Whitehaven Gazette Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 Stray Notes

Stray Notes

Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897

Article Index Stray Notes Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 1 of 4 STRAY NOTES      The Parish Council, which will continue to be a momento of Radical folly till the Conservatives muster the courage to knock it on the head, is to my mind a proper fraud, and succeeds in most cases in providing the elements of an expensive farce.      As a rule, this institution costs a lot more than it is worth, and as usual with Radical measures, the antics of its members have to be paid for by the farmers, who are rated and harried to such an extent that many of them find it difficult to make ends meet.      It is satisfactory to know that in this division of the county the Parish Council is going down in popularity.  Folk are beginning to see that it is a useless and costly toy, and therefore don't care to play with it.      The silly pranks played by the wise men of Haile just gives one an idea of the danger of plac- ing power in the hands of the class with whom "a little learning is a dangerous thing."  The village had a good supply of water and a covered- in well.      Yet the wiseacres conceived the idea of making good better, and accordingly shifted the well to a higher position, and when all the necessary work was over they made the appaling discovery that the water would not run up the hill to the well.      Consequently the masonry was taken down and the well re-erected on its own site, and the result was the ratepayers had to pay the bill, and at the same time to notice that the tampering with the spring had diminished the supply of water.                ~to be continued. Prev - Next >>

 

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