....then '(b) A return of accommodation in chapels prepared and issued for the Conference in 1901, and, so far, as regards the district in question, brought up to date by the officials of the General Chapel Committee in Manchester(Book handed to Chairman).....'

34657. I will not read them all to you; there are several corrections in them? - Just bringing it up to date; that is the reason the corrections were put in, because that was published in 1901.

34658. What is the source of your information in bringing them up to date? - The headquarters of our Chapel Committee.

34659. What did they do? - The chapels as they are are returned to the headquarters, and we applied to them to give us that list up to date, putting in others that they had received reports of that were not in when the book was printed.

34660. But this book was published in 1902? - Yes.

[These books were only published every 10 years. With the consent of the Wesleyan archives, I reproduce the information for 1901 and 1911. When you further compare these with the 1905 information, there is even more food for thought. Note that I have included the Pontypridd circuit just as a point of reference for the Trehafod church which is not part of this review]

34661. It gives us the returns and accommodation for 1901. You say you have brought them up to date; does that mean to 1905? - Yes.

34662. Who supplied the information for that purpose? - It was supplied from the circuits in the first place to the General Chapel Committee at Manchester, and the General Chapel Committee secretary entered the information in that book.

34666. You say he supplied these corrections; they are very considerable..........

34668. Mardy, 130, is altered to 279;.................

[Yet out of the 14 chapels, only 4 of these match with the information assumedly supplied by the same people to Mr Jones. Some of the variances are quite substantial.]