PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN VOL. 5, NO. 57. PRINCE GtfORGE, B.C., FK1I>AV, AUGUST 4th, 1022. FIVE CF1 Ixpefimental Farm for the Central Interior Assured tt COMMUNITY ALONG THE LINK OF THEe an experimental farm established somewhere along the line of the G. T. P, between this point and Terrace, and the establishment of it will require the total of tin* amount voted |i\ the Canadian parliament for this purpose, but just where it will be locat-ed will bo loft, largely to the officials or the agricultural department. It will be located first with a view to assisting agriculture, secondly with a view to providing traffic for the Grand Trunk Pacific, and thirdly with a view to benefitting the people of the district. This is the, message which Hon. W. R. Motherwell, minister of agriculture, brought to the members of the board of trade at the dinner tendered to himself and T. ii. McBride, M.I*., 011 Wednesday evening. REPARATION PAYMENT QUESTION MAY PORCE EARLY BRITISH ELECTION There was a good attendance at i Alexandra hotel, considering the ifd arrangements, and the fleet-nature of ministers' visits ro fhirh citizens have been treated rent ly. A. McB. Young, president of e board, presided, and with him at head table, beside the guests of or, were Mayor Johnson, H. G. -y. M.L.A.. and Ernest Jones, -president of the board. Mayor Johnson, in a few words, tended a welcome to the visitors I intimated that while they were the city an effort would be made impress upon them the claims of no- Ceorge for the establishment the experimental farm in this vi-ity, as it was the general feeling it the farm located at or near nee George would best serve the erests of the entire northern sec-r. An attempt would he made to >v th'' minister just what advant-is Prince George had to offer, but en this had been done the people tlfeed it would rest with the rnin-ler ol agriculture to make the de-;i"ii .is to the location. H. <; Perry, M.L.A.. followed the ayor and intimated that. repre-nting the entire district in the feislature, he was not possibly so rcumscribed in his views on the Btter of the location of the farm might be the case with the aver-� resident of the city. In fact he thought it would haYrily be proper for him to attempt to influence the views of the minister as to the location of the farm. All were agreed that the establishment of such a | farm would be of the greatest as-| sistance in the development of the | agricultural resources of the district, and, while no two sections appeared to be agreed on the exact location, there was a hope that eventually it would be located in the best place, having in view the development of the whole northern country. Mr. Perry concluded his very brief remarks by impressing upon the minister the necessity of implementing the development of the district by a vigorous emigration policy. Hon. \V. R. Motherwell was given a good reception in rising to address the gathering. He is an easy speaker, and during the forty minutes which he occupied impressed hia hearers with the probability that, aside from the treks of the political game, there was bark of the efforts of the members of the present Liberal government an earnest desire to improve the condition of the Canadian people and assist them in getting rid of the great national debt contracted during the war which seemed to he retarding development] (Continued on Page 6> l,OM>o\, Aug. 4�The attitude of the United States' treasury toward the Allied debt question is that the Bnlfour note will not affect tile American policy toward the payment of war debts. This has attracted wide attention, together with the emphatic statement of the chancellor of the exchequer thai Britain has no intention of suggesting any alteration of the financial obligations to the United States. Ill is gave somewhat of h new direction to newspaper1 comment" on the question of the interallied debts. There was a less anxious note to the editorials and hope is expressed that at next week's conference arrange* inonts will be made to avert the ugly menace that is hanging over the continent through the reparation question. It is also presumed by the British press tluit the division of opinion in the cabinet regarding the liriiish policy toward the debt problem seems responsible for a revival of I be report that Lloyd George contemplates an early election. GREAT BRITAIN MOVES FOR BIGGER AIR FORCE House of Commons Told that Government Accepts I Recommendation of Air Ministry ligns of Activity in the McArthur Mill Project I'KWY. TKNANT OF FARM LAND AND OLI> BUILDINGS OF IH'I>SOX'S BAY COMPANY, IS GIVEN NOTICE TO Ql IT�.1. I). Mi Alum It IS EXPECTED BACK IN THE CITY SHORTLY. A si^:n that indicates chat that negotiations, which have lwvn pro-ding between