[To the. Editor of the SPECTATOR,] SIR, —At a meeting of
" The Aberdare Chamber of Trade " held last week, we considered—with full appreciationthe splendid practical result of your timely and sympathetic appeal on - behalf' of the distressed -miners' families in this
area of South Wales.
There is a very real depression here, both among the miners and others dependent on the industry, and not least of all, amongst our town's tradesmen, who are suffering very keenly through loss of trade and extended Credit. • At our meeting it was thought it might he possible to relieve this situation to a certain extent, if a portion of the cash subscribed so generously for this laudable object, were remitted to our Town Clerk, or other approved person or persona, to be spent amongst our local tradesmen in inaking the necessary purchases of the goods required for the deserving cases in our midst. . . •
If you could see your way clear to make some such arrange- ment to this end, we assure you that you would be conferring a very great benefit on our. town generally. Thanking you in anticipation of your kind consideration of this urgent matter.-7-I am, Sir, &c., D. A. GRIFFITHS..
[The Managing- Director of the Spectator visited Aberdare at the week-end and interviewed the local authorities. We have arranged for the Spectator Fund to be spent with the local tradesmen. We fully recognize the very serious plight of many of the local tradesmen, and we are glad to_think that our Fund will be the means of helping them as well as.the miners and their families.—Ed. Spectator.]
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