Salford' Its Own Pet Grievance:
The Influence of a Trade in Cancer: Troubles -with Municipal Housing: The Nightingale -and Wireless Telephony row Our OWN Comnesroxpent.
Manchester, April 9, Our City Fathers have been quar-yelling again, 'The bone of conten tion..on this occasion does not lack size, for it is nothing' smaller. than the Great British Empire El tion, "It appears that Wembley lias a conerete palace for which it has no particular use, so the promoters have christened it the "Civie Hal and propose to let it out by the week, fortnight, or month, to any enterprising city or township that aves to hive it and boost its lo ial manufactures, residential amenities, or civie enterprise. One group of our Aldermen and City Councillors are in favour of renting this white elephant for a fortnight and holding a "Great Civie Vene." If don't, they say, it will brand our lack of public spirit-for many erations." The rest of tite Couns slightly in tie majority—are frank derisive, What is a Civic Period, they ask, and who will spend time looking at photograph' 3 of the Mfanchester Sewage Works when there is the great Basra building to see next door? As no one could teil them what a Civie Period was and as its supporters were accused of desiring % glorified picnic on the cheap the proposal was defeated: We are to have a Manchester Bureau in the Exhibition for the whole period, but there is to be no big
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