DIRBOTOB y I J . WBITCB'URCB, 808 Cemetery Board, John Weaver Churton, clerk PUBLIC OFFICERS. Cottage Hospital & Dispensary, Brownlow street, Col. Assistant Overseer & Collector of Poor's Rates, Wilfrid Henry Lee, chairman; Edward A. Perram M.D.Lond., W. H. Owen, 79 Green end Charles Henry Gwynn M.D., C.M. & Arthur Muriel Certifying Factory Surgeon, Edward A. Perram, 19 Watkins M.R.O.S.Eng. surgeon1; Ernest H. Fisher Dodington L.D.S.R.C.S.Eng.dental surgeon; Hugh Booth Lee,sec Clerk to the Governors of the Grammar School & to County Police Station, Green end, John Lucas, superin­ the Governors of the Whitchurch Public Girls' High tendent ; I sergeant & 4 constables School, Hugh Booth Lee, 4 Dodington Customs & Excise Office, 2 Bridgwater street, John T. Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes, Henry Jas. Williams, Daly, surveyor; Jarnes Michie, officer Brownlow street Free Library, Museum & Picture Gallery, High street Clerk to Wbitchurch Sub-Committee of Salop Old .Age Public Baths, Brownlow street, Robert Henry Marshall, Pension Committee, E. F. Stincbcombe, 4 Aston rd. superintendent Town Hall, High street, John , caretaker Collector of Market Tolls, Albert John Martin, Town hall Volunteer Fire Brigade, engine house, St. Mary's street; Steward of the Manors of Whitchurch & Dodington, Edward Jones, captain & 20 men Henry Lee, 40 Dodington Whitchurch Institute, Old Town hall, High street, Tho<>. Veterinary Inspector under the "Diseases of Animals Jones, soo Acts " to the Board of Agriculture & the counties of Whitchurch Town Fire Brigade, Brownlow street; Capt. Salop & Flintshire, Thomas Mayor Parker M.R.C.V.S. M. W. Sowden & 12 men, with reservA New street

TERRITORIAL FORCE. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services. SOUTH WALES MOUNTED BRIGADE. St. .Alkmund's Church, Rev. Sydney Dugdale M.A. The Brigade comprises the:­ rector & lecturer ; Rev. Gerald Angus Stokes lM.A. & Rev. James Sidney Dundas Rider M.A.. curates; 8 & Pembrokeshire Yeomanry, Tenby Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, W elshpool 10.30 a.m. & 3 & 0.30 p.m.; tburs. 7.30 p.m. ; daily Glamorgan Yeomanry, Bridgend prayers at 8 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. al•so on wed. & fri. South Wales Mounted Brigade Transport & Supply 10.30 a.m Column, Arxny Service Corps, Swansea St. Catherine's Church, Dodington, a chapel of ease; South Wales Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal 10.30 a.m. & 3 p.m Army Medical Corps, Hereford St. George's Catholic Church, Claypit street, Rev. Head Quarters, Melton lodge, Wbitcburch. Firmin De V os; mass & sermon, 10.30 a.m. & on Brigade Commander, Col. F. A. B. Fryer 1st sun. in month, 8.30 & 10.30 a.m.; rosary, sermon & benediction, 6.30 p.m Brigade Major, Capt. R. Lambert D.S.O Congregational, Dodington, Rev. A. Umphray Moffatt; 4t'h Battalion The King's (Shropslbire Light Iniantry) (B 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m Co. ), Egerton drill hall, New street; Capt. E. S. Congregational, Broughall; 2.30 & 6.30 p.m Hawkins; Sergt.-Instructor William George Hall Congregational, Steel Heath; 6.30 p.m Baptist, Green End, Rev. Edward Ebenezer Lovell; WHITOHURCH UNION. 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7·30 p.m Board day, alternate fridays at the Workhouse, at II a.m. Primitive Methodist, Castle hill, Rev. William Ernest The Union comprises the following parishes, viz. :-In Webley (supt.); Rev. Thomas Ricbards & Rev. Wm. Shropshire Ightfield, Whitchurch Rural, Wbitchurch Hall, supernumeraries; 10.30 a. m. & 0.30 p.m. ; Urban. Area, 16,485 acres; population in Igii, J,6gz. tues. 7.30 p.m In Chesbire-Agden, Bickley, Bradley, Cbidlow, Unitarian, Church of the Saviour, Highgate, supplies; Chorlton, Cuddington, Duckington, Edge, Hampton, II a.m. & 6.30 p.m , , Malpas, Marbury with Quoisley. Wesleyan Methodist, St. John street; Rev. Thomas Barron Newton-ju:xta-Malpas, Norbury, Oldcastle, Overton, 10.30 am. & 6.3op.m.; wed. 7 p.m (supt.) & Rev. Stockton, , with Grindley, Wesleyan Mission Hall, Yardington; Herbert J. Birt~ , Wirswall & Wychougb. Area, 21,406 acres; 6.30 p.m. ; thurs. 