GEORGE
No. 49
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6th, 1928.
Five Cents
City Sets New
in Tax Collections
Electric '
System Shows Net
Earning of $8,397.89 in Eight-ZVIonth Period
Waterworks System During Same Period Was $7,855.48 Short in Meeting Charges
V R Clerihue, city clerk, has pre-oared an informative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the city for the eleven months of the current �ear It is regarded as the most favorable sratement of the municipal noition to issue since the incorporation The municipality is by no means on Easy Street as yet. but the showing does not appear to justify the jumpy condition contemplated by the city ,-lerk in midsummer when he was advocating a tax upon improvements to broaden tfe basis of taxation.
For the eleven month period the cash receipts from revenue services are shown at $75,129.48. This is $5,723.87 in excess of the total receipts for the full twelve-month period of the previous year, and with one month to go is nut $2,892.67 short of the estimate for the full year under these heads.
The collection of land taxes makes an interesting showing. For the -1928 levy the collections for eleven months are shown at $41,401.92, as against a total collection for 1927 of $41,376.41, and an estimate of $42,945.50 for the full period of 1928. In addition there
EMILIO PORTES GIL IS
INAUGURATED PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
Mexico City. Dec. 3.�Mexico's capital was in gala attire yesterday when crowds surged towards the Congress Buildings where Emilio Portes Gil was inaugurated as provisional president of the Mexican Republic at noon.
A simple ceremony marked the installation of Portes Gil as chief executive of the Republic, and it was also an occasion to launch a campaign for the election of the constitutional president, who will take office at the end of tihe provisional term in February, 1930.
Voters in Last Election Cost 98 Cents
Average Cost In Fort George Riding Was Highest and Lowest In City of Nelson
Conservatives Had Majority of 24.120
Over All Parties In The
Popular Vote
Victoria, Dec. 1.�Every time a voter marks a ballot in a provincial election and slips it into the ballot box. it costs the treasury of British Columbia precisely 98 cents, according to an exhaustive statistical review of the election of July 18. just printed by the government.
This is only one of the many interesting facts revealed in the comprehensive survey carried out by P. D.
Eastern Money Will Open Mines Around McBride
E. H. Errington Undertakes Construction of Sleigh RoacTTo Raushswap Headquarters
Owners Will Spend $100,000 To Secure Communication With Their Mining Prospects
McBride. Dec. 3.�The unheralded arrival of a construction outfit at Raush Valley has aroused much local interest. A mining party headed by E. H. Errington has arrived to build a road clear, to the headwaters of the Raushswap River. Mr. Errington. who is a brother of the president of the Sherrit-Gordon Mining Company, is making no annonucement at the present time of his plans but it is un- j derstood that eastern interests are behind the undertaking. Their object is to reach mining properties at the headwaters of the Raushswap River, which they have recently acquired from the original discoverers. The magnitude of the project may be guag-ed from the amount which is mentioned for the initial expenditure on road building, approximately one hundred thousand dollars. Horses and men are already at work hauling supplies and building camps.
SIX MARRIAGE LICENCES
ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT
AGENT IN NOVEMBER
Trustees Resent Account Scrutiny by City Council
Request for Impressed Account To Facilitate School Payments Is Not Received Favorably
Council Will Not Attempt To Collect
Alleged Shortage of $140 From
Geo. E. Davis
The city council on Monday evening deferred action upon the request of the board of school trustees for an impressed account through which all accounts of the school board could be paid without reference to the city council. The city council has been doing the financing for the school j board and has been exercising a degree p ?�#� w � _ � , ��� J of supervision over payments^which
Petition Hon. F. P. Burden to Amend, it appears members qf^the school
There were six marriage licences issued during the month of November by Government Agent Milburn. During the same period there were eight births registered and three deaths. The marriage licences were issued to Olaf Andersen and Margaret Lucille Cole, ,D, C. Hagerdon and Cora M. deBord, Sigurd Lundgren and Ellen Granholm, George Pavich and Evica Puskor, Reinhold Pipke and Myrtle R. Muraa, and S. A. Robilliard and Beatrice G. Townsend.
