File A1/3. - David Evan Williams, 'Cartref', Hirwaun,

Discusses the choice of magistrates and claims that there is a majority of Conservatives on the bench. Considers that the county of Flint is 'the most badly treated' as there are only two Liberal magistrates in the whole of the county. Merthyr, too, has only a single Liberal Justice. Dr Evans of Mountain Ash is really a Tory and will not support temperance legislation. The writer's opposition to the granting of occasional licences. The support given by Tory magistrates to 'the cursed traffic' and their failure to enforce the 1881 Sunday Closing Act. Hopes for a change in the licensing laws 'to see a considerable curtailment of the Traffic which is fast ruining the greatest country under the sun'. Tory justices 'hinder the advance of useful legislation in the country'. The intended appointment of additional justices at Merthyr and Aberdare.