J. I>. McArthur and the Hudson's Hay Company, for a f'Rv pai t of the Hudson's Hay land at South Fort George, are moving rward smoothly, was given this week when .M. Penny, a tenant, on leaw, ol the land involved, was given a month's notice to vacate by the Bid son's Hay Company's land department. s is the first definite sign civ-*--------- 1 Hudson's Ray Company J business In this locality. Mr. Pen-sale of the land which Mr. ; ny has a thriving dairy business. wants for his mill site. ! and his removal from the Hudson's anything hut a tentative Bay property will not affect this 'hat negotiations had been except to better his arrangements, : was known herp through Tor he has purchased about eighteen :ement of Mr. McArthur I lots at the corner of Vancouver street and Patricia avenue where he will LONDON. August V4 - Lloyd George told the House of Commons that the home government had decided to accept the recommendation of the Air Ministry to provide one hundred aeroplanes for home defence at a cost of two million pounds. This would not prejudice the further extension of the air force if it wore later found that it is necessary for national security. Many new machines of (he all-metal .type were ordered forthwith. GOVERNOR GENERAL * GOING TO S1LTEIS CAMP f)A\VSON, August 4�Gover-nor-General B,vng h;is left for Mayo and the Kent* Hill silver camps. He returns to the const on August tenth. Ho was presented with an address' inscribed on a snow white caribou skin of full size and wius also given some gold nuggets. NORTHCI.IFFK SINKING k'Aith �'"'! by his application to council for certain assist-- 1 Ill!1 Projected sawmill. lia last visit here Mr. "litainf Mc- �n 71 back here in a short a purchase completed. (1rved to Mr. Penhy ia favorable indication of Mr. McArthur's under-occupies the Pany's trading frked r arms the la"d that trend Ing, .Hudaorf'a Hay ( about. "Puny i;i" hpre and went out of .. bout one hundred years ompany", before it hauled run a model dairy farm. Ho is arranging for the construction of a big barn with basement, cement fkfois, iron columns to support the roof. etc.. and he plans to keep at his-new location, which lie purchased in anticipation of having to move out in the march of progress which has trailed the Hudson's Bay1 posts through tin1 vest. ed exact knowledge of lint of land that he would "> supplement the informa-i al)out forty head of dairy cattle !;'lll(J In the Hudson's Bay land department at Win- hi3 rot urn there, it was >otl that he intended to close l i the company, and he WILL I>IK ON TKNTH LONDON, August 4�O'Sullivan ;ind Dunn, who murdered Field Marshall Henry Wilson, will be executed -m the tenth instant. OF EXTRAORDINARY GRAVITY BRUSSELS, August 4- The British attitude iu connection with the LONDON, August 4 Lord North-cliffe has been getting weaker during tlio last few days, and his heart trouble is increasing.. LATER- Great anxiety is felt today over the condition of Viscount Northcliffe. There is Mime increase In his heart weakness, previously noted, and he is in a state of general exhaustion. WOMAN FOR Till: LEAGUE Aldermen Make an *^> to Hobble Energetic Mayor CHAIRMAN OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES WOULD LIKE A CHANCE TO PLAY MAYOR BUT QUIT WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER A SNAG IN THE MUNICIPAL ACT WHICH DEFINES THE DUTIES OF CHIEF MAGISTRATE. There was a stormy meeting <>t the city council last evening. It camo up as a result of a clash between the mayor and Aldermen Patterson and McliCan, as chairmen of committees. From the discussi�>n which en,sued it became manifest the chairmen entertained the opinion that within their committees, and the carrying out of work recommended by the council on the recommendation of the committee the chairman had more authority than the mayor; that it was for the chairman to give directions to the city employees and that the mayor had no voice in the matter nt all. The first heard on the subject'*�------------------------------ i> came from the mayor. During his snort absence from the city the chairman of,the. public works com- the council he asked the city solicitor to give them his advice as to the powers of the mayor in such mat- mittee, at the instance of Aldermen | tore. Alward and Patterson, got the mem- Mr. Wilson said he had not given bers of the council together and as the result of such meeting Alderman Taylor, gave certain instructions to the matter any recent consideration but expressed an agreement with the ws of th�> mayor, and said he Superintendent MacKenzie. The I thought the point might be covered mayor took exception to this as he by subsection (d). o,f section 25 of held it was not competent for any : the Municipal Act which recited that alderman, whether