he mentioned the light was so poor that Wounds and Sores ; acts like a charm on Bad keeping of pigs and poultry . They knew how field of 83 acres about a mile and a quarter question . Our soldiers were doing their ut- hoped . however , that the Committee would be the lamps might just as well not be lit. Legs ; is infallible for Piles ; prevents Cuts important was the question of increasing the from Leominster on the Stockton Road . It most and their navy would do the saine , to able to give the men some fixity of tenure . Councillor Molyneux said he thought these from Festering ; will cure Ringworm in a few food supply and the authorities were trying was a grass field and the Council were to be day food was the great question . If they did They could not ask men to put work into land men wanted something to write about . It was days ; removes the most obstinate Eruptions to induce everyone to take a serious view of allowed to break it up and let it out in allot- not see to it immediately it would settle the for one year only ; they ought to be able to a matter of economy and they should continue and Scurvy . - Boxes 9d . and 1/3 . Agent or the matter . Anyone who read the speech of ments for food production . It was proposed war .. In Germany when the women clamoured have it for three years . It was always an as they were . Leominster : Mr. H. R. CHENEY , Pharmacist , the Prime Minister would see that it was by Councillor Southall , seconded by Councillor for food what was done ?. They were shot argument in Leominster against taking fand The subject then dropped . 21 , High Street . Councillor John Watkins seconded the adop- tion of the report which was carried . 1 STREETS COMMITTEE : It was reported that at a meeting of the Streets Committee on February 1st , the quar- terly returns for the Borough and Out - parish to the 1st December , 1916 , were examined and passed and ordered to be sent in to the County Council . An order was given for various requirements for the tar prayer , etc. The report was adopted on the proposition of the Chairman , seconded by Ald . Page SUCCESS OF THE HOUSING SCHEME . At a meeting of the Finance Committee , held at the Town Hall , on February 1st , accounts Scheme . been very generous £ 25 dition ; ( 2 ) the Chairman and Ald . Russell to potatoes . they did not take it up before and build a few more houses , but what they had built they had built well . way . The Town Clerk And it is paying its The report was adopted . SANITARY COMMITTEE . QUESTION OF PIG - KEEPING . There Mr. The Mayor thought if a charge was made ceeded against for drunkenness during the to skaters for some charitable object there year 1916 , a decrease of 1 as compared with might be something in it . 1915 , and there were no convictions in , 1915 or Councillor Molyneux pointed out that more 1916. There were no applications to come be- water would be required as the water under the fore them . ice got away . He was afraid it would not be The Bench decided to renew all the licenses . a wise thing to do at the present time , al- of the stage plays license in respect of the though he liked skating . Mr. J. B. Dowding applied for the renewal But surely there Corn Exchange Hall . Granted . was enough ice for all the skating that was required in Leominster . It took coal to pump a matter for the Council to encourage . the water and he was afraid it would not be Councillor Hyslop said it would be necessary to keep on running the water in to support the ice . BRITISH CREW SHELLED IN THEIR BOATS . CAPTAIN AND THREE MEN KILLED . they ought to agree to it with their present the survivors of the British steamship Eave- Ald . Page said it was a question whether It was officially stated on Monday night that stock of material and the danger of running stone , who landed on Monday , report that their short of water . He thought it should stand ship was sunk by shell fire from a over while coal was so expensive . People were German submarine The crew abandoned the sinking letting their taps run because of the frost and ship , and were shelled in their boats by the being pumped in . The master and three seamen were thus killed , and the second mate was severely Amongst those killed was Richard Wallace , of Baltimore , U.S.A. It was decided not to acceed to the applica- wounded . tion . MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT . The Medical Officer presented his report as and 13 of 65 and upwards . were 1916 . DAMAGING INTERNED STEAMERS . FIRES BURNING UNDER EMPTY . BOILERS . New York , Feb. 5. - According to a tele- |