Millmen Fight Higher Royalty January 1930
Statute to Avoid Increase for Five-Year Period
board have taken umbrage. As nearly | as can be understood Ihe split between
--------- j the council and^the school board came
In the Prince George District Increase � in connection with the payment of Advances Spruce Royalty 15c, tne salaryof Miss McKee. There had
Other Grades 20c" I bfnv-s^council desired . further information
^�"T^ ttie rcount by
collection of $394.99 for penal- Walker, deputy provincial secretary,
ties for delayed payment of current taxes. This source of revenue for 1927 �,vas $305 04 and the estimate for the current year was $300.00. Interest on tax arrears shows a slight falling off. For the eleven-month period the total was $1,120.67, as against a collection of
Inspectors Will Make Survey of District Schools
representations of the British/Colum-bia Lumbermen's Association in the matter of the possible advance in the timber royalties on .January 1st. 1930. The present sta.tuf^ governing royal-tics was enacten in 1924. and fixed a -.-.pr-jfic roWitv as from Jannarv 1st TA tn^December 3li ST ^ ? fS a � g
1STruary lst>
school
a result &CCOUnt
|Wilson for an
g Monday evening and supported the content^n of the board that the COnucil has no supervision over the S
who has been running British Columbia elections for many years. His figures show, for instance, that the total
vost of the election was $171,567.89. I � , - , -~-----'� /.''. � . I with a royalty based upon the selling Hnino- �,n� tv,o� it s* ^�,,j^j +~ �
Vancouver, of course, spent most on Where Unfavorable Conchtions Exist) price of lumber the millmen were' dOmg more than ll � required to.fi-
the election, its expenses running to j 5117.542; and Victoria was next with
Sl.407.76 lor 1927. and an estimate of ! $5-538- while Fort George, one of the
Trustees Will Be Forced To Engage Male Teachers
; satisfied but things have not worked out as well as they expected, increased
$1,400.00 for 1928.
The most satisfactory feature in connection with the tax payments is found in the circumstances collections vere maintained despite the fact that a considerable part of the property formerly assessed to the railway townsite company has passed from that company, and may revert for taxes. Last year these properties paid $5,885.00 in taxes, but the payments on account
Teachers For, Years
small ridings numerically, was only $8 behind with $5530, due. no doubt, to the large area covered.
Stranger still is the fact that Nelson: one of the largest ridings of the interior, kept its election expenses down io $833. by far the lowest amount re-� ended. So many bye-elections have
been held there that apparently Nelson j �-�� ^^S�e^32S �'lection machinery has steam up and I is ready to work at low cost any time.
Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe Will Put End j crrased selling prices which came dur-To Nightmare Which Haunted ; ing tne last two years of the royalty
*nJhlP�ce
Victoria. Dec. 'A.�The\ official statement of Hon. Joahua Hinchliffe minister of education, that he proposes to make the lives of\ the female, schools sf
M for all other �-*�1*11 ��eL
action is taken by the legislature at not the aroaching session these royalties
f the
of taxation are not payable until the taxes have been collected, and as the great bulk of the tax collections are not made until June 30th. this would mean the the school board, under the letter of the statute, would have finance the schools with a loan until the tax payments are met. This has
necessarlly
taxes, but the payments on account
of taxes fell to $250.00. Despite this i The majority achieved by the Con-
cprvative !)alty i!1 actual votes as com
shrinkage there was such an provement in payments with respect to other property that the collections tor the eleven-month period exceed the total collections for the previous year.
There is not much change indicated in the estimated revenues from the Provincial government. Some of the payments have yet to come to hand and the indications arc the revenues vill be slightly above the estimates. , The elertric light service makes a very fine showing with a current surplus of S8.397.89 as against a surplus of $4,570.22. With the completion ot the year the gain in the current liffht. .surplus will show an increase of 100 per cent. The revenue receipts for the eleven-month period were $30,525.68. From this there is deducted $11,205.76 for power plant maintenance, $1,366.30 for distribution maintenance, and i
this i The majority achieved by the Con
im- cprvative !)alty i!1 actual, votes as com- l?n�d with its majority of members
pared with its majority of members in the House is shown in detail in the survey. Conservative votes all over the province totalled 192.867 as against 144.872 for the Liberal party. 16.649 for Labor candidates, and 7.426 for ln-cupendants. a total of 1G8.947.
of approval throughout the\ province j 95c for other S1)ec.;es of timber.
not hQen necess
the approaching session these royalties the clty council h for the Prmce George district will ad- tax collections and met the school vance to $1.20 for spruce timber, and expenditures for the first half of the
simple because antl�ipated the
met the school
year. If the school board persists in
u-ithnnr rpemrri 'n nnliHr�tinns tn siihtnit. ! �_..*� j\
have been given instructions to submit sorted!.