7.30 p.m wistle population in 1911, 4,643· Iscoyd, in Flint shire. Area, 2,662 acres; population in 1911, 408. SCHOOLS. The rateable value of the union at Lady Day, 1913, was :-Shropshire, £51,822; , £40,595 ; Grammar, Bargates, now a. secondary school under the Flintsbire, £4,643; total, £97,o6o Board of Education, founded in 1550 by Sir John • Chairman cf the Board of Guardians, Evan Langley, Talbot, .& rebuilt in IB.fg, when a spacious schoolroom Bicldey, Malpas, Wbitchurch was added : the buildings, consisting of schoolrooms, Clerk t~ the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Geo. class rooms & a residence for the master, are in the Richaxdson, 9 Brownlow street, Whitchurch Elizabethan style; a chemical laboTatory & 2 additional Treasurer, James E. Bacon, National Provincial Bank, class rooms were added in Igoo, a physical laboratory Whitchurch in 1905 & a manual workshop in 1907: the annual Relieving Officer, Arthur Clayton, Station rd.Whitcburch income is upwards of £6oo: the school was recon­ Vaccination Officer, George Reeves, Salisbury road, stituted by the Charity Commissioners in 1882 & is Whitchurch under the control of 15 governors; W. H. Smith esq Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Malpas district, J.P. chairman; there are three leaving exhibition~ .Albert Leigh 'M.R.O.S.Eng.,L.R.C.P.iLond. The Hayes, to some approved place of higher education, each of Malpas; Marbury district, Ralph Edward Loney M.B., the annual value of £33 6s. 8d. & tenable for three C.M.Edin. Wrenbury, Malpas; Whitchurch district, years, & free places to the number required by the Arthur M. Watkins ~.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.O.P.Lond. 29 regulations of the Board of Education; there are Dodington, Whitchurch now (1913) 6o boys; John Henry Crofts M.A. of The Workhouse, a structure of brick, erected in the year Corpus Cbristi College, Cambridge & B.A., B.Sc. of 1791, & enlarged in z853, a.t a total wst of about the University of London, bead master; Sydney £Io,ooo, will bold 150 inmates; the chapel was Docker ay Stennitt M. Se. Meirion Wynne Davies B. A. erected in 1881 at a cost of £639; Arthur M. Watkins Oxon. & James Penhall, assistant masters M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. medical officer; Rev. High School for Girls, in Salisbury road, erected in James Lewthwaite Vincent B..A. & vicar of Marbury, 19II-12, is a handsome building standing in larg~ chaplain; Frederick John Bennett, master; Mrs. grounds; Miss Ada Gertrude Keitley, head mistress; Bennett, matron Hugh Booth Lee, clerk to the governors WHITCRURCH REGIST:RATION DIST:RICT. WHITCHURCH SCHOOL .ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE. Superintendent Regi>strar, Robert Barrow Jones, 44 High street, Wbitchurch; deputy, Francis Taylor, 36 High Meets at the Board room of the Workhouse. street, Wbitchurch Clerk, George Richardson, 9 Brownlow street Registrars of Births & Deaths, Malpas sub-district, Chas. Attendance Officer, William Austin, Whitchurch road, Tomlinson, Malpas; deputy, John Tomlinson, Malpas; , Salop Whitchurch sub-district, George Ricbardson, 9 Brown­ Public Elementary Schools. low street, Wbitcburch; deputy, Harry Ricbardson, Claypit street, erected in 1897 at a cost of £3,700, for 9 Brownlow street, Whitchurch 255 boys & 255 girls; average attendance, 209 boys & Registrars of Marriages, Charles Tomlinson, 1\falpas ; 2ro girls; William Smith, master; Miss Catherine deputy, John Tomlinson, Malpas; Whit-church sub­ Mary Smith, mistress district, George Reeves, Salisbury road; deputy, Bargates (infants). built in 1867; average attendance, .Arthur Clayton, 48 Station road 108 ; Miss Elizabeth Holdsworth, mistress