PARISH-MEETINGS AND COUNCILS
Sta,—Your admirable H. E. Bates has done good service by drawing attention to the importance of making the most of parish-councils at this time. I would also make a plea for parish-meetings, for many parishes like mine have, owing to their population being below two hundred, this lowliest form of public body. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Food have a great deal on their hands at this time, but I was sorry, when I took the chair at our own parish- meeting, to find that we had no printed matter whatever from either. Surely the usefulness of the parish-meetings and parish-councils ought to be borne in mind in Whitehall. Also the friends of popular representation want to stand by the parish-meetings and parish- councils when so much of the work of the country is being (of necessity) regionalised.—Yours faithfully,
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