DISTRICT COUNCILS AND COUNTY COUNCILS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his fascinating weekly notes Sir W. Beach Thomas has referred to the Countryman in such exceedingly kind terms that I should be very sorry if his remark that, on the Rural District Council—County Council question, I " come down wholeheartedly on the side of the R.D.C.s " should cause any misapprehension in the minds of readers of the Spectator interested in local government.
It was easy for it to escape Sir William's notice that in the previous issue of the Countryman there was reproduced the gist of a paper I read at the annual conference of the Rural District Councils' Association, in which I spoke in such plain terms of the shortcomings of some District Councils that I failed to carry the conference with me !—I am, Sir, &c.,
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