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BRITISH" CABINET'S, AIM

NO RATES ON LAND OR FACTORIES.

A MORE CHEERY CHURCH.

PICTURES, LIGHTS, AND ORNAMENTS.

GENERAL" ON YOUTH'S DEMANDS.

LOWEST BIRTH-RATE

RECORDED:

MORE MARRIAGES.

STATISTICS FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

The lowest birth rate on record is

DRASTIC CHANGE IN LOCAL ments in the Prayer Book debate ported by the Registrar General.

FINANCE.

There were some exciting mo-

at the House of Laity at West minster, says & copy to hand of a London paper.

The revised book, which was ap proved by the National Assembly

in his return of births and deaths in the fourth quarter of 1927 issued at the end of February

The total relief of industry, in

The live births registered number- cluding agriculture, from the bur was submitted for detailed discus 734 and were 11,255 less than den of rates is the ultimate objec- sion, and Mr. A. Mitchell, of Lon-in the preceding quarter and 11,843 below the number recorded in the tive towards which the Govern. "dan, at once moved that the new corresponding quarter of 1920, 55- Communion Service in the alterna ment aspires, states a London Live book, which contains the paper of February 27th*

Consideration of the problem has

"shown it to be one of the most com

plex ever tackled, for the Cabinet is of opinion that this relief can be given only as part of several and sweeping changes in the con- trol of local finance..

For long past it has been appar, ent that the system whereby nearly £100,000,000 of publle money is paid over to local nuthorities by way of percentage grants, in amounts determined nat, by the Treasury but by the corresponding amount ex pended by the local authority, is a vicious one..

As yet it is too early to speak with certainty of the exact course which the Government will adopt, while introduction of the scheme at the present time is dependent on the surplus revenge estimated by the Chanceller to be at his disposal in the coming financial year.

The Guiding Plan. Much of the detail work has yet to be completed, but it is now pos sible to gwo a general indication of the lines along which the Govern ment is working.

In deciding to attempt this relief of industry by way of reducing rates the Government has been guided by a desire to free the tools of production from hampering re strictions. In addition, Ministers feel that in this way only can con ditione be made equitable as be tween manufacturers in different parts of the country.

In effect, should the scheme reach truition, rates would be payable on the assessable value of dwelling

houses only.

It was estimated by the inter- departmental committes on the rat

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Of the 139,754 births, 77,978 were rubric allowing Reservation, be males and 74,778 females, giving a proportion of 1,053 males to 1,000. was an emotional passage

femalea The average proportion in Lord Phillimers's speech. Why in the ten preceding fourth be so cruel and tyrannical," hetes was 1,050. asked, "as to require the priests The birth registered in the reserving the Elements to decide quarter correspond to an annual whether or not they should break rate of 13.4 per 1,000 of the estimat the rule of fasting or let someone ed mid-sear population for the year go without Communion Why go 1996. This rate as 1.3 per 1,000 be out of your way to inflict cruelty low that recorded in the correspond on those priests !! uning quarter of 1990 and is the

Lord Phillimore, halted for.

lowest birth-rate recorded in any moment and almost burst into tears quarter. P as he said: "I speak not only as a layman but as a father and grandfather of clergy in the Church of England."

Lord Wolmer, who was subjected to much excited interruption, said:

We voted for the deposited book last July knowing it contained per petual Reservation. (Loud cries of No!" from the Evangelicals.) That was an essential part of the settlement proposed by the bishope What are you going to do with the Anglo-Catholics! Are you going to drive them out of the Church i

Demand Of Youth

The Death Rate,

The deaths numbered 115,993, and were 23,732 more than in the preced-, ing quarter, and 2,684 fewer than in the corresponding quarter of 1996. They included 68,208 males and 88,787 females, corresponding to an annual gate of 11.7 per 1,000 of the estimated population, and a proportion of 1,043 males to 1,000 females. The general death-rate was 0.4 per 1,000 below that record- d daring the corresponding quar. ter of last year.

