RUBBISH IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS.
[TO THE EDITOR Or FRE Seim:Ms:9 Snz,—Acting upon the information of your correspondent "M." (Spectator, March 30th), I wrote to the Pariah Council, enclosing both "M.'s" letter and my own of March 23rd, with the request that an application should be made to the Rural District Council to secure the urban rights of scavenging from the Local Government Board, in accordance with the suggestion in "M.'s" letter. In reply I received the following :— "I beg to state that your letter of 4th inst. was read and con- sidered at the Parish Council meeting on Monday last—but they regret to say that the Council cannot undertake the work of scavenging, as the cost would be disallowed in the Accounts, which have to be submitted to the Auditor of the Local Govern- ment Board," no mention or reference being made to " M.'s " suggestion. I then wrote directly to the Rural District Council, enclosing the two letters (" M.'s" and my own) as before, and received the following reply :—
"Your letter of the 24th lilt was laid before the Council to-day, and I am directed to inform you that the Council would not be prepared to apply for urban powers for the purpose of under- taking scavenging and cleansing of the parish of Compton unless requested to do so by the Pariah Council."
My experience of Parish Councils is therefore much the same as that of your correspondent Mr. Richard Barnes (Spectator, April 6th), and, as for as any benefit is to be derived from them, they might as well not exist.—I am, Sir, &c.,
E. E.
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