arish Council
Much though I dislike the thought, I am beginning to wonder f the English Parish-Council is not a dying institution which the ar will finish off completely. After four years of parish-council ork, it is my impression that the average villager, together with the merage resident who lives in the country because it is a pleasant pace, does not care much whether he has a parish-council or not. acing those four years the average yearly attendance at parish- eenngs and parish-council meetings in my village has been half dozen people, excluding the council itself, which maintained hundred-per-cent. attendance record. Yet during that time portant decisions affecting schools, air-raid shelters, commons, gerous corners, council houses, street-paths and bridges, and
e spending of public money, were being made. This year the ual parish-meeting was attended by not a single person.
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