reports upon all schools in their in- | --------------o--------------
spectorates with a view to prevent the! JUDGE ROBERTSON QUASHES assigning of girls to schools in which j CONVICTION UNDER LIQUOR
Condition of Royal Patient Less Hope- living conditions are not satisfactory
The inspectors will be required to segregate their several schools. In the first list will appear the names of the
nity bond was not satisfactory, and Davis is now resident in Alberta and repudiates the alleged shortage. The solicitor doubted if a criminal action
ful Last Night and Morphia Now Relied Upon
S533.37 for office maintenance, leav- j litrd Dawson of Penn in Latest Bui-1 schools in which conditions are coning a gross operating profit of $17.- letin Sa'vs crisis Will Come sidered satisfactory, and in which no 420 23. From this is taken &4.74(V00 " . *'- r "_ V��,... pmharrassinE conditions, mav be an-
420 23- From this is taken $4,740.00 to cover debenture interest and $4.--82.34 to cover sinking fund requirements, leaving the surplus on operation tor eleven months at $8,397.89.
Trades licences have produced $5,-"�\-oO during the eleven months, an increase of several hundred over the receipts for 1927. as well as a marked mcrea.se over the estimate for the current year, u was the same with >o�ce court fines. The total. $3,646.50. ls an increase of $1,400.00 over the collections for 1927. and of nearly $700 over the estimate for the current year.
Receipts from non-revenue sources "elude $17,702.75 on account of tax arrears collections, and with the pro-
�io ? lhe ele�tric light debentures of $li00'00�Show a total of receil:)ts
The statement of current year ex-^nciitiire is brought up to November ��w and discloses a total of $74,752.-IV .SL^Pared with lan expenditure Ji $83,379.05 for 1927 and an estimat-w expenditure of $91,729.15 for the !i�,,� year' Tncluded in this state-22 a
"resents
an item of $7,855.48 as the deficit in operation
In Four Days
embarrassing conditions, may be anticipated. The second list will contain London, Dec. 6�The inference drawn ! the names oX schools to which in the;
opinion of the inspector it is unwise to send young girls as teachers: and
hl
from the midnight bulletin as to the condition of the king is that His Majesty's case was less hopeful than at any former stage of his illness. Lord Dawsori, of Penn, the royal physician, has issued the statement that if by the administration of morphia, to induce sleep, the patient's temperature can be kept even for the next four days. His Majesty has a chance to live.
Newspaper comment upon the king's condition are far from, hopeful. The Daily Telegraph says reading "between the lines of the -unnecessarily laconic bulletins." suggests His Majesty's condition is far from satisfactory.
The medical correspondent of the Dailv News savs4 "The King's condi-
tion'remains grave, and will continue ^CULLAG^HAS^TTRACTIVE critical for several days. Hope now largely rests upon the maintenance of the patient's strength and the rest he � will be enabled to get." I
ACT OF MRS. PATTERSON would SUCCeed. and questioned the ad-
vantage of a civil action in view of the
didd t
_; , ,, . .. vantage of a civil action in
Judge Robertson on Monday after- robable cost The ^^
noon allowed the appeal of Mrs Annie f t th M ^ shortage.
decided to
Patterson from the conviction of Police Magistrate Moran. as the result of which she was fined $300 for keeping
The other legal opinion had to do with the illegality of gasoline pumps on tne clt %^, ^ commented upon
on tne clt %^, ^ commented upon
liquor for sale contrary to the provi- b the provincial fire marshai. Mr. sions of the Government Liquor Act. wu said there was no question ^ When the police visited the premises h j j th matte nor was there occupied by Mrs. Patterson they found w new about it Tlie
An analysis of the liquor gave an al-coholic content-of from 6 to 8 per
cent by weight, which in the usual acceptance of the term meant a bev-erage with an alcohohc content of from 12 to 16 per cent The statute ^ld requires the court, in the absence of to the
the third list will include the schools \ some beer and a quantity of liquor. * illegally on the streets, but as a In the borderland between the first' * - ����>�'�-�- �r ?��" n�..�� ...-..�- ~,, .,\ two classes.
Hon. Mr. Hinchliffe intends that in the cases of schools reported as unsatisfactory for the engagement of girl teachers the trustees of such will be advised that they will not be permitted
to engage girls as teachers, but will j any direct evidence, to infer whether
be required to fill the positions with the liquor was being kept for sale Action" on the"matter was'deferred! male teachers. This action, of the Police Magistrate Moran inferred that , Qn motion ol- Alderman Fraser, se-
matter qE business convenience the � had pouted them, and /as tter f protection had required
acceptance of the term meant a bev- b d lndemnlfying tne city against
clftim for damages. The councL1 ^ retire iu permission with respect , Or any rate-payer might
minister of education is regarded as | it was and imposed the fine.
conded by Alderman Reid, the court
the most important development in On the appeal evidence was offered of revjsion w-,o constituted by the op-
�......*;".....if "K""1u '" that the liquor complained of was no "l
connection with district schools in many years.
