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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZE^
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VICTORIA, B. C.
No. 29.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1925.
FIVE) OBNTS.
Police Officers Receive Notice of Dismissal
Provincial Force Will Take Over P Police Work of City on June 15th.
onA-nt Has Been Entered Into Wliich Will be Binding for One Year.
Tin- surrender of municipal con-,1 of the police administration of v of Prince George will take on June 15th next. This de-arrivexl at. on Thursday special meeting of the
n
the city
place
eision ;was evehine a:
boar
f police commissioners.
clo pr< ing
Mayor Alward has lost no time in
isinj.' up his agreement with the icial authorities for the polic-. f the city- On Tuesday, May 5tH the day following the mating of the city council, when the suggested change was approved by the casting vote of the mayor, the sign-(l| agreement was in the mail and on its way to J. H. McMullin. super-intendent of provincial police. On Thursday a telegram was received from the superintendent, acknowledging receipt of the signed agreement, advising that the same was satisfactory to him, and that he was signing on behalf of the provincial government and would be prepared tn take over control on June 15th.
On 'his assurance the police commissioners decided to give notice to !��. \\ Shelton and F. S. Hodgson, the i.'.-Iubers of the present ^municipal force,'that their services would hot 1 required after this date.
While there has been some dissent from the surrender of municipal control i:i police, matters, as well as n the manner in which it has
SMITHERS MINING RECORDER HAS NARROW ESCAPE IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Smlthers, May 2.�J. E Kirbv mining recorder, had a narrow escape from death or serious injury yesterday when a car he was driving backed off the highway and plunge. down a. cliff into the Bulkley river.
GERMANY WILL STICK TO PLAN OF REPARATIONS
DESPITE ALL CHANGES
German to carry
Berlin, May 19.�The government will continue out the, provisions of the Dawes'pian for the payment of reparations, according to an assurance given, by Minister Streseman yesterday. No country, he stated, had welcomed the Dawes plan more heartily than Germany as a means for bringing about the economic pacification of Europe. No matter what changes might come-in the government of the country the minister said he could not conceive of any administration deciding to depart from the policy so {irmly established in connection with the Dawes reparations plan.
Rising Waters Force Break in Railway Grade
Fraser and Nechako River* Reach
Flood Stage at the Same Period
This Year.
Ferry System May be Found Necessary to Mainttvin Connection With the South.
Prince George is in for a record-
-..ught atfout, there is a gen-j breaking stage, of water this season.
Last night the water was within a foot of the record for 1919. it made five inches during the rtight, and unless there is a change in weather conditions it will continue rising for the
fling that matters could not; be�jtnich worse than they have been for some time past. Since. Mayor Alward assumed office the police administration has been the target for man} of his economy darts. He be-can "by inserting there was no more
work in the city than should � the attention of one man.
way he eliminated Chief Car-
JMJll
en g In t
next four or five days.
This ye,ar the Nechako and Fraser rivers have reached their flood stage about the same time. The Nechako
The pruning knife was used j is usually two or thre weeks behind ml the city prosecutor <� s-te was rajscd several feet. Resi-tw?n put to the test. There is noi dents in some of the houses will but that the voice of the i doubtless be forced to move about on should have been taken be- I rafts until' the, water goes down, and 2 surrender was made, but there is a likelihood that merchandise is only the mayor's meth-� wj|j require to be removed from some 1 "~ ' ' warehouses if the expected
, � another couple of feet occurs. The water this morning was said k, to be within a foot of the lowest sec-
V"� .uui terminate the arrangement. .� r tn0 i,ijrhwav- connecting the ' ' """� city with the Pineview settlement.
It \vis possible to negotiate the. road this morning, but something in the of a ferry system may nave to
question
peo
f< iv this
th
again if
ryse
y>rr\t.le and cairried the fire "��) the town in the direction glands, running -l'*ee miles, the
with liquor
PreW
res�)�ct to the importation of 'are the prairie provinces. Oliver has been
in
.,.,, altogether I view of this contention that the gov
� �" ^ S^tSdl"nSe1Sia^?SI imber it died I which was KiUmI in �"� �...
