Mar. 6.
Wire the appearance on Saturday of Part 1 of the Municipal Report for 1914, dealing with Watch Matters, the season of as been called ''municipal itis,"" typified by @ virulent but transitory interest in munich ipal affairs, may be said to have fairly begun. And once again the report may make us feel how much we contentedly leave to the permanent departments, how well they fulfil their duties and on the whole how little attention we pay to them, except to abuse them when anything happens to go amiss. The present report is no exception to ils predecessors in the amount of good work that it records, but exception there is in the shape of special difficulties due to the war. Most departments have suffered in this respect either through loss of personnel impossible to replace or for want of material equally impossible to
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