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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th. 1926. Number Two-Hundred thirtysix.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Monday May 24th 1926. Nominations for a bye-election in the Tonna Ward of the Neath Rural District Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Llewellyn D. HOWELL, J.P., have been received. They are Thomas BROWN, colliery proprietor, and Arthur JENKINS, tin-plate worker. The election is on June 1. Intimation was received at Mountain Ash on Sunday of the death in hospital of Mrs. C.J. MASTERS, Glenbrook, Miskin, Mountain Ash, who was injured by being knocked down by a motor-car at Torquay on Saturday evening. Mrs. MASTERS left home on Saturday morning, accompanied by friends, to spend Whitsun holidays at Torquay. In avoiding a collision a motor-van in Commercial-street, Newport, on Saturday, Stanley WATKINS, motor-cyclist, of 2, Fields Park, Newbridge, mounted the pavement, his machine colliding with a perambulator, from which a two-year-old child, Wolfe PETERMAN, of 13, Vincent-road, was consequently thrown. A seven-year-old boy, named Stanley GUERDEN, 74, Redlands-street, was also knocked down. Both children escaped with shock. Whilst motor-cycling in Vicarage-road, Morriston, Swansea, Dr. Howel LEWIS, of Treboeth-road, Caersalem, came into collision with a motor-car owned by Alicia JONES, of Sunnyside, Abercynon. The doctor's machine was damaged and he was injured. After he had been attended to by Dr. GABE he was taken to the Swansesa Hospital and detained for X-ray examination. Henry REES 18, of Llantrissent Vicarage, near Usk, an apprenticed engineer with Messrs. C.H, Bailey GRAHAM and Co., of Newport, lies in the Royal Gwent Hospital, with a fractured leg as the result, it is stated, of a motor-cycling accident. Lucy CROWLEY 45, was sent to prison for a month, with hard labour at Cardiff on Saturday for using bad language and hitting Police-constable Stanley BASTION in the mouth with her first. Police-inspector FRANCIS said she had made 120 appearances at the court. Mr. Arthur JENKINS, of Greenwell Park, near Haverfordwest, has generously given a piece of land for the extension of the cemetery of Crundale Chapel. The gift has been formally and publicly accepted and the ground set apart for its sacred use. Barry Golf Club Extension/Saturdays Opening Ceremony at The Leys.  (3 photos on page 10). 1st. Mr. G.R. PHILLIPS (capt) presenting a club to Mr. D. Sibbering JONES, who drove the first ball. On the left is Mr. John MARSHALL (vice-captain). 2nd. Mr. C. Stuart GOODFELLOW (president Caerphilly Golf Club) and Mr. T.E. WILLIAMS, with Mr. R.G. MIDDLE, safter the match. 3rd. Dr. W. EVERETT, R. WALKER (Cardiff), E. BRADBEER (Southerndown), and Mr. R.J. MIDDLE, who played a four-ball exhibition game. Cricket Photograph Cardiff v Briton FerryTown. The rival captains H.G.SYMONDS, Cardiff and T.S. JOHNS, Briton Ferry Town. ------------------------------------ Evan OWENS, Edward OWENS, and Thomas James ROGERS, of Crumlin, were fined 40s. each and bound over at Pontypool on Saturday, for cutting and stealing 128lbs. of coal from the Sofrydd Fach Level, the property of the Crumlin Mynyddislwyn Colliery Company on May 20. Mr. H.S. LYNE prosecuted. It was stated that after seeing a trail of eight men leaving the level,each carrying a bag of coal, a police-sergeant posted constables there. Defendants were afterwards seen working the seam in the level by the light of candles. They had filled one sack, and another was partly full. Besides the loss of the coal damage to the extent of £30 or £40 had been done to the level. The adjourned charges against Ernest MAKINSON 24, a well-dressed ship's waiter, of being found on enclosed premises behind the counter of the shop of Mr. William Henry BENNETT, grocer, Adam-street, and attempting to steal £2, also with assaulting Howell L. BENNETT on May 19, came on for hearing at Cardiff Police-court on Saturday. Mr. Morgan EVANS (instructed by Mr. James H. CROSS) appeared for the defence. Mr. Howell Lundy BENNETT, son of Mr. William Henry BENNETT, proprietor of the shop, said he found prisoner behind the counter of the shop. Asked what he was doing there he made no reply, but ran into the street. Witness chased him, when caught prisoner hit him in the mouth. They both stumbled to the ground. Prisoner got up and ran away again, but was caught a second time. He shouted to two men who were talking to his father in a side street, "Come and help me," but they did nothing. Prisoner, who pleaded "Guilty," was shown by Police-inspector FRANCIS to have started well at Liverpool, but to have gone very differently afterwards. He was sent to prison for fifteen months at Bow-street for false pretences. At the London County Sessions he was convicted in 1924 of housebreaking, and later of conspiracy, housebreaking, and receiving stolen goods. The Bench sent him to prison for three months, with hard labour. CIVIL ENGINEERS.-Welsh Success at April Examinations. At the April examinations of the Institutioin of Civil Engineers, the following candidates from Wales and the Welsh border counties were successful:- ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP. Sections"A" and "B": Ernest EDWARDS, Cardiff; John Shipton IRELAND, Newport (Mon); Eric Austen MIDDLE, Newport (Mon). Section "A"; Reginald CORNISH, Newport (Mon); Henry DAVIES, Swansea; William Thomas Phillip PERKINS, Cardiff. Section "B": Raymond Howard AUSTIN, Newport (Mon); Wilfred Storm EVANS, Cardiff. Section "C": John Frank BICKERTON, B. Eng. (Liverpool), Owestry; Graham MORGAN, B.Sc. (Wales), Exeter; Rupert Meredith OWEN, B.A. (Cantab), Llandudno; Claude Charles PARKMAN, Barry; Joseph Frederick SUMMERSGILL, Newport (Mon). PRELIMINARY. Samuel Mostyn DAVIES, Llanelly; Richard Brynmor FRANCIS, Pontypridd; John Richard PUGH, Hereford; Harold Pleydell TURNER, Hereford. John Patrick

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