Influenza was stated to be either primary or contributory cause of Young people to-day want death in 1,010 cases, or 1.05 per warmth and colourin their cent of the total deaths. During churches," said Brigadier-General the quarter mall-pox was mention A. J. Kelly (Newton Abbot), hold-ed as a cause of death in six cases.

Measured by the proportion of ing that the Reserved Sacrament

deaths of infants under one year of was the right of the layman.

age to births registered, the infant mortality was equal to 68 per 1,000 This rate was 14 per 1,000 below the average of the ten preceding fourth quarters, and is the lowest rate re- corded in any fourth quarter

**I was bred in Lancashire among the lowest of the low Churches," he said, "and I have converted Anglo- now become a Catholic: because I see the call of

The old to-day demands it fashioned way in the plain church with the the press altar does no appeal to the present generation.

The modern generation wants a' more cheery church, with pictures

Increase In Population. The natural increase of popula tion in England and Wales for the quarter under review by excess of births over deaths was 36,769, 8

ing of machinery a 1925 that the 'on the wall, colour to the ceiling against 12,202, 40,000, and 45,718 in

cent Equal To 6d. Income Tax,

excision of machinery would re and altar lights and ornaments, duce the assessable value of the Asa Devonshire labourer would at say, the modern generation wants, country, placed kist year

A place that looks as if it's lived 2050,000,000, by not less than 4 per

Prolonged cheering broke out, at the end of Brigadier General Kelly's speech, and on a complaint being made by a member of the Assembly, the chairman threatened If there was any further applause by the public he would have the gallery cleared.

In order to carry out this plan increased grants would be paid from the Treasury to local authorities, and I gather that the amount which the Government has in mind as its contribution to rate relief would correspond almost exactly to the cost of taking d. of the income tax (£30,000,000).

The scheme would incorporate Mr. Neville Chamberlain'e plan for reform of the Poor Law system, since it is, I gather, the intention of the Government that county councils should be the bodies re- sponsible for controlling local ex- penditure.

So that these bodies might have a fuller seas of responsibility and the Treasury an exact knowledge of the sums it would be called on to pay out annually, a system of block grants would be introduced inrge enough to enable each county

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council to sacrifice the revenue hitherto derived from rates agricultural land and factories...

It is suggested that one means. by which relief will be given to local authorities is by making the cost of the police a eole charge upon the Treasury, "At present £11,000,000. a year is expended on police main- tenance out of rate-raised revenue. The Cabinet will decide during the next few weeks whether the financial situation justifies taking the first steps in the scheme in the Should that Forthcoming Budget.

be done it is expected that the con sequential legislation will occupy all the remaining time of the pre- sent Parliament,

£25,573 FORTUNE OF A DETECTIVE. FORMER CHIEF OF THE C.L.D.

A fortune of £25,673 was left by Mr. Edward Draw, of Harrington- road, Brighton, formerly chist director of the Criminal Investiga". tion Department

Mr. P. N. Sutherland-Graeme (St. Albans) appealing for an all embracing Church, said that the great" Toc H movement had be come a religion among the younger men.

SOCIALISM IN WALES. TOWNS RUINED BY RATES

the fourth quarters of 1824, 1926, and 1928,

The number of persons married in the third quarter of 1927 in Eng-

land and Wales was 153,476, a crease of 13,606 over the number in the preceding quarter, and 15,819 more than that in the correspond ing quarter of 1936. The number corresponds to an annual rate of 16.5 per 1,000 of the estimated mid- year population, and was 1.5 more than that recorded in the corre sponding quarter of 1928.

In Great Britain and Ireland 219,380 births and 140,190 deaths were registered in the three months ended June 30th, 1927. The natural increase in population was therefore 19,100. The nam ber of persons married was 195,518. turns furnished by leeni registrars, According to the quarterly re-

654,900 birthe und 184,638 deaths

The desperate plight in which the were registered in England and ratepayers in South Wales have Wales in 1927. The natural in- been placed by the reckless excrease in population, by excess of travagance of Socialist controlled births over deaths, was, therefore, local authorities is crystallised in 170,333, the average annual increase letter to the London press from in the preceding five years having a resident in Merthyr Tydfl. He been 289,378. The number of per

sioda married during the year was 613,630.0

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writes:

The total rates are 30s. Tid in the £, and the trade of the town. is at a standstill. One in three is either on the dole or in the receipt of parish relief; in the

The marriage-rate in England and Wales during the year was 15.7 per 1,000 of the estimated popu.