WEATHER REPORT
meteorological
R. B. Carter, local agent, predicts wild weather for the of $800 over the | next few days. The barometer is high
,�oJ- $80� over the 1927- and an advance of
SI ]00 nn Ol 1927- and an advance of! i)Ut unsteady. The coldest weather of turreht v�V!r the estimafce for the j the winter was experienced on Mon-
Just is not
'"by
! day when a reading
the deficit hns increased I wns recorded. The 1 bt b l
23 below zero maximum and
STOCK TO MEET DEMANDS
OF HOLIDAY TRADE
George McCullagh has a very attractive .stock of eooris on displav in his Third Avenue jewelry store which should be equal to all of the varied demands of the Christmas season. To ms.ke room for the holiday goods an enlareement of the showroom became necessary, as well as an additional display cabinet. No one intent ujjon the
that the liquor complained of was no
more than a rhubarb wine With a Serman Moffat. good ktek in it, and the inference of Q ti f
ofliderman Opie and Al-
Opie, se-
Q ti f ^^11 Opie,
Judge Robertson was that it was not d d b Alderman Fraser, the kept for sale. A McB. Young appear- Qf �* q McKenzie for heateti
ea for the appellant and P. E. Wilson ^nrntyp fnr nnp nf thp ritv motor cars
the prosecution, -o-
storage for one of the city motor cars during the winter was approved.
The finance committee recommended the payment of accounts totalling $5,648.49. Of this amount payrolls
F. G. THRASHER COMPANY
CALLS CREDITORS MEETING
FOR DECEMBER 15TH accounted for $4,148.30, the city "payroll being $1,850.80 find the school payroll S2.297.50.
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The P. G. Thrasher Lumber Company has called a> meeting of its
creditors to be held at Snowshoe on The Home Oil Distributors Limited. Saturday. December 15th, to discuss of Vancouver, open for business in
nurchase of a Christmas gift need ways and means for carrying on the prjnce George today with J. D. Gillis
deficit hns increased I wns recorded. The maximum and
,;o S1OV>1- but mav be explained j minimum readings for the week end- ��..... ^w^.*..,^w. ^..~.~......,--------
ount nee in tlle method of j jncr Tuesday. December 4th. were as! able ranRe of silverware and crvstil to
leove the McCullach store with the \ business. The company met with a want unsatisfied. There is a remark-
local representative ' for Prince
offic
Wednesday Thursday ..
The rates and fees col-i follows: 'led S13.199.01. Prom this' for maintenance. c. and $397.76 as This brines out the
'�st th* iu profit $7-88-34; but
�15 737 no are caPifcal charges
� jj', ' -� ^presented bv deben-
"Dd rpnui of ^On.OO and sinking---------------
tljese sw'!Tmente of $7,637.82, and the eleven-month period.
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tnrp
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Saturday .......................... 30
Sunday ..........................,....... 12
Mondav................................. ' 2
Tuesday ............................=-� H
these shr?; !Tments of $7,637.82. and the eleven-month p as opera waterworks department The statement will
mR at a loss of S7.855.48 for 1 the next meeting of
be discussed at
$7,855.48 for i the next meeting of the council.
heavy loss during the summer when George and district. Delay in the re-
the Fraser river took out a large quan- cejpt of lumber for building delayed
tity -of logs. This loss came on top of the opening for two weeks. Attention
heavy expenditures in the installation jS directed to the company's anndunce-
of a set of dry kilns. The kiln1: have ment which appears on page five of
demonstrated their worth, but the | njs issue-.
company has had difficulty in financ- _.....__ ----------------------- - ----- :�:
ing, and some of the creditors have tors that the funds supplied will be
been putting pressure on to secure used to keep the mill operating, and
payment. It is said the Thomas A. not to be used to liquidate existing;
Burrows Lumber Company, of Wimii- liabilities. A statement of the Thrash-
this season, and the results_o�_their : peg, is prepared to assist the Thrash- er � company's financial position as at
search have been remarkable. They er company financially, provided it is November 30th will be submitted to
choose from, nn endless varietv of 26 watches and clocks which make a
28 strong apwnlr and the'.tail of exquisite
29 jewelry and fashionable novelties in 15 nerkwe?r, leather roods mid h�mmer-
- 6 I ed India brissware. which will have
-23 I preat selling power. The wholesale
-10.5 j houses have gone into some aueer
--------i corners of the world for their novelties
can be seen at McCullagh's.
able to give the assurance of its credi- the meeting of creditors.