Welsh Journals

One third of the cost would be provided under a lund of the National Council of Music. The offer was accepted, and it was decided to apply to the Merioneth Education Committee for a special grant towards the cost of wireless sets. The Miners' Class in Greek, which last year re- ceived an encouraging letter from the Prime Minister. has opened its winter session at Rhos, near Ruabon. In connection with the Civic week -at Bangor, lec- tures were given to the children on Civic Duties and The League of Nations." For a period of fourteen hundred years," wrote Prof. J. E. Lloyd, of Bangor, in the Official Souvenir, a focus of re- ligion and learning-a haven of peace in the old days of warfare and struggle, at all times the resort of men of goodwill, concerned with the spiritual rather than the temporal aspect of human affairs." Lord Pontypridd presided over the haltf-yearly meeting of the Court of Governors of the Cardiff University College on October 13th. Principal Trow stated that the controversy which had been waged concerning the Welsh School of Medicine is nearing an amicable settlement. The final proposals would be laid before the authorities in the form of a draft charter. PUBLIC HEALTH. In the 8th annual report of the Ministry of Health it is stated that more cases of tuberculosis were notified in 1926 than in any year in the last septennial period, and probably more than in any previous year. The number of new cases of tuberculosis shown in the annual returns furnished by local authorities for 1926 was 5,399. The number of deaths during the year was provisionally returned at 2,841, and of these 2,305 were pulmonary cases, and 536 non- pulmonary. The Order of St. John has produced a film which was screened for the first time in Wales at Neath on. October 24th-26th. The film is available to divisions of the brigade who arrange with the local cinemas for it to be shown during ordinary performances. A County Association is to be formed in Denbigh- shire-one of the most progressive of the Welsh oOOunties-for the prevention, cure, and training of cripples. Sir Thomas Hughes, of the Welsh Board of Health, speaking at a meeting under the chair- manship of Lady Howard de Walden, at Chirk Castle, said the Welsh Board of Health had many activi- ties in looking after the individual from his birth to his death, but the one that gripped and thrilled Mm more than any other was the case of the cripples: RURAL. The phenomenal absence of sunshine in the summer of 1927, and exceptional rains, caused a very large number of acres of meadowland to remain unmown, and many hay crops all over Wales were carted for manure purposes. The following note by the Llanrwst correspondent of the Manchester Guardian appeared on September 30th, and was unfortunately omitted from the Diary for October:—" Farmers hopes that the recent fine days were the beginning of an Indian Summer, during which the crops could be gathered in, were roughly dashed to-day, and the crops were again under water in many places. For the sixth time this month Conway River overflowed its banks, hundreds of acres being inundated. Fields of hay, black by its long wait, can be seen in the flood. Scarcely any wheat or corn has been gathered, whilst potato crops are ruined in many places. At Llanrwst, football, cricket, and bowling pitches and seats on the promenade were submerged. In spite of these things at least one church has had a harvest thanksgiving service." ART. An inmate of Wooloston House, Newport, a boy, W. H. Mason, attended the Arts Section of Newport Technical College. Recently young Mason was awarded an exhibition of £ 50 a year at the Royal College ot Arts. The Newport Guardians, with the sanction of the Ministry of Health, are to spend 35s. a week for Mason's maintenance while he is at the Royal College of Arts in London. The Education Committees both of Newport and of Monmouthshire have honoured themselves by making grants to a lad, delicate and penniless, who has already shown signs of real promise. The South Wales Art Society opened its Exhibition at the City Hall, Cardiff, with a record number of entries on Thursday October 6th. Swansea and. Newport are now associated with the Cardiff Exhibition. POLITICAL. Approximately 2,500 representatives of the Conserv- ative Party attended the annual Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations at Cardiff in the first week of October. Preliminary meetings were held every day up to the opening of the Conference. On Thursday, October 6th, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, addressed a mass meeting. Sir Alfred Mond was the guest of the evening at the annual dinner of the Cardiff Conservative and Unionist Associations, and Lord Stanley, M.P., presided over a conference of the Welsh branches of the Junior Imperial League. The two main subjects discussed were the question of the Reform of the House of Lords and the question of giving the vote to women of twenty-one. The last occasion on which the National Union met at Cardiff was in 1908, when Mr. Asquith had just succeeded to the Prime Ministership, and the Unionist Party was in a minority of well over 300. TEMPERANCE. Temperance work in Wales is under the direction of the North Wales Federation and the South Wales Federation. In the South Merched y De are active under the leadership of Miss Rosina Davies. In the North women temperance workers are banded in the North Wales Union, of which Lady Clwydl is president, with Mrs. Norman Davies, of Criccieth, and Mrs. Eiddig Jones, of Liverpool, as vice- presidents. The North Wales Union, during the summer months, arranged for the services of Miss Longfield Jones, who, as science lecturer, visited 93 schools. At the annual gathering of the North Wales Union it was said by the secretary, Miss Adams, that there was a membership of 14,000 women, and the need was expressed for more co- operation between the Women's Union and the North Wales Federation. The same need exists for closer co-operation between the Federations of the North and South. There has been little "drive" in the Welsh Temperance Movement since the division over the State Purchase of the Liquor Traffic, and the crusade, like other voluntary efforts, suffers for the lack of adequate financial support. GREYHOUND RACING. The sum of £ 25,000 is said to be involved in the offer made by a greyhound racing syndicate to the Welsh Rugby Union and the Cardiff Athletic Club. It is expected that work will at once commence on the ground of the Cardiff Club, and that electric hare racing will take place at Easter. The Glamorgan County Cricket Club is to receive the proceeds of the first day's greyhound racing. Racing is also to be allowed on the ground of the Swansea Rugby Club at St. Helen's. Mr. Ken Thomas, a director of the Greyhound Racing Association, stated that every greyhound worth anything throughout Ireland and Cornwall had been bought by the agents of their associated companies. Dogs worth £ 10 in July were fetching £ 35 or £ 40 in September."