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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th 1926. Number One-Hundred seventysix.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3.   Western Mail Friday May 7th 1926.   (Strike Edition). ADVERT PAGE.-miscellany. Wanted, House-Parlourmaid and Cook-General for Sussex country house.- Mrs. Charles CLEEVES Heddfan, Tavistocvk-road, Sketty, Swansea. Wanted. Betweenmaid; not under 128: some experience.- Apply MOREL, Dinas Powis. Maid attendant for Elderly Lady wanted immediately.- Apply to Mrs. Austen MORGAN, Ffynonau, Llantwrtyd Wells, South Wales. Wanted Farm Hand, married, able to milk and understand horses; cottage provided. Apply HOWE, Erw'r-deyn, Penarth. -------------------------------------------------------------------- William PRITCHARD, motor-'bus driver, Aberdare, was sentenced to fourteen days, hard labour for having been drunk in charge of a 'bus at Hirwain. Driving through Cwmbwrla, Mr. W.N. DAVIES, manager of Messrs. SMITH and Sons, Llanelly, who had four girls as passengers, came into collision with a lorry. The car was overturned, but no one was injured. Cardiff Waterworks Committee on Thursday unanimously recommended the appointment of Mr. N. PETERS, the deputy engineer, as chief waterworks engineer at £1.000 a year, rising to £1,250, and the appointment of Mr. H.W.B. COTTRELL as deputy. Mr. George E. LLEWELYN, J.P., Bryngarw House, Coytrehene, near Bridgend, brother of the late Sir Leonard LLEWELYN, died suddenly at his residence on Wednesday night. He was listening-in on the wireless at the time , when he suddenly fell forward and expired. Mr. LLEWELYN, a mining engineer, was agent to the Coytrehene and Llanharan estates. The death occurred on Thursday at Cricklewood, London, of Mrs A.W. FEAR, late of Albany-road, Cardiff, at the age of 74, Mrs. FEAR was a member of one of the oldest Cardiff families, being the daughter of the late David WILLIAMS and sister of  the late Mr. James WILLIAMS and the late Mr. W.H. WILLIAMS (of WATTS, WATTS, and Co), and of the late Mr. Charles WILLIAMS (of Foster HAIN and Co., Cardiff Docks). She was a lifelong member of Bethany Baptist Chapel. Her husband was for some years employed by the Western Mail Limited, and later by Messrs. William LEWIS, Duke-street. The funeral takes place at Cardiff on Monday. In our report of the funeral of Sir Thomas W. LEWIS, the name of Lord Merthyr (nephew) should have been included in the list of mourners present. The Swansea stipendiary on Thursday gave his reserved judgement in the case in which William John BENDALL, retired dock manager, was summoned for erecting a garage on the over court of his house without the consent of the local authority. The Stipendiary (Sir Marley SAMSON) said the garage was a building within the meaning of the Act, and imposed a fine of one shilling for each of the 154 days after receipt of written notice from the authority. John Patrick

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