Physical description

Typewritten pro-forma letter from A.F.B. Long, Town Clerk, Town Hall, Ringwood. The date or period of use of the pro-forma is unknown but Mr Long was Town Clerk from 1925 to 1950.
(Undetermined handwritten property notations on the reverse side may or may not relate to house numbering.)

Inscriptions & markings

Dear Sir or Madam,
re Numbering of Houses.
My Council has ordered that all houses selected in certain Streets shall have for the purpose of identification a distinguising number affixed thereto.
In order to have uniformity, it has been decided to adopt a metal number about 3 inches in height which mst be fixed to the gate post where practicable or failing this, to some conspicious part on or above the door where it may be seen from the roadway.
The By Law provides that if any owner or occupier of any such house neglects for two weeks after notice to him from the Council to mark such house or building with such number as the Council may direct, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings (40/-), and the Council may cause such number to be affixed and recover the expense thereof from the owner or occupier of such house or building before any Justice; and where such expense is paid by or recovered from the occupier, he may deduct the same from any rent payable by him to the owner.
Yours faithfully,
(signed) A.F.B. Long, Town Clerk.