"> hand by Tuesday morn
proposal, president of tin for the raking < B. C. railway, also afddc'd that
a
ten,
Canadian National, ,er of the E., D & Premier GreenlieW within a few hours
ho was in pos.il fron outlit:i' �; id I" do Pence Ri*
f of receiving a pro-President E. W Reatty . , �, the C.P,R. i? in the way of privim:
p the
5tr
y ict direct rail con-
ith the Pacific coast. Fur- tht Sir Henry
to-tate that Sir Henry Plan called for d
ny land
. � i r ,n the provincial govern-subsidy from ^ British Coium.
Greenfield declined to of the proposal at the
prcsw'H time.
proper publicity would result in
bringing in a large number from outside points.
The Calgary stampede has devel-1 oped in the course of a few years \ irom a local to a provincial enter-1
ainment, drawing large, n'untbers to \ the city each year, and making con- j stant; expansion possible. With the; The e sanctuary which sur-
icquisition of; its site by the local fair i romuis the city of Priace George is association it is suggested Prince becominK favorably known by game George should be able to make a: of al, kinds There never have been start on an entertainment of the many duck seen in thc vicinity as stampede order. > , have frequented the sloughs since the
If the idea is taken up it certainly ; Fanctuary was created. The duck could be put over, and Prince George ; come earlier and rcmain later_ In would become the acknowledged cen- the opinion of some thoy are attempt-ter in the interior for the observance j in to rear theiT youn ^j^ the of the natal day of the dominion. All I confines of the sanctunrv. There those who are interested in the pro-1 niav bp some specuiation fn this, but ject are requested to attend a meet-, lh(/re js none ^^ respoct t0 tho cow ing to be held in the Eagles hall, j moosc which has taken up its domi-over the Bank of Commerce tomor-1 dle in the vicinity of Jack Ryan's row evening at 8:30 o clock. The!ranchi This cow dropped her calf a co-operation of everyone is- essential few da ag0> and appears to be so to the launching of the programme. ' contented with her surroundinga that Make it a point to be at the meeting there is no ccrtainty she will move and get the observance of Dominion out when the Rame season opens> Day out of the rut in which it has ; been travelling for the past two or three years.
CERTIFICATES AWARDED IN COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
WORK COMMENCED UPON
BRITISH-INDIA PLANES
OF CITY HIGH SCHOOL
During the present school term
_. . ..... , . ^ , I the following pupils of the commer-
Work was commenced in Great cjal department of the Prince George Britain last week upon the big air- high school have been awardod ccr. planes which have been designed for titrates for muscular movement passenger business between Great ^ Britain and India. The planes will the f tt
by H. B. MacLean, author of writinfr manUals used through- h i Si i
p the writinfr manUals used throug
have accommodation for twenty pass- out the province: Senior certicates� engers and will be capable of main-Ethe, Austin. Jeanne Corning, Ag-
taining a speed of 110 miles an hour. ncs McMillan' and Angelina Rice.
Senior and advance certificates� i Blanche Caun. Phoebe Davis, Geor-Nault,
T. G. McBRIDE'S TAX
$12,000
ANNUM ANNUM
een Stewart.
Perkins and
LOG SCALE FOR FORT
GEORGE DISTRICT GROWS
STRONGER EACH MONTH
T. G. McBride told the members of the house of commons last week that his annual tax bill amounted to $12,-000. This can be taken to mean the
member for Cariboo is a rather weal- j Despite the destruction of the big
thy man and that his ir.<�'. mU ;is sawmjn at Hutton, the log scale for
member of the house should not ltn- the Fort George district is growing
press him unduly. Mr. McBride s and should soon be level with the
statement as to his taxes came in a higrh rccord established in 1924. For
defence he was making for the far- the month the lo scale was 3il60,.
mere as tax dodgers. The assertion 748 fect as compared with 6,182.-
had been made that the girls em- 117 feet'in April" 1924. The scale
ployed around the, house of commons for the year 1925 to April 30 is given
as stenographers paid more taxes at 20.345,707 feet as compared with
than did nine-tenths of the farmers 37.449,668 feet for the correspond-
in the dominion.
ing period in 1924.