As Mr. Wright has always support-the Government in other matters, he felt it his duty to withdraw. The danger of a split vote is thus averted and there will be a straight vote be—ween Mr, Medlicott, the Government, and Mr, Tillett, the Socialist, candidates.
Without being in the district it is impossible to gauge the local feeling. Government papers declare that there is general relief, Socialist correspondents assert that 5000 farmers will transfer their votes to Mr. Tillett. The real point remains unaffectthe machine was invoked to ed, namely, that the whole weight of
prevent at least a considerable section f norfolk people from put-man they knew to voice they—and others too after Braunton Great Field in northwest Devon for an aerodrome.
Few people outside Devon had ever heard of Braunton Great Field, but it is not only a valuable piece of ranning land, every bit of it under cultivation, but it is historically notable as one of the last examples of "strip" cultivation which dates back to the Anglo-Saxon system of land tenure, and thus affords continual employment, not to say livelihood, for all the local people, farming it in common as their ancestors have done for over, 1,000 years.
Another fact that pleads for Braun-ton is that it is the~home of numerous rare birds, including winter visitors from as far away as Iceland. Aerodromes we must have but the principles which guide the Air Ministry in choosing them often pass the wit of common men. Why not put on our unemployed to convert into aerodromes some of the derelict land in South Wales or the Blacx Country? I passed through the latter several times last autumn and a drearer testimony to man's wastefulness could not be fauna. Excep' for rubbish and mounds of refuse it is flat enough for any aeroplane.
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