a chairman of a the mayor had "Unrestricted auth-comrnittee or not to sr'vs any in- "ority and power to inspect and structions for the carrying out of "order the conduct of all officers any work. The duty of the chairman of a committee, in the opinion of the mayor, was to submit the report of his committee to the council and if it were decided to carry any work out as the result of such report it was the duty of the mayor to enforce the wishes of the council and give all necessary instructions to the civic employees. The mayor said he would like the chairmen of the several committees to thoroughly understand the situation as he resented the giving of any such instructions. Later on Alderman McLean and Alderman Patterson tried to hobble the mayor by passing a resolution to the effect that for the future /ill in- ".and employees of the municipality, "and to direct tfie method of management of the municipality business affairs, etc., etc." Mayor Johnson then suggested that the city solicitor give the members of the council his conception of the duties of chairmen of the committees. Mr. Wilson said lie did not, like to interfere in what appeared to be the commencement of a Donnybrook fair but he certainly agreed with the view expressed by the mayor. There could be but one responsible head to the council and that head appeared to him to be the mayor. Alderman Patterson then asked the solicitor i< he thought the reso- structiohs for the carrying out of | l.ution moved by Alderman McLean city work should be issued by the chaitfman o cerned. the committee ciin- and seconded by himself was illegal and the solicitor replied that to him it certainly appeared to be out of The mayor countered this attempt order as under the Municipal Act to treat him as a white chip in the every employee of the city was un-game by telling the council be knew der the supervision and control of what his duties were, and that he the mayor. The mayor could would not be bound by any such resolution even if it were passed. For the information of the members of not was authorize work, but once it authorized the mayor was the pro-. ( Continued on Page ri) Employees and the Railway Heads Tentatively Agree IPEPKKSENTAT1VES OF EMPLOYEES OF DEPARTMENTS CONNECTED WITH OPERATION OF CANADIAN RAILWAYS REACH AGREEMENT WITH RAILWAYS FOR CONTINUANCE OF NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING WAGE REDUCTIONS. MONTiCEAL, August I�Representatives of the employees of the maintenance <>!' way and bridge departments of the Canadian railways have reached an agreement with the railway executives, acting through the Railway Association, for the continuance of negotiations in regard to the reduction in wages, which urn- effective on July 1<>. The reductions jve io remain in effect pending the outcome of the negotiations, uhieh, in turn, \ni!I be affected by the outcome ol similar negotiations alxmt to he tallied on in the United States. DETOU1? HV SKA LONDON, Aug. 4 Lloyd George told the House of Commons it had been decided that a woman will be sent u> the assembly of the League of Nations to represent Britain in an advisory capacity. DECLINES POSITION' REGINA, August t It is officially learned that Stewart and \V. F. Riddel 1, who have been offered posts on the new Canadian wheat hoard have beeu compelled to decline the posts. DUBLIN, August 4 National army troops landed from the sea In County Kerry and took the irregu-' lars in the left flank and in the rear. hampering their retreat from Limerick. Fighting goes ^ on elsewhere with the Free Staters generally successful. Ki: OF WEAPONS REI.VG SMUGGLED TO FAST FIGHTING IN ROME ROME, August 4�Two persons were killed and several wounded in fighting between the Fascisti and Communists at Bari in connection with the general strike. GRAHAM HELL'S FUNERAL BADDECK. August 4�The body of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell will be buried this evening from his country home. Interrment will be made on the summit of the mountain on the Bell estate. CLOUD BURST IN DAKOTA HOT SPRINGS. S.D., Aug. 4 � Property '...nage estimated at a million dollars has beeu caused here by a cloud burst. (inns of American and German Make Taken from Liner at Hong Ivonii MANILLA, August i A thousand guns of American and German make and 28,000 rounds of ammunition were taken from the Admiral liii"r President (Iran! at Hong Kong recently and -'< members of the crew were arrested. The munitions had been smuggled aboard, apparently at Seattle, destined to Southern China. SCALING FIGURES SHOW BIG LUMBER OPERATION* May and June scaling figures in the Prince George district show a cut of 4,957,844 board feet of lumber, 44,530 feet of cedar poles, :J.'I7 cords of cedm-posts, and 44,835 railway ties. r. "I �;� /i. '1 IT