The West Ham Guardians continue to refuse the con- ilitions
which the Minister of Health attaches to the offer of loans. Mr. Neville Chamberlain offered £300,000, but stipulated that the scale of relief must be reduced. If that stipulation were accepted a further £350,000 would be lent. Some of the Guardians before the meeting on Monday at which Mr. Chamberlain's latest very considerate proposal was rejected, talked about consulting " the people outside." Probably they did so and changed their minds at the last moment, for it had been generally expected that they would submit. " The people out- . side " were the very people who receive relief. It seems that few persons who are not probable beneficiaries trouble to vote at the election of Guardians in West Ham ; at the last election only about 18 per cent. of the electors polled. * * * *
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