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lation at the middle of the year THE QUEEN AND OLD TIME

E goes to the guardians, the re- the birth rate 16.7 per 1,000, and mainder 218. d, for local ad- the death-rate 12.3 per 1,000, In- ministration. Pre-war the total fant mortality was 60 per 1,000 re rates were in the neighbourhood of 11%

We have & Socialist majority on the council and they have the impudence to say they cannot re- duce expenditure. At the police court "last week 600 ratepayers were summoned, and in many cazes distress warrants issued. Tradespeople and property own- ere are distracted, as the majority have mortgaged all they possess and do not know which way to -turn financially, agit

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DANCES:

Bettiered births. The birth-rate was HER TALK WITH JUNE ABOUT

THE BALLET...

the lowest on record; the death-rate was 0.7'above that for 1928, and the infant mortality was one below that recorded in the previous year, and was equal to that of 1923 the ballet. " which was the lowest on record.

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“I like all dancing, especially

This was a remark made by the Queen to June, the dancer now appesting in Clowne in Clover, st Lady Newnes's Napoleon!! matinee at His Majesty's Theatre en aid of the Royal Free Hospital

In the first part of the LoisaTE play June danced before the Princess Pauline Borghese (Miss Clarke-Jervoise). When the curtain

the When they reach that One of the resolutions passed of fell the Queen expressed a wish to

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figure the Government should an a Red Army anniversary meeting talk to the danos The Queen left TUESDAY APRIL 3rd. point official controllers of then loscow requests foreign on the King and the Duchess of York town's finances,

munists to spread subversive pre in the Royal box and went to the pagenda and to incite matinics in ante-room behind, where June was foreign Armies so as to make the presented by Lady Newnes. Reds job of fighting reamer.1 was nervous when I heard

According to

the

with a

The amount of wastage by the local council is apparent to all, yet we are powerless to stop it. Drew was regarded as one of the.

All the sympathy we get from the ablest men at Scotland-yard..

He died in December last at the Government is an order to the council to put the screw on the age of sixty-eight, after twenty. revent years, polica service e

ratepayers, and they are on His most famous case was that

No town, can possibly go ou of the theft of the Marquis of Anglesey's ramonds. Lord paying indefinitely a rate of 30x

It has killed all trade. Anglesey's valet was suspected, and Drew organised the guests as a Some of the burdens borne by corps of amateur detectives ratepayers in Monmouthshire and The man was caught when on the South Wales for the year ending

March 31st are way to France

Drew was famous for his disguises and once rounded up gang of thieves by taking the part of a 40 Aberdare jogosul malkman,

Criminals called him Tricky Drew.

He once fought a suicidal maniac for half an hour for possession of a revolver and his right hand-bore a deep scar from a knite wound sustained in s fight with an Italian:

Merthyr

Pontypridd handda Bedwas and Mac Bedwellty Caerphilly

Gellygner

Mynydd Rhymner

In the f

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fut, the gans which have that the Queen wished to see me,

said June, but she immediately been officially issued for the celebra put me at erat. tion of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army include the following the Queen's Preference

The Red Army

armed ***** The Queen at once began to talk battalion of the World Revolt about dancing, saying that she tion. Hail the World Revolution! loved dancing of all kinds, but pre-

Let there not be one worker or ferred the dances of old time onë “peasant who camok fight he then renon with gua in hand for his Father ballet dancers and baile

For young dancers, she said that To shoot well and correctly, to a talle dress, such as the one -be able to use a gun and a rifle, wore was the ideal, besides being

to know how to use poison gas the most attractive. He s Is the Huty of all

theThen she emphasised the im Boviet land

portance of heaudreas, saying Bad The trade unions will become admired very much the soft the scho

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The Queen about tha: bãi she had, studies

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