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old method and the Tasmanian method, and we expect 

 the first stage to be over by 7.30, when there will be ^ 

 hour for refreshment, and the whole business concluded 

 not later than 9.30. 



The mechanical arrangements are very good, and 

 more than half the Counties will have had a previous 

 drill, so that there ought to be no hitch. 



Come and start us if you can. — Yours faithfully, 



Courtney of Penwith, M.K.C. 



In July the Sunday Closing Committee brought 

 out their report. On the 16th he writes : "They" 

 (the Committee) "agreed that Sunday Trading 

 was on the increase and ought to be restricted, 

 that the fines should be increased, and that the 

 shop assistants should have a rest one day in 

 seven," and, three days later : " We finished our 

 report. They accepted the fines we proposed 

 and practically the exemptions, leaving, however, 

 the hour over. So that they have really agreed 

 to all the essence of the Bill, and strongly recom- 

 mended legislation. Beauchamp, however, for 

 the Home Office, wished the drafting left over, 

 and considered that to recommend a particular 

 Bill was outside our reference. This seems to 

 me absurd, but for the sake of getting the recom- 

 mendation unanimous I agreed." 



Up to the end of July his health had been very 

 satisfactory all this year, but on the 27th he had 

 gout and took to his bed, and was suffering more 

 or less all the following month. It was not until 

 August 21 that he was able to get downstairs to 

 breakfast, and his note on Monday, August 6, 

 his own special Bank Holiday, is rather pathetic : 

 " Still ill, and have never before been so helpless." 

 It was during the course of this illness that his 



