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PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 
Furze stems for making walking sticks and umbrella handles 
for sale. 
As to the present management of the common, although 
the same Bye-laws of the Trustees are supposed to be in force, 
> as were submitted to the Charity Commissioners in 1893, 
the slump in peat as fuel, and of furze for kindling, since the 
old specially constructed iron, large brick ovens and open 
chimneys have entirely disappeared, has resulted in their 
being less rigidly enforced. Fodder cutting, however, still 
commences at 8 a.m. on July 20th; and this annual grass 
mowing is well observed, since even if only fit for litter, 
rushes and mixed stuff are always saleable in this bullock 
grazing district. The date of hover cutting is May 1st, 
commencing at twelve noon, but little notice is taken of it ; 
peat burning having become practically obsolete. Upground 
flags may be cut from June 1st to August 1st. Few only 
now are used for roofing or covering beehives. 
Furze may be cut during the month of September ; but in 
point of fact, more is cut during the winter months. Children 
still go sticking amongst the gorse bushes on Saturdays. 
No gravel is cast from the parish pit for mending the roads, 
which are now taken over by the County and District 
Councils, but any parishioner can claim any amount of sand, 
silt, gravel, or stone on payment of one penny per horse 
load. The gravel is of good colour, but will not bind. None 
is supposed to be taken out of the parish, nor any upland 
flags, though fodder or litter, furze and hovers may now be 
so disposed of. 
There are no longer any restrictions as to the quantity of 
hovers, turf, or furze allowed to each commoner, nor as to 
the number of stock or Geese, nor apparently to the amount 
for which their owners are assessed. The poor are too poor 
to buy a Cow, and the grazing would be wasted if those who 
ought not did not make use of it. It is a question, and a very 
interesting and important one, whether the rules of the 
Charity Commissioners are wide enough to allow the Trustees 
