Plight of Merthyr Tydvil • Merthyr Tydvil, which is a
county borough, having fallen into a state of financial embarrassment, where its rates are 27s. 6d. in the a Royal Commission is to consider whether and how its local governing status should be altered. The case, we take it, may be watched with a rather grim interest by the County Councils Association. For long years their complaint has been that towns which are rateable assets are subtracted from their areas on becoming county boroughs. The Royal Commission of 1925 gave them no satisfaction about it ; but if a further doctrine were allowed, that county boroughs which have ceased to be lucrative are entitled to come back into the county again, it really would seem the last straw. Should a case be made out—as it may be—for giving Merthyr Tydvil further support from outside its area, it is from the nation, and not from stricken Glamorganshire or any part of it, that it should come.
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