BOLTON'S clean air programme has not only cleaned the atmosphere but also improved the growth of plants, said Bolton's Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Ross. Bedding plants were flowering much better, and larch and other hardy conifers could now be grown in all parts of the town.

WIRELESS SETS

SOME of the new post-war radio sets have reached Bolton, although, according to a town-centre retailer, the supply so far does not amount to more than a trickle. It is only a few days since the announcement was made that 600,000 new sets are to be manufactured for the home market during the next 12 months, and this retailer admits that there is "something doing". In fact, between now and January he expects "a fair delivery". From what he has been told the sets will not be anything like the pre-war affairs. The shortage of timber, for example, will necessitate an extensive use of plastics. No mention has been made yet of radio-gramophones. And there is, as always, the question of price. What used to be a 12 or 13 guineas set will now cost about £23.

THE position of the Liberal Party in this borough is now one of considerable difficulty; but we do not see in it any reason for discouragement or despair. It has won noble victories in the past, and it will live to win them again. It can afford to wait as it did during the struggle for the first Reform Bill, for the removal of civil disabilities from the Nonconformists, for Roman Catholic emancipation, for the repeal of the corn laws, for the adoption of its free commercial policy, for the cessation of compulsory Church rates, for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and the passing of the great Land Bill which is destined yet to give satisfaction and peace to a long oppressed and injured country.

Toryism has been defeated in every struggle which has been fought out in modern times, and it needs no spirit of prophecy to foretell that it will be defeated again. As a system it is based on class supremacy. It would crush the people to maintain the aristocracy. Liberalism, on the other hand, is based upon the idea of Government by the